Funny Game

Gator and Sydney played a funny game the other day.  They had a bunch of dollar store makeup and wrote down different parts of their face and different makeup, put those slips of paper in a bowl and took turns drawing  a piece from each bowl.  I love these two, they are such good friends.  Everyone needs a friend like Sydney.  

Thanksgiving Point

Today we went down to Lehi with Krissy and PJ.  They have passes to Thanksgiving Point, and invited us to go to the Museum of Curiosity and the Butterfly Biosphere.  The drive....long, but traffic wasn't bad.  The long drive gave Davis and I lots of discussion time for his love of cars, his lack of taste in music, and my hatred for the heat and talking about places to move that don't get above 75 degrees.  I enjoyed the drive just as much as the rest of the day, because I like just chatting one on one with my kids.  Even if I don't understand a single thing he says about cars, and did I mention his bad taste in music.  The Museum of Curiosity....stupid Covid closed half of the museum, and the other half was pretty sparse because of the same reason.  But the kids still had fun, and they have some fun activities.  The best part was outside and with the 105 degree weather pattern we're in, we just couldn't enjoy it.  I seriously would love a climate that never got above 75-80 degrees.  But slurpees do taste better when you've been out dying in the sun.  Butterfly Biosphere....was a really cool place.  I love butterfly houses.  And I almost forgot that butterflies like tropical climates and my face was melting off.  I do know though, if I had to choose I would choose dry heat not humid.  But Thanksgiving Point has a beautiful home for these butterflies, humidity and all. 

24th of July

It was a holiday weekend, but everyone kinda spread out.  I worked, Owen and Kylee went to St George with some friends, Davis went camping until a friend dropped his transmission so they came home early and went hammocking instead, and Gator went up to Clarks yesterday and was supposed to go today, but he wasn't feeling well.  So I got to spend the evening with her after work.  We went to the DI, her new favorite store, for some school clothes, and then we hung out with Joey.  So I think it was a pretty good weekend, even if we were all different places.  At least we all had fun and made it home to be together.  

I got a snap from Owen this weekend.  I didn't even know it was parents day.  Nice picture of him.

Love Thunderstorms

One thing that I love about Utah summers (that we just haven't had this year, and I'm pretty upset about it) is the late afternoon thunderstorms that roll in.  It is hot all day, but clouds start forming and thunder and rain soon follow.  My favorite!

Cove Fort and Sand Hollow

This weekend was a little different than we had originally planned, but it all turned out perfect.  Owen wanted to go to a rodeo in Nephi and Davis wanted to go camping/4 wheeling in Sand Hollow with Carrie's family.  So I thought Gator and I would take a drive as well and visit Dave and Sheila on their mission then go to Sand Hollow for a day and swim.   So her and I planned to drive to Cove Fort Saturday, then stay in Milford that night, and Owen & Kylee would drive to Milford after the rodeo, and we would all drive to the lake on Sunday.  Well, Davis' s 4 wheeler broke, but we all still wanted to go down, so we kept our plans and Davis just went down with me and stayed Sunday night with Carrie and Wayne and played more and then came home with them today.  The rest of us drove home last night.  A wild fire had just started and that was a bit scary to drive through.  We got past it just in time because they had to shut down I15 in both directions.  The weekend all worked out fun, and it was nice to take 2 cars down instead of 3.  And Davis got to go with us to visit Dave and Sheila.  Cove Fort is closed because of Covid, but we still got a personal tour with permission from their mission president.  They also took us for a drive through Fremont Indian Park.  That was cool, I told Krissy we should go down again for fall break, that is if we go back to school to have a fall break.  Sand Hollow was HOT.  Oh my gosh, it was so hot.  I don't know how they had all camped down there for 3 days.  It was so much fun at the lake though.  I couldn't talk myself into the cliff jumping, I'm just getting to be such a chicken in my old age.  It made me nervous enough just watching my kids jump off.  So the weekend was a bit hectic and a little bit different than we had planned, but it was a lot of fun.  I love doing stuff with my kids and my family.