More pictures found!

Here are even more pictures I found on Nick's phone.  This first one was the kids enjoying a coconut fruit bar in the jeep after scouts. Yum!

 These next ones made me laugh!  Nick and the kids played at my moms house while I was doing the MS Bike Ride a few weeks ago and that included some costume dress up.  I guess they all found some old dance costumes and put on a show.  Oh Carson....he kills me.  Yes that is him in a leotard!

More pictures of the jeep and the fun we have at Lagoon about every Monday night!

The last picture is of Nick's toolbox at work.  I love that he has all of our pictures on there, but I think I need to get him some updated ones!

A little late...but still so much fun!

We went to Lagoon with Nick's parents and family clear back in the middle of June and all the pictures we took were with Nick's phone.  I just barely got them off his phone and just had to share some of the fun we had that day.  It is always fun when we get to share the Lagoon fun with Family!

This last picture shows how wet Papa got on Rattlesnake Rapids.  That was a fun one for everyone!

Hello July!!!!

Wow...I have a lot to catch up on!  We have just cruised through the first week of July!  And it was a busy week!  We started the week with a group lesson on Monday.  It was a lot of fun.  We played a couple theory games, learned about a composer (Aaron Copland), and then each of my students played a song they were working on.  I had Kaylee participate too.  Carson had been invited to Lagoon with a friend, so we missed having him there.  But since he technically isn't my student I figured it was ok.  We finished the class with some cookies.  All of my students so far this week have told me they are super excited for our next group lesson....so I think it was a hit!  

We are still in the middle of swimming lessons and the kids are still loving it!

We also had Pack Meeting followed by a bike ride around the vacant lot.  We also enjoyed some yummy ice cream sandwiches which tasted delicious on a hot summer night.

We have been spending most Monday Evenings at Lagoon, taking full advantage of our season passes.  I love that our kids love Lagoon so much!  It has been totally worth getting our passes!

 I took the girls in for a hair cut with Heather last week.  They both just needed a little trim. Heather has been doing my hair for at least 4 years and we just adore her.  She got married almost two years ago and is expecting a little boy in September.  We are so happy for her!

Kaylee had her last class of gymnastics on Wednesday.  My good friend Rachel Y. had been taking her since her kids were also in that class, but since I didn't have to teach piano or mow the lawn (we did that Tues Evening) I was able to go and watch for a bit.  She loves gymnastics and I think we will have her do that this fall instead of dance.

 Wednesday, after lunch we headed to the splash pad with the Youngbergs and Tanners and enjoyed the hot day by cooling off in the water!  I am loving that Preston is finally getting old enough to really enjoy things like this.

 Thursday, Nick was home (for the 4th) so I was able to get a run in with Rachel before I got ready for the day.  On the way to swim lessons we stopped at the ENT and had the audiologist fit Kaylee for some custom ear plugs.  She has been complaining about her ear hurting after she swims so I think these will help with that.  I just should have thought about them a few weeks BEFORE swim lessons.   Oh well!  It was pretty funny to see how they do it.  It looked like they squirted pink frosting in her ear.   Both Carson and I have a set of ear plugs as well and they work so much better than the silly putty stuff you buy.

So that was just the first part of our crazy week last week.  We wrapped up June and started of July with a LOT of FUN!!!

BBQ in Elwood

There were several of my friends that weren't able to make it to the reunion on Friday evening so our friend Desi put together a bbq at her house in Elwood on Saturday.  It was so much fun!  The food was great and the company even better.  It was fun to see not just my friends, but also their cute kids!  Desi and Jed have 5 kids now and a beautiful home in Elwood that was perfect for hosting such an event!  Sherri was there with her 3 kids, including the cutest redheaded boy!  Shayla and her husband came, but their 6 kids didn't want to leave their grandparent's home, and who can blame them when they live in Parawon and probably don't get to Tremonton often.  They announced they are having baby #7 in February.  Julie and Bear had their cute girl and boy (Who is named Elwood, but they call him Woody for Short) there with them and also announced they will welcome a baby in December!  Lisa and her new husband of just a year was there with their beautiful new baby who has TONS of dark hair.  Eric Bingham and his wife Amber (who was a year older than us in HS) had their 5 kids and I they gave us some great recommendations for books for Carson and our family to read.  Katie & Jed Valentine (who both were in our class) had their 4 kids there and Carson had a blast playing with their oldest who is his age.  They played ladder golf and got along so great!  The yard was perfect for all the little kids to just play while us adults visited.  The weather was perfect and it was hard to leave when it got late.  I could have stayed all night and visited!  The kids were so sad to leave and head home from such a fun weekend and so was I!  But alas, we did have to leave and we made it home just after 11 PM.  Luckily we put the kids in PJ's so when we got home we easily put everyone in their beds and got to sleep shortly after.  Here are some pictures of our fun evening.

MS Bike Ride 2014

My HS Reunion on Friday was just the start of an amazing fun packed weekend!  I tried to get some sleep before waking up at 5 AM to be to logan the next morning for the Harmon's Best Dam Bike Ride for MS.  I rode this last year with Matt and it was so much fun I just had to do it again!  We had originally planned on riding 100 miles since we did 75 last year.  But since Matt hadn't trained a lot for it and we both had a lot of other things we wanted to do later that day we decided to only do 45 miles, but it still took us 3 hours of biking and so we still got quite a workout!  I got there a little after 6 and we started at 7 am and stopped in Richmond for a snack break and then turned around and headed back to the Logan Fairgrounds.  We enjoyed a yummy lunch before leaving.  I was home just a little after noon and enjoyed visiting with my parents and loved the surprise visit from my sister Tiffany and her husband Aaron.  

Nick was a big help for my dad who was building benches for my mom for their back porch.  They did a great job and even Carson was willing to help.  The rest of the kids played and enjoyed the yogurt smoothies that grandma and grandpa had.  After the bike ride and construction work we all got cleaned up and headed to a bbq with some of my high school friends.  It was a great afternoon being at my parents house!