Summer Adventures

This summer actually started out really rough for me. I had a really hard time making the transition from school to summer and I spent the first few weeks crying constantly (besides our wonderful St. George trip). Then one day something changed and I spent the rest of the summer enjoying it. And not crying. Yay.

Tyler got to go on his first Young Men's campout. It was like less than 24 hours which is pretty lame. But he had a time and Brandon got to go with him. They just invited dads if they wanted to go so Brandon went. Brandon stayed in this tent with Sam, Ben, and Dave Healey.

It was fun for me to get pictures sent to me of Tyler since Brandon was there.

Ava and Jackson slept in my bed with me while Brandon was gone for one night and they were so cute reading before bed.

This was also the summer of bike rides. I can't even count how many bike rides Mckinley and I went on. Mckinley's friends don't get together all that much so she was just usually hanging around with not a lot to do so we would just pick up our bikes and go ride around Lakeside Park, or this one time we rode together to Vineyard Grove Park. The bike rides were so fun!

Ava and Jackson singing in Church for Father's Day. Jackson was too shy to go up on Mother's Day but he totally rocked this one.

This was the day where my summer started to take a good turn. We woke up one day and it was kind of overcast and we just decided to go hike to Battle Creek Falls. It was such good weather and we had a great time.

Got ice cream at Purple Turtle after.

Later that same week we had a day at the pond with Kristen's family and my parents. The pond was super low but we still had a good time.

The Carillon Bell Concert has always been a favorite tradition of mine.  We got to do that this year. It was a small group, but it just feels so summery and so fun.

Kristen had told me about a lego display at BYU so we headed over there after the bell concert to check it out and it was really cool!

Off on another adventure to the Planetarium. Kallie hadn't come with us the last time so I was excited to show it to her. The kids always have so much fun there!

Headed over to the Capitol Building. Kallie whined about it quite a bit but I just love being there and seeing the beauty of it. We didn't stay long this time, but I'm glad we went.

Something I have been wanting to do for a few years now is go see the Kennecot Copper Mine. So we made it happen on a Saturday and Brandon came with us too. It was so interesting and so cool to see! We missed our tour time and had to wait for the next bus and then we got this bus driver who knew so much about it and gave so many interesting details on the drive into the mine. It was awesome!

The size of the trucks is honestly hard to comprehend! Even though you're there and seeing them with your own eyes, they are so far away it's hard to imagine.

Another item on my bucket list was to go see the Up House and it was close to the mine so we hit this up quickly on our way home. So cute and fun to see! Quite a small house though.

Had the best evening riding scooters to the sand park with these two littles! I think all of our older kids were doing something else that evening.