February 2024

Gosh darn it this blog is hard to keep up on. I'm always catching up months later. 

Tyler and Mav went and did baptisms at the Orem temple together thanks to an appointment Mav made. I went with my mom and sat and watched them. It was fun.

Jackson and Luke looking through their joy school memory book together. Aww....

Brandon and I got to go out on a date to a men's BYU volleyball game. It was so fun!

Valentine boxes are my faaaaaavorite thing to make with the kids. Tyler got a rubix cube this year. So appropriate!

Kallie used Mckinley's old Up house. We reglued the balloons and added her name with cloud letters. So cute!

Ava made a Bluey/Bingo two-sided box. So stinking cute!

We decorated the table cute for Valentine's dinner and then just got pizza ha ha.

Jackson comes with me every week to baggie books. I can't believe next year he is going to be in all day Kindergarten! I didn't know he could write his name backwards like this, starting with the N. Pretty impressive!

Kallie and her cute group of friends. From left to right: Weslie, Kallie, Addie, Scarlette, Sienna, T-Lee.

I still love doing puzzles. This is my 2,000 piece gas station one.

Mckinley is such a great babysitter. She was babysitting Jojo here. She often babysits Krista Gray's kids, Jackson and Kennedy.

Ava got to go to a fun arcade place for Claire's birthday.

This year for Chinese New Years, my mom and dad took us all out to eat at Feast Buffet. It was delicious! But we didn't really get to talk to any other family members. :)

We went down by Utah Lake to see if there were cool ice chunks and the lake wasn't even frozen. Darn it. Missed it this year.

Ava and Kallie both performed in the school lip sync and it was so fun to watch their dances! They both did a great job and moved on to the final assembly. 

Kallie and her friends celebrating after with slurpees.

Ava's basketball season finally came to an end.

We put up this hammock that we got for Christmas from Grandpa and Marmee, and not too long later, the kids got in with a couple friends and ended up ripping it, falling on the cement on their backs, and it went in the garbage.

Another warm weather day. I love that we take advantage of these.

This flower that Ross and Karen gave to me when my aunt Rebecca died, finally grew! It was the weirdest thing. Didn't need any water. At one point we threw it in the garbage but Kallie got it back out and it actually grew!

Mesquite Soccer Tournament

Tyler got invited to join Steve's team in a soccer tournament in Mesquite. We decided to stay in Hurricane and just drive down for the tournament on Friday and on Saturday. It actually wasn't bad at all doing that and we had an absolute blast!

 

This was the coldest weather we've ever experienced in St. George. But we still had so much fun and just swam in the rain anyway. The pool actually felt pretty warm since it was so cold outside!

They did such a good job in their tournament. They kicked 5 PK's at the end of every game, just for practice, but it also gave them a point if they won their shoot out. Tyler got picked to kick the last kick of their first round, and he nailed it! It was so exciting!

Friday night's game was freezing and Saturday ended up a little better. It was still definitely chilly, but man, we had a lot of fun being there.

Night swimming is always a favorite! Even though we didn't need to wear sunscreen during the day either. :)

Exhausted kids by bedtime. :) Such a great experience for our first tournament away from home. I'm so grateful for these homes we have in Hurricane. We have created so many memories there!

The rest of January

Little kid bingo happened a little later this year. And some of the older kids came as "helpers." Tyler, Kallie, Sophie, Hadlee.

These guys had a blast being helpers, and then they went to the teenager bingo as well ha ha.

We got together with the Bishop family and played 9 square in the church. Jack and Todd were here with us too.

Kristen had her 6th baby, a boy named Rhett.

Brandon went to a Jazz game without us. :)

The Salmon adults all went to Ruth's Chris together with our Christmas gift cards. We told them it was Brandon's birthday. Gotta live it up for your 40th!

Tyler loves his new headset he got for Christmas and plays Fortnite with friends any time he can.

Ava played a painful season of basketball. They got creamed when they played against her cousin Emery.

We took Tyler and Kallie to do baptisms for their first time on January 20th. Kallie was a little stressed in the dressing room. Tyler was totally chill. The whole experience was great, other than waiting for a bunch of people to be baptized in front of us, but that's normal.

We played Clue and on my very first turn I randomly guessed three items I didn't know and won the whole game in one turn!

Jackson finally warming up to his playgroup.

Jackson and his best friend, Luke Murri. These guys play for 5 hours at a time, often! 

Tyler decided to start playing some piano songs in January, and now in April, he is an absolute pro. Learns by ear and knows all 4 pages of Fur Elise, and the first 4 pages of Phantom of the Opera. There's nothing I love more than listening to him play!

Ava never did make a basket the whole season. Bless her heart.

Tyler playing outside with Nixon, Alex, and Nico.

Love love love our beautiful sunsets.

Jackson is finally (now in April) outgrowing his phase of crashing all the time.

Had to sneak a pic of Tyler passing the sacrament for the first time! He loves it!

We must have enjoyed a warm park day in January. Those are always nice.

Ava dressed up like a grandma for the 100th day of school. Mckinley did her face make up.

Kallie and Tyler were so lucky to be able to go to their field trip to Biz town, right before we headed out of town for Tyler's soccer tournament. We originally thought they would have to miss it until Tyler didn't have a game scheduled on Thursday. So lucky!