We didn't do a ton on the 4th of July. It was so hot we didn't want to do any parades. Kenny took the kids swimming and then we hung out on our street. Jessica and Andrew have put on a good fireworks show for years and so we always look forward to doing our block party and fireworks every year now. Kelli and the kids came to town so we spent the next couple of days playing ...
VGK Wins the Stanley Cup! and June Adventures
Our Vegas Golden Knights hockey team won the Stanley Cup! We were soooo excited! We love this team so much and had been watching a lot of hockey during all the playoffs. We would have watch parties and were so excited when our team made it to the Finals. When they won the series in 5 and beat the other team 9-3 (wow!) we were just so happy. All of Vegas was so happy. There have ...
End of School Year/Beginning of Summer
May might be busier than December! All the sports and activities are still happening along with all of the end-of-the-year school activities. I had a good Mother's Day. The kids made me breakfast and dinner and we watched a Golden Knights playoff game-which is one of my favorite things to do with them! The youth in the ward had another hard hike in preparation for ...
April/May
Kayli went to Universal Studios for her 6th grade field trip. She had the best time! They left at 2:00 in the morning one night and got home at midnight the next night. She was a tired girl after that! It was fun getting texts and pictures from her all day. The day she got home was our youth temple trek. They walked 15 miles across Las Vegas to the temple. Kayli was soooo ...
Kenny’s 40th B-day Trip/Beau Championship Wins
Kenny turned the big 40 on March 19! He really wanted to go on a trip and so we did Vancouver, British Columbia, Squamish and Whistler up there in the mountains by Vancouver as well as Seattle, Portland (although we didn't last long there!) and the Oregon Coast! It was a super fun trip although last minute McCormicks had sick kids and decided they shouldn't come. Radley was ...
Disneyland Trip/Grandpa Varney
Golden Knights game with friends! Sami dressed up as the cutest 100 year-old for the 100th day of Kindergarten. Trey had Great to Be 8! He's getting baptized this year! Grandpa Varney passed away on January 20 and it makes us so sad. We will miss seeing him when we go to Utah. We were able to go up to the funeral and it was sooooo good to be there with family. ...
Christmas/2023
We had a great December packed with lots of fun things! We took Taylor with us to the Christmas Express which we love doing every year. We met the Ellsworths and the Hardings there so the kids had fun running around with cousins. And it's always fun to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on the train! Erin and I played in our first Pickleball Tournament! It happened to be on ...
Halloween/November/December
We took a trip to Utah at the end of October and did lots of fun things... BYU football game... BYU volleyball game... Corn Belly's... More Utah fun... We made it home in time for a Halloween picture with the Eliason cousins... I got to help at the kids' Halloween class parties... Trick-or-treating: Sami and Trey both earned the ...
Halloween
I love this time of year! It's so busy but so fun. We went to the Pumpkin Patch with the Cahills. We made the big kids recreate some pics that we have from years ago here! Every year Chase likes to plan a Halloween date night. We've done it for like 7 or 8 years now. We knew we wouldn't beat beat Salem from last year... but he found a haunted train ride out in Boulder ...
Fall!
Labor Day off-roading: We took Kayli and Beau and went to the Imagine Dragons concert with friends and it was SO MUCH FUN! Beau had quite the exhausting day of sports and swimming so he fell asleep pretty early on haha which was a bummer because he loves Imagine Dragons but he still had fun while he was awake! Bellagio Gardens... School Color Run. I didn't even ...