June 2025

 Summer is here and life has slowed down a little, but not by much! Gentri has dance once a week, Ashton has football four nights a week, and Giselle usually has a practice and a game for softball.  We took a trip to St. George for a few nights and had a great time.  It was a bit of a work retreat, we stayed in an amazing AirBn'B with Ryan and Candace and their girls, and Ryan's parents Joe and Shelly.  The resort had a huge lake like pool where you can ride paddle-boards, they had huge blow up slides and climbing obstacles to play on.  We had a good time playing volleyball and lounging in the water.  We did bring our paddle board, but didn't have everything to blow it up.  They had really amazing drinks though, Freddy's Favorite was the one we got over and over.  Mountain Dew with strawberry and coconut cream, ahhh so good! 

Such an amazing softball season!  These girls went undefeated during the regular season and finished 4th at the state tournament.  Friendships were forged, memories made, and Giselle found a love for softball!

Stopped at an antique store on our way home after dropping Ashton off in Salina with Grandma and Grandpa.  The rope is for Grandma Shelly for a project she's creating and I'm excited to have this sled for Christmas decor!

Hiked Dixie rock, it was beautiful!

Made a little garden, two tomato plants, one jalapeno, cilantro, and some marigolds!

December 2017

We got snow! Schools were closed so we went sledding at Tony and Jamie's ❄❄❄

                                                           

Rolling Hills Christmas Service

Hogle Zoo

We wanted to take the kids and do something fun for a weekend so we decided to stay at Joye and Gilbert's and talk them into going to Hogle Zoo with us! It was a hot day and we were all super tired by the end, but we had so much fun! The kids loved the train and all the animals, but we don't even have a picture of their favorite thing there: The life-sized dinosaur replicas that spray water!! They loved it!

Huge Elephant
Measuring my monkeys

This girl picked the snake herself....I don't think we are related!!!

Ashton on his lion cub!

The bird show was amazing! I took this pic a little early, it seriously went right over our heads!

You give the bird a dollar and he puts it in the box!

Jeffrey the Giraffe

Uncle Kris took them for a ride in Grandpa's 'Cuda!!

The funniest thing happend Saturday night when they were going to bed. Joye had let Gentri sleep with her Tinkerbelle flashlight and I had been laying in bed for a minute when I saw a light out in the hall. I opened the door to find Gentri and Ashton sneaking down the hall toward the livingroom, they saw me and froze! They looked SO guilty it was hilarious. Apparently Gentri had left her stuffed animal out there and they were on a retrieval mission. They just looked so cute and so old! Like a precursor to all the trouble they will get into with each other over the years. Love them!!

Mexico from 6 months ago...

Let me just say that this was THEE most amazing trip EVER!! 100% paid for by Stock Building Supply and I think Andrew gave them a run for their money, he ate like 7 times a day! The first full day we were there we went on our excursion to the caves and had a blast!! There were ziplines, repelling down into the caves, snorkeling in the caves, sky bikes that took you all over, and a crazy roller coaster that finishes in the water. I have video of the roller coaster, but can't get it to load:( That was our "strenuous" day and then everyday after that we literally only did two things: eat and hang out at the beach. (Maybe there was time for one other thing) But it was SO NICE to just be together and chill! It was the most fun, relaxing, beautiful vacation, ahhh I want to go back!!

The "swim up bar"

So pretty at night!! This is one of the restaurants we went to, yummy!

The beach!! There were golf carts to take you down from the resort or sweet BMW bikes to ride down. We had so much fun on those bikes and even saw a few crashes:)

The view from under the cabana, heaven.... The view from our table, another amazing pool.

Swimming into the stalagmite cave

This zipline was so fun, you end up in the cave and land in the water!

Andy on the sweet sky bikes that take you all over the jungle and through caves.

Me, pedaling away!

Andy on the zip line