We had a great December packed with lots of fun things! We took Taylor with us to the Christmas Express which we love doing every year. We met the Ellsworths and the Hardings there so the kids had fun running around with cousins. And it's always fun to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on the train! Erin and I played in our first Pickleball Tournament! It happened to be on ...
Halloween/November/December
We took a trip to Utah at the end of October and did lots of fun things... BYU football game... BYU volleyball game... Corn Belly's... More Utah fun... We made it home in time for a Halloween picture with the Eliason cousins... I got to help at the kids' Halloween class parties... Trick-or-treating: Sami and Trey both earned the ...
Halloween
I love this time of year! It's so busy but so fun. We went to the Pumpkin Patch with the Cahills. We made the big kids recreate some pics that we have from years ago here! Every year Chase likes to plan a Halloween date night. We've done it for like 7 or 8 years now. We knew we wouldn't beat beat Salem from last year... but he found a haunted train ride out in Boulder ...
Fall!
Labor Day off-roading: We took Kayli and Beau and went to the Imagine Dragons concert with friends and it was SO MUCH FUN! Beau had quite the exhausting day of sports and swimming so he fell asleep pretty early on haha which was a bummer because he loves Imagine Dragons but he still had fun while he was awake! Bellagio Gardens... School Color Run. I didn't even ...
Birthdays/Summer/School Starts!
Trey turned 7! We celebrated by going to Red Robin and skating at Crystal Palace. I love his 7 year-old toothless smile! The boys had a sleepover at Grandma's with Uncle Taylor! Then the girls got a sleepover! I turned 37! We enjoyed lots of days of swimming this summer! We also had Gravady passes so we spent a lot of time there with friends! We went ...
End of School and Summer!
In some ways we were sad to see the end of the school year come (Kayli finishing elementary school, Sami finishing preschool) but in other ways it was nice to be done. Our kids still faced some COVID restrictions (like Kayli and Beau had to eat lunch in their classrooms all year) and we were ready to be done with school and hopefully start next school year completely normal! ...
February-May
This is a long one! It's getting harder and harder to keep up on this because life is busier which means I have more to write about and less time to do it! For mom's 60th Birthday we pulled off a surprise trip! We went to St. George for the weekend. The best part was that we got some of her family to come. She was surprised when we all showed up to dinner with her and dad ...
2022
Covid was still passing through our family at New Years time so we had our own little New Years Eve party. We all felt fine and did puzzles, played games, and ate treats and some of us didn't even make it to midnight. We missed Taylor most the time he was here for Christmas because we were sick so we went to see him when we were all better right before he left town. It's ...
Holidays
Stuck in my room with COVID seems like the perfect time to catch up on my blog... yep I caught Covid 3 days before Christmas. So far nobody else in the family has it. We had to cancel all Christmas plans with both sides of our family. We were sick over Thanksgiving break too so it felt like we got behind on all the Christmas things but luckily we fit a lot in the past few ...
Boston, Girls’ Trips, October
It's a long one... Sami started preschool! She was so excited to go with Audra and her cousin, Jake, and now she is friends with everyone else in her class too. She loves going! And I enjoy my 6 kid-free hours each week! I went to Salt Lake for the weekend with Haley and Erin for Marlee Allred's homecoming. It seemed like the perfect time to get away for a quick girl's ...