Justin playing soccer

It's been fun watching Justin play on an AYSO Summer Select soccer team this summer. His team decided to do one more tournament at the end of July up in Roy. These pictures are from one of those games up there.

Taking a break

His whole team at the end of the game - THEY WON!

Field Trip

We went on a fun field trip with our friends to the BYU art museum. We went to see the Walter Wick exhibit. We also enjoyed eating lunch at the Cougar Eat, checking out the bookstore, and then going to an animal museum full of stuffed, real animals - the kids loved that.

The Roberts, Swans and Adams kids

A cool display as you walk into the Art Museum - all made with hangers.

Oquirrh Temple Open House

Due to a very busy summer our family waited until the very last week of the open house to go. It was very crowded and pretty noisy but still a good experience. I got all weepy in the celestial room thinking about all of my family being in there together and what that really means. Then I thought how long it will be before we can all be in the celestial room together again.

Bear Lake 09

My parents took all of their children and grand-children on vacation to Bear Lake in July. They rented very nice townhomes for us to stay in right across from the Bear Lake Marina. We spent most of each day at the lake with the rented wave runners. The kids had a great time playing on the beach and in the water. We also enjoyed swimming in the pool at Harbor Village and even got in some morning tennis.

Kamryn on the wave runner

Kamryn hanging out on the beach

Jared on the wave runner

Paul and Jared after a fun ride.

All of the family gathered at LaBeau's for dinner and the famous Bear Lake raspberry shakes.

Thanks mom and dad for a great get away.

4th of July

Just wanted to post some pictures of my little cuties on the 4th of July up at our cabin.

Jared

Kamryn

My little posers

Patriotic 4 year olds

Trek

Trek was a great experience!! I'm still trying to write about it in my journal. So I thought I would just post some pictures from the experience.

Our REAL family at the end of trek.

Justin on the first day of trek with his "family"

Me with Jill Shumway -
she helped me so much and our rolls turned out beautifully all thanks to her.

Our trek family
We were the Daniels family because we had 4 kids with "D" names, 3 of them being Danny.

I just love this picture
(have no idea who the girl is, taken during solo time)


Brooke with her trek family

Paul and I with Daniel Viehwig, one of our sons

I really feel lucky to have been able to go on trek and would go again in a heartbeat.

Still trying to catch up

I don't know why I feel like I need to catch up on my blog. I really should just let it go and move on, but I can't. This is really my only journal, except for the rare entry due to guilt. So I plan to continue trying to catch up but will keep current at the same time.
This morning we got back from almost a week up at the cabin at Brighton. At times it was just me and my kids - that was nice to enjoy the peace and be with just them. The first night we were there we drove to the top of Guardsman Pass and went on a little hike while we were up there. The view was amazing.
We watched several movies and I read an entire book.
We had 3 parties while we were up there - had to take advantage of having the cabin.
On Thursday we had some couple friends up for dinner and games.
On Friday we had mothers and daughters up while the boys were away at fathers and sons. This was a great gathering and hopefully the beginning of a new tradition.
On Saturday we had 2 families join us for dinner and enjoyed hanging out together.
We came home this morning to go to church. We missed our ward last week because we were at my cousin's baby blessing so I felt like we should go to our own ward today. I would have liked to stay up in the mountains and go to the branch up there. I could stay at the cabin another week. I love it up there. I've got head back up tomorrow and clean up. I'd love to just stay awhile and enjoy the beauty of the mountains.

Lagoon

Brooke, Paul and Justin on the kiddie Tidal Wave

Heading for the waterfall. This was during a short period of sunshine during the day. Right after we went on this ride it started raining very hard and we were all freezing.

Getting wet while the sun was shining.

Jared loving shooting his dad.

Jared riding the dinosaur.

Kamryn riding "dumbo"

Jared and Kamryn loved all of the rides at Lagoon.

It was so much fun to watch them.

What a cute little couple out for a drive.

Paul's work, Layton Construction, had their company party at Lagoon again this summer. We were all very excited to go. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the greatest. It was very cool and overcast for most of the day. It actually turned out to be great in the morning because it wasn't crowded at all and there were no lines. I went with Jared and Kamryn in the morning and Paul went with the big kids to do the big rides. Taylor even went on the spider.

We met up for the company lunch and then did some rides together. After getting soaked on Rattlesnake Rapids it started pouring and we were all freezing. We found shelter at one of the song and dance shows which Kamryn loved. We did a few more rides and then headed home. Even though the day ended early we all had a fun time.

Summer Soccer

Taylor's team at the Hooper Tournament. They took 2nd place.

Taylor getting his trophy from his coach. His team was "The Baker's Dozen"

Justin and Taylor both played on the AYSO Summer Select Soccer teams for their age groups. This meant soccer tournaments every weekend but one in June (and now one more for Justin at the end of July). They were in Hooper, Eden and one right in our backyard at the Cottonwood Heights fields.

They both played great and had a lot of fun. For some reason I only have pictures of Taylor's team - probably because they got trophies at every tournament.

Justin's team is in the U-19 division and is a newly formed team. They progressed a lot through the month of tournaments and will definitely do great things next summer.

Catching Up

It has been a busy summer, as usual, and I'm pretty behind in my posting. I was downloading my pictures from my camera to the computer and it reminded me of all the things I haven't posted.

• Boys summer soccer tournaments
• Brooke's birthday and bedroom remodel
• Layton company party at Lagoon
• Brooke's volleyball camp at the U
• 4th of July
• Shingleton Family trip to Bear Lake
• Getting ready for trek

I hope to catch up over the next two weeks.

Overheard from the Bathroom

sunday morning I overheard this conversation in the bathroom:

kamryn: "Kyson goes to the bathroom like this"
jared: "yeah, he stands up but I don't stand up"
Kamryn: "i'm going to go to the bathroom like Kyson"

I then hear her go to the bathroom on the floor.

Kamryn: "my panties are all wet. I better throw them away."
Jared: "i'll go get mom"

Hopefully she learned that girls can't go potty standing up.

thoughts from a 4 year old

The other day I was driving in the car with Jared and Kamryn.
Kamryn said to me:
"Who built Jesus?"
I said:
"Heavenly Father"
Then she said:
"Who built Heavenly Father?"
I said:
His father (hoping that didn't go much farther)
Then she said:
"Who built me?"
I said:
"Heavenly Father"
Then she proceeded to ask who built Jared, Justin, Brooke, Taylor, Mom, Dad, Grammy, Grandpa, Grand-dad, Grandma, Phoebe, Aiko, Olivia, Josh, Leah, Kyson, Rachel, and Meghan.
I answered the same everytime:
"Heavenly Father"
Then she said:
"Heavenly Father built everybody!"
I told her she was right.

Graduation

Phoebe, Jared, Olivia and Kamryn at their last day of preschool.

Jared and Kamryn have grown up so much during this preschool year.

Kamryn wearing her graduation cap.

Jared showing off his graduation cap.

Phoebe and Jared getting ready for their graduation party.

The whole class posing in front of the Bengal tiger.

(check out Jared and Kamryn in the photo)

Mrs Hardman asking Jared what his favorite thing is.

He ended up telling her blue is his favorite thing.

Mrs Hardman asking Kamryn what her favorite food is.

She said chicken.

A little Kamryn story

My sister's family invited us to go to Mountain Mike's for pizza tonight. The place had games and gumball and prize machines so all the kids were asking for quarters. We told them we didn't have any (or at least enough for all the kids to have one). After Kamryn asked me the 2nd time for a quarter, her uncle Dale told her to go ask that man over there for a quarter, never dreaming that she would really do it. To all of our surprise, she went over to the nice man enjoying dinner with his wife and little baby, she asked him for a quarter. We were all dying. She took the quarter, put it in the prize machine (like a gumball machine but full of little prizes) and got the perfect thing for her - a little ring with a pink stone. She was in heaven. I told her to show the man and say thank you and she did. I went over and explained how shy she is and that we couldn't believe she actually did what her uncle suggested. After that she started telling all the kids to go ask the man for a quarter. Luckily he was finished with his dinner and got out of there quick.

Jared's Ocean Encounter

Life's a Beach

For the 2nd day of our trip we went to Laguna Beach for the afternoon.
While we were driving there the kids fell asleep so Paul and I enjoyed exploring the coast and checking out all the great views and homes.

Jared braved the waves with his dad and got all wet.

Kamryn loved playing in the sand.

Jared with his dad showing off "chichen-itza" that Paul built.

Kamryn and her dad. Ever since we went to the mayan ruins near Cancun 12 years ago, Paul always builds this mayan temple whenever we are at a beach.

Jared fighting Darth Vadar

Jedi Apprentice

Jared wanted to watch the Jedi Training Show. So we did and it was AWESOME!
He got picked to be one of the trainees and he was in the show.

Darth Vadar challening the trainees to come to the dark side with him.

The Jedi Master working with his apprentice.

I couldn't believe jared actually went up on the stage in front of everyone.

He did a great job and fought Darth Vadar.

(video coming soon.)