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Saturday, August 1, 2015

June 2015

Our Riot coaches decided not to teach over the summer, so a bunch of us decided to meet together in the park for what we are affectionately calling "fake Riot" :) Here we are on June 1st.

That afternoon I chaperoned yet ANOTHER field trip for Faith (and let her know that 4 per school year is a bit much). This one was to Centerville Megaplex to see "The Outsiders" which the kids had recently read. Faith loved the book and the movie. I read the book, at her request, the week before and have to say that neither were favorites of mine.

The 2nd was face end of year assembly and she performed with the Colorguard.

Unfortunately, I clicked the wrong button on my phone and what I thought was a video was only a still picture! It was the most awesome routine, too. They even had some teachers twirling flags at the beginning with them.

Since I didn't order school pictures, here's a screen grab from the online system :)

The traditional school year ended on June 4th and my friend Jenn hosted a neighborhood "welcome to summer" party. Christian had another month of school left, but I pulled him out early so he could celebrate anyway.

On the 6th my friend did the dirty – with their spouses. I thought about signing up, but was not thrilled about the price and Tony didn't want to go :(

I took this pic on the 7th because it reminded me of playing the square building game in church when I was young. It's gone high-tech now!

That afternoon, we stop by Joy's for Faith to look at some free clothing Joy got from her friend who works at a secondhand store.


We were also going to borrow their trailer to get a basketball hoop the Macrory's left behind for us when they moved to Portland, but figured out that we could take it apart and get it in the Jeep. Christian loves that he has a decent sized hoop now.

The evening of the 8th we went to lagoon and met up with Joy and her kiddies. We rode Rattlesnake Rapids and got drenched!
  (Tony couldn't pass up this opportunity to photobomb the kids' picture!)

Once was enough for Tony and I, but the kids decided to go a few more times!

I got to hang with the tiniest cuties 💜 When Joy tells Evie that my name is Emily, she responds, "No, Faif-mom!"



The morning of the 11th I declared war on our garden weeds. There were far too many to pull, so the hoe was my weapon of choice. Christian helped a tiny bit with this edger.

And we won!

I saw this on Facebook and could totally relate! I don't REALLY want another baby, but part of me yearns for one. Not that it's even an option, unless we buy one :)

June 13th we went to Jurassic World in IMAX 3D and really loved it!

Later we grabbed the kids a Hawaiian ice.

On the 16th I took the kids to Cherry Hill. We got swim passes for Christmas.

 
  There have been large groups of us for fake Riot. Here we are on the 19th.

June 21st was Fathers Day. I didn't remember to get a pic of Tony, but I did make him a fabulous breakfast that day! My dad made steak and it was awesome, as always!

I didn't get a picture of Larry, either, but instead I got this weird one 😜

On the 23rd, Christian rode his bike to school accompanied by Faith. Darcy Jewell and I walked, as well. When it was time for Christian to come home, Faith had already left for Park city with my mom and dad, so I rode Faith's bike to escort him. It was my first time on a bike in about 25 years, and though I was rusty, sure enough--I still could do it!

The reason they forgot to go to Park city earlier than Christian is that he had a field trip to the Treehouse Museum on the 24th and I had signed up to chaperone at the beginning of the school year. Here is Christian playing the king in a production of Puss in boots.


After that it was storytime and then we got to explore the museum for about an hour and a half.



We took the bus back to Kaysville and ate lunch at Barnes Park. Afterward the kids played red rover.

Right after the field trip, I checked Christian out of school and we drove up to Park city. The kids swam that night. 

The next morning I went for a run, then walked with the kids and dad to 7-Eleven.

On the way back, per tradition, we stopped at the fire station for a tour.



I left for home after that to work a blue buddy shift. I worked again the next morning and then Tony and I drove up to pick up the kids. 

I had seen the commercial for the illusionist show the weeks before and found the tickets to be way too expensive (starting at $70 each) but just about a week before the 26th there was a special on KSL deals for $24 tickets to the matinee!

We couldn't pass that up. We took the kids to the show at Capitol theater and it was excellent! There were a bunch of different magicians with different styles and it was very entertaining!

we picked up panda express for dinner and took it back to the condo.

On the morning of the 27th, Tony and I went for an early morning walk. Most of it was on the roads, but we finally found a trail up above the canyons resort.


We packed up, then rode the Cabriolet.


We went to the Olympic Park and were thinking about using our connect passes to do the adventure course that Joy's kids had done the day before.

We watched some people doing ski jumps into a pool.
But the kids kind of chickened out and it was getting hot, so instead of doing the course, Tony sold our tickets to it. 

We used the money to go to dinner at the Tucanos!


Wednesday, July 15, 2015

May 2015

Here's my snuggle Buddy on May 1st. He and Skittles love a fuzzy blanket and a heating pad!

Since it was May Day, I made cream of wheat topped with cream and berries arranged into flowers.

After dinner that night, we make cupcake cones decorated with gumdrops & gummy worms!

On the 2nd we had soccer games,



then drove to Brigham City to check out the Amish goods store

where we got some great cheeses and meats from the deli,

and Christian got a humongous bag of (Lucky Charm) little crunchy marshmallows!! Kid's crazy :)

We then went to "Avengers: Age of Ultron" movie.

Bud was still off track on May the 4th (be with you) so we celebrated Star Wars day in the most awesome way we could think of (or find on Pinterest, as it were)--with a Chewbaca & Tie Fighter breakfast, of course!

The next day, Joy invited us for a Cinco de Mayo party. She made chicken enchiladas & a tomato salad, mom & dad brought corn & guacamole, and I brought nacho cheese sauce & chips.

There was Mexican music, maracas,

and even a piñata!



Joy filled it with little toys and art supplies instead of candy, and Christian was excited that he got this bug catcher which he filled with s bug the next day.

I brought a craft which we ran out of time for, but Joy sent me a picture text with her awesome creation,

and Brandt's (who loved picking the colored paper off as much as gluing it on!).

The 7th was the year end color guard banquet. There was salad and lasagna from Olive Garden and the girls received some gifts,



including these cute flip-flops.

On May 8th, Buddy made and posted to Facebook the following:
Ooookaayyyy.

On the 9th, the DeVere's needed a babysitter at the last minute and asked if Faith was available. She was and got her first babysitting job. They paid her way too much ($35 for only four hours) and when I emailed to tell them, they asked if she would be their regular sitter most weekends! Their cute girls are Kennedy, 6 and Indiana, 3. Here's a picture I snagged from Amanda's Facebook page:

The 10th was Mothers Day and I was mentally hunkering down to weather the emotional storm that it usually is. The kids still didn't do some light house cleaning that I asked to be one of only two gifts I wanted, a week in advance to give them enough time, and reminded them about it several times a day. 

But, they did (orchestrated and led by Tony) wake up early to make me breakfast in bed, gave me gifts of nuts and a Contigo water bottle, get us all to church early (as evidenced by the clock photo I took from the CUSHIONED BENCH. This was the other gift I asked for.), a cute message as my phone's screen saver and a bouquet of roses!!!!!

After Tony took a cute pic of me & the kids, Faith posted this cute message on Instagram and Facebook 💕
It was a wonderful, happy day!!!

Buddy discovered a new place to hang out with me other than by the front window. Here he is on the 12th.

That night, the kids and I went to a jump workout class at Sky Trampoline Park. It's taught by Tiffany Smith (one of my Riot coaches) and was awesome! And super hard!! I didn't take my phone in, so the kids recreated the moment when we got home :)

On the 13th, Tony burned the weeds off our garden before looking it up and discovering that's a no-no. Buddy sure loved the fire!

For Riot, we spent some time at the KOA kickboxing gym. Lots of fun, but super tough and end up with tons of bruises! Love feeling powerful with my hands wrapped and in boxing gloves.

Here's a candy poster I made for a primary graduate who earned her Faith in God award on the 17th.

That afternoon Tony & I walked while the kids rode their bikes.

Here is the property where the new elementary school will be.

May 19th was Faith's final choir concert of the year.


I joined a team of ladies for a fitness challenge at work. We earn points for exercising, eating right, and other healthy habits. We earn extra credit for taking a group fitness class and sending in pictures of it. Here was my entry for the week of the 20th:
 
On the 22nd we went to Red Lobster with a $50 gift card I had gotten from work. We feasted huge! Christian wanted to try a lobster tail, so we let him. We put away several pounds of crab legs and Faith had lots of shrimp!
 
We didn't do much for Memorial Day on the 25th, but we did eat on flag plates,

planted our garden,
and had a BBQ with grilled hot dogs for dinner.

I loved this writing assignment Christian brought home from school.

And I just had to post a few more of Faith's selfies!!
Here was my health challenge entry for the 29th.