Today was the Warriors over the Wasatch air show at Hill AFB. We’ve been looking forward to this for months. I remember going to see the Blue Angles when I was a kid. It was a very memorable experience for me and I was hoping to share a similar one with our kids. They were saying there would be a ton of people at the show, and they asked people to take public transit, so we figured we get a Frontrunner train ride out of the deal as well. Sam and Hanna came to our place and watched Zoey for the day.

Here we are on the train. One nice thing about starting from Provo is we had the pick of the train. By the end of the line, it was standing room only.

Landon and Kathryn with their sweet F-35 picture.

Ready for those loud jets!

And then…the base reached capacity and they turned us away. BUMMER! Should have started a whole lot earlier I guess. We were not the early birds today.

So, we had a fun afternoon anyway, and then this evening we had another backyard fire and roasted hot dogs and made s’mores. Then we had each of the kids take a turn going for a flight. Check out those smiles!

Yellowstone, here we don’t come! We’ve had the Moore Fun 2022 Yellowstone trip on the books for over a year, and all the preparations were nearly done. Josie had the shirts all made up, and food was getting packed. And then on Monday morning, 2 days before checkin, this article was posted:

With pictures like this:

Yikes. Not good! After some quick brainstorming on a Plan B, we decided to have the family up to the Cabin for the week instead. Thanks so much to the Hawkers for making this possible.

With the new plan in place, we worked on our final trip preparations. It must be a big family gathering coming up because check out that tote full of Muddy Buddies!! Oh yeah!

The swing set we built was a huge hit, and Tim and Suzanne declared they needed one up at the cabin. So, with the vacation moved to the cabin, we jumped into gear and got some things ordered with the goal of building the swingset as an activity during our stay. Kevin helped us pick out and load up the lumber, and Josie picked up some brackets on her way down so we could get them there faster than shipping them.

Not a bad load if I do say so myself. Way to go Thunder.

Picture time, in our sweet matching Yellowstone shirts.

Cousin time in the bunk room with Grandpa Ray story time.

Early morning moose watching. Who’s to say we would’ve seen more wildlife in Yellowstone besides bison. We also saw several elk.

Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Here’s a good helper boy.

Landon said that he loves riding the dirt bike even more than chocolate milk. That’s saying something!

One of the many amazing meals.

Outing to the Olympic Park.

Hot tube party!

Enjoying the view with Grandma.

Eliza practicing her pullovers.

Nice try Landon.

Cabin flag flying proud.

Girls outing to get pedicures.

And here is the finished swing.

All cleaned up, packed up, and ready to head home. Thanks cabin for the great time and we hope the swing set is a great addition for many years to come.

Here are some of the happenings from the late spring time.

Here is a continuation of the  Spring Chicks update. We got the new chicken coop built and the chickens moved out of the garage.  Yeah!!  This was a mutually appreciated move.

Ashley came on a hike with me and was a super trooper. She said the special hiking treats were the best part.

We stayed up at the cabin over Memorial Day and almost got snowed in with an end of May snowstorm!

Trying out the new couch with my girlies.

Kids crafting project making slippers. Notice that Landon is keeping his momo close to keep things masculine.

We made a fire pit in the corner of our backyard. The kids helped pick up all the rocks and stack them around the fire. Then we chopped out a bunch of weeds and piled them up to be burned later. Between working on that, we cooked tin foil dinners and s’mores.

The kids were so intent on sleeping outside in the tent to complete this home camping experience. So we said what the heck and setup the tent for them. To our great surprise, they did really great, stayed outside the whole night, and had a blast!

I recently got a new dirt bike and I’ve been heading out on as many rides as I can. Here was an evening ride with a buddy from work.  I love this spot.

We’ve learned that the secret to growing a garden for us is to get automatic watering setup. When we put in the yard, we ran some lines to the garden bed areas. We got this one connected up to a spigot and ran some watering lines.

And then we got the garden planted. Carrots, yellow squash, pumpkins, basil, zucchini, and strawberry plant. Here’s hoping that it grows.

Classic cup smile 🙂

Onto the next project, building a huge swing set. Here we are putting together the beam.

And here it is all done. Thanks to Tim and Suzanne for helping us stand it up. This is going to be great. We sure do miss our tree swing from the old house, but I hope this is an acceptable replacement to help this yard feel a little more like home.

This Grandma Suzie belongs to Ashley, Eliza, and Zoey.

Zoey is pretty much this cute all the time. This particular morning, I couldn’t let the moment slip away and I grabbed the camera and got this fun picture of her.

Then the other kids wanted to jump in and have a picture with her.

And Eliza was