Our Eliza Boo is one year older and wiser too. She is turning out to be quite a charming, lovely, cute, and smart young lady. We’re proud of you Eliza.

Salt and Vinegar chips. Quite a polarizing food. You either love it (like Eliza) or you can’t stand it (like me). But to each their own.

It’s me, hi, I’m the birthday girl. It’s me.

Gomp and Grandma Suzie cam to visit and Eliza inherited Grandma’s chest that she received as a girl from her mom. What a very special gift!

We had a high flying and jumping birthday party at Air Time with the family and Eliza’s friends.

Eliza really wanted a chair swing. Probably her top wish. I had no idea what it was supposed to be, but it was all the rage. So, we got it hung up in the basement. I thought the kids would just sit in it and read or something. Boy was I wrong. It’s a full on gymnastics set piece. What you combine it with the bar, it takes it to the next level. Check out Landon’s and Eliza’s moves.

Soccer season is in full swing again. Ashley is on the Wild Poppin’ Berries team.

Landon is on the Green Dragons team, along with his best bud Cove.

Stan and Mel stayed the night with us on their way home from Idaho. We had Darrel and Missy over for a BBQ.

In long-standing tradition, we made a strawberry lemon trifle.

2021

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Too cute

All smiles after enjoying Kathryn’s waffles.

Ice cold goodness

We had a birthday celebration at the park up in SLC for our September birthdays. I cooked fried chicken in the Dutch oven.

In case you’ve never looked really close at a giant sunflower… they are really interesting.

We checked off a bucket list item for Kathryn, getting her up to the top of Mount Timp. We started off with a “training” hike up to the saddle of Maple Mountain / Spanish Fork Peak. It was a lot of fun to look down on our neck of the woods from our mountain. We were both pretty sore after the hike, not having hiked all that much this summer.

On Labor Day, Suzanne was so nice and she came down and picked up the kids in the morning and took them up to the cabin for the day. Meanwhile, Kathryn and I headed out a little after 3am and started on the trail right after 4 am. Lots of people up ahead of us that started even sooner.

I love watching the sunrise progress.

Pre-dawn twilight

The mountain goats were out.

The glorious dawn

We made the peak. Awesome! Way to go Kathryn!

We enjoyed watching the mountain goats navigate their way down this cliff. They all made it down safe and sound, and caused quite a few rock slides in the process.

Cool refreshing spring water.

It really is a beautiful mountain

Stewart falls

The lower falls

After the hike, we spent the rest of the day up at the cabin with Tim and Suzanne, and Sam and Hanna. A fun day off and a great accomplishment.

Kids are back in school. Here are their first day and their school pictures.