Not too much happened on this trip but it was still fun nonetheless.
Driving down we did some geocaching, when it wasn't snowing. We were lucky to have missed the big snow storm but unlucky that we made it out before the snow plows came out but then lucky again that we were the only ones on the road so we were able to move faster. We wanted to stop and hike toadstools but Derek was still pretty exhausted so we that got nixed.
Introduced them to geocaching. It was a little slow at first but once we found the cache it was a different ball game. Plus we found scorpions so bonus!
Took a walking break one night and tried to find another cache just down the way from their mailbox but it was dark and we couldn't find it.
Found this cache about a mile walk from their house.
Most of the time was spent playing games.
Jane was on fire with her commentary, it was a riot!
Minecraft.
VR gaming.
Thanks to the government shut down, we didn't get to do the adventures we wanted to, so this was as far as we got with one park. There's always next year.
Ragnar got sprayed by a skunk on an adventure with Derek and his metal detecting..
So we tried a trick from Austin and put pb on the wall.. it worked for like a minute.
May 5th
First Royals win!
Selfie with my favorite player... and my of my athlete's mom is in the background.
Viking Thunder Clap!
May 6th
The girls wanted to take grandpa treasure hunting, and luckily there were a few along the trail we were able to find on a pre-dinner walk.
Enjoy.
May 11/12
Lunch stop on our way out to Vernal.
Since we left early in the day this year, we took a drive up Dry Fork Canyon to McKonkie Ranch.
It was too rough for my mom but my dad came with.
Race day.
I had to defer my half entry to next year since that good ol' pneumonia basically killed all my training. I had to stop to breathe 5 times and each time someone would try to encourage me. I know they didn't know I'm still fighting a lung infection that kills people, but in any run I participate in, it bugs me. That's why I never say anything to people I pass unless I ask where they got a certain running item because I also want it.
Anyways, somehow it only took me a half hour. I was sure it was going to take me longer with how often I had to stop. Even with more and more people doing this run each year, somehow I still placed in my age group.. I must not know how to tell people's ages because I was pretty sure a lot of 30-35 year old's passed me.
Post race geocaching! The Field House Museum was free that day as apart of a whole festival deal. Bonus!
I wanted to do some hot air balloon rides but the weather was not kind.
May 14
I made a deal with a student that if he worked more on being an advocate for himself, I would take him to see this mural in Ogden at the end of the class. He has some strange fascination with the Mona Lisa... he says it scares him, but he's all about seeing it. Here he's high-5-ing her face..
Mallory and I.
May 16
Jaxson's play. He was a wickersham brother in Seussical the Musical Jr.
Remember that shed Derek made last year? Well, while cleaning up some of the extra wood ends, we now have an outdoor Jenga game (yes I know it's 3 per layer but when I was cleaning up this is how it got stacked).
May 17/18
State Track
We had 13 kids in 10 different events. The best showing at state since my first year. And 10 of those kids are underclassman. They brought home lots of medals, numerous top 15 places, and one new school record in the women's 800m.
It's a great time to be a Laker.
May 19
Royals game with Kymmber and Blake.
Elise was all about hanging out with Kymmber who is her new best friend FYI. Like seriously.. she talks about our "big cousin" all the time.
After the win Elise booked it to the bottom to get signatures. She was all about getting them and didn't want to wait for us.
Monday May 21 Graduation (side note, still waiting on pics with other kiddos because this one with my eyes closed will not do)
Tuesday May 22 Track Banquet
Wednesday May 23Jordan got an award for his GPA, but we had to stay entertained.
Saturday July 1 Mini family service day in our backyard. It started because Tyler & Kris wanted to hang out and we told them we had a lot of yard work to do. They said they'd come help so we could play faster. My dad and Austin also came to help.
Ragnar was supervisor. She inspected all the sticks and branches as they were cut down.
Austin was king of climbing the trees. We created a new verb: "Mowgli-ing it"
So much more got done than what we were hoping for! We now just have to finish hauling it all off.
Afterwards.. we went to do an escape room, then pretzels, swimming, and then movie with fried pickles at their house.
Happy Canada everyone!
Wednesday July 5 Took the Nelson girls to the Ogden Nature Center for a patriotic Wild Wednesday.
This guy did NOT disappoint! He's an amazing story teller and was so interactive. I do enjoy the lady but I think this guy is my favorite!
I just love the different looks an eagle can give.
Hung up some stuff.. which has lead to some passive-aggressive staring from Ragnar.
Read-a-ton book win!
Elise helped me and my dad take the doggies to the river. She walked Ragnar, who was really good and didn't pull just walked slow next to Elise.
Derek was too busy to notice this...
Derek went backpacking to finish off the last part of the anti-dog mountains in SLC. Ragnar was not pleased.
But I made it up to her when we went to pick Derek up. We left early so we could hike around and lucky dog found many animals to chase and be happy again.
But not enough cuteness could get Derek to share his fries.
