August 30, 2020

I love Sister Hinckley!  “Just do what needs to be done.”

Kenz and I took a drive to Richfield to chat with my parents for a bit. Good visit and Kenz is a great co pilot.  Then we came back for a Sunday evening here.

August 29, 2020

Fish update - after the goldfish didn’t survive, Rylie got two different fish that have lived over 72 hours so success.

Mason school update - doing well. He sent me a pic and a movie quote text. I love it.  

August 25, 2020

Rylie has been wanting fish. She got the green light and went and bought 3 goldfish. One died last night while she was at work. Then after school she sent a text to our Draper Fam group.  “We had another fish casualty in Rylie’s pet parenthood journey.” It’s not going quite as well as she had pictured in her mind. :)

Here's a photo from yesterday - before the fish adventure.

 

August 23, 2020

Such a good Sunday. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a Sunday with the Randalls. Love seeing them. And Baylie and Penny are totally friends now. We missed Mason. We had a very close game of Jokers and Marbles. And a walk. Classic Sunday. 

August 22, 2020

 Read/listened to two good talks/articles this week. 

1. “Messages of Love” - Elder Patrick Kearon- BYU speech February 2012. 

“ our Eternal Father communicates with us through revelation—messages that come to us in the reflective moments of prayer, through the words and enlightenment of the scriptures, from the teachings of the prophets, or in the peaceful melodies of heavenly music. His messages are often quiet, and we all know that we can miss them if we are not ready to receive. It is often because we are so busy receiving other messages that we impair our ability to receive the much-needed messages from our eternal home.”

2. “If We Can Laugh at It, We Can Live with It” - Brad Wilcox - ensign March 2000. 

“We can’t always choose what we look at, but we can choose what we see.” “Humor can improve our perspective and lighten our load.”

 

And then, Mason left for Ephraim and back to school.  Sigh.

 

 

August 18, 2020

 Back to school during Corona. Grades 12-10-8.  Crazy.

Quote of the day from Cam, “School would be so good if everyone wasn’t so annoying.”

 

 

August 17, 2020

 Made it to a snow cone stand that was recommended by Rylie - Snoasis in Alpine.  It was yummy.

August 16, 2020

The girls filled out a few lines of "Favorites" today.

Rylie:

• sleeping outside (X4)
• watching movies
• warm weather
• no school
• smoothies
• good friends
• staying up late and sleeping in
• sunsets
• laughing with friends
• cool stars
• driving with windows down

Camrie:

• poopie doo doo head
• not having school or work
• Baylie
• going to California/the beach
• wearing whatever I want everyday
• Panda Express
• fruit ... YUMM

Sadie:

• Minecraft
• cool VW van
• masks (wink wink ha ha)
• Insurgent book
• Jessie and Rylie falling off the kayak
• cousins 

Here's a picture of Mason that has nothing to do with this post.

 

August 14, 2020

Hammocks make me happy. Also pickle ball (today was with Mason and Camrie). Also Roxberry smoothie and wheat rolls. Also my birthday sunglasses and my birthday Keen dressy sandals. Also Ry sleeping in the hammock. (And Sadie until 2am). Also Nutella with bananas and strawberries. Also sitting outside.  Also new socks.

August 13, 2020

My summer hiking has not included waterfalls - until today. Lorien and I hiked to Stewart Falls where we enjoyed the spray and putting our feet in the water until they hurt - which was about 7 seconds. We somehow had the waterfall to ourselves while we were there. When we headed back we passed about 30 people so great timing for us.  Funny part was when Lorien needed to distract a guy from me going potty and she said randomly, “Where are you headed?” As he is almost to the end of the trail. 

Had such a great time this evening seeing some of the Draper family. It has been so long since we’ve seen most of them. Torsells were there and I loved drawing with Brynnlee. Becca texted after we left that Brynn is excited for me to come back on Saturday. I do like being an aunt. 

August 9, 2020

Sure do enjoy our little Come Follow Me home church. Good stuff today in Alma. I’ve been enjoying our Sunday evening game of Hearts the last few weeks. 

Also - Mason took an awesome picture of Baylie today.

August 8, 2020

A little anniversary weekend adventure to add to the anniversary celebrating. D and I pulled the trailer up to the other side of the Uintas, along Hwy. pulled off on a dirt road on the Wild Creek Campground turnout. I made D take the first spot we found. (We discovered that if you keep going and then take a left on the dead end road, there’s possible sights if they’re not all taken by trailers (which a lot were.). We took a few pics of the sunset and sheep and enjoyed a cool night in the trailer. 

Saturday we hiked from the Grandview trailhead to Betsy Lake. Betsy was awesome! I found the best sitting rock ever complete with foot rest and back rest. Also put my feet in the lake. Sigh. Then we drove back to our campsite and hitched up the trailer to head home

Stopped at The Junction in Heber City for some very delicious pizza. Good ending to anniversary. 

 

 

August 5, 2020

 Happy anniversary to me and D. 26 years. We had a small celebration that included finding a good burger joint. We ended up heading to Spanish Fork to Barry’s Parkview Drive Inn. We got us some burgers and fries and expensive tots and ate it at the city park across the street where we watched a little Kubb. I guess if we can’t watch baseball for our anniversary, we can watch a random family play Kubb. :). We chatted and then headed home to watch a little comedy - Jim Gaffigan on Amazon Prime. I enjoyed the low key celebration doing some things we both love  burgers and comedy.

August 4, 2020

 

I feel accomplished after hiking to the top of Timp. Kinda cool that my softball friend from Snow (Patty) and my softball friend from BYU (Julie Hess) are now friends in the same ward and we were able to meet and hike Timp together. We each brought a daughter. (Rylie, Kaitlyn, Jennica). It was a beautiful hike that pushed my limits and tiredness. Flowers were spectacular and the goats were fun to watch. The guy (Jacob) that gave up his cold Coke to Julie at the summit was so nice as he heard us talking about wishing we had a cold drink at the top.

We met up Monday evening in lehi for some Costa Vida. Then we headed to site 6 in timpooneke campground where we saw a big moose off the side of the road near Altamont. Somehow Patty convinced Julie and I that we didn’t need a tent and we just slept on a tarp under the stars. R and K slept in the bed of the truck. We woke up just before 5am, packed up our stuff and hit the trail by 6:00am. 

Like I said, hard hike, but beautiful. Rylie hauled bootie up and was rewarded with her first goat sighting. I especially enjoyed hiking with Julie and reconnecting as it had been awhile. Saddle was great and the hike from there to the summit was crazy hard for me. 1 mile felt like at least 5. But we all made it and enjoyed the views from the top before heading back to the saddle to watch some more goats. 

The hike back to the trailhead is never ending. Somehow after what felt like for-ev-er, we made it back to the cars at 4pm. Then it was a juicy JCWs hamburger to wrap up our 24 hour adventure.

August 2, 2020

 Good talks/Devotionals I’ve listened to this week:

-Elder Uchtdorf, January 2013, What is Truth

-Elder Andersen, April 2020, Spiritual Defining Memories

-President Nelson, April 2020, Hear Him

-Elder Holland, April 2013, “Lord, I Believe”