All Stars

Noah is at 2nd
Jonah pitching
Jonah up to bat

I can't talk about summer without talking about baseball since it lasts through the whole month of June and the first week of July. This was Jonah's first year in the majors and he made the All Star team. He played short, 3rd, 2nd and even pitched. His team is young, they lost both games but had a great time. His 9/10 team played in Winslow while Noah's 11/12 team played in Flagstaff. Luckily Winslow is 45 minutes away. I stayed at one of Noah's games while Scott went to Jonah's 2nd game. The other games we all got to see. It is a family vacation for us. We stay at the hotel and swim and play and watch baseball what is more fun than that? Noah's team lost the first, won the next two and lost the fourth game. Jonah was happy he got #2, for Jeter and Noah got #13 for A Rod.

Goodfellow's Visit

Our tradition is to bring a football to the cemetary. This is a pic when the boys are fighting over catching it because Cory was playing 500 with them.



Visit to Grandpa's grave, which Scott doesn't like to do because as he says, "We know his body is here but his spirit is not. He is in heaven and we know we will see him again. What a blessing to know that this life is not the end. "
Mallory and Esther playing checkers. We are so thankful that Cory taught us how to play backgammon. We are putting Grandpa Homer's table to good use, hopefully it will survive.


The Goodfellows came to Page the third weekend of July. We went to the lake a couple times with them and took a tour of the dam. We love having cousins come visit! Esther loved having Mallory. That was the weekend of our Pioneer Day celebration. Hannah and Jonah were asked to be in a historical vignette about some pioneers. They portrayed Aurelia Spencer Rogers, who was the first Primary president of the church, and her brother. They memorized their part which they told over and over as people went from one group to the next. The children crossed the plains by themselves, their mother had died and their father was on a mission in England. Hannah and Jonah played them at the age they were crossing the plains. It is an incredible story.

Summer in BC

Four generations of beautiful women!

Jonah loves Hazel!

Chicken fighting tradition continues, Hannah is tall enough to be in the water against Dane.

Esther loved Great Grandpa's golf putting man. We are so blessed to have so many grandparents. Every time we visit the kids can't wait to go across the street and have a flag ceremony (and of course ask politely if they can have a piece of candy from Great Grandpa!).
I took the kids over to my parents house for a few days in July. We had such a busy summer I could barely squeeze in a visit! The kids love to go and we swim all day and night. Noah and Jonah stayed there for an extra 4 days. My mom took them to Hurricane where my mother-in-law, Kathy, was visiting Amy. Kathy drove to Page that afternoon to visit us for a couple days when Sarah and her family were visiting.

4th of July and the Jonas Brothers!

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Adam, Abby, Avery, Tate, and Bo
Hannah, Avery, Marisa and Esther

Hannah, Marisa (Hannah's best friend), Esther and I went to Draper for the 4th of July to see the Jonas Brothers in concert at the Stadium of Fire. We listened to their new CD for two weeks straight before their concert. (To the adults who read my blog: I really like their new CD; they have some talent and clean songs!) We drove up Thursday and of course went to the mall that night. Friday morning we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. It was beautiful and we are so blessed to have new temples. On Friday afternoon we went with Scott's mom to Abby's family cabin that is in Sundance. It was so much fun. We got to hike to a waterfall and it was perfect weather.
Saturday we went to a breakfast with Kathy's ward and Sarah and her kids then did a little shopping. We stopped in Lindon to see Grandma Beverly and she gave us Grandpa Homer's chess table! We love it. We got great parking for the concert and the weather was not hot since we were 1 1/2 hours early! It was an amazing show and Hannah can now die happy since she has seen Nick Jonas in real life but she is already trying to talk about the next time she sees them.... I am so lucky to have a great mother-in-law that I love and we can stay with her all the time.

Father's Day

I did a fun sharing time in our ward for Father's Day. I had some dads of the children come in to be on a question panel. I had a jar of about 50 questions the kids chose from, like what is your favorite sport, do you play the piano, where were you born, etc. I started with the sunbeam class and each child could pick the dad they wanted to ask the question to. Esther was the third to ask a question and she asked Scott what his favorite sport was and she guessed him right away! All the dads disguised their voices. When the kids thought they knew who one dad was they could guess and the dad would take off his mask. The kids were so thrilled to see their dad and would run up and hug them. It was so much fun. I did this for Mother's Day also.

Summer Fun!

Jonah and Ezra got trophies for their golf tournament. Noah took first place in his age division and Hannah tied for 2nd place. Esther can't wait until she can golf.

We had a fun visit from Adam, Abby, Avery, Tate, and Bo in June. We love having family visit.

Today is our first day of school. I have loved every minute of the summer and wanted to enjoy it and not spend time on my computer. School started an hour ago and I do not know what to do with myself. I think I am in shock or denial. My house is too quiet! I cant wait for everyone to get home. This will be a HUGE adjustment. I am working on having faith that it will all work out as Pres.Hinckley has said and I am saying lots of prayers.