Boys Toys and Lots of Noise

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Upstate New York Trip

I had been wanting to go on this trip for many, many years. Well before I had my family. I especially wanted Tyson and Blake to see Bryan's mission before they went on their own missions. I wanted them to feel the spirit that was in the sacred grove and have a picture of what it looked like as they taught people about it.

I was worried about them not loving this trip. It was hard to find great places to stay for our large family and going on history tours may not be their favorite thing. But it seemed like now or never so we went for it.

We flew into Rochester NY and drove to Lake Canandaigua. I found a little house off the lake so Ty could go fishing. That was a really smart choice. We bought a cheep fishing pole at Walmart and a 10$ license and he went fishing.

Ty loved catching fish he had never caught before. Of course he knew most of their names because of his love of fish.

Our view from the front of the house we were staying at. The house itself was older but was clean and had space for our family.

Of course blogger put these in backward again- This is us once we got to New York. We absltouly loved upstate New York! It was beautiful! We took a lot of backroads through all of these little towns with the most beautiful old homes.

We had a stop in Chicago quick at the smaller airport.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

May 2023

Now that the snow is finally starting to melt in the mountains a little bit Bryan took his new razor up above my parents house in Hyde Park. They were driving on the snow and the front came down in the snow and hit the mud and water under and drenched them in mud. The loved it.

East has a cavity that was really bad. My kids got this weird genetic trait from me where they teeth doesn't develop all the way before they come in so they came in with a cavity already in their tooth. Not from decay just a hole in their tooth. East has a couple of them but the really bad one we fixed quickly. When the dentist showed me the inside it was like spiderweb looking stuff in there. So weird. He was nervous so we brought sheepy and he did really well. Lucky for us it wasn't a root canal.

Blake did so well in Track! He ran the 800 1600.

Of course when you get record snowfall you get flooding. So we had to go take a look. Blake, Bryan, Brett and Bretts friend Travin.

The boys showing that they are as tell or almost as tell as Grandpa.

Someone needs a hair cut

East brought me these flowers from school!

He got these on a field trip

SOOOO happy to be on the side by side! The snow has made us wait so long! But we can't go very high still.

Tysons Senior Prom.

Ty and Taegan

Mothers day

Ty and his friends love Jordan Peterson. He is a professor who has a large internet following. I like him as well. So when he was going on a speaking tour and came to Boise Ty told me he wanted to go. So we arranged to have Jack, Taegan, Blake and my father in law Lige all go. It was fun for me because they show was in the Idaho Center where I went to concerts in high school and my brothers high school graduation. I didn't have time to drive into Nampa (where I grew up) but we really enjoyed the show.

Showing Bryan where I saw for a NSYNC concert in like 1999.

I love Ty's friends. Makes me happy he has such good friends. And we all really enjoyed it.

Lige didn't realize he had a knife in his pocket until we were almost up to the doors. And you have to go through medal detectors. So he went and hid it in the bushes but the way he did it cracked us up so much.

By a total miracle we made it back from Boise to Bretts Wellsville mile. And Blake because he was on the track team got to run with him. Ty could have ran too but had some classes he couldn't miss.

He did good! He didn't stop the whole time.

Ty and Sannette send me a photo every time he goes to work with her.

Eastons 2nd grade concert. They recited Poems and sang songs. It was adorable.

I adore Mrs. Mills. She had a program where a few kids could come before school and get extra help that Easton was in. Then when East had a soccer game with a couple other kids in his class she came with treats for them. Amazing.

5th grade civil war reenactment - my favorite. Brett is in the royal blue shorts in the back

The boys had man camp on the west desert. I had to work so they went with my dad.

The salt flats

Ty has this weird thing with Ghosts and ghost hunters so he slept by the cemetery. Which is weird but whatever.

Ty earning money by helping me in the raspberry patch

We needed Eastons scriptures before we went on our family vacation (I was taking his baptism photos there) so my mother in law picked them up for him.

Eastons soccer team!

I have been really studying up on my family history so I pulled my wonderful cousin Julie with me to show here where all of the grave plots of our family are. It was amazing. I just love Julie.