Dew Tour

One of Kage's favorite people is Shaun White. So the Dew Tour was in town last week and we decided to head downtown and watch. They had all sorts of activities going on outside. One of the activities was to get autographs from some of the BMX dirt bike riders which we watched later on that night (see last picture).

Kage also took a turn on the dirt bike course they had set up.

For a fifteen dollar donation to charity you could get a haircut by the Paul Mitchell students. David was in need of a hair cut so we decided to go for it. After forty minutes, four different people doing the cut David walked away with a not so great cut.

We did see Shaun White but I didn't get any good pictures. He was very cool to watch but the BMX dirt bike was probably the most fun event we attended. It was a long day but we had a lot of fun.

David turns Twelve

I can't believe that David is twelve now. We celebrated his birthday the weekend before by going to Lagoon. The day before his birthday my parents took him (and Kage and I) to Texas Road House for dinner.

David wanted a checkerboard cake for his birthday. This was the best I could come up with.

David got a bike at the beginning of August that counted as part of his birthday. The only other thing he asked for was a rock tumbler (which three weeks later is still running but doesn't have any polished rocks).

Start of School

School started on August 23. Here is the annual picture on the front porch on the first day of school.

Monday, August 22, was our fourteenth anniversary. Kelly sent me these beautiful flowers.

The Saturday after school started we went to Lagoon for the day. This was what David wanted to do for his birthday.

Sea Base

One Saturday in August right before school started we went out to a place in Grantsville called Sea Base. It is a Salt Water spring that they have turned into a spot people can snorkel and scuba dive in. It was a little expensive but they had some tropical fish that you could see. It would have been better but the water was murky that day.

David enjoyed getting an Asian pedicure. They have these little fish called mollies that when you put your feet in the water they come and pick any dead skin off your feet. David had a scab on his ankle and they really went to town on that.

St. George

In the middle of August we went to St. George with My mom and dad and my sister Chelsea and her husband DJ. We drove down Friday to see "The Little Mermaid" at Tuacon. It was a very fun play and had great special effects.

On Saturday we spent the day time at Sand Hollow. Chelsea, DJ, my Dad, and Kelly were all scuba diving. While they were diving the boys played on the beach. David caught this craw dad.

My mom and I also go to do a little scuba intro class and tried it out for a little while.
Saturday night we went and saw "Grease" at Tuacon. Kelly and Kage and my Mom and Dad enjoyed Grease even more than Little Mermaid.

Temple Square

One day right before school started we went up to Temple Square. We went with my Mom, My sister Amber and her three boys, My sister Ashley and her three kids, and my sister-in-law Kathryn and her little boy. We met at the Lion House for lunch.

We walked over to the Church office building. On the way we stopped to take this picture with the temple in the background.

Here are some of the kids on top of the Office building.

We went to the visitors center and went through the new family tour.

Hellfire Sweet Sixteen

Once again we spent five days out on the Salt Flats launching rockets this year. Kelly is the current president of UROC so he was in charge of a lot of putting the event together. I spent the event running the registration booth, the boys ran a lemonade stand. We were so busy the entire time I took hardly any pictures. This year our friend Dave and his son Derrick came out the entire event. We also had our neighbors two boys with us most of the event. Dave's wife Laura came out Friday night and spent the rest of the weekend. On Saturday we had a lot of friends and family that came out and spent some time with us.

Summer fun random adventures

We tried to spend time at the pool this summer. We went to the Lindon Aquatic's center a couple of times. The boys enjoyed doing the flowrider.

My mom and I went the Salt Lake parade of homes and saw the "Up" house.

One Saturday the boys and I headed up to Bingham Copper Mine. They enjoyed looking in the deep mine, and checking out the visitors center.

Just before Hellfire I captured this picture of Kage helping Kelly saw through pvc pipes.

Kage earned his Bear in Cub Scouts this summer.

Summer Fun bedroom updates

So we decided to repaint both of the boys bedrooms this summer. Kage's bedroom went from a bright blue and trains to a navy blue and vintage airplanes. David's room went from a lime green with no design to charcoal (dark gray) and planets/space. Even though they are painted we are still working on a lot of the details. Kelly just finished making book cases and desks for their rooms a couple of weeks ago. When I get them finally really put together I'll try and post pictures.

Summer Fun

Since we got back from our trip to the Outer Banks we have been able to really enjoy summer. We went to the Lehi Round-up rodeo. Before the rodeo we bought hats from my Uncle Chip. The boys look a little Amish with their hats on.

That weekend David had a Court of Honor. He received his Second Class rank.
Kelly left for South Carolina to work. My parents have a time share in Park City. So the boys and I headed up to spend some time up there. My mom also came and spent the weekend with us. While we were in Park City we went to the Mountain Resort and rode the Alpine Slide and Coaster. This is always lots of fun. We went swimming and went out and watched the kids jump at the Olympic Sports park. One morning my mom and I went walking to a beautiful little old cemetery that had a gorgeous stream running through it. Even though we only spent a couple of days there it was a great little get away.


Saturday after we got back from Park City we went on a jeep ride with my mom and dad. We went up American Fork Canyon on lots of the dirt roads. We ended up at Cascade Springs and we stopped at Sundance as well. The Canyon was absolutely gorgeous. It was a great day for a ride.That night when we got home we had F-16 Fighter jets fly over our house about six or seven times. I thinks they were flying over Stadium of Fire.
Monday was the Fourth of July. We went to my mom and dad's for breakfast then we went up Provo Canyon and hiked to Stewart Falls. Chelsea, DJ, Amber, and Gregg and their boys all hiked with us. It was an adventurous hike. There was an injured hiker that search and rescue were working on getting off the mountain. We watched that for a while. We also saw a moose along the trail. That night we had a BBQ and lit off fireworks in front of my mom and dad's.
Yesterday Amber called and invited me and the boys to go swimming. It was free swim day at AF pool. Amazingly it wasn't too crowded. After swimming we went and got pizza then we went and watched the soap box car derby. It was a fun evening.
I hope that we continue to have a fun summer filled with fun summer activities.

Trip to OBX, NC

A couple of weeks ago my whole family went to the Outerbanks of North Carolina. We stayed in a beach house just steps from the ocean. It was a very fun trip! For the writing class I'm taking I had to publish a book. I made a book about our trip so here are the picture collages that tell all about our trip.



























These are the pictures we used on the t-shirts we made for everyone to wear on our first travel day of the trip. We got a lot of funny looks and stares wearing each other on our shirts.