Families are forever

Families are forever

Saturday, August 25, 2012

SUMMER 2012!

We started our summer off by switching rooms around, redecorating rooms, and painting the walls. They turned out beautiful.
Brittany and Danielle Kemp painting Brittany's room

Ice blocking
Ice blocking with Emily, Brittany, and Tyler
We had lots of Sunday walks to and around the Highland Glenn park across the street.

Brittany


Girls camp at Heber Valley

Mike jokingly got in trouble for snuggling up to one of the girls!

So fun to have daddy at camp

Cake decorating
Amber helped her friend, Katelyn make a birthday cake for her
husband, Phil.  Phil is Tyler's soccer coach along with Mike.
Katelyn is currently Emily's drill coach and is a good
friend of Amber's from High School.
For Father's Day, I gave Mike an annual pass to the Hogel Zoo.


Cabin
Fun at the cabin
We had a summer filled with soccer tournaments!
Brittany is now playing for Celtic Storm on their D1 team.
Mike is her assistant coach.  It's fun to have dad still involved!

Snow cones after Brittany's tournament on July 4th.
Tyler started playing goalie a little bit last year.  He has become
such a good goalie.  He is playing for a newly developed
club team, Dynamo and is the main goalie.  Mike is still helping
coach his team with Phil Lamoreaux.


Brittany and Danielle Kemp planned another fun and successful kid's camp. 
One of the days they featured different countries.  They had 6 different stations each representing a different country. 
For the United States they had a Hawaii set up.
For Africa they had an safari with lots of animals hiding.
Bow and arrow
Tyler wanted a bow and arrow so he decided to make one.
Daddy helped and they made one that really worked!

Jones family reunion at Bear Lake 


The nice cabin we stayed in

The gorgeous view from our deck.

Anna and Brian

Emily, Brittany, Amber, Sydney, and Lauryn having fun!

Tyler

Matt, Andrew, Tyler, Emily, Chloe, Brittany

Anna, Amber, Avery

Andrew, Jack, Tyler, Matt

Jack, Andrew, Matt, Tyler

Happy Birthday to Oliver!
Matt, Isaac, Oliver, Lissa, Ella

 Nanny planned lots of fun crafts for Sunday afternoon.
Nanny, Chloe, Hailey, Abbey

Andrew, Oliver

We sure enjoyed all the sand at North Beach.  Lots of sand and
lots of shallow water for play.

Brittany
We had so much fun playing Frisbee on the beach.  

Mike, Brian, Jon

Tyler, Cory, Jack, Andrew

Sydney and Brittany

We rented sea-doos for the day and had so much fun
Amber with her sand creations, the Leaning tower 
of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, and the Egyptian Sphinx.
The awesome crocodile that Emily and Katie made!


Brittany's cool creation
Papa

Daddy, Chloe, and Tyler
It's almost done!

Tyler making another cool sandcastle

Fun playing games in the evening.

A visit from Aunt Cheeri, Brooklynn, and Stetson
We had so much fun with them.  They stayed for about 3 days.  We played games, visited, went to City creek, and went to the temple.


Stetson and Tyler cooling off in the pool


Richards family reunion
We had a fun day in the park with daddy's Aunts, Uncles,cousins and their families.  We had lunch in the park and then played "minute to win it" games.
Matt and daddy catching rubber chickens in their pants!

Brittany and Lauryn catching rubber chickens in their pants

Amber and Tyler (cousin, Emily's husband) shaking eggs out!

Abbey and Tyler cup stack racing.

Papa won his game being the only one to stack his apples in
under a minute!
A surprise baby shower for Ashlee
Ashlee has been living in California for the summer.  They came to Utah for a Price family reunion.  Two days before she came, we found out that she was coming a day early to spend a day with us.  Amber, Emily and Brittany quickly put together a surprise baby shower for her with her friends from high school.  It was a fun gathering for all of them.
Emily, Erika Bunker, Ashlee, Brittany, Amber, Savannah Slater
(We took the picture after many had left.  Should have thought of it sooner.)
Fun hike with my cousins to Stewart Falls by Aspen Grove
My cousin, Jessica and her newborn, Mason
and two of Aimee's kids, Nicholas and Camille

Me, with cousins Aimee' and Jessica
Natalie (Aimee's daughter), Brittany, and Emily
A few more fun activities just before school started:
We have season passes to Seven Peaks.  We had such a busy summer that we didn't make it there very many times, but we squeezed in a couple trips at the end of the year. We also enjoyed many times in our pool before we had to take it down.
                                   




For Family Home Evening the day before school started, we went
into American Fork canyon and had a picnic.
Tyler found fishing line and a stick and tried to make a fishing pole.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Memorial Day weekend

Ashlee and Jordan came to visit us Memorial Day weekend.  We had a great time.  Friday night we had s'mores and then camped outside.  In the morning we had delicious dutch oven french toast.  On Monday we went to Liberty Park



I guess these girls didn't get enough sleep!


Friday, May 25, 2012

Violin

 Brittany, 7th grade, decided to take orchestra this year.  She enrolled in a beginning orchestra and signed up to play the violin.  She learned quickly and kept improving.  She really enjoys it and we all love to hear her play.  Emily and Amber both enjoy playing along on the piano while she plays the violin.  We all love to listen to them.  Next year she will be in intermediate orchestra.
Spring orchestra concert

Cupcakes!

Amber and Emily had so much fun visiting Carlo's Bake Shop in New Jersey when they went to New York City with the drill team.  They were inspired  to try to copy his Peanut Butter cupcake.
They invited Jaylee and Clancy over to bake with them.






Emily's frosting started sliding off the cupcake.  I love the look on her
 face.  She was able stop the  frosting before it landed on Amber
!

Time for the taste test!  Yum!

Quidditch

Yesterday I saw Tyler "playing Quidditch".  He was pretending his broom was bewitched just like what happened to Harry Potter in the first book.  He ended up running into the house while his broom was "bewitched" and landed on the tile floor. His teacher was just finishing up reading the book and he was enjoying acting it out.



He managed to get back onto the broom only to be knocked off again!


Book reports

Tyler is in Miss Nuttall's 3rd grade class.  She has them do a book report every month.  They have to have a project and do a verbal report on the book.  Here are some of Tyler's projects:
"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" - realistic fiction- September

"Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery" - Mystery- October
The class and the teacher all really loved this project.  

"Tonight on the Titanic" - Historical Fiction- November

"LeBron James" -biography- March

I was trying to get him to smile for the picture, but
he told me that LeBron doesn't smile in pictures!

"Night of the Ninjas" - free choice - May



Other reports he has done include:
December - Cultures - "Baseball Saved Us" - He made a cake that was a baseball diamond
January - Classic - "George's Marvelous Medicine" - He made a "medicine" potion
February - Fantasy- "Secrets of Droon" - He made a word search with words from the book
April - Non-Fiction- "The Solar System" - He colored a diagram of the Solar System

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Prom

Emily was asked to Prom by Sawyer Young.  She chose to wear a beautiful dress that her cousin, Sara had given her.  She had a great time.





Spring Soccer

THE COBRAS!



Top- Coach Phil, Tyler, Jake Hyatt, Luke Willden, Nick Saunders, Landon, Coach  Mike (dad)
Bottom- Carson, Kayden Deidrick, Rex Brunsdale, Jonah, Clayton Palmer
The boys played so well!  The end of the soccer season ended with a tournament.  They came in second which was awesome.  Congratulations boys!