Summer miscellany

Timpanogos: Friday, June 17

Andrea at the entrance to the Timpanogos Cave. After dropping Rebekah and Bradley off at their band leadership camp in American Fork, I hiked to the cave entrance to help condition for the hike up Mount Borah. 

Andrea in front of the Mount Timpanogos Temple. I attended an endowment session here after hiking.

Sheep cupcakes: Friday, June 24

Sheep cupcakes Ana made for our stake Relief Society training meeting. Our theme was "Feed my sheep."

Naptime: Saturday, June 25

Winnie takes a siesta on the couch in the great room.

Restringing the guitar: Wednesday, June 29

Seth has Winnie help him restring our little guitar.

Greenbelt: Thursday, June 30

Rebekah longboards around the Greenbelt while Andrea trails behind on her bike. The two left at 6:30 a.m. for the morning ride.

Staying warm at church: Sunday, July 3

Winnie wears Seth's suitcoat  during sacrament meeting when the AC was turned up on high.

Tramp sleepover: Saturday, July 9

Seth and Winnie pose on the trampoline before their sleepover. The two made it until 4 or 5 in the morning when the "demon roosters" woke them up and they realized how cold they were.

Pioneer celebration: Tuesday, July 26

Seth and Winnie participate in the wheelbarrow race at the stake pioneer celebration. Ana entered a pie into their contest and won best overall pie made by a youth.

Library party: Thursday, August 11

Winnie asks for another block to build her tower at the Idaho Falls Public Library during their end-of-summer bash. They served Texas Roadhouse rolls with honey butter and had games available for the kids to play.

Roaring Youth Jam: Friday, August 12

Ana and her friend Iris help kids (including Winnie) make fairy houses from TP rolls and paper. Andrea and Miriam returned the next day to volunteer because they had so few people sign up.

Winnie colors on a car at the Youth Jam. Every night the owner would wash it so kids could color on it the next day.

Date Night: Friday, August 12

Andrea and Seth pose for a selfie at Lucy's New York Pizza while on a date.

Arrowhead hunting: Saturday, August 13

Winnie poses with the arrowhead she and Seth found.

Ana poses with the bigger arrowhead she and Seth found.

Family picnic: Wednesday, August 17

Ana gives Roscoe loves while at Grandma Susan's house. Uncle Doug retired, sold his townhouse and bought a new travel trailer. He parked it in Grandma and Grandpa's field during the summer, so he and Roscoe were around for family picnics and get-togethers.

Bird eggs: Friday, August 19

Winnie and the bird egg she found in the old stove outside Grandma and Grandpa Scott's house.

Anniversary getaway: Friday, August 19-Sunday August 21

Seth hooks the laptop up to the TV in the cabin so he and Andrea can watch movies. To celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary, we spent a couple of nights at the cabin. On Friday evening we watched a movie. On Saturday we went on two little hikes and saw Singin' in the Rain at the Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone. On Sunday we packed up and came home.

Andrea and Seth at Big Springs on Saturday. We hiked to the lookout tower behind Big Springs, then along the Box Canyon trail before going back to the cabin to get cleaned up and go to West to see the show.

Visiting Grandma: Thursday, August 25

Grandma Hendricks shows Rebekah a book of old receipts while we visit her at her house in Rexburg. Rebekah also vacuumed out Grandma's car while we were there.

Ballroom retreat: Friday, August 26

Ana and the other members of her group perform their skit during the Bonneville ballroom retreat at Rigby Lake. The kids got a bunch of dress-ups and props and had to come up with a skit to show everyone.

Miriam blindfolds herself to go on a trust walk with the other members of the ballroom teams. All of the BHS ballroom teams (including the middle school team of which Miriam is a part) got to spend the day at Rigby Lake eating, swimming, and doing activities together to build comradery. 

Winnie playing in the lake while the unicorn watches over her. I helped out with the retreat: driving kids to the lake, cooking pork for dinner, serving lunch and dinner, shooting pictures, etc. In between all of that, I ran home long enough to get Winnie so she could play in the water.

Daddy Mommy Daughter date: Saturday, August 27

Seth uses the Black Panther mask to decode a message in our escape room in Rexburg. Ana wanted to do an escape room, so she researched all the ones around and chose to do the Avengers-themed room.

Ana with the Infinity Gauntlet after we solved the room.

Seth and Ana at Crispy Cones in Rexburg following our successful escape room.

Cthulhu: Sunday, August 28

The Cthulhu Rebekah crocheted as a present to Seth.