Our garden boxes are doing pretty well and are starting to yield a harvest! Most of what we’re getting are cucumbers, zucchini and tomatoes. 🙂
The other things are growing a little slower but that’s to be expected. The growing season here in Colorado is MUCH shorter than it was in Illinois so we have to stay right on it. We can get freezes here up to Mother’s day, so the time to plant is right after that. Great job on the garden Angela! You rock!
Today we had a fun breakfast at church for the ward 24th of July activity. We got filled up and then after that, the youth did some family history work together and then went to the temple to do baptisms for youth conference. They had a lot of fun and it meant so much more to them to actually do baptisms for names of people in their own families. Angela went as a leader as well and enjoyed the time with the youth! The rest of the day, the boys and I lounged around the house, relaxed, watched a movie or two and ate some junk food. It was fun! 🙂
The boys are back in swimming lessons and they are going well! They love the water and want to go swimming ALL the time!
Tonight our home teaching families came over for a 24th of July BBQ. Not sure why, but we didn’t get any pictures. Due to some rain, we had to cut the outdoor part a little short and come inside to eat dessert. A funny (but embarrassing) thing happened. As the rain let up, Ben and Zach went back out to do stick pull.
Ben got hit in the stomach while they were doing it. He came in and said he wasn’t feeling well and proceeded to throw up all over our floor right by the kitchen table and right in front of everyone. : – | Yikes! After that and getting cleaned up, he felt MUCH better!
Only at the Halliday home in front of guests… 🙂
Ben LOVES playing baseball! He had his last game today and they celebrated with cupcakes after. He’s quite the great little hitter and is learning the game slowly but surely…
He still has his moments though, where we wonder what he’s thinking… 🙂
Great job on a GREAT season Ben! He can’t wait to play next year!
Today, Kirstyn started working at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory with Brittany! She is so excited to now have a source of income and savings for college! What cute girls!
Since Kirstyn is still in school, she won’t be working a TON of hours, but enough to give her some cash and help her learn to balance the responsibilities of work and school. 🙂 I guess I can say that we are now officially a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory family! All of our girls work or have worked there! 🙂
It seems like all we’re doing is going places and having a great time nowadays! 🙂 We just a had a GREAT weekend up in northern (the beautiful part) of Wyoming with Angela’s brother Jim and his family. Unfortunately, Brittany had to work so she couldn’t come, but she called to check on us a lot to make sure we were OK. 🙂
We had a great extended weekend (Thursday – Sunday) hiking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, having a BBQ, going to church, and hanging out with them.
On Thursday night, we had a BBQ with them and some friends that live up there. The wife went to high school with Angela and they hadn’t seen each other for over 20 years!
On Friday, we went out on Jim’s boat on the lake and river! We went up from Wyoming into Montana on the river as well and saw some beautiful country! The boys and Kirstyn REALLY loved that!
After boating, we went back to the house and did a little horseback riding, which Kirstyn was especially excited for!
After a good night sleep (and a much needed one after all the fun activities), we went fishing and hiking all the next day! We had a blast and the boys had a LOT of fun casting their lines in a pond and catching fish! Zach wasn’t quite sure about pulling apart worms and sticking them on a hook at first, but eventually he got to be pretty good!
We then all went hiking around the area and it was beautiful! We hiked down to an incredible waterfall and enjoyed the cool temps down there!
Today we got up and went to church with Jim and his family. After that, we started the long 9 hour drive back home! We had such a great time! Thanks so much to Jim and Heather and the kids for having us up there! We can’t wait to go back! 🙂
Today, the boys and I were invited by a friend of ours (Ty Martin) to go with him and his boys to a Rockies game! We had a blast! The boys had a great time and loved the experience of watching baseball, eating hot dogs, drinking drinks, and waiting for foul balls to come our way (which, unfortunately, they didn’t). 🙂
The Rockies beat the Padres 2-1 tonight and the boys were excited for the win! Thanks for the invite Ty! We had a great time!
Happy Birthday Zach! Big 10! To celebrate (in a way), over the last 2 days, we went on a camping trip with our friends the Pocock’s to Rocky Mountain National Park! It was such a great getaway and even though it rained the night of the 4th and we got a little soggy, the weather was great and we had a wonderful time! We went hiking all over and drove to some absolutely stunning sites!
No, that picture above is NOT of a stuffed elk! It’s the real deal. We were so close to it, we could have walked up and pet it (absolutely NOT the smart thing to do)! 🙂
Up on the northern side of the park, we drove way up into the mountains and hiked up to the top of a 12,000+ foot ridge that had stunning views!
We sure do love living here! You can’t get these kinds of views in the midwest! 🙂 Everyone had so much fun! On the drive home, we went through Granby and visited some friends of ours (the Pedersen’s) from our ward. They used to live there year-round, but they now just have a trailer up there and go up on weekends. We went out to dinner with them before heading back home!
What a GREAT weekend so far! I think Zach really liked that experience as part of his birthday present! 🙂
Today, Ben lost his 2 front teeth! He was SO excited for 2 reasons: 1) the Tooth Fairy, and 2) he is becoming a “big boy!” We had to laugh about that. He’s quite the kid!
In addition, today, Kirstyn came home from girl’s camp! She had a GREAT time and loved the experience! She was so worried that she would not be able to break her board (interesting challenge that I don’t really understand too much other than the fact that it signifies you overcame your challenges) on the first hit of her hand! 🙂 Great job Kirstyn!
When we picked her up she was pretty ripe from all that hiking and lack of showering, but she was really happy!
When she got back home and got all her smelly things unpacked, she took a LONG shower (I would venture to guess at least 30 minutes)! 🙂
This morning Angela took Kirstyn over to the church and drove down a bunch of 4th year girls to camp. She took them to their trail head and watched them take off on their 20 or so miles of backwoods adventure!
Once Kirstyn got there, she really got excited and is really looking forward to this experience! It’s not like the little 2 mile jaunt down a forest preserve path like they did in Illinois! They are rock climbing and rappelling down cliffs, climbing to over 13,000 feet, and there are no outhouses! 🙂 Good luck Kirstyn! Be safe and have fun!
The BYU Men’s Soccer Team was in town for a couple of games and they held a clinic at a nearby high school, so we signed up the boys to go. The players taught the boys a lot of skills and helped them to become better. Zach really wants to play soccer now because of this. After the clinic, the players hung around, signed autographs, and talked more with the kids. Ben got his ball signed by a couple of them as well.
Tonight we went to the game to see them play! It was really fun! Turns out that the BYU Men’s Soccer organization is actually semi-pro! They won so many national championships that they needed more competition, so BYU actually bought a semi-pro club and now the team competes all over the nation! 🙂
The boys really loved the game and sat down as close to the field as they could. At halftime, they got to go down on the field and cheer the team as it came back out on the field. It’s really amazing to see that no matter what sport or event BYU is involved in, the kind of crowd that comes out to support! The stands were filled with BYU fans! 🙂
The last couple of days, Zach has been at Cub Camp! Angela went one day to help out so those are the only pictures he has. He’s almost a Webelo which he is very excited for! The theme was a space theme they entitled Galactic Trek. Zach got to shoot guns and do all sorts of other fun things. They had a military chopper fly in, land, and talk to them, they got to shoot arrows, etc.
Ben got to go with Angela as well and hang out in the non-cub kid area for the day. He had a blast too! 🙂
