On Friday we left to drive out to Utah to go to Aunt Mary’s funeral. It was a quick trip, and we were back on Sunday afternoon. The services were nice and it is so comforting to have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation that we do. All the family was there, and we got a picture of all the grand kids…
We’ll miss Aunt Mary but know that she is in a better place now and she is without pain.
For the past 3 days, Zach has been at Cub Camp! He was SO excited to go and couldn’t wait to do all his cub scouting things! 🙂 The camp was at the farm/ranch of our old Stake President. Many of the districts around use this place as it is wonderful spot! President Poulson and his wife are very generous in giving of their means to make this happen for so many cubs year after year.
The theme of the camp this year was Jungle Adventure. They had cute shirts and safari hats to wear…
He had a GREAT time, although it was the hottest days of the summer yet (in the 90s every day). They kept hydrated and the kids really didn’t mind at all. 🙂 Angela was able to go with Zach to camp on Wednesday and she had a great time with the boys! 🙂
Zach passed off a TON of requirements as well as electives and is very close to getting his Wolf. He should get it during the next court of honor. Great job Zach!
We just found out that Aunt Mary (Grandma B.’s sister) passed away today. She had taken a sudden turn for the worse, after being healthy and walking every day, sweeping sidewalks, etc. The funeral is on Saturday and so we’re going to drive to Bountiful then and support the family.
Today, Kirstyn babysat for some friends of ours in the ward. They are ranchers, and Kirstyn had to move one of the steers from one place to another for some reason. We didn’t see it, but it was absolutely hilarious to think of Kirstyn, our TOTAL city girl, pulling a stubborn steer across the yard and into the corral. It stepped on her foot while she was trying to pull it around, and that hurt, but she’ll be OK. Pretty funny, huh? 🙂
Sarah flew out to California today! We were able to talk to her for about 30 minutes when she got to the airport! We are so proud of her and for her decision to serve the Lord on a mission! This time, I didn’t fall apart like I did when she left to go to the MTC, but it was hard to say good-bye! The crazy thing is that she flew out of Salt Lake to Denver, and then to Santa Barbara where they then drove up to her mission. She was at the airport here and we couldn’t go and hug her! 🙁 Anyway, we know she is doing the right thing and will be an AWESOME Hermana! We are keeping up her blog here:
http://sisterhalliday.blogspot.com/
She’s super excited to get out there and serve! Best of luck, Sarah! You’ll do GREAT!
Today, Brittany threw a birthday party for herself! She had about 15 friends over and they had a great time! It’s great that she’s making some good friends out here.
They played all sorts of games (inside and out), and had a blast! They ate cupcakes, drank pop, and opened presents! We took lots of pictures of everyone who came so we could remind Brittany that she does have friends when she thinks she doesn’t! 🙂
Happy Birthday Brittany! Big 17!
Today, after a day of cleaning house and shopping, Angela and I attended a housewarming party in Aurora for Matt Coupas and his family. Matt is the local IT guy in the Denver office and I’ve worked with him for awhile now. It was good to see him. We were hoping that more of the work-at-home IT people would be there, but we were the only ones, so it’s good we went. We had some great food and enjoyed visiting with some of their friends as well.
Tonight we were planning on going camping (Devil’s Head) and had everything packed and ready to go. When we got in the van to leave, it wouldn’t turn over (hopefully battery and not alternator)! What a bummer! 🙁 What’s crazy, is that it turned out for the best. Right after that, it started to lightning, thunder, and rain. We found out that a fire had been started by lightning right around the area we were going to go, so it was a good thing we weren’t up there! 🙂
Today, Kirstyn went up to the temple and did baptisms with a bunch of the young women. During the summer, they have the temple open for youth baptisms between 11 and 4 or something like that for anyone to come in and do the work. So far, the response has been overwhelming and they expect it to be that way all summer long. Great choice Kirstyn!
Zach is coming up on the last day of school and as part of this, they have an entrepreneur day where his class brought in stuff to sell and see how they could do. He decided to make cupcakes, but not only did he do that, he dressed up in his apron, had a great sales sign, brought the cupcake decorative stands we have, and was really outgoing! 🙂
He ended up coming in second place in his class! 🙂 He was quite the little sales guy. He was so excited that things went well and he is now trying to make all kinds of things and sell them to us! 🙂 Great job Zach!
Today was a beautiful evening with a little bit of breeze, so the boys and I went out and flew their kite!
It was a lot of fun and the boys really enjoyed it. We love the weather out here and hope it continues to be awesome!
Today we had my Aunt Anne and Uncle Steve and most of the family come down to dinner today. They are in the Denver area having a family reunion and wanted to see us. It was a lot of fun getting to see them. We hadn’t seen most of them for a LONG time and it was good to catch up and eat at the same time. It’s nice that we’re closer to family now so we can get to both families in only 1 day instead of 2 or 3 days! 🙂
