Gallivantin' Sorensens

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

June 2016

The Month of June

June brought about the end of school and the end of my employment for

Davis School District.

5 years at the group home + 1 year at North Davis Jr High = 6 years!

A student brought me one of these candy bars every day the last week of school. He said it was a "lucky guess" that he got my favorite candy bar! I had another student who also brought me a vanilla coke everyday that last week too- he had inquired what my favorite soda was back around Christmas, kid's got a steel trap in that noggin!

Guys, I'm in a yearbook! The first but not my last!

Since Jordan can't go with us to Yellowstone anymore because he's going to scout camp, Derek and his brother took them on a little backpacking trip. More deets in another post after we comb through the 2000 photos Jaxson took..

Ragnar was left behind, she didn't like it.

Look how cute they are!

First Friday Art Stroll in Ogden...

Then Sweet-o Burrito for dinner..

Then Antelope Island for a Ranger campfire with stories, singing, and s'mores!

The birds were so chatty, it was wonderful!

Summer Treat... frozen yogurt with raspberries and white chocolate.

Math game that makes your brain hurt if you're out of practice..

Ragnar being a smarty pants..

Derek went on a short backpacking trip through farmington

I became a big girl..

This face..

First Pineview run/swim of the summer!
Ragnar loved being with the team and getting them wet!

Such a happy puppy!

Watched the Clegg Kids.. no facial injuries this time.

Jordan refused to go to his own bed to sleep..

Ellie insisted on smelling her feet throughout the night..

Culture date night!
Urban Arts Gallery at the Gateway. It's free to go in and check out the art and they have art items for sale. We bought a really cool alphabet book, I was actually surprised Derek wanted it.
I was going to get a miniature one of these guys but decided to wait until another time when I have a book shelf to put it on.

The exhibit that was at the gallery at this time was called "Thoughts on Perspectives",
I would like to think this one was "Thinking with your heart".

Then to the Clark Planetarium for Light-speed Lectures!
We listened to:
Anil Seth, astronomy professor at U of U about his work in black-holes.
Twila Schneider, NASA's Space Launch System Program person and she talked about the Orion mission and the Mars program. She brought fun handouts/crafts!!
Butch Wilmore, NASA Astronaut! He was so nice and friendly, answered all of Derek's questions and even made jokes with him.
After the lectures we moved into the IMAX theater where Kent Rominger, NASA 5-Time Shuttle Astronaut talked to everyone and then we watched the Planetarium's new movie A Beautiful Planet 3D which was so cool! It had a lot of footage that Butch had taken on the ISS.
Best part of the night: it was FREE!!!

Butch Wilmore was so happy to pose for a photo with me!

Books Read:

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
World War Z by Max Brooks

Hunt For Jade Dragon #4 by Richard Paul Evans

Storm of Lightning #5
The Vampire Prince #6 by Darren Shan
Outlander #1 by Diana Gabaldon
Deeply Odd #6 by Dean Koontz

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Memorial Day

Derek's family was in town for Memorial Day Weekend,

so they joined us on a hike to Flag Rock. Granted Flag Rock is more in honor for those lives given during the 9/11 attack- from the bottom of the valley floor to the top of the flag is the same elevation that the rescue workers and firefighters had to climb to save lives.

Jordan came with us to "practice hiking" before he goes on his backpacking trip with Derek this weekend.

"In Memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives and our children."

Want to know where to find Utah's state flower the Sego Lilly?

Farmington Canyon is a good spot!

Frosted lemonades was a great post-hot & sweaty hike treat!

Later we had a BBQ at Tyler's house for my dad's birthday. It was great fun!

Hippie Hiking

My friend Andrea & I have started a new type of hiking for the summer..

Hippie Hiking.

It's basically hiking, but we take our yoga mats to do some yoga along the way.

Our first Hippie Hike was to Angry Waterfalls. It felt so good to stretch out after the hike, and just relax by the river. The dogs of course love any kind of hiking...

The waterfalls were very vexed that day.. the rushing of the water was so loud that when we got back to the end that is a little bit farther away from the river, a whole new quite and peace was waiting for us.

Hippie Hiking was a success!

Had to river cross a few times..

Such a goofy photo!

How could you not love this face!!!

Thursday, June 2, 2016

May 2016

The Month of May

Ogden Nature's Center Fly with the Flock and their bunny on a leash..

The Brynners looking (and sounding) more and more like our cousin Andrea every day.. especially when she smiles.. this is the best she gave me.. all other smiles were some form of weird.. lol

Ragnar likes to snuggle with Derek's laptop..

Dino 5k in Vernal requires road trip cookies!

Graduation Dino looks creepy at night

The sign says to not leave your children unattended by the fire.

1st in age group 7th gender overall. Getting my 5k time down FINALLY.

Reward for doing a scavenger hunt in #VernAl

JeNae ran the Ogden Half with Calli and Dave.

Broke in our dutch oven and the Nelson's fire pit..

S'Mores as appetizers..

When you don't have the right tools yet, Kris will make you some

Blow torching the bacon for extra crispy-ness

Ran in another 5k.. I'm finally at a point where my time is coming down post-surgery. I still have 6 minutes I want to cut off but I'm so happy to finally see progress!

Mt. Green/Enterprise up by Morgan..