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 ...
Birthdays/Summer/School Starts!
Trey turned 7! We celebrated by going to Red Robin and skating at Crystal Palace. I love his 7 year-old toothless smile! The boys had a sleepover at Grandma's with Uncle Taylor! Then the girls got a sleepover! I turned 37! We enjoyed lots of days of swimming this summer! We also had Gravady passes so we spent a lot of time there with friends! We went ...
End of School and Summer!
In some ways we were sad to see the end of the school year come (Kayli finishing elementary school, Sami finishing preschool) but in other ways it was nice to be done. Our kids still faced some COVID restrictions (like Kayli and Beau had to eat lunch in their classrooms all year) and we were ready to be done with school and hopefully start next school year completely normal! ...
February-May
This is a long one! It's getting harder and harder to keep up on this because life is busier which means I have more to write about and less time to do it! For mom's 60th Birthday we pulled off a surprise trip! We went to St. George for the weekend. The best part was that we got some of her family to come. She was surprised when we all showed up to dinner with her and dad ...
2022
Covid was still passing through our family at New Years time so we had our own little New Years Eve party. We all felt fine and did puzzles, played games, and ate treats and some of us didn't even make it to midnight. We missed Taylor most the time he was here for Christmas because we were sick so we went to see him when we were all better right before he left town. It's ...