Saturday, August 27, 2022

Back to School!

Big dog (or should I say Stallion?) at Sampson! 

Gma Jan visited and took them shopping before school!

1st day of 5th Grade

Abby has Mrs. Fox for Homeroom, Math, Science and Mrs. Garza for ELAR, social studies 

1st day of 7th Grade at Spillane
With electives choir and Spanish

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

UTAH

We flew into Salt Lake City and drove to Aarchway Inn, Moab for 3 nights.
 
It was a nice place-we enjoyed the pool and playground.
Early in the morning, we drove 5 minutes to Arches National Park. 
We really weren't the only ones hiking to Delicate Arch.
In fact, we met a really nice tour guide and group along the way.
Looking through Twisted Donut Arch. Almost there!

 
DELICATE ARCH

Once again, we feel tiny. 😄🔎

I was excited to see this petroglyph along the hike: ancient drawings of horse and rider surrounded by bighorn sheep.

BALANCED ROCK
 

DOUBLE ARCH


 

SAND ARCH

This place was an oasis in the shade between blades of sandstone. The kids took off their shoes and played in the sand like it was the beach and squeezed in all the rock crevices.

 
 

After our afternoon siesta and dinner, we checked out Canyonlands, and we're glad we did.

Lydia wanted to hang out on the ledge and take in the "dinosaur footprint," and it made me very uncomfortable.

MESA ARCH
very impressive

Slight delay, we spotted a waterfall from the highway!
BRIDALVEIL FALLS
 
Then 'goodbye desert' and 'hello family.' 4 nights with this crew in Park City.
We had a blast on the Alpine Slide and Coaster at Park City Mountain Resort.


LAKE MARY
Ben, Lydia, Roland, Addie, Kaitlyn, Aubrey, Dan, Will, Kathy, Julie, Abby

what a show- that hi dive is 3 x the olympic high dive height!

Abby and the Flying Aces!

The Utah Olympic Park Museum was very interesting since I remember the event from 20 years ago #feelingold

Monday, August 22, 2022

Free Week

 We had a full summer of travels (CA, beach, UT) and camps (Lonestar, Camp Hope, YMCA) this year, so we took one week to check off our summer list and have fun with just the girls. 

Spend hours at It’z Arcade/Amusement Center ✅

Make Terrariums ✅  (DIY plant bar style in lieu of a trip to Jade & Clover in Dallas)

Go Shopping ✅   Bake Bread ✅

Swim at Community Pool ✅

Visit 7 Acre Wood Petting Farm ✅

Get Pedicures ✅  and a haircut ✅

The cutest pictures of all are from the petting farm because, well... baby goats!


air hockey. reminds me of my cousin's basement

 
                                                          the terrifying Disk-O!

feeding the animals


Llamas are Not shy

they roamed free around the mini golf course
🥹 🥹 🥹

It was a sweating-even-while-just-sitting kind of day, but that's August for ya.

Abigail's Confirmation Weekend

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