September

Labor Day bike ride with the Henlines!  We had a picnic and rode down the canyon.  Christian was at a friend's house.

Fall=sports.  With the new high school being so close we walk over and catch the games occasionally.  It gives a pretty spectacular view of the mountains and moon rising.  Amber and Livi played tennis this year and both really liked it. 

 Amber and I at a play.  I don't remember which one.

 September moment.  It was perfect.  

Little girl book club.  Although we won't be able to call it that for much longer.  These girls are getting big!  We read the 100 Dresses and then made TP dresses.  It was a fun night.  I also hosted the tennis dinner this week.  We had people over 6 times in a week!

Celebrate life day.  We did a taste tour of Provo and then rode the Sundance moonlight ski lift:

 Scott dragged me to see this play at UVU and I cried through the whole thing and loved it!  And him.

 Lots of youth activities.  We went skating with the Mia Maids and teachers.

August

Christian turned 17 this year.  We took he, Macon and roman out for In-N-Out and then gave him money.  He is growing up!

 Alivia and Soran attended camp half blood at the library.

When did my babies get so big?!?!  We love $2 Tuesdays and made it to the butterfly biosphere and the dinosaur museum.

First day of school!  One in elementary, 1 junior high and 2 high schoolers.  Oh, and one college we forgot to take a picture of.  Crazy!

 End of summer adventure this year was pirate themed.  The kids woke up to a note with a knife in it saying that they had to find mom and dad.  They were led on a treasure hunt to the frontrunner where they rode to salt lake and we picked them up to go to an escape room.  We are such good parents.

 Hiking the Y with the girls.

Shakespearean festival for my birthday!  Scott organized a group of friends and we stayed in a house and went to 3 plays.  We also went to the temple.  And dropped off Lyssa at school.  I loved all of it.

 

 I love this guy right here.  We went to the gardens at Thanksgiving Point and they were much more impressive than I had assumed.  It was a beautiful night.

 Youth temple trip.  Crazy that we have 3 that can go now.

July

4th of July!  We went to the parade in the morning, finished almost the whole season of Stranger Things and then Lyssa and I went to the Stadium of Fire.  A perfect day!

 Scott and I were in charge of the Reece family reunion this year, so we had it at Bear Lake with a boat, a jet ski and lots of toys.  We had a fun time playing in the water, hiking the caves, doing games in the evening and enjoying each other's company. 

 Aunt Xela had some fun minute to win it games

Jacob was the cutest hiking buddy ever.

Love this other crazy family of ours

While we had all the water toys we couldn't resist going out one more time with the Henlines:

24th of July shenanigans

Our summer project which turned out to be a lot of work but I love it:

 Activity days camp with Soran.  I got to go with all the girls.  I'm so lucky!

Our exchange student Runa.  We were supposed to get a student from Vietnam but her visa was denied so we did a 2-week exchange with Runa.  We had to kick Steven out of her bedroom since he stayed a month with us while his broken legs were healing.

 Trying the Japanese treats

 Nick living the rich life

 We took the kids to the Scera a couple times this summer to see Beauty and the Beast and Richard Marx.  But we aren't doing that again.  These kids just don't want to be cultured.

Mini golfing at Trafalga!