August 2021

Since I took the girls to a rodeo earlier this summer, Shane took Jaron to a Real Monarchs soccer game.  Little did I know we got tickets for the same night as Pups at the Pitch.  Haha, Shane was thrilled to be around all the dogs.  They still had a good time and it was Jaron's first time to a real soccer game.

The kids did a bake sale/lemonade stand.  We made rice krispy treats, chocolate chip cookies, bottled water and lemonade.  They had a window cleaning business drive by and buy some cookies and then at the end came back and bought the rest of the chocolate chip cookies they had left.  They must have really liked them.  The kids ask to do bake sales all summer long and I always put it off as so many kids do them in our neighborhood but they always have fun and people are always willing to stop by and buy stuff.

We had back to school open house to meet their teachers.  Jarons' teacher had Covid and wasn't there but the girl's I think will like Miss Moody.  She has a twin sister so she can relate to them which I think they liked hearing.  After that we took them for snow cones to an official end of summer, welcome back to school.

The day before school started I took the day off of work and took the kids to the Children's museum and a bounce house place.  The kids always love the children's museum and as much as I always think this is the year they won't like it as much, they still do and spend a long time there.  I of course made Siena and Aria re-create their horse picture they took when they were little.

First day of school.  No masks, which is a little nerve wracking but mostly all excitement here to get back, see friends and start a new year.  I'm always excited to get my house organized and picked up and be able to work without interruption and feeling guilty.  School is different this year instead of starting school at 8:00am they don't start until 9:15 which means they don't get out until 3:30!  This has been quite the adjustment for us getting home so late.  We try to get things done in the morning which has helped but with soccer, music lessons and wanting to play with friends it has been harder for us than in past years.

Cousin Lilly got to come spend the night with us since Michelle was out of town and Aaron had a mountain bike race with the other kids.  We had so much fun with Lilly and they had a slumber party and movie night in the basement and then Lilly went to Jaron's baptism with us the next day.

The kids decided they wanted to use their money they have earned and saved from birthdays and buy hoverboards.  It was quite the shipping nightmare to get them here but they were excited and love riding them around the house.

And a last summer swim for the year before we get so crazy busy and then the pool closes.

Jaron gets Baptized!

Jaron was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on August 21, 2021 with his 2 cousins Landon Edwards and Owen Goold or as we like to call them the J-Lo's.  We were happy we were able to coordinate them getting baptized together since they are just 2 weeks apart and they were baptized in Riverton with my brother Jeff conducting.

Jaron did a musical number 'When I am Baptized' on the piano that he practiced quite a bit the weeks leading up to it.  He did such a good job as there were a lot of people there.  Shane baptized and confirmed him and Siena and Aria got to be witnesses.

Christy and some of the Brian's were able to watch via zoom...which is a nice addition that has happened since Covid.  She got some pictures of my dad giving the talk.  He had all the mom's come up here and put their arms around the boys and compared that to the feeling and guidance the Holy Ghost will give them.  I thought it was a cute analogy.

It was a special day and one that I know Jaron has been preparing for a looking forward to for a long time.  For the year before he kept asking me if I was still going to be the primary president when he got baptized.  He really wanted me to so the 'primary president' could come visit him and tell him all about being baptized.  Grandma and Grandpa Goold gave Jaron their traditional embroidered towel in red of course for his favorite color.

After the baptism we went to Whitney's parent's home for lunch and some swimming and it was a fun afternoon just being all together (even though not everyone could be there.)

I took some pictures of Jaron at the Mount Timpanogos temple a couple weeks before and I made a cute invitation to his baptism from the pictures.  They turned out cute....and some silly ones too of course.

Jaron is such a light and joy to our family and we are so happy to celebrate this special day with him.

July 2021

 Jaron still loves to go Mountain biking but hasn't gone as much this summer as last.  Shane decided to take him one afternoon for a fun ride.

Since Shane and I couldn't be convinced to go camping this summer we decided to go up the canyon and have a cookout.  Hot dogs and smores make an easy dinner and always a fun time.

For the 4th of July we went down to Provo and met up with the Pace's.  We watched stadium of fire fireworks.  We met at a school and I would say the best part was the flyover that literally went right above our heads.  The rest of the night was a little disappointing.  The fireworks were just ok.  They didn't even start them until almost 10:40 which had all of us very impatient.  And then they started, were just ok and then they just completely stopped for over 10 minutes.  By then it was almost 11:00 so we just left knowing it was late, we had to drive home and were going to hit traffic.  I probably won't be doing that again next year unless we get tickets to go inside the stadium.

The best part of the 4th of July was going to the Provo parade on July 5.  Our cute niece Eliza is a missionary in the Provo mission and was assigned to Springville so she got to march in the parade.  So our whole family set up on a street corner thanks to Jeff for getting there super early.  The kids were disappointed because they didn't throw candy but man when the missionaries turned the corner we made the biggest scene.  We start chanting Eliza's name and it was so fun to see her as a missionary. She gave my mom, Kali and Ella big hugs and then had to re-join her group but we sure had a fun time.

We don't take as many pictures but we still go to our pool all summer long.  The kids sure love to swim and are always up for the pool when we get some free time.  This day we happened to have the pool all to ourselves which was a nice treat for us.

We used our get out pass and took a trip to Splash Summit water park.  We had such a fun time.  The kids are old enough they can go on the slides without me walking them around and had a great time.  We met up with the Pace's which always makes it even more fun to have friends to pair off with.

We made a trip to the ropes course at Provo Beach for a fun afternoon.

For Jaron's birthday (birthday post coming after this) we went to Lagoon.  The kids love Lagoon and all are getting braver at the big roller coasters.  We all went on Colossus and Wicked.  Jaron and Siena cried almost the whole time getting onto Wicked and I think they liked it but I'm not sure they went a 2nd time.  Colossus is probably their favorite and go multiple times in a row until I can't do it anymore, then they go by themselves.  Aria insisted on going on Cannibal even though it was broken down most of the day.  When it opened up we waited for about 45 minutes and literally we were the next ones on the ride and it broke down again.  Luckily it was only for about 10 minutes and man that's a scary but super fun ride.

Grandpa teaching Jaron to golf one afternoon at Jennifer's house when we got together for dessert.