P365 (Catching up still)

Taken with my phone. We went to a ward party and had dinner, joined in a horseshoe throwing competition, and just had a ton of fun! I had to take this picture because of Spencer's plate full of treats with his hamburger.

Today we headed up to Primary Childrens Hospital because Parker had an appointment with a cardiologist to check his heart out. I wish I would have thought to get a picture with all of his EKG leads on, but I wasn't thinking about it then. Luckily, everything turned out okay and as far as we can tell, he's healthy! Such a relief. Makes me sure grateful that I have healthy kids, because there are a lot of parents who aren't that lucky. Sure love him!

Our first corn harvest of the season and it was DELISH!

Early morning temple trip with the YW before school starts.

Took the kids to the aquarium today. It was fun, but made me miss the one in ABQ.

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Spencer giving the lesson for Family Home Evening.

The kids begged and begged... and Kyle gave in. Spencer and Carly both got a fish for their room.

For our combined activity tonight we went boating. Our ward sure does some fun things with the youth!

Kyle had most of the day off today and took Spencer to the local climbing gym. He loved it.

I have always wanted red shoes and today I got some. Love.

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I'm running behind on posting my P365 pics, 3 weeks behind in fact. Summer has been busy and lately it seems like we are just trying to squeeze every bit out of summer that we can until school starts. Anyway, I will be posting a week or so at a time until I catch up.




The before and after picture of the garden. I finished weeding today from all of our vacations. It definitely needed a picture.

My parents came up today to go to the Desert Star with us (love that place!) and so Jodie came over for a little. And for some reason this picture is blurry on the blog, but not on my computer. I'm hoping it changes back when I post this... we shall see.

My family gave Parker his birthday present yesterday and this is part of it. He LOVEs it and is wearing it constantly.

The harvest from my garden today. Get prepared for lots of pictures of my harvests because I've been so excited to have a garden finally.

We went camping today up to Fishlake with my family. I love this place- I have so many fantastic memories of being a kid here. I just want to share some of that with my own kids once in a while, so I guess it's worth all the work to get up there. This is our camping spot and I love it!

The kids are loving camping! Sporting their matching camping shirts from Grandma.

And no trip to Fishlake would be complete without fishing/boating with Grandpa.

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Spencer has discovered the trainer and how to hook up his bike.

We went on our annual trip to Hinckley/Delta for the 24th of July. We decided to go swimming before the rodeo and we were trying out our new waterproof camera.

We went to the Hinckley parade where candy covers the streets. This is Parker walking away from the parade with his stash.

We made a trip up to Fishlake today after church with Kyle's parents and the kids.

We went on a bike ride to Big Rock Candy Mountain today. It was a perfect day for it- overcast and just fun!

After trek and our little vacation, we came home to a TON of weeds in our garden. Guess that's what happens when you don't weed for a couple of weeks. I'm about 2/3 of the way done weeding and have been pulling a bunch of those things this week.

Someone is 3! We had a fun day filled with presents, going to the theatre to see Winnie the Pooh, and a little BBQ with dessert being his favorite chocolate cake that I tried to make look like a crocodile (even though it ended up looking more like a salamander).

These little quails were in our backyard. The kids and I just watched them forever as they tried to get out. The kids loved seeing those little babies.

Family trip up to Park City to do our back-to-school shopping. We shopped til we almost dropped, went to a fun place to eat and then we rode the Alpine Slides.... and I forgot my camera! What was I thinking?

Our neighborhood had a bike parade for the kids. We all met at someone's house and decorated the bikes. They even had someone making balloon animals there. Then they had some vintage cars/trucks lead the way and the kids followed. We all met for snow cones afterwards. It was such a fun morning!

Summer Mishmash

Just a bunch of pictures from our summer so far:


After we were done being in the Independance Day Parade, we were walking through the park and Spencer wanted me to take a picture of the almost flooding river.

We have completely enjoyed the now legal fireworks this year. Look at that huge firework Aaron brought. It didn't disappoint.

The kids loved the fireworks. Just not the loud noises apparently.

Fun times on the fourth.

Roasting marshmellows with the cousins.

Smores are so good!

Fun times in the hammock up in the canyon.

Canyon cooking and picnicking.

Parkers first Father and Sons campout.

Getting ready for some hiking.

Seven Peaks fun.

Getting out of the rain as best we could during the Manti Pageant. (Parker is under the brown blanket)

Self portrait by the Great Salt Lake.

Swimming in the Salt Lake.

Salt Lake fun.

Cute kid on the beach.

A mohawk for summer? Or just having fun getting a buzz cut?

Mountain biking and hiking in Price.

And just ending this post with one of my favorite summer pictures.

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Today is day 4 of antibiotics for poor Spencer who has pneumonia. Don't ask me how he got pneumonia in the middle of July, but he did. And thank goodness he's getting better!

Just some of my harvest of peas from our garden. YUM!

The kids are loving our raspberry bushes in our yard. They sneak back there every chance they can and pick to their hearts content.

Carly threw a major tantrum tonight- her all-time worse. She screamed and screamed herself to sleep.

Today was the first day of our stake pioneer trek for the youth of our church. We pulled these handcarts for almost 4 miles today to our camp.

A picture of some of the trekking youth. Today was a HARD day- lots of steep, rocky mountains we climbed, but we had fun!

We slept under the stars and when I woke up this morning, there was frost on my head and my pillow- can you see it? It's hard to see in this picture, but I promise it's there!

Love a Sunday at home with my family.

At Family Home Evening tonight, Spencer was helping Parker say the prayer. I thought it was so dang cute, I had to take a picture.

A mini reunion with some old roommates from college. They had a reunion while I was gone on trek, but these two were game for a little meeting at the park with all of our kids. It has been many years and it was so good to see them!!!