Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Liev Principal's Pride

Liev was chosen to receive the Principal's Pride award today!  His teacher said that he has been working really hard at getting his work done before he goes out to play and that he is a good example to the class.  Love this boy and all the wonderful qualities he has!

Monday, November 11, 2019

Sick

We've had the pukes and the squirty poops at our house the last few days.  It has hit this little one hardest and he can't seem to get it out of his system.  So for now he gets to sleep in mom and dad's room and be close to the shower and the toilet.  We'll take him!

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Beanie Boos

I think we have a beanie boo problem at our house...

Saturday, November 9, 2019

BYU Basketball

Uncle Mike was in town this week and wanted to go to a basketball game so we all joined in on the fun!  We try and make it to one or two games a year and it's always super fun to be there and cheer on our team!

Yoga

Josh started taking the girls to yoga with him on Saturdays.  They rotate every week and always look forward to when it's their turn to go with dad.  Josh says they both do great and are each good at different poses.  It's awesome for them to have something like this to do with their dad.


Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Beck Principal's Pride

Beck received the Principal's Pride award today at school!  His teacher said that he works really hard in class and gets his work done before he does the extra fun things.  I'm so proud of him and how well he is doing in kindergarten!

Rhen Principal's Pride

Rhen received the Principal's Pride award today.  The teachers help choose someone from each class that has good leadership skills and Rhen's teacher had so many good things to say about her.  I'm proud of this girl and her hard work in school!

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Race Cats

The kids were part of a cross country team this year through their elementary school.  They practiced twice a week after school and trained hard for their 3 meets that they had this season.  The kids were grouped according to their age and ran a different length of race depending on which group they were in.  Rhen was in the "Cheetah" group and ran a 3k, Liev and Keen were "Tigers" and ran a 2k and Beck was a "Puma" and ran a 1k. Watching them run and cheering them on was so fun for us!  I was a proud mom watching my kids do something that was really hard for them.  They all did so good and most of all they learned what it takes to be tough mentally not just physically.  The last meet they had was the regional meet and the top 10 finishers in each group got a medal.  Beck did so awesome and placed 9th at regionals!  He was so excited to get a medal and be honored for his run.  All the kids worked really hard this season and are already talking about the track season coming up in the spring.  I love that we have a family of runners!




Friday, November 1, 2019

Beck's Artwork

Just a couple of the darling things that Beck has drawn at school this year...


Thursday, October 31, 2019

Halloween 2019

We all love Halloween at our house.  It's the official kick-off to the holiday season, the kids love dressing up and there's loads of treats wherever we look.  What's not to like?!  This year we had two Spider-Men, one Harry Potter (who fit the part perfectly), a scary demon clown, a storm trooper and one beautiful ghost bride.  The kids trick-or-treated into the night and came home with pillow cases full of candy.  Overall a very successful night!
Happy Halloween!

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Salt Lake Temple trip

We had the best night taking all the young women to the Salt Lake Temple for baptisms tonight.  It was so fun to be there with these special girls and the Salt Lake Temple is so beautiful!  It was a really cold night so of course we had to stop for hot chocolate on the way home.  Love these girls to pieces!

The next week Josh and I were able to go do a session as well.  The temple will be closing at the end of the year for major renovations for the next 4 years so we wanted to make sure and get there before it closes.  It was really fun and neat to be there again.

Monday, October 28, 2019

Classic fun center

Keen was invited to Classic Fun Center with Kimball today and had a ball.  He was in heaven playing the arcade games and won 611 tickets!  They got matching toys with their tickets and look so cute and happy with their hard work!

Saturday, October 26, 2019

October running

I told Josh that I wanted to try and qualify for Boston again.  So with that comes the need to pick up my speed a little bit.  I've had a couple good runs the last few weeks and managed to keep my pace pretty good the whole way.  Hopefully this means I can do it for 26 miles!


Friday, October 25, 2019

Puppies

The baby puppies are growing up and getting so big!  They are the cutest right now and love to jump and play around with each other.  We sure have had fun visiting these babies!



Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Lake Mead

We took a trip with the Browns to Lake Mead over fall break and had an absolute blast!  The weather was perfect - 80s all week long, and we had the lake to ourselves almost all day long.  The Browns have a great surf boat so we tasked ourselves with learning all the surfing tricks from them.  By the end of the week I'd say we were doing pretty good for ourselves.  Rhen picked it up like a boss and did awesome letting go of the rope and surfing on her own.  Rease also did great just took a little more time to get out of the slalom ski mode and switch to surf mode.  But she did it!  And of course Josh was a pro right from the beginning.  Liev, Keen and Beck just loved being on the boat and messing around like always.  But Liev fell in love with cliff jumping and once he did it for the first time that's all he wanted to do!  We explored the lake, saw the Hoover dam, stopped for family swim time, ate good snacks, cliff jumped and just had the funnest fall break imaginable!  When it came time to leave, none of us wanted to go.  We just wanted to soak in this last bit of summer and keep it forever!  Thanks to the Browns for an amazing week with lots of laughs and memories to keep forever!



After we left the lake, Josh and I and the kids spent another couple days in Vegas just exploring, swimming and sight seeing.  The kids loved the Hoover Dam and thought it was pretty amazing.  And after an hour on the Strip in Vegas that's about all we could handle and then spent the rest of the time at the hotel pool!  It was so fun to get away and spend some time in the sun before heading back home where it is bound to be much colder!

Saturday, October 19, 2019

BYU Football

One of our favorite reasons for fall to be here is that BYU football has started!  We love going to the games as a family and this year we get to enjoy Gracie visiting us at the games too!  She is a freshman living in the dorms and has a season ticket so always comes over at half time to visit with us.  We also love the cougar tails and the popcorn that comes with being at the game.  But mostly we just love that it's football season again!

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Desh

Just why...?

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Broken pipe

This little beauty has caused a whole lot of problems in our basement this week.  One small split in the pipe leads to a flooded boys room, ruined beds and lots of fans blowing the carpet dry.  Ugh...

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Mountain biking

Josh went for an early morning mountain bike ride with Andy today.  I think he caught the bug.  He loved it and is already talking about going back up again and started looking for bikes...I think we have a new hobby on the horizon!

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Sunset

Utah has the best sunrises and sunsets.  Another one that I couldn't help snap a picture of tonight.

The many faces of Beck

This boy is a goof and we love him for it!


Saturday, October 5, 2019

Sore loser

This is the face of a boy who just lost a bowling game to his younger brothers.  We need to work on his coping skills...

Lincoln log tower

The boys made this super cool lincoln log tower today...and then had just as much fun tipping it over!

Friday, October 4, 2019

4 Wheeling

We got the chance to go on the funnest date tonight with the Chalks and go up 4 wheeling near Midway.  It was such a beautiful day to go and the colors were perfect up there!  It did get a little chilly as the sun went down, but we really had a great time!  We finished the night at a restaurant in Midway called Midway Mercantile that was delicious! Such a fun date night out.  

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Zipped Up

Desh got zipped up in my body pillow and thought it was the funniest thing ever! He's such a goof!