August 2020

Murray Park

Another fun day at the river with a couple of neighbor friends.  I brought my water shoes this time and walked around in the water with Harper.

I love this picture of her.  She was pointing at all the bubbles that were floating by.  She loved walking through the water.

Bear Lake

We planned a trip to Bear Lake with my family before the pandemic hit, which ended up being a perfect vacation for this year. We rented a nice home that was right in Garden City. My grandma Moss came too. She did so good on the trip. We love having her around. 

The first night we took the kayaks and paddle boards out to the lake. When we booked our dates, we didn't realize it was over raspberry days so everything was so busy. Luckily we found this rocky beach and had it mostly to ourselves. The next day, we went super early to get a beach spot at North beach. We kayaked, played in the sand and went boating! The kids had an absolute blast just playing in the sand with their cousins. Right before we left the beach I got to go on a little boat ride and Paxton and Harper and a few of the kids came with.  They had already put the tube away so we just went for a ride and then Paxton, Kaleb, and I all jumped in the water for a little swim.  That night we went and got pizza at the Bear Trapper. Later that evening Rem, Jamie and Dan went out for a scooter/one wheel ride and came back with a little tiny bunny.  We named him Timmy and he was so cute. Well unfortunately, he didn't eat or drink much and died the next night. It was so sad!  Dan was determined to find some goats milk for it, but didn't get it in time.

On Sandee's birthday, which was on a Sunday Rem, Graham, Harper and I went to visit some neighbor friends that have a cabin in Bear Lake.  Paxton and everyone else went on a short hike. They had fun climbing on the trees and exploring. We hung out the rest of the day played games, relaxed, played volleyball and went on a UTV ride. 

On Monday, the beach wasn't as busy so we took our time getting to the beach. We spent a long time there. I got to ride on the boat and went on the tube with my sisters and the babies. They weren't so sure of it, but we went really slow.  Then it was time for the mamas to have some fun.  First Erika and Sandee went and then Jamie and I.  Dan drove the boat super crazy trying to kick us off the tube and he succeeded!  It was super fun though, the water was so nice and warm.  I wanted to just float out on the water for a bit.  That evening we roaster marshmallows around the fire pit.

The whole trip was awesome.  And of course we got raspberry shakes every day we were there, yum!  It was so great to hang out with my family and make good memories with them!

First Day of School

It has felt like a really long summer and I think we are ready for this day.  Paxton may be on the fence about it though, but he's excited to see his friends.  And we are all happy and grateful for these kids to return to in person school and hope that it lasts!  They have both been good about wearing masks and I made them some fun ones to help them be excited about it.

Paxton started 5th grade and has Mrs. DeMann as his main teacher, but she co teaches with Mrs. Curtis as well and she's pregnant so he will get a sub this winter for a couple months.  He was bummed that he didn't get put in the 5th/6th split, but he has some friends in his class so that's good.

Graham started 2nd grade and has Mrs. Vyuk, a very well liked teacher.  He was super excited to start school and meet his teacher and see all of his friends.

Summit Splash Water Park

Also known as Seven Peaks water park.  We had a pass that was about to expire to the water park so we went with Jamie and her family and played at the kiddie pools, wave pool, lazy river and finally I got Paxton to go on a tube slide towards the end of the day and he ended up loving it, but only got to go twice because he fought it for so long all day.  Then I finally got Graham to go on the racer slides on our very last slide of the day and he loved it also and wanted to go again, but everyone was ready to go.  Those silly kids fighting it all day, being scared of it and then they love it.  I guess I need to just force it from the very beginning.  

The Zoo

Erika had a zoo pass and invited Harper and I to join them one day.  We took the girls in their little pink cars instead of strollers and we loved walking around and enjoying the animals.  I love being at the zoo especially with my little Harper.

More Murray Park

More friends and more playing in the water.  We love this place!

Happy birthday Jake!

Jake had his birthday party with just family up at the family cabin.  We had a great time going on a ride, eating a Minecraft dinner and hanging out.

Harper loves the guinea pigs!!  She actually does pretty good with them.

July 2020

4th of July at the Cabin

We invited our friends, the Goodmans to stay overnight at our family cabin on the 4th of July weekend.  We went on four-wheeler rides, played games, made a festive dessert, shot bb guns and more.  On the 4th we headed into Midway to meet up with my parents, Trevor and Erika and their families to do some fishing nearby where they were camping.  Harper and Jo got to play together and Harper was really wanted to get in the water.  I decided to just let her inch her way in a little to get her feet wet, eventually her bum got it too, mud and all in her cute 4th of July outfit.  Oh well.  Graham caught a fish with Grandpa which he was super excited about taking it back to the cabin to cook it up and eat it and he did just that!  He surprises me sometimes with what he will eat.  

Sorenson week

We have not been on a vacation with the Sorenson side in a very long time and Covid was not helping either.  So we decided to do a stay cation and it turned out to be a lot of fun!  We each took a day to plan something for everyone to do.

The first day we went to Heber where Rems brother, Russell lives.  Some of the group met up earlier to do a hike first, but Rem had to work so we met up with everyone later.  We had dinner on the patio at the restaurant where Liana works.  Then we went to Deer Creek Reservoir to play in the sand and water.  It was the perfect evening.  I got in a float tube with Harper and the boys mostly played in the sand.  Harper was loving the sand and the kids were digging her a whole that she would put her feet in and they'd fill it up with water.  

The second day we went to Randy's house about mid day and they had quite the set up with a bounce house, dunk tank, kiddie pool, hot tub, cotton candy machine, snow cone machine, swing set and more.  The kids had a blast playing in the backyard for hours.  They then ordered pizza for everyone and we played for a bit longer.  It was a good day.







The third day we drove to Lehi where Rems brother, Ryan lives.  He got us all in to use the neighborhood pool.  It was so nice to be able to take the kids swimming.  I loved being in the water with Harper.  At one point she laid her head on my shoulder sucking her thumb and she did this for quite some time and you better believe that I soaked in every second. 

After swimming we met up at the park for dinner.  Everyone went and picked up their own food and we played and ate at the park.  We were trying to kill some time because our next plans were to head to our house to watch an outdoor movie in our backyard.  

Then a couple months later we had an adults only game night at Ryan's house and Rachael brought dinner and treats for everyone.  It was a ton of fun to be able to do adults only.  It gets so crazy with all of those kids.

This was such a fun idea and I hope we do it again!

Swimming lessons

My kids take swim lessons from an awesome neighbor that is such a good teacher.  Sometimes I would just drop them off and pick them up, but sometimes I liked to take Harper and watch them swim to see what they had learned.  Harper sure seemed to enjoy being there so it was a nice outing for us.

Getting good at their dives.



Swimming with cousins Jake and Kaleb

Happy 24th of July

For the 24th we picked up some lunch and went to Murray Park.  We played at 2 different playground and walked around and explored.  Later that evening Trevor and Sandee and kids came over for dinner, hanging out and a little bit of fireworks.

24th party on the 25th with the neighbors

The next day our neighbors always have family and friends over for a BBQ and fireworks.  We joined in and took all the many kids on lots of golf cart rides and had fun hanging out and watching fireworks.

Our first Sunday back at church, we had to document it.  I sure love this cute little family of mine.

Murray Park

On the 24th when we walked around the park we discovered this spot in the river that widened and was super shallow.  This became one of our favorite places to come in the summer because it was so close and so fun to play in the water.  Harper loved it too!


Swimming with cousins

My parents next door neighbors have a pool in their backyard and they have offered for my parents to bring their whole family over for a party so we finally made it happen.  It was so fun to swim with cousins and nice to have a private pool to swim in.  We brought pizzas over for dinner and popsicles and ice cream cones for dessert.  There was also a trampoline, playground, sand pit, blow-up slide and volleyball net.  We all had a blast!  They were such nice people to share their yard with us!

June 2020

  

These boys are so cute with their little sister.  They let her do pretty much whatever she wants.  It's fun watching them interact.

Exploring Wheeler Farm

We had a little picnic lunch in a new area of Wheeler Farm that we had never been to.  It was very woodsy and the boys loved exploring through it.

Tree Trimming

Our tree in the front yard hangs far over our driveway and grows like crazy.  We decided to cut a lot out of it this year.  The kids were having fun building little forts with it and Harper liked dragging around the branches.



Hanging out with the Tervort cousins

We had a fun summer day with the Tervorts.  The kids played in the water and enjoyed popsicles.

Sweet snuggles for Paxton.

Harper 15 months

Never again will I make an afternoon doctors appointment with Harper's doctor.  We love her, but she is quite the talker which puts her way behind in her schedule.  We waited with Harper in her diaper for almost an hour!  I gave up on trying to keep her from ripping the paper.

Belated birthday presents

Graham was so excited to get his own packages delivered to the house.  These are from two of his aunts on the Sorenson side.  He loves them!



Fun at Grandpa and Grandma Moss’

My whole family got together to go play in my parents backyard and the men helped put together their new playground they just bought.  The kids always have a blast playing with their cousins.

Provo Beach

I took my kids to go hangout at my sister, Jamie's house.  We decided to go out to dinner and take the kids to Provo Beach, a place that has laser tag, ropes course, arcades and more.  Paxton did the ropes course and liked some of it, but got nervous to walk across the single ropes and he didn't want to go to the higher

section.  Then I got to do the laser tag with Paxton, Graham, Lincoln and Lucy.  We had no idea really what we were doing, but we had fun! 

Paxton’s Hip Hop Recital

Paxton's recital was definitely different with a pandemic going on.  The kids all performed on their own and got to invite 5 people to watch.  They did a great job on making them feel special with a red carpet, a decorated stage, a photo op and a gift to take home.  I would have loved seeing Paxton perform with his class, but it was fun seeing him up on stage.  He did a great job!  I love watching this kid do some hip hop moves.  


Father’s Day

We started the day out with a yummy breakfast and some gifts for this awesome dad that loves his kiddos so much.  We later went my parents house for a delicious dinner and had fun on the golf cart and hanging out in the backyard.  Once it started getting dark we turned on a movie in the backyard. It was fun being out on the hammocks, swings and setting up cushions on the ground to enjoy a backyard movie.  I love summer evenings.  I'm so grateful for my dad and how much love he shows for me and my siblings and our families.  He enjoys life, his family and doing things for and with us.

Aquarium

We got to go to the aquarium with our nextdoor neighbor friends.  These kids had a blast together.


Backyard swimming

Cousin Jo came over to hangout.  The girls had fun playing in the water.


Lagoon

Normally we probably wouldn't have chosen to go to Lagoon during a pandemic, but we had a "Get Out" pass that you get one free time to go and we couldn't pass it up.  It was hot and it was hard to wear masks, but we stuck it out and had some fun!  Jamie and her family came with us which made it even more fun!  

We got soaking wet on the log ride, the kids went on lots of kiddie rides, and Jamie and I got to go on Cannibal.  It was my first time going on Cannibal and it was amazing!!!  I love roller coasters and it's too bad that no one in my little family likes them so I was glad to have Jamie with me so we could go enjoy a couple of the bigger, more thrilling rides.  I would love to go back with just my sisters one day.  But it was fun enjoying watching the kids go on the little rides.

The boys brought their own money to play some games and win prizes.  They were so happy!

Happy Birthday Dad!

We took Rem to eat at The Italian Village.  It was our first time going out to eat in a restaurant since the pandemic began back in March.  It felt a little weird being out, but we had our own section to sit in so it was kind of nice having no one else around.

Later I set up a night with the boys and Rem got to go axe throwing with some of his brothers, brother-in-laws and a couple friends.  He said he had a great time!