We had a fabulous trip to Utah at the start of the month. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of our Utah family. Thanks everyone for gathering with us. Highlights were definitely 1) spending time with family, 2) Lagoon, 3) visiting the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House (we agree with Mom and Dad…that was really special to be seated in the sealing room with a bunch of our family), 4) hiking to the T on the mountain (I don’t think the kids will soon forget this experience…and it was a valuable story as Chad and I had to teach HP and RS today. I won’t bore you with the details.), 5) Grandma’s potato salad and macaroni salad and ice cream by Grandpa.
It was hard to make the adjustment to home life after a long vacation. We had a week to adjust and then started activities. Matt had Cub Scout Camp for a week. He came home covered in dirt every day. Good stuff. Trevor, Jenna, and Jason took swimming lessons for 2 weeks. Matt also did a basketball camp.
We’ve had record HOT weather in Portland this last week. We had 4 days in the 100’s with one day reaching 107!!! I know this is typical Utah weather, but really rare for Portland. We were glad for A/C and are dreading our bill next month. Between the record snow fall in December and the record heat in July, we’re a little bit confused about where we are living…
We can’t seem to keep enough books around the house for Trevor and Matt. They have been reading A LOT this summer. It seems that they have a book and a DS attached to them at all times.
Jason has really perfected the art of flips on our trampoline. He has “invented” many different styles of flips. He makes it look easy. He is so used to doing flips that he has had a hard time diving for swim class. All of his dives end up in a flip. I think he has made his teacher nervous a couple of times.
We celebrated our 14th anniversary this past week. We celebrated by going out to dinner. It’s been nice to have a “built-in” babysitter (aka Trevor). It makes it a lot easier to go on dates and Trevor does a great job as the babysitter.
It was hard to make the adjustment to home life after a long vacation. We had a week to adjust and then started activities. Matt had Cub Scout Camp for a week. He came home covered in dirt every day. Good stuff. Trevor, Jenna, and Jason took swimming lessons for 2 weeks. Matt also did a basketball camp.
We’ve had record HOT weather in Portland this last week. We had 4 days in the 100’s with one day reaching 107!!! I know this is typical Utah weather, but really rare for Portland. We were glad for A/C and are dreading our bill next month. Between the record snow fall in December and the record heat in July, we’re a little bit confused about where we are living…
We can’t seem to keep enough books around the house for Trevor and Matt. They have been reading A LOT this summer. It seems that they have a book and a DS attached to them at all times.
Jason has really perfected the art of flips on our trampoline. He has “invented” many different styles of flips. He makes it look easy. He is so used to doing flips that he has had a hard time diving for swim class. All of his dives end up in a flip. I think he has made his teacher nervous a couple of times.
We celebrated our 14th anniversary this past week. We celebrated by going out to dinner. It’s been nice to have a “built-in” babysitter (aka Trevor). It makes it a lot easier to go on dates and Trevor does a great job as the babysitter.
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