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| Corey's T-Ball team |
Casey and Brooke made me this note with free coupons for cleaning. They did it out of the blue, so nice of them! I have very thoughtful kind kids.
Swim Reports:
My May Piano Recital went really well:
Mother's Day Treasures:
Our subdivision. Sorry the pictures are upside down. I took these pictures when we were building our first house in here. Crazy how things have changed!
All ready for the fireworks!
Betsy and I took these handful of scouts on a hike and geocaching to help them earn their arrow of light award.
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| Brooke, Kailee, Mackenzie |
Grandma and Grandpa Nielson are building this wicked cool tree house. Here they are standing walls.
Starting the packing process for trek. My mom, who just had knee surgery a couple weeks ago is taking the kids for us. She is too kind! We were grateful so that we could go spend 4 days trekking it!
Trek was amazing. Camping in the sage brush with no shade is always an adventure. But it was outstanding. During each trek the youth had prepared short devotionals about individual pioneers and their stories. They were touching. The spirit was strong. Our nightly devotionals with our company were powerful. We were the red company with President Anderson (Brooke's Dad). He spoke on how to avoid the meaness of man. Temple work, Ancestory work. I had a change of heart that night. I finally realized with a new sense of importance and urgency the importance of temple work and family history work. It safeguards you against evil, it safeguards your family. It's an added protection. The youth need family history work in their lives! We need it as adults!
Martins Cove: It was neat seeing the Sweetwater Crossing and walking through Martin's cove. My most spiritual part was the 10 minute video and song they showed in the visitors center as our entire company sang along. It was powerful and you couldn't deny the spirit in that room.
Playing games with our family was precious time spent together. We played the don't touch the bucket game and hours of the game "signs".
We were lead handcart this day. It was fun following the missionary leading us and hearing his stories..
We passed the time playing with Brooke's ball, throwing it back and forth while we waited to get going again (think long bathroom lines). It was actually a lot of fun!
My favorite picture of trek...Dillon playing dead after our trek that day.
By far the most spiritual high of the trek, somewhere that I want to visit again, relive again, Rocky Ridge. The youth testified of stories and of the spirit. We visited the mass grave while Bro. Uchytil played his cello of Come Come Ye Saints. I had to use my apron to keep the tears wiped up. I felt the spirit so incredibly strong. You could still see the wheel marks in the rocks from the handcarts coming into this little cove at Rocky Ridge. It felt sacred. It felt special there. It felt as if the Savior had walked there.
Bus ride home was fun and slightly exhausting. Lots of fun and games, and girls saying, "no, no no, let me stop you right there..." as people headed to the bathroom. They would then recite these hilarious rules which made everyone laugh. Good times.
Dillon Crystal, Landon Brenchley, Maggie Taylor, Brooke Lyn Anderson, Seth Cooper, Jenna Willetts, Wyatt Larsen, Abby Case, Andee Brower, Justin Burnett
Home at last! It was quite a site seeing about 11 grey hound busses pull into Wellsville. All our luggage was layed out ready for us. As all our trek kids got off the bus and hugged their families the thought crossed my mind that I wished my kids were here for me to hug. Just then I saw my mom pull up with two of my kids in tow. I started crying, that was so nice of her! We had no idea and it made it even more sweet.
Martin's Cove:
Women's pull:
I decided to get the Brandts and Allreds and us all together for a camping trip. It was a huge hit. We had a dang good time relaxing all day. It was heaven! We also went tubing down Blacksmith Fork River. That was adventurous to say the least! Corey and Brielle couldn't decide if it was fun or terrifying.
When coordinating a time to camp between three firefighters and shifts, sometimes the only days that work are in the middle of the week. Therefore we had the whole area to ourselves! It was awesome. The kids did BB gun shooting on one side of the campground, and had a dirt slide on the other side.
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| Brooke and Millie |
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| Dirt Slide |
Having Stacy up was a dream come true! We did so many things and it was a blast! Here are the girls at the splash pad in Wellsville.
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| Casey and Ayden |
Tubing down Blacksmith:
We also went and had dinner up at Shoshone in the Mountains. Fun times!
Look closely at Brooke's forehead...she wrote her name on her headlamp and it transferred when she wore it.
We also went to the aquatic center
Walks around Wellsville Dam:
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| Check out my nice tan from my wedding ring! |
Bear Lake was a slice of Heaven!
Casey's New World Exercise:
Corey was a stud and dug this all out by himself with the shovel. It was a ton of digging!
Ogden Rodeo:
All ready for sod!
Lemonade stand AND Sod!
A visit to the fire station to see dad and show cousins
The kids hanging out with dad so that I could go visit Nathan and Paige and their new baby Ollie.
Then there was that one day that after the farmers market we decided to go to the splash pad in our clothes and all. It was the perfect evening!
Our summer was soooo busy. Brielle was falling asleep in the shopping cart sitting up. Poor thing!
Brooke sewed herself a skirt, and Casey sewed Brielle's skirt. Our little sewing project/camp for the summer.
Corey broke his collar bone when he was being spun on the chair at the fire station and fell off onto the tie floor. Poor dude was in a lot of pain but it is healing nicely!
Brooke is so good at making creations out of paper.
We went tubing the river a second time and got a bit smarter this time! No little kids and long sticks was a necessity!
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