Misc - May to Aug 2019

May 2019

This is how Reuben spent half of the Mother's Day picnic at school. He was mad at me for misunderstanding something about food. After I took him out for a time out and we were able to communicate, he was happy as a clam. I love this passionate boy of mine.

 

June 2019

Timmy got some bubbles at Scott's work party this summer and this is the face he made right after he tried to eat them, ha!

I just love his chubby face in this picture.

Reuben - Blue Spiderman

Adeline - Kitty

Rigby - Skeleton

Timmy & Reuben sleeping the hallway. Why do we buy them beds?!

I made this skirt for Adeline. She looked so grown up and cute with her little heels that I just had to take a picture.

 

 

I love that Adeline thinks it's fun to match.

1st Day of School

Peter - 6th Grade

Rigby - 4th Grade

Adeline - 2nd Grade

Reuben - Kindergarten

Roomie Reunion 2019

We were able to have a college roomie reunion 2 years in a row! Love these girls!

Rachel, Brekke, Shannon, Shauna, Kendra (missing Katie cause poor Piper got hurt and had to go get some medical attention)

Pedicures

Four out of the six of us had never had a pedicure before. 

Walking along the coast-beautiful!

Our last night together. I can't wait until next year! Some of us stayed up the entire night talking this night; who needs sleep!

Shauna, Rachel, Shannon, Kendra, Brekke, Katie

Ocean Isle Beach 2019

As usual, we had blast at the beach. I wish we lived closer and didn't have to fly clear across the US, but we are thankful that we bought tickets before all the planes got grounded and prices went crazy high. Having no babies to worry about while flying or napping at the beach made things a lot easier this year. The condos that we rent are getting a bit overcrowded because of everybody getting married and having babies (which is wonderful) so we are thankful that the condo next to us opened up to give us some more room. We were very creative this year and pushed our bed against the wall to make room for 3-4 of our kids to sleep on the floor in our room (better them than me, they have young bodies). Loved the good company and food!

Sand Castles

 

Rigby

 

Adeline looking for shells to put on the sand castle.

 

Playing in the Ocean

Family Beach Picture

Nice Family Pictures

Adults (L to R): Rachel, Scott, Melissa, Eric, Doug, Kristine, Lindsey, Jason, Stephen, Ryan, Jessica, Chris, Kathryn; Kids (L to R): Timothy, Rigby, Peter, Reuben, Adeline, Eliza, Sam, Josh, Luke, Daniel, Gabriel

Scott's Siblings & Parents

Doug & Kris with all 11 grandkids.

Wish the kids would have cooperated better, but oh well.

I'll have to have Scott fix the lighting on this picture, but I love having a current picture of just the two of us (Especially since I'm not pregnant or post-pregnant.)

Resting 

Timothy with his Tiger & blankie

Reuben & I

Back to Bakersfield

My mom helped me drive back to Bakersfield from Utah. We spent a couple of days going to a museum and just hanging out until my mom flew back to Utah and we left for the East coast.

Buena Vista Museum of Natural History

Puzzle Time

My mom is a puzzle fiend, so she helped Peter finish this crazy-hard puzzle. I think she made his day; he is so proud of this that he wants to frame it!

Summer of Temples

We were able to check 4 more temples off the list. We are only missing Monticello from the current Utah temple list!

Ogden, Utah Temple

Bountiful, Utah Temple
I wish we had been able to visit this temple during open hours. I didn't realize there was a very extensive iron gate around the entire thing; as a result, our pictures aren't too great.

Manti, Utah Temple

We tried having a picnic further down on the property of Manti Temple, but a guy that worked for the church said that security would probably kick us off soon. I guess there has been a lot of anti-church stuff going on in this area, so they are fairly strict about people being on the grounds. Since moving outside of Utah, I've noticed that they are much more strict within Utah than outside of it.  I'll admit, it upset me a little, but we were still able to walk around and enjoy our time there after our park picnic.

Vernal, Utah Temple

This temple used to be a tabernacle and was then converted to a temple. I remember being able to go to the open house when I was about 14 years old. Wish we had gotten a better picture, but the fence fence and foliage made it hard to get one without having something in the way.

Vernal, Utah

We have a family tradition of visiting temples when we go on road trips and I have been wanting to get to some of the more rural temples for a few years now. This year was perfect because we didn't end up taking time to go to Yellowstone and I had no baby. We decided to make a weekend of it and visit the Vernal, Utah Temple, the natural history museum in town and Dinosaur National Monument.  

Dinosaur National Monument

Touching a real dinosaur fossil at the quarry.

Rigby, Adeline and Reuben completed some booklets to earn a wooden pin from the park rangers.

Mom & Dad at the quarry.

This "dino bone bench" made for a great picture place. Smile for the millionth time kids!

 

Swimming at the Hotel

Always get a hotel with a pool. It helps tire the kids out so they go to sleep better!

Utah Field House of Natural History

All the younger kids LOVED these plastic dinosaurs. In fact, Reuben and Timothy had a nice little screaming and wrestling match over them.

Reuben had a major melt down because he had to share the package of dinosaurs with Tim (trips are tough with him because of his food issues). So while I took a kicking and screaming 5 year old out to the car, my dad waited with the other kids outside the museum.

The "Utah Raptor"

One of Tim's nicknames is T-Rex, so I thought this would be an appropriate photo!

The kids and I with my favorite dinosaur-a stegosaurus.

 Picnic in Vernal