Friday, March 1, 2024

February is Hard

Why is February the shortest month but feels like the longest? Luckily I was able to escape to sunny places while the others suffered! Megan's doing great on her mission. She's still in Peyton but gets a new companion today! They've been parked (meaning not allowed to drive) quite a few times because of weather so she's had to come up with some creative ways to entertain herself. She's working hard and learning a lot. We look forward to her calls every week.

They did some service cleaning a hoarders house. They had no idea what they were getting into!

Sam finished up Jr. Jazz with Toby as coach

I zoomed stake conference (the best way to do it) and saw my dad on the stand with Max right behind him in the choir.

Sam went to a hockey game with his lacrosse team and got the puck!

We got a glorious new couch that everyone wants to sit on! Good thing there's plenty of room!

 

Monday, February 26, 2024

St. George Repeat

Some friends wanted to go to St. George a couple of weeks after I went with my sisters. No problem! I was in! We did a lot of the same things but had gorgeous weather. We went to the parade of homes and saw crazy, crazy houses. Apparently we all need a butlers kitchen so that our main kitchen doesn't look messy. No thanks! We also went to Top Golf where we all showed that none of us are good at golfing! We stayed up way too late talking and enjoyed sleeping in. It was glorious!
Found the best crepe place ever!

My favorite house

This was a 7 million dollar home that comes with a lazy river, dirt bike track and a soccer field. No big deal.

They had a manequin floating in the lazy river. Made me laugh.

Waiting for our Mexican food

Totally worth it judging by our smiles!

I went for a hike to Elephant Arch one morning since it was just up the street from where we were staying. I loved all these cairns.


Elephant Arch


Loved this new development with a man made lake. It would be so fun!

There was a house decorated in all viking stuff.



Kristin's squat before she hit was my favorite

Watching stake conference on the way home. Can you spot my dad and Max right behind him??

 

Friday, February 23, 2024

Sisters St. George Trip!

The stars finally aligned and the sister trip we've been wanting to do for years finally happened! Mel was nice enough to fly down, then we drove to St. George to stay in Laura's house there. The weather was ok when we needed it to be. We got to enjoy good food, lots of talking, good food, and lots of laughing. We were able to go the Red Cliffs Temple open house, get pedicures, go biking, go on walks, oh and eat lots of food. We all felt rejuvenated until we walked into our homes and had to be moms and again and make up for lost time. If we ever meet again, it will be Zion to me!



The hot air balloons took off across the street from Laura's house!




I made them put together a magic puzzle. They thought it would be too hard, we did it in a day!


So. Much. Food.


E bikes are the best!


It was FREEZING but we went on a quick walk in Snow Canyon


 

Friday, February 9, 2024

We Survived January

 

January is always a long month, but we managed to survive. Max's choir group were invited to sing the national anthem at the Utah girls basketball team. They did a great job and the game was actually fun to be at because the team is really good this year.


Max loves it when Sam joins him at his homework spot.

We went to Potted Potter with our Christmas money from Grandma and Grandpa Spjute. It was really funny!

Max got invited to be a part of the Honor Choir in Utah. All the choirs from around the state send their best to be a apart of a big choir. It was amazing. Nothing better than listening to a good choir.

Cute Quincey had a scare and got to go for a ride in this ambulance!

We had a mountain lion in our neighborhood.


We finally got enough snow to go sledding