Temple Quarry Trail

Sunday July 13th after Jameson and Sarah left with Grandma and Grandpa Kelley to visit cousins in Washington, Alex, Aidan, Nate, Stephanie and I went hiking with Grandma and Grandpa Church up the Temple Quarry Trail at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Grandma Church pointed out where the holes were drilled in the granite to cut it for use on the Salt Lake Temple.

Grandpa Church brought his binoculars to look for mountain goats. My zoom was not good enough, but with the binoculars we found a mommy and baby on the other side of the canyon. It was amazing how nimbly the climbed around the rocky cliffs.

Nate and Aidan loved going off and exploring whenever and wherever possible.

A Swimming Summer

One of our favorite activities this summer has been swimming at the Treehouse Athletic Club.




Aidan loved swimming, but it always took a lot of energy for Dave and Steph because he wanted to jump in to us. Recently he found the joy of goggles and since then has been swimming like a fish.

Nate loves underwater acrobatics. We will have to get him into swim team for next year because he has taken to the water so much.

Sarah has always loved the water, our only problem with her is finding her at home for once. She is constantly playing with one of her friends. Every once in a while we get her to ourselves and love having her around.

Typically, while the kids are playing in the water, Dave and Stephane are laying out reading a good summer book. I'll spare you those images.

Summer has to be the best season of the year!

4th of July

Dave loves taking pictures w/ our camera, but I've been waiting around for him to blog some of those awesome pictures and he's taking too long!

We spent the 4th of July morning and afternoon in Delta, UT--"The Best of the Best in the West", according to a shirt I had as a child. Also the place my Dad grew up and the hub of his side of the family. Partly because my Grandpa (a former Mayor of the town) still lives there.

We go every year for the parade and a picnic at Grandpa's afterwards. This year Brian and Mirien (my brother and his wife) and their children and Scott and Heather (same as last parentheses) and their baby, my sister and her husband, Krisi and Eddy, and my parents were there. We also were next to my cousin, Maria and her family. The kids love the parade for the candy and seeing cousins.

Aidan had some issues, though. He loves the color pink and decided he could not chase any candy unless it was pink. If anyone else picked up his pink candy he was inconsolable.

Scott and I had to get in on the action when the library float came by--they throw out books!

Alex hung out with grandma Church. After the parade, we all went to great grandpa Church's. He saw Alex for the first time. He could tell that Alex is a wonderful boy.

All the energetic people played a rousing game of frisbee.

The rest of us sat around.

That night we set off fireworks with just our family and our cousin, Grant. It was a great day.