Sunday, July 31, 2016

Hike to the Alpine Lakes

Jordynne and I took the kids on a hike up to the Alpine Lakes Loop the first part of July (the 11th), it was a really great day for a hike since the temperatures had really dropped, so it was cooler anyway and then up at 10,000 ft it was just a really nice cool temp for a hike.
We didn't intend to go to both lakes, we were just going to go to one, but it worked out to go to both. Jordynne ended up packing Clara most of the way.



We went to Teresa Lake first, and it was so pretty!






We stopped and had a snack break.


I asked for a group shot and this was the best we got.



Stella Lake










Headed back to the trailhead.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Miscellaneous June and July...

June is always so incredibly busy, and two weeks before we were supposed to have guests stay at our house, we figured we should probably finish the boys room...that we started ripping apart in February. ;) 
Surprisingly enough, I didn't even want to work on it either because I had so many other things going on, but we buckled down and got it done. I'll do another post on that later. 







Our kittens are doing great! Alexander and Casey disappear for days at a time, so we decided to get more kitties that will hopefully stick around the house more. Alexander disappeared a few days before we got our other kittens and he was missing for over 6 weeks, but Kenneth found him last week and brought him home. He stuck around for a few days and now he and Casey have both been gone for 4 days or so.

At the end of June the kids had a week of summer school in the mornings, and they always have fun with that.
I didn't get any pictures of Ella's birthday or the 4th of July this year (except this photo of Ella riding the horse that Janille had on SnapChat, is that creepy?)  and we actually had some strange flu/sickness going around that week, Clara and I missed the fireworks because she was having a fever and chills. 

The problem with getting into house projects is that I get into the mode and want to keep going...so we started on our backsplash the 4th of July. 


July 5th we had to go Primary Children's in SLC for pulmonology appointments (just the yearly check ups) We had sick kids and I was sick, so that made things exciting. ☺


 Jordy was here for a couple of weeks (we miss you Jordy!) and she did lots of fun things with the kids. Their favorite was playing in the water.

















It cooled down one morning by quite a bit, and I was able to see the roses before they cooked from the heat.







The kids (except for Clara, but she got a cape and mask anyway) had a couple of days of VBS and the theme was super hero's. Right up Britton's alley! 









Monday, June 13, 2016

Summer, so far...

School is out and I learned from last summer and changed some things immediately this time. 
The kids have to-do lists first thing in the morning before they can play or go anywhere, and I'm trying to wake up early still (for me) and get some stuff done before the kids wake up. 
My peonies bloomed that I got from Grandpa Conrad's yard.

DeeJay, our UPS man, sent this Captain America to Britton with some help from Crystal. (Thanks Crystal!)

The first weekend of June we had a family reunion and Nakia's wedding.


Alexander and Casey (our male kitties) are never around anymore. :( (Actually, as I write this, we haven't seen Alexander for almost two weeks.) So we got three more kittens.

Last week was SO hot. It was almost in the 100's. Probably on this lawn, it was. ☺

So the kids have done lots of playing in water/ running through sprinklers.


Sharing pjs

Cooking breakfast in our underwear




The roses have started blooming!
I ended up losing 7 (maybe 8) rose bushes this spring to some sort of disease/fungus. :( 



Shavuot was this last weekend and I didn't manage to take any photos.
There were a lot of people here! (atleast 6 extra families) Lots of kids for my kids to play with and they had a blast all weekend!
Britton fell in love with Aseneth when she came out for Passover in April, and she was here again and this time brought him some spiderman and mutant ninja turtle puzzle/ games. Something about Britton where people want to buy him things.☺