We Are a Happy Family

CHER...being a mommy. reading. blogging. chocolate milk. photography. languages. pizza. enya. milk shakes. traveling. friends. crafts. cooking. summer thunder storms. ollie

OLLIE...being a daddy. hunting. reading. smoking bbq. history. dinosaurs. traveling. guns. gardening. classic rock. camping. beef jerky. cooking. gummy bears. cher

LULU...18/ crab. flute. books. candy. astronomy. friends. lemonade. tomatoes. spicy cheetos. piano. school. art. marching band. memes and reels.

HAMMER...16/ chalk roads. tennis. potato bugs. coding. pickles. friends. sandwiches. storm drains. choir. frozen burritos. minecraft. mustard. candy.

TJ...14/ lemurs. coati. tennis. strawberries. sour candy. alligators. kindle. fish. backpacking. gorillas. games. puzzles. fried eggs. minecraft. swimming.

A...11/ apple sauce. roblox. titanic. candy. friends. burgers. cheese. shopping. swimming. minecraft. strawberries. making youtube vids. kindle.

PLUTO PLEIADES...Pointer 13/ people. his bed. peanut butter.

Wednesday, September 16

St George Family Reunion '26

 Dear Kiddos,

In July we had our annual St George trip, and all 4 kids came with me! That was fun. We stayed in the 107 condo but did lots of things with cousins, like our very first night we had a night swim:

The next day was Sunday. We went to church and to the temple visitor center:
Gramma and Grandpa's friends are missionaries there and they took us on a little tour. We spent a lot of time checking out this copy of a stained glass mural that's originally in the Rome temple visitor center:




Gramma had provided lots of meals for us to eat together:
One morning we went to Snow Canyon. We did Jenny's Canyon:

and the White Rocks Amphitheater:
At the amphitheater we found a pond with millions of tadpoles. We adopted one and took it back to the condo (he only lived 2 days in the water bottle):

For our craft day, this year we did sticker painting! It was pretty fun. Hammer was kind to help out the littles:
Cute cousins:
TJ went back to Snow Canyon that evening with me and Jen and Brent. We wanted to check out what was Island in the Sky. We noticed it while driving through the park but it's not on the park's info or on google maps. Turns out it's a box canyon with a technical climbing route up the wall. It's pretty in there, and a short walk from the road:

Across the street is a bridge and a little paved walkway. It such a pretty time of night:

We swam in different pools every day:

One afternoon we all went to a movie, which wasn't a great movie, but it was fun to be together:
We went out for tacos after, for Taco Tuesday:
That night the girls, and Grandpa, went to see Grease:
A storm was blowing in the next morning:
We found the guitar sculpture downtown:
Hit up Judd's:

Checked out Greater Zion Visitor Center:

and then when we came out the storm was upon us. We heard/saw one of the biggest lightenings I've ever seen in Utah. We made our way up 1 block to the Pioneer Courthouse. We ran through the rain to the back door and it was locked. It appeared that they weren't open that day. However, someone saw us and came to open the door and then we got a personal tour of the place! That was cool.
This shirt cracked us up:

There's an old piano upstairs that Uncle Andrew got to play. We had a private mini concert:

After that we changed into our church clothes and did baptisms at the new temple. It was still raining when we went inside:
but look how beautiful it was when we came out!:
After the temple it was time for the arcade and laser tag:
A few pictures taken after dinner at the condos:




One final play for the boys, and I got to tag along. We had a big group there!:
It was the boys' first time to see Les Mis, and they said they liked it. 
Alas, it was then time to go home. We had a fun time huh?
Love,
Mom

Monday, September 14

July '26

Hi!
July is my favorite- right in the middle of the summer break from school when we are living our best lives finding fun and relaxation. We went to San Diego and to St George in July, which got their own posts, but look at all of the other fun things we did.
Uncle Jordan was in Tarzan so Gramma took the boys to see his play. Look how many people showed up to watch him= lots of cousins and friends:

I got to go watch Aunt Laura in her play:
Great Grandpa turned 90 and we had a party:



More 4th of July fun:


Adz got his hair cut:

We got free chicken sandwiches:

Lulu took us to the shelter a bunch of times to play with the kittens:
There was also a GSP in there who tugged at our heartstrings a bit. We took him out to the play area one day:
TJ had a patriotic recital:

Hammer worked at Cherry Hill a lot. He earned a McDonald's reward from work and treated himself one day:
For a Field Trip Friday one day we went up the mountain to watch the sunset. It was pretty perfect:





Dad's work had a summer party at Boondocks:
Lulu found the courage to pierce her ears:
She needed her Mom and her BFF to be there for support:
Friday Field Trip on the 24th was to visit and learn about some of the original buildings in our area:
And a final Friday Field Trip in July was to the 4H club's fair in Kaysville. We were hoping to catch a herding program of some kind but that ended up being canceled, so we just enjoyed looking at the pigs and sheep and goats:



The End! 
Love you- Mom