John Mayer Concert

Last week we got a phone call with an offer for some free tickets to the John Mayer concert at the Usana Amphitheater. I was so incredibly excited! The concert was Tuesday night (August 31) and it turned out to be a great concert.

Owl City was the opening band for John Mayer and they were excellent. Then it was onto the John Mayer show. He was an amazing entertainer/musician...that loves to talk...and loves to jam out. Some parts were interesting, some were funny, some were all around entertaining, and some were just awesome. All in all it was a great concert.

Halloween - Sneek Peek

I am a planner...I like to have things done. I know that Halloween is still 2 months away but yes, my kids have already chosen their Halloween costumes (and yes, I have already stashed things away for Christmas). I learned a few years ago that if you don't decide early all the really cute costumes are gone. This year my kids both want to be fairies. Gabby wants to be a "Berry Fairy" and Kaylee wants to be Tinkerbell since we just went to Disneyland and saw Tinkerbell there. I ordered their costumes online and they just got them and of course HAD to try them on. I am not a fan of Halloween at all (not the gross, scary, creepy halloween stuff), but I love when my girls dress up in cute costumes.

Weekly Review - August 22 - 28

Sunday, August 22 - I had the kids get ready for bed. As they were picking out what books they wanted to read I left the room. When I came back I found Gabby wearing a build-a-bear Santa coat backwards. That girl can really make me laugh.

Monday, August 23 - I got a call from my sister-in-law Jess that she was about to go in and have her new little baby. YAY! I picked up her kids from her house after they were out of school and after things had settled down a bit I took them up to the hospital to see their new baby brother. They named him Eli Clay, he was born at 4:38 p.m., was 7 lbs. 10 oz., and 20 in. Here is a picture of my niece Anna holding her new baby brother Eli.

Tuesday, August 24 - When it comes to cleaning, and it sounds like it MIGHT be fun doing it then you can count on Kaylee and Gabby. They each got a Swiffer Wet Jet (my swiffer, and my mom's) and were going to town mopping the dining room floor.

Wednesday, August 25 - Paul, Kaylee, and Gabby all started school! Well, I guess since we decided to homeschool the girls again for a little while longer (until we figure out where we will be living) I pretty much started school as well. The girls were pretty excited and got done with their school stuff pretty quick. So, in the afternoon Wendy needed to take some papers downtown and they wanted us to go with them to play in the fountain at The Gateway.

Thursday, August 26 - After the girls were done with their school work for the day I needed to go get the oil changed in my Subaru. I went to the Subaru dealership near my sister's house and my mom picked me up and we went over to the mall to kill some time. Wendy and her boys met us over at the mall and the kids played on the little rides a little, and went on the carousel.

Friday, August 27 - We finished up our school week and the kids are doing really well. I NEVER would have guessed I would actually be homeschooling my kids. I know it's temporary, but it is so amazing watching them learn and grow and they are doing their school work.

Saturday, August 28 - My little sister Marla and I took the girls to the Downtown Farmer's Market...one of our favorite summertime places. The girls found a balloon artist that made them big flower hats. I found fresh cherry tomatoes, and peaches. Then I went home and made fresh peach cobbler. It was so yummy!

Flashback Friday

I believe this is from the summer in 2006. We were walking through University mall one day and as we were walking past Kiddie Kandids they asked if I would like pictures taken for free so a new photographer could practice and I would get a free print from the pictures as well. I didn't have anything going on, and my kids were being pretty pleasant, so I decided to go ahead and do it.

Family Picnic up Mill Creek Canyon

For Marla's birthday my whole family went up Mill Creek Canyon for a picnic up in the mountains. We have always loved Mill Creek Canyon since my grandparents had a cabin up there for years, and years. We found a nice picnic area right next to the Mill Creek, which of course meant Paul was right there playing in the water. While we were eating dinner Paul had been sitting on a log. When I looked over to where he had been Paul was gone, and so was the log. I asked what happened to Paul and the log (even though I already knew the answer) and sure enough both Paul and the log were in the creek.


Since it was Marla's birthday she got to open all her birthday gifts at the picnic. She let Roman and Ariana help her open her presents (since the other kids went off hiking with Paul). I gave her some SPAM socks from Hawaii and when Wendy pulled Hudson out of his sling he was missing a sock, so, they remedied that problem by putting a SPAM sock on him.

We had so much fun while we were up there. We saw a family of dear pass through, and enjoyed spending time with my family. Here are a few more random pictures from our family picnic.

Weekly Review - August 15-21

Sunday, August 15 - I am so terrible at taking pictures on Sunday. We went to church, and had lasagna for dinner...yum.

Monday, August 16 - My dad took all of us to the musical - Big River at the Sundance Resort Summer Theater. It was a musical about Huck Finn at the outdoor amphitheater at the Sundance Resort up Provo Canyon. Gabby fell asleep toward the end of the play and I ended up carrying her down the mountain and back to the car.

Tuesday, August 17 - The movers came to deliver all our household good that FINALLY made it here from Hawaii. Since we are temporarily at my parent's house it made for an interesting move. We pulled out our beds, clothes, and a few other things. The movers piled all the rest of our stuff into my parent's garage and then we took it and loaded it into a storage unit.

Wednesday, August 18 - Still trying to get things organized from the movers bringing everything. Our storage unit is pretty much full.

Thursday, August 19 - I had to go out to Ikea to get replacement hardware for the kids bunkbed because the movers in Hawaii took it apart and dropped half the hardware into the frame of the bed. Since I had to go out to Draper to go to Ikea I had to stop at the Sweet Tooth Fairy to get some cupcakes and cake bites. Marla and I LOVE to get the double fudge and coconut cake bites, then we cut them in half and put half of each together to make fudge coconut cake bites...YUM!!!

Friday, August 20 - My brother Chris and his wife Melissa came over to bring Marla her birthday present. They had bought her a card game and wanted to show her how to play it, and they showed Kaylee and Gabby how to play it too.

Saturday, August 21 - Happy Birthday Marla! For my little sister's birthday we went up Mill Creek Canyon and had a family picnic with almost my whole family (my bro. and his wife didn't come). It was fun being up in the mountains. A family of deer even walked by.

Flashback Friday

Here is a picture of Paul with his older sister Lisa. I don't know how old they are in the picture but I would guess that this picture is probably from about 1982 or 1983.