this week

Now that school has started again, I cherish the weekends so much! With a new school year comes new germs and so I'm trying to stay well. I wasn't feeling well on Friday but I'm doing much better so that's good :) I've entered yet again a new chapter of being a mom this year. The kids are in 3 different schools for the first time and we now have 2 teenagers. They want to spend more time with their friends and they have things going on at school so there's lots of time in the car. :) I have 3 years until Braden is an adult and he'll go off to college. 3 very short years...that's hard to believe.

Just finished this page up today. On our way home from Utah this summer, we stopped at Zion to hike The Narrows. Aaron hiked the entire length of it as a teenager and we thought it would be fun to take the kids there. We hiked about a mile and a half in. Southern Utah is a beautiful place!

 

I started this page after school got out and just finished it today. It was a great school year. I have to say that I miss seeing Paige at recess but she is enjoying junior high.

 

 

Summer in Utah 2013

Finally finished this album from our adventures in Utah this summer. I just put the pictures in these templates, did a little journaling, a few elements and done. I took a lot of pictures so it's nice to have them somewhat organized. It was an especially awesome summer and we had a lot of fun. The only bummer part of it was my 20 year high school reunion was cancelled :( How lame is that?! I did however get together with some close friends that I haven't seen in a long time so that was awesome.

{Supplies}

Paper and templates- Crystal Wilkerson

Word elements- Ali Edwards, Designer Digitals, Kara Dudley

adventures at Canyonlands

{Supplies}

Template- Janet Phillips, Paper- Cosmo Cricket, date- Ali Edwards

I haven't scrapped in a while...it feels good! I think the days of scrapbooking without templates is over for me and that's okay. I opened up a few of my favorite pictures from our time at Canyonlands, put them in the template and I'm done. I didn't edit one picture and that's okay too :)

What a fun summer we had :)

2012 Summer vacation part 2

After our hike, we drove to West Jordan to spend a day there. The kids and I spent most of the day hanging out with my bf Amanda and her kids. It was great to spend time with them, wish we could have stayed longer. :( 

I think the biggest challenge of any visit to Utah is trying to find time for all the people I want to see!

 On our way up to Bear Lake for our H family reunion, we passed through Ogden where Aaron grew up. The Burger Bar in Roy is an awesome institution! It was just as delicious as I remember. The only bummer was that I ate too many onion rings and didn't save room for a shake :)

Braden is thrilled to be at the Burger Bar :)

This was our 3rd year staying at this cabin. We love this place and the view is just beautiful! No fireworks on the 4th this year because of the fires :( 

craft time with the cousins!

Lexie and Paige :) 

Paige had so much fun being silly with Lexie :)

this group of boys are all 2 years apart. They have so much fun together...

I love how blue the water is...

 Aaron was walking back to shore from the boat and doing a silly dance for the kids :)

 brothers :)

 boats are just so much fun!

 This is one of my favorite pictures!! 

 taking a hike in the rain

 When Alisha said she got some pizzas, she wasn't kidding. They were massive! 28 inches I think. She also ordered a dessert pizza called "Nude Beach". Of course the kids had fun for the rest of the reunion making jokes about eating their Nude beach pizza :)

 The kids with our New Yorkers Heidi and Steve

 Kissing?! Yuck! :)

 After our fun-filled reunion, we traveled to Vernal to see my family.

We had a family dinner and a birthday party for Paige. After spending a night and saying good-bye to our kids, we traveled back to Salt Lake to hop on a plane for our anniversary trip to NYC!!

to be continued...

2012 summer vacation part 1

The first stop on our awesome summer vacation 2012 was Moab, Utah. We drove up and met my cousin Chassie and her family. I'm so glad we were able to meet up and share this experience with them.
We have wanted to stop and explore Canyonlands National Park and Arches for years! What a gorgeous area Moab is!
These are pictures from our day at Canyonlands:

 Mesa Arch

 

 Jr. Rangers!

 baby Oliver was such a good baby!

Island in the Sky

We got up early on Sunday and headed to Arches to hike up to the delicate arch

 It was about 50 degrees and the kids were cold! :)

 

 "Kids! Smile!"

 We had to get up early so we could fit this hike into our trip. It was so worth it to see the sunrise

We loved Arches!

From Moab we traveled up to West Jordan to stay with Grams and Gramps before heading to Bear Lake for our H family reunion

to be continued...