July 2021

Wasatch Mountain State Park

My parents were camping in Wasatch Mountain State Park in Heber so the kids and I went and visited them for a day.  We hung out at the camp spot for a bit then went on a side by side ride, did some exploring and then went and got ice cream.  When we got back we tested out their electric bikes and scooter and went for a ride around the campground.  Then my mom had to go back home so we stayed with my dad for the evening.  He took us on another side by side ride just through the town this time and we went out to dinner.  We hung out at camp a little longer and then headed home.

Happy 4th of July

I took Paxton and Graham to the Murray parade.  Harper was still asleep so Rem brought her once she woke up.  We got to sit with friends and the kids had fun collecting candy off the street.  Pax loved that he got to see the Jazz bear!

We hung out most of the day with our next door neighbors.  We ate yummy food, played in the water, watched Sand Lot in their backyard, saw a few fireworks and went for a few rides on Ryan's make shift four wheeler trailer with camp chairs.  We are so lucky to have such awesome neighbors!

Harper got so excited about the fireworks and cute Jules kept snuggling with Rem, we were all laughing that she chose him over anyone else.  He loved it because it made Harper a bit jealous so she'd want to snuggle him too.

Starting some Halloween projects a little too early.  Harper wanted to get in on the action.

Visiting Rem's 100 year old grandma while she was in rehab for a fall she had that broke her femur.  She amazed us how well she came out of this considering her age and break.

I finally gave in to letting Rem and our neighbor Ryan tear out the trees that were in between our houses.  They had wanted to do it for a long time, but I loved having the trees there for shade and they were great climbing trees for the kids.  But one of them was in the way when we bought our new trailer and we couldn't get the trailer past it to put on the side of the house.  And the way the trees all grew around in to each other, you couldn't just take down one.  We also had a huge pine tree removed at the same time.  Then we cemented the area where the trees came down to our property line to widen our driveway.  The kids wanted to eat their breakfast outside so they could watch.

Ryan finally finished his trailer with benches instead of the camp chairs.  The kids loved going for rides around the neighborhood!

24th of July float preview

We took the kids and some friends to see the 24th of July float preview.  This was definitely the way to see the floats.  It was nice to go at a decent hour and not have to wake up super early for the parade, we got to see the floats up close and really see them and they were even passing out some candy.

Down Pour

One of my young women girls got married in her aunt and uncles backyard that lives super close to us.  It was a beautiful ceremony, but as we were waiting for the dinner tables and food to get set up there was a crazy down pour!  We all huddled on the deck and then we had to move inside because the roof started leaking there was so much rain.  We decided to run home to check on the kids because we left Paxton babysitting and the internet was down so we had no way of calling him.  We booked it home through the pouring rain and got completely soaked.  We called down to the kids that had no idea it was even raining and they joined us outside playing in the rain.

Happy 24th of July

For the 24th we got together at my parents house with my whole family and rented a big blow up water slide.  The kids were so excited!  We all brought yummy food to share and enjoyed each others company.  At one point Dan had a bunch of the kids doing a relay race which of course included running up the stairs and flying down the slide.  Then all the dads started going down the slide to see who could get the biggest splash while someone else stood at the bottom to see how soaked they got from the splash.  We had a great day and that evening instead of bringing fireworks to light off, Trev brought some glow sticks and these things you could sling shot into the air and they lit up.  We turned on some music and hung out in the backyard.  We had such a great time!

These two are such cute little friends.  It was so darling watching them push their strollers for a walk.

June 2021

Camping in Sand Hollow

We planned a camping trip with our friends, the Suprises in hot St. George, Sand Hollow.  It was beautiful, but too hot to be there.  You either wanted to spend the whole day in/near the water or inside the trailer with the air on full blast.  It was nice when it was late in the evening to go for a walk or sit out and roast marshmallows.  But we still had a good time, although Paxton and a couple of our friends kids got swimmers itch on the first day we were at the water so they didn't want to go back in fear of it getting worse.  We didn't have any clue if it would or not, but they were kinda miserable itching with red spots all over.  

Graham's Track Meet

I signed Graham up to do Track and Field this summer and he has loved it so far.  This kid loves to run!  He's been able to join a few of the track meets and even invited his friends to join one.  He loves to try the other activities such as long jump, jumping hurdles, javelin throwing, and shot put.  I tried to enter Harper into run with the other 2 year olds, but she just cried when we got her out on the track.

More camping with Grandpa and cousin Jake

Wheeler Farm

Happy Father's Day

After church we celebrated Rem with a few gifts, homemade cards and lots of hugs.  Then the kids all gave him a back rub and foot rub while he laid in bed and we let him take a nice long nap.  Later we went to my parents house with my whole family to celebrate.  These kids sure are lucky to have a dad that loves them like crazy and does fun things with them.  We love him so much!

I'm so lucky to have such an awesome dad and amazing grandpa to my kids.  We all adore him and love him to pieces!

Dog sitting Ollie

We got to have Rems sisters dog for about 5 days while they were on vacation.  It was fun having a dog around again and Rem is begging to get another one.  But there were definitely moments that reminded me why it's nice to not have one and with having a toddler right now I for sure want to wait for a few years.  Ollie sure was a cute and loving dog and it was fun to see the kids enjoy him so much.

Graham got baptized!

First off I'm so proud of Graham for making the decision to want to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We had lots of discussions with him and with no hesitation he knew what he wanted.  He was excited to go shopping for a new suit and get his baptism pictures done.  I'm so grateful to my sister for taking these great pictures of Graham by the Draper Temple.  Graham sure was loving every minute of it and even would have ideas of another shot to take, it was cute.

I'm grateful that the Stake changed things up on how they did baptisms.  They used to put everyone together and now they let you do your own baptism so it's more special for the kids.  With Covid still being a thing we just invited family because our family is pretty large.  We had a small program and then Graham got baptized and confirmed.  He just looked so happy and said he felt peace.

After the baptism we all gathered back at our house for lunch.  We just had sandwiches and some sides and desserts.  Graham got a few presents from family including a homemade "Holy Ghost" pillow from his cousin Lucy and  a new set up scriptures from mom and dad.  It was a good day!  We sure love our Graham and are proud of him!  He looked so handsome.

Harper loves holding her cousin, baby Millie.

Happy birthday GG Moss

It was great to celebrate GG's 82nd birthday with her.  She got a Donavon Mitchell birthday cake because she loves the Jazz.  She called it her "Don Evan" cake after her husband.  Evan and Heather were so nice to have the party at their house and let the kids swim in their pool.  We all had a great time.

Happy birthday Rem

The kids made Rem some Halloween birthday cards because they know he loves Halloween and Graham picked out a big blow up taco pool toy because they know he loves Taco Bell.  We sure love celebrating this guy!

Harper falling asleep in random places again.

May 2021

Camping in Heber

We bought a new trailer a few months ago and we were excited to take it out.  We wanted to be close to town in case of forgetting anything or something to go wrong.  So we went to a camp spot in Heber.  It was super close to town and a really nice RV park with lots of extra fun things like a pool, basketball court, fire pits and more.  My parents came with us and brought their RV and their side by side machines.  We  stayed just two nights, but we had fun going on some rides and swimming the first day and the next day the boys went golfing and my mom and I and Harper went to breakfast and did a little shopping.  We spent more time just hanging around the campsite, more swimming, more rides and visiting Rems brother Russell and his family for a little bit since they live so close.  It was a fun and short camping trip.  But we were able to make a list of things we needed to stock in our trailer.  We can't wait to go out again!

Paxton's Piano Recital

Happy 8th birthday Graham!

Graham's birthday was on a Saturday so he woke up to all his presents and then Graham and I and Harper (he wanted her to come) went to Kneaders for a yummy birthday/Mother's day breakfast.  I want to make this a tradition since his birthday will always be so close or even on Mother's day.  A little later that day he got to go shopping with Grandma and Grandpa Moss to pick out his own birthday present.  While he was gone we made a few changes to his room because he's been asking for a panda room.  When he got home he came into his room and was sooo excited for all the new panda stuff, he was a happy boy.  

Then Grandpa and Grandma ordered in some Chinese dinner so he could use his new chopsticks he got for his birthday.  After dinner we went ice skating as a family.  It was so cute to see the tiniest skates on Harper and have her ride around on a seal on the ice.  The boys had fun taking turns pushing her.  It was a good day!

Happy Mother's Day

I'm so lucky to have all these amazing women in my life and for the wonderful examples they are to me.  I'm especially grateful for my own mother and for the close friendship we have and for how much she supports me and loves me.  

We had a fun day celebrating, having a yummy dinner, going on golf cart rides in the backyard and playing with cousins.  I'm so grateful for all these people in my life.

We celebrated Graham with the family on Mother's Day.  I just bought this ice cream cake and added a few things to it to make it into a panda cake, he loved it!

Graham's Party

Graham had his birthday party at Get Air.  He invited about 8 friends and we let Paxton invite he friend Kai.  This was such an easy party to plan, they had a blast jumping around and then we gathered them all for pizza that the place provided, after he opened presents and then I brought another panda cake.  After they jumped until the parents came to pick them up.  He had so much fun.  I love watching Graham enjoy his friends and go crazy.

Jr. Jazz basketball

Paxton sure loves his basketball and I love watching him do what he loves most.

Harper

Harper has refused to take naps for a while now, but she still gets tired and some days we find her in the most random places snoozing away.  The thing I love most is how she crosses her legs.

When I found her asleep on the stairs I was unsure whether to move her or not.  She was only about 3 stairs up from the bottom so I decided to leave her, but grabbed a bunch of pillows and blankets just in case she rolled off the stair.

Fun Fit Run

These kids are getting too fast for me and I can't keep up with them.  Graham is my runner and loves it, Paxton not so much.  It was good that he had a friend to run with that motivated him to keep going!  I helped out with having a water stop in front of my house that the kids could just grab a quick drink and keep going.  I'm proud of these kids for running the full 2 miles!

Graham got an Award!

Every year the school does an awards ceremony for each grade.  They only invite the parents whose kids are getting an award, not every kid gets an award.  When I got the email for me to come I was unsure that they sent it to the right person, my kids just don't usually get awards at this ceremony especially Graham because with getting him diagnosed for ADD this year he has really been falling behind.  But getting him on some meds to help him focus has really helped and it showed!  I'm so proud of him for getting the Principal's Award for Effort and Responsibility.  He really is a good kid and wants to do good.

Learning to Fish

Murray Rec Center offered some fishing lessons for kids this spring so I decided to sign my boys up even though we don't go fishing ourselves, but they love to go with Grandpa.  It was a nice program to get them outside at a beautiful park.  Paxton was glad to have some friends to hang out with because it did get a little boring.  On the last day they had just stocked the pond with more fish so finally Paxton got one!  He was excited and decided that he loved going after all.

Dinner and Magic Show

My parents treated us adults to dinner and Magic Show at Gardner Village.  Ben, Erika and Dan were unable to come so they invited the 3 oldest grand kids.  But we decided to bring Graham to this one because Paxton recently got to go to Les Mis with us, plus Graham is way more into magic than Pax.  It sure was fun to have him there with us and the dinner and show was amazing!  We had a really good time.

Activity Days

I love being a leader to these cute activity day girls.  Sometimes I even bring Harper with me and she loves it so much and the girls love having her there!  We read a story about a jelly fish and made our own with some yummy treats.