Temple Trip

With news of the Salt Lake City temple closing

for 5 years for renovations, we decided

to make a quick trip with just the 2 of us!

I have only been to a sealing, so this was exciting for the both of us!

We flew up around noon on a Friday.

Checked into our most favorite hotel, Little America and

quickly changed to make the 2:30 session.

When we got to the temple, we went in by the main visitors center.

We wandered for a sec, then realized we had no idea where to even enter!

After asking, we sure felt like tourists, lol!

The session was lovely!

I hear the live acting is going away, so I'm grateful we got

to experience it at least once.

Can't wait to go back and see it's new beauty in 5 years.

No temple attendance is complete without some Mexican food afterwards.

Pretty sure Casey knew to just drive me to the Red Iguana. 

Hands down some of my favorite Mexican food.

Then I knew our car would take us directly to Nielsens for dessert.

We called Christopher, who had no idea we were in UT, to meet us.

It was a fun surprise.

 I'm starting to realize my pictures of this trip our 80/20 food to adventure.

What can I say, UT has some of my favorite eating places!

We slept in then ate lunch at Cubby's!

I dream about their sweet potato fries and cinnamon glaze.

Then off to Snowbird.

We were going for the alpine slides.

However, Oktoberfest was an added bonus!
Nothing like beers and bosoms to top off a temple trip, lol!

Then you guessed it, headed back to Salt Lake for MORE food.

Christopher recommended Moochie's. 

It's a cheesesteak place. 

And it was GOOD.

Had to take a pile of our napkins as proof.

We decided to let our food settle at a movie, Peanut Butter Falcon.

The spoken Word for church.

Then what do you know, the last supper before getting on our plane home.

Casey wanted to try something new.

We googled brunch places and chose Sweet Lake Limeade based off reviews.

The reviews were RIGHT!

I'm not going to be able to balance all of these amazing food places.

Our list keeps getting longer!

Living Life

Coincidental matching hair at Sunday dinner.

Lane made the basketball team at his school!

I guess Franklin Jr. had not won a single game in a couple of years, yikes.

The coach was delighted to finally get a group of boys who knew what they were doing!

They placed third in championships. 

Next year they vow to beat Taylor and Stapley!

I signed up for the new EOS gym!

Never have I ever done the gym daycare thing.

Welp, sorry last child. You get no choice, lol!

She love/hated it for a while.
I knew she was excited to go, but just liked to be a stinker while dropping her off.
Emily was always so sweet to scoop her up.

I would find her at the front desk being a little helper most every time
I would go back to collect her.

An exciting day for Casey!

Tending to his meat on his new Treager smoker!

 I got a kick out of Rusty's self portrait art work from school.

I thought I was staring at a picture of him!

We did a little switch-a-roo of rooms.
The girls now share, which means we have a toy room for the very first time!

They spend hours at that cute turquoise table.

Straight A rewards at Yogurt Land!
Even better that she nailed the weight of the day and got it for free .99!

Sleeping Beauty.

River trip with the deacons quorum

Baby Cohen was born!

He's such a cute chunk.

Not sure what to think about her first pedicure.

She did love it. 

I swear, Lindi lost about 10 teeth in 1 month.

The poor tooth fairy could barely keep up!

This was a very bittersweet, emotional day.

We traded in the Landshark for a suburban.

We had the Landshark for 10 years. TEN.

She was a member of the family.

Such a devout, dependable car.
15+ trips to California,
3 to Utah.
4 home from the hospital with newborn babies.

Many, MANY memories in that car.

Goodbye dear Landshark.

Luckily we found a great replacement. 

Welcome to the family, Fin. 

7th, 4th, 1st, and Pre school

Oh what a beautiful morning, the first day of school is!

We scored with getting the coveted Mrs. Griner!

Ready for her first day of all day school!
Mrs. Underwood

The Jr. High  car pool group

A couple days later, it was this girls turn for preschool!

Lucky for us, Ms. Suzy lives down the street.

The commute couldn't be better.

Scout Camp

The morning after we got home from Aspen Grove,

Lane left for a week at scout camp!

Not going to lie, this was harder for me than I thought it would be.

He had never been gone from us that long.

I knew he would be in great care, but as a mom, you always

wonder if they will make good choices.

Like, to make sure to change their underwear and not eat donuts for breakfast,

lunch and dinner the whole week.

Or to make sure they wouldn't be cold at night.

Over protective mother for sure!!

Packing him was pretty humorous.

"Do you want to take an extra towel?"

"Are you sure you don't want the pop up laundry hamper?"

I laugh now.

Can you imagine what crap he would have gotten if he showed

up with that?

Here they are! 

Ready for lots of burping and arm pit squeaking.

I think I prayed harder for their leaders, lol!

The week flew by quickly.

The leaders were good to give random updates.

You know, to calm the worried mothers hearts.

They admitted to eating pizza for breakfast

and half of his bag was untouched.

But you know what? He survived just fine.

I'm learning slowly to unwind a bit.

Not worth the stress.

As long as he is happy and thriving that's all I care about.

I got to thinking, scout camp is good for both

the child AND the parents.

A teeny, tiny glimpse of what sending him on a mission will be

like. I can't fathom the day.

 Plus, its good for them to experience a week of life on their own.
He said he had fun, but you could tell he was happy to be home.

Back safe and sound with his over protecting mother:)