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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Fall is Fun

One day, while the kids were at school, I looked out the window and saw that someone had raked leaves in a very strategic place, ready for an afternoon of fun after school.

Fall days, when the air is as crisp as the fallen leaves. When the light comes in on a tired slant, ready for long summer days to end. But lingering on a golden angle, reluctant to submit to the short days of winter.

Perfect for slide plowing into leaves.

And Fall Football- of course.

Friday, October 19, 2018

iFly Videos

BRYCE

RACHEL

CAMILLE

PARKER

SYDNEY

KARIN

Fall Break- IFly and Flowrider

We woke up in Park City to frost on our windows. Winter is coming!

On the way to Ogden, our next stop, we passed the Devil's Slide.

In Ogden, we found a group deal that included iFly, Flowrider and rock climbing. It was, in a word,

AWESOME!

At iFly, we went through flight instruction and got suited up and then took turns in the wind tunnel- FLYING~!
iFly videos here

After flying!!! we had lunch at the Ogden temple.

Then we spent an hour rock climbing.

Sydney and Bryce

Parker scrambled up the tallest wall like a pro!

Camille, taking a break.

After rock climbing, we suited up- in our bathing suits- and went to Flow Rider.

We had several bumps and bruises along the way. I even had a swimsuit malfunction (that no one saw, thank heaven). Sterling came away with numbness and tingling in his arm. But we had sooo much fun!

FLOWRIDER VIDEO;

After all this adventure, we headed to Woods Cross to have dinner with G'ma and G'pa. A perfect way to end a many-mile-long, adventure-filled, memory-making Fall Break!

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Fall Break- Arches National Park

For Fall Break, we took a very long road trip. First, we drove down south and visited Arches National Park. It was a little rainy the night we arrived but the morning dried up enough for us to do some nice hiking.

Arches National Park is stunning.

Ram Rock

Hiking to Delicate Arch

Little lizards, sunning on the rocks.

Wolf Ranch, trailhead to Delicate Arch

Southern Utah is known for its red rock, so when we saw all this green rock, we were surprised.

Red Rock Country?

Look at that skyline!

It's easy to get lost in the majesty of the arches. Look how small Parker and Bryce are in this picture where the arrow points.

At the Turret Arch, Parker found this crevice and clambered right up into it. Bryce was quick to follow.

Camille and Rachel wanted to follow too. While they were trying to find their way up....

...Bryce was taking in the view from the inside.

The girls had a little bit more difficult time getting up AND getting down. :)

We had a lot of really good laughs through the whole thing.

Double Arch

On the hike back to the car, Bryce found a dead lizard and the kids devised a plan to put it on Sterling's door handle. Gross!

We had lunch overlooking Balanced Rock and then headed to Park City for the night while Sterling had a meeting in Oakley.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Random Fall pictures

These pictures are in no particular order.

They are random, like I mentioned in the title of the post.

Thus no order, rhyme or reason.

Clear?

General Women's meeting with Grandma.

View from the field behind our house. I don't know who took this picture but I just kind of like it.

Saw this rainbow on the way to the church one day. No, it was not a reflection off my window. It was in the sky, only tipped on it's side. I've never seen a sideways rainbow before. If I had a scientific brain, I would probably understand it and appreciate it more. But I'm not that scientific so I just thought it was different and kind of cool.

Crazy hair day at school. Parker's piggies lasted about 10 minutes.

The some of the kids have been able to go to some of the BYU football games. Great fun!

Awesome sunsets in the fall, even when they are blurry.

Ster took the top two to General Conference.

Parker went fishing with the scouts and caught a fish!

Campfire dinner up American Fork with Grade and family. Dinner was amazing because...Bryn. 'nuff said.

Big ugly spider by the chicken coop. No one wants to collect eggs anymore.

Not sure why I have to end with the spider picture. That's really, well, random.

On Being a Mom

"We all know that the early years of our children's lives are precious. It is when they are most teachable, impressionable and open to true and erroneous teaching. Our society in a rush to success encourages us as mothers to send our children from the home earlier and earlier, to involve them in more and more activities. Too often we forget that the most impotant preparation for success is in the home under the nurturing care of the mother. That preparation takes time, long stretches of time filled with the consistent, everyday activity of home life. The time we have with our little ones is short and should be guarded carefully."

Kimberli Robison

Kids Say The Darnest Things

Syd: All I hear when guys talk about cars: "G7XLT 1500 YLQ4XP."

And all I say back is, "I like the grey one."

(Apr 2020)

Sydney's roommates when she was moving out to come home because of covid-19:

"Coronavirus needs to catch itself and die so we can get our Sydney back."

(Mar 2020)

Syd: "I need to get the heck back good again."

(Jan 2020)

Syd (excited about a boy): "They should have a hotline for girls to call and talk about boys when their friends and family are tired of listening."

(Jan 2017)

Bryce (saying a prayer): "Thank you for our bones, so that our bodies, won't melt."
(Aug 2014)

Parker: "What happened to the rest of the cake?"
Mom: "I ate it."
Parker: "Oh, so you can just eat whenever you feel hungry?"
Mom: "Yep."
Parker: "I can't wait until I'm a Dad. Then I can have my cake and eat it too."
(May 2013)

Bryce: "I do undersault." (somersault)
(May 2013)

At a Jazz basketball game:
Parker: "How many people are in this building?"
Dad: "Probably around 20,000."
Parker: "I think Mom's written more words than that."
(referring to my NaNoWriMo word count, which was at 23,000 at that point)
(Nov 2012)

Parker: "Why can't we watch the movies I picked tonight?"
Dad: "Well, it's Sunday, so I would like to watch a church movie."
Parker: "Why? So, like, Three Amigos isn't a church movie?"
(Nov 2012)

Rachel: "When you said clean the room, I didn't know you meant to clean up all the toys on the floor."
(Oct 2012)

Regarding Sunday General Conference:
Parker: "This morning was just the 1st quarter?" (like a basketball game.)
Mom: "Yes, and now we're watching the 4th quarter."
(Oct 2012)

Rachel: "I don't think we should eat that bread."
Mom: "Why?"
Rachel: "Because it has a bad word in it."
Mom: "What?"
Rachel: (slowly and very ennunciated) "Bi-ki-ni bread."
Mom: "No, it's Zucchini bread. It's ok to eat."
(July '12)

Rachel: "My arm ankle hurts." (wrist)
(Jan. '12)

Camille: (whispering to mom) "Dad just said we are having 6 hot brains for breakfast." (he actually said 6-grain hot cereal)
(Jan. '12)

Parker: (after taking a gulp of super hot chocolate)
"Oh..oh..oh. That just boiled my apple." (adam's apple)
(Oct. '11)

Parker: " Man, Mom. You have a big job. Taking care of the kids. That's like the hardest job. Well, except being an Avatar." (Sept. '11)

Rach: (laughing) "What if one of our 5 senses was our pajamas? That would be soooo funny." (Sept. '11)

Rach: "Mom, can I have some strange cheese?" (string cheese) (Aug. '11)

Parker: "Dad, when I grow up, I really want to be a professional basketball player. But more than that, I really want to be a Farm Bureau Man." (May '11)

Syd's "Hug List" (the list of people she wants to hug when she gets to heaven. Sydney: "Jesus, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young..." Dad: "Hannah Montana?" Sydney: "I'm not sure she'll be in the kingdom I'M going to." (Mar. '11)

Camille: "Pop! goes the wiggle." (Feb. '11)

Sydney: "Parents are supposed to be my example. But the only thing I learned from you today is to come home in the middle of church and eat the donuts." (Jan. '11)

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