Saturday, October 1, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
April Family Update
Four months in a row! I am glad I am still actually doing these updates, hee hee. Enjoy!
Monday, April 4, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
January 2016 Family Update
I am trying a new way of keeping our family history. I don't know how well it will show up on here, but I'll give it a go. Enjoy.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
July--Summer Fun!
We returned from Utah on Saturday and on Tuesday Beth & Randy Brown and family arrived for a three fun days together. We played with them at Silverwood one day (minus Kyle, who had to work, and Andon, who got to go to a friend's house), and enjoyed the evening and mornings with them. The kids loved being together and the adults loved visiting.
I was thoroughly impressed by Silverwood. It was so much fun and such a nice theme park (clean and felt safe). I loved the lazy river and braved the "big" rides with my kids. Skyler went on "Timber Terror" with Randy early in the day and was asking me the rest of the day to go with him (he was tall enough to ride with an adult). Finally, about 8:00 p.m., I consented. However, I ended holding on for dear life with my eyes closed for most of the ride. Skyler? Well, he had both arms high in the air and was screaming with joy. I told him I would have been no help for him had something gone wrong. It was pretty hilarious. He loves to tell people how much more he liked the roller coaster than me:).
Beth has two older daughters, but beginning with her third, our children are the same basic ages and genders the rest of the way down. It is so fun when we get together! It's pretty remarkable that we have known each other for over 20 years!
(Kylene and Nicole, Spencer and Gavin, Skyler and Ethan, Andon and Trevor)
And here is the entire crew right before they left for home...we loved having them here! (BTW, anyone is invited for some free housing while they go play at Silverwood.)
Skyler purchased this SLC Temple Lego set at the BYU Bookstore. He is still an avid builder and pretty well put this together on his own.
About an hour after the Brown's left, we also left....this time for Glacier National Park in Montana. We first drove to our friend's and neighbor's house near Polson, Montana. They have a second home right on Flathead Lake and had invited us to stop by and play if we ever came up there. We decided to take them up on it and had a complete blast! They are the sweetest people (Pam and Don) and we enjoyed swimming, playing in their kayaks, and going out on their boat and jet ski. The kids took a turn on the tube and Kyle was in heaven on the jet ski. It is the most beautiful, pristine lake and it was a beautiful day.
We then continued about an hour north to our little rustic cabin in an RV park. It was a cute little cabin with it's own little fishing pond (and very nice bathrooms!).
Saturday we spent ALL. DAY. in Glacier National Park. We drove the Going to the Sun Road and stopped many times for hiking, sight-seeing, and other breaks. We brought a picnic and ate along a river. It was a lot of fun, with gorgeous scenery and breathtaking mountains, mixed in with a little fighting in the car and other general family memory-making:).
I know it may be hard to believe, but I didn't include every picture we took;). We got back to our cabin Saturday evening to find no electricity. Which really was no big deal (we were "camping", after all), but it was extremely hot and we had not slept hardly at all the night before. Kyle suggested we could just drive home. I liked the idea, so we (literally) threw everything and the kids (Andon was already asleep) in the car, and drove home. We arrived, exhausted, at 2:00 a.m. It was a crazy way to end a fabulous trip, but it felt so good to be back in our own beds!
This is a long post already, so I'll finish July in a follow-up post....
I was thoroughly impressed by Silverwood. It was so much fun and such a nice theme park (clean and felt safe). I loved the lazy river and braved the "big" rides with my kids. Skyler went on "Timber Terror" with Randy early in the day and was asking me the rest of the day to go with him (he was tall enough to ride with an adult). Finally, about 8:00 p.m., I consented. However, I ended holding on for dear life with my eyes closed for most of the ride. Skyler? Well, he had both arms high in the air and was screaming with joy. I told him I would have been no help for him had something gone wrong. It was pretty hilarious. He loves to tell people how much more he liked the roller coaster than me:).
Beth has two older daughters, but beginning with her third, our children are the same basic ages and genders the rest of the way down. It is so fun when we get together! It's pretty remarkable that we have known each other for over 20 years!
(Kylene and Nicole, Spencer and Gavin, Skyler and Ethan, Andon and Trevor)
This is a long post already, so I'll finish July in a follow-up post....
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Trip to Utah--2015 Barney Family Reunion
We had a wonderful 10 days together as a family, traveling to several places in Utah and seeing lots of extended family. It began early June 18. We drove the 11-12 hour drive to Utah via Pullman, Lewiston, McCall and Boise and thus is took 18 hours! It was a very long day, but the kids did really well in the car. We enjoyed time at a beautiful city park along the river, two 30-minute construction stops, and being stopped by a forest fire, among the "usual" travel stops. It was really interesting getting to see the helicopter pick up water on the right side of our car and dump it in the canyon on fire on the left side of our car. And even though it was definitely the scenic route, it definitely did not disappoint. So much beauty and variety everywhere we looked! We saw some truly gorgeous country.
We arrived at my sister, Alyson's, home in Alpine, Utah about 1:00 a.m. Friday morning. Everyone else had arrived previously, so it was fun seeing my entire family--and all the cousins--the next morning when we awoke. My kids were beyond excited.
Friday was our BYU and Family History day. We enjoyed touring the Monte L. Bean Life Sciences museum on BYU's campus, then eating lunch at the Cougareat, shopping at the bookstore, and seeing the spot (Maeser Hill) where my dad proposed to my mom. Then we headed south to Spanish Fork cemetery and saw many of our ancestors graves. (Mainly my dad's side.) We then drove west to Lake Shore and Palmyra, Utah, which my ancestors helped settle. These towns are right on the shores of Utah Lake and are still very undeveloped and rural. There is a marker where the old Fort Palmyra was where some of my ancestors lived. My grandparents also lived there for a time. It was neat to see.
Saturday morning we went to a small park/lake area near Alyson's home and had a great time kayaking and swimming. It was very peaceful and the kids loved it. Then we went and got all packed up and headed to Heber City. Since we like the scenic routes (wink, wink:)), we drove to Heber via the Alpine Loop. It was beautiful.
We then all descended upon a wonderful log cabin-style home in Heber City, where we spent the next five days. It was a wonderful home and we had a great time enjoying the time together. My mom did her treasure hunts for the grandkids, we played games, foosball, pool and air hockey, enjoyed the playground and lawn games, etc. We had a skit night, talent show night, FHE, family pictures night, went on a beautiful hike, and had a Minute-to-Win-It evening.
The girls spent an afternoon out: we went to Park City and walked through art galleries on Main Street then went out to lunch at "The Eating Establisment." The guys' afternoon out included lunch at a burger place in Heber, then hours and hours of air soft gun battles in the field behind the cabin. It was a lot of fun.
Girls' afternoon out:).
Pictures from our "Minute to Win It" activity:).
The lovely granddaughters (minus Katelyn, who is three) on picture night. Mikayla (17), Stephanie (12), Alysha (16), Kylene (10), Alaina (13), Rebekah (15)
Pictures from our hike to Stewart Falls in Provo Canyon, near Sundance. It was a beautiful hike and so much fun. Kyle got all the men--and several of the grandsons--to walk under the freezing cold waterfall at the top. Insane, but memorable:).
After looking through these pictures again, it's easy to see why my kids did not want to leave when it was done!
We arrived at my sister, Alyson's, home in Alpine, Utah about 1:00 a.m. Friday morning. Everyone else had arrived previously, so it was fun seeing my entire family--and all the cousins--the next morning when we awoke. My kids were beyond excited.
We then all descended upon a wonderful log cabin-style home in Heber City, where we spent the next five days. It was a wonderful home and we had a great time enjoying the time together. My mom did her treasure hunts for the grandkids, we played games, foosball, pool and air hockey, enjoyed the playground and lawn games, etc. We had a skit night, talent show night, FHE, family pictures night, went on a beautiful hike, and had a Minute-to-Win-It evening.
The girls spent an afternoon out: we went to Park City and walked through art galleries on Main Street then went out to lunch at "The Eating Establisment." The guys' afternoon out included lunch at a burger place in Heber, then hours and hours of air soft gun battles in the field behind the cabin. It was a lot of fun.
Monday, July 13, 2015
June, minus vacations
The first half of June was busy with wrapping up the school year and a few other fun events...
Kylene & Spencer's end of year piano recital. Kylene earned a Silver Medal and Spencer earned a GOLD medal! He (and we) were completely surprised and excited. In fact, he was Ms. Heather's only student to earn a gold medal! (It is based on practice time, completed theory sheets, recital attendance, etc.) They both progressed so much this year, and I love the sound of music filling our home.
We finally were able to put bark down! The final step! The company from whome we bought the bark ended up running out, so we only got half of what we needed, but it was progress. We did the front main area and Anneca's garden, so it was beautiful to see those two areas completely finished. Thanks, Mark and Dirk, for your help laying the bark! What a difference a year has made in our yard! I enjoy it every time I look out the window or walk outside.
Sara Edge and I participated in the Color Me Rad 5K in Airway Heights. It was a lot of fun and a little crazy to willingly get pelted with paint and colored powder! It was fun to see all the families whom participated. A few hours later, we bumped into each other at Costco, both proudly displaying our new t-shirts:).
I got to join Spencer for his 2nd Grade field trip. They went to Riverfront Park for a picnic lunch then to Mobius Science Center. It was a lot of fun. (pictured below is Ryan, Noah, Aaron, Lee and Erik.)
The last day of school was Friday, June 12th. The next few days were getting ready for our Barney family reunion in Utah, which we left for on Thursday, June 18th. Pictures and details forthcoming!
Kylene & Spencer's end of year piano recital. Kylene earned a Silver Medal and Spencer earned a GOLD medal! He (and we) were completely surprised and excited. In fact, he was Ms. Heather's only student to earn a gold medal! (It is based on practice time, completed theory sheets, recital attendance, etc.) They both progressed so much this year, and I love the sound of music filling our home.
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