Last Week of Summer!!

This was the last full week without school!  I can’t believe how fast this summer has passed.  We decided to live the last week up!!  Taylor had a late night party with her friends and a piano recital.  Kim, Jill and my mom took the kids to Dinosaur Park (thank you!), and we all went to Hogle Zoo!

Taylor has the cutest friends ever!  The girls stayed late and played night games.  Check out Jord and her little friend.  They are tired already!!

Next event was the zoo.  The kids always love the Zoo.  We left at  7:30 a.m. to beat the heat and it worked… well sort of.  For the most part the weather was bearable and we had a great time!

	Everyone made it to the zoo!  Ryker is a teenager now and such a great sport!  I loved the baby giraffe.
Hunter, Hayden, Sammy, Kendall, Reagan, Jord, Anders, Tay and Ryker!

Piano fun!

Taylor took piano this summer.  She learned so much this summer and absolutely loved piano lessons.  She can’t wait to continue.   Grandma and Grandpa came to support her.  Below is her teacher, she plays at every recital.  She is very talented and we are lucky to have her so near by!

 

 

Chase goes to college!

I wanted to dedicate at least one post to Chase.  For those of you who don’t know Chase is Jeff’s oldest son.  He just graduated from Sky View and is headed off to Virginia Tech.  Chase came to live with Jeff about 18 months ago and I am SO glad he did.  He is so fun and has truly been a blessing in my life.  I found myself driving to work today crying randomly (and now again as I write this).  Chaser (as I call him) has become a great friend of mine and such a positive person for my girls to know.  As we speak he and Jeff are hauling across country in Chase’s car headed to school.  I asked Jeff to take photos so I can document the trip.  Here are some photos of  the highlights of the last year!

 

Thank you Chase for making everything so fun.  My favorite memories include Las Vegas on Chase’s 18th birthday!  Our trip to Price, Utah where I could have sworn we were in the twilight zone.  Spending time in Lava Hot Springs as of course our Saturday ski trips!  Love you Chase!  Have the best time ever!!

Christmas 08!  Chase and T got new jackets!

I love this photo.  Chase is in the black and grey coat. 

I loved spending every Saturday with him.  He is an excellent snowboarder.   Taylor and Mitchell felt so cool to be related to someone who could do such “wicked tricks.”

	Left:  Chase and Tay fishing at the ranch. Above:  Chase at our hotel in Lava Hot Springs.
Above:  Jeff and Chase golfing at Lava Right:  Chase jumping off the highest platform.
Chase, Jeff and I are our annual Lagoon day!	Bear Lake with all the kids! Chase is an awesome on the wakeboard and just landed his first flip a few weeks ago

Right before the 4th of July Jeff was in Boston on business and he brought Chase this hat back.  He then wore it for the next two days.  He wore it the entire Jonas Brothers concert.  He is so dang funny!! Right:  Snowbird.  There was a moose right behind were the kids are standing.
Above: In the car on the way to Jonas Brothers. Right:  View after we rode the tram to the top of the mtn at Snow Bird.

Chase’s graduation.  He did a back flip when he got his diploma.  It was very cool!  We had a great party after!

 

 

 

This last weekend was Chase’s last weekend living in Utah so we lived it up.  On Friday night the Huskinson’s had a party for Chaser.  It was a great time!  Chase had just got his wisdom teeth pulled and was a trooper!

Scott gave Chase this megaphone thing (I don’t even know what’s it’s called).  Oh my, that could be trouble.	On Saturday Greg and Sheree (Jeff’s brother and sister in law) drove from Idaho Falls to have lunch with Chase.  Nothing is ever serious!!  Which is great!

Then Chase headed over to my parents for one last Sunday dinner where everyone said good bye to him.  He has been such a source of fun for us!

 

Love you Chaser!  Can’t wait to come visit you in Virginia!!!

SO Much Summer Fun!!

I knew when I began this blogging effort my biggest challenge would be keeping my blog current.  So here I am having not posted for two weeks and so much has happened.  I will try to catch everyone up!!

 

This is the 24th of July.  We went to the parade in Logan then later that evening went to my Mom’s house for dinners and some back yard fireworks.  I love getting together with everyone.  It was especially fun because Jen and her family were able to join us.  The kids loved the fireworks and we had a great day!!

I had bronchitis and was sooo sick so sweet Jeff showed up the next day and took my kids and his to Bear Lake for the rest of the weekend.  Thank you Jeff.  I am so lucky to have found you!!

 

Next big outing was our annual Lagoon trip.  As usual we had a blast.  Everything seems a little more meaningful than usual as this is the last summer we will have Chase (Jeff oldest son) at home.  He is headed off to Virginia Tech in one week. He has been such a blessing in my life and I will miss him SO much!  The day was awesome.  The only not so great part..  I dropped my cell phone off the top of Wicked..  Thats what I get for trying to talk to Ryan while on the way up! 

 

As 2009 is Taylor’s year of firsts she went on Wicked!  So did Regan..  Check her out down there, she looks so tiny.  She did not say a word the entire time.  I love Reg’s personality so much!

 

Finally!  Raspberry Days.  Check out Kim and Jill’s posts for better pictures.  Everyone was in the parade but I left my camera at the cabin.. I  know, I will never win Mother of the Year award.  On Saturday, Jeff ran the 5k and did great!  So did Lance, Shea, Jill, Kim, Hunter and Ryker!  Way to go everyone.   Julie, Michon, Colin, Brent and Troy hung out with us on Saturday!  Have I mentioned I have the best family ever??

Mitchy got a air soft gun from the cousins as an early birthday gift so he could play along.  I LOVE the beach at Bear Lake as it holds some of my favorite childhood and adult memories.  Its the only place I know where kids can play for 8 hours straight and not get bored.  Grandpa set up the island and the kids played out there with him forever.  Thank you Mom and Dad for giving us such wonderful opportunities!

Raspberry Days usually means that summer is coming to an end.  This always brings mixed feelings.  I love Fall and the structure of school.  This has been an incredible summer!!