The Changing of Seasons and Time with Friends and Family in June 2023

 End of the School Year

Top Left, Top Right, Center Right & Bottom Left: Cort with friends from school on their last days in elementary. Top Left Middle & Bottom Center: Cort with his amazing teacher Mrs. Barnson! Such a great teacher and a great class for Cort! Top Right Middle & Bottom Right: Marshal with his second-grade teacher Mrs. Wren! Center Left: Cort and his good friend Brynlee West.    

The "Almost Tornado" Storm

The news said it was a wild storm! Almost a tornado! 

Marshal decided to "collect" the rainwater in multiple buckets. lol

Young Men's Camp

Top Left: Checking out the salt flats from the Great Basin National Park area where they had Young Men's Camp. Top Right & Top Right Middle & Bottom Right: The boys and the leaders are ready for camp! Bottom Right Middle & Center Bottom: Kent, Luke, and Kevin were dressed so differently for camping. It was quite comical! Bottom Left: Elephant Rock Arch.

A Day at

Bountiful Ponds

It was a beautiful and perfect day for kayaking!

We cracked up at the feathers on the duck on the left!  

Fish Lake with a Twist!

We decided to visit Capital Reef on Friday of the 

Fish Lake trip. It was a wonderful day and a great break!

 We decided to stay at Fish Lake and let the boys fish on Saturday.

Braxton and I did a LOT of hiking/walking!

Top Middle: Braxton and I hiking around the lake. Bottom Left Middle: Cort and Aspen bonding over fishing! 💖 Bottom Right: Cort fishing off the shore. All the rest: Beautiful scenes of Fish Lake!

Top Left & Bottom Left: We got in just a "few" steps! Top Left Middle: Spencer helped Marshal catch some fish. Top Right Middle: Marshal was privileged to fish off Kevin and Robin's boat. Center Right: I fell while walking on the highway and got a bad road rash. OUCH! All the rest: More beauty of Fish Lake and the drive there!

Fish Pond, Fishing, a beaver dam, and Fish Lake beauties!

Happy 17th

Birthday Braxton!!!

We had a surprise birthday for Braxton at Blackridge Reservoir.

We brought pizza and met Braxton's friends Tyson, Ryan, Travon, 

and Zack at the reservoir. The boys had a good time kayaking 

and paddleboarding!

Welcome Home Elder Gonder!

We were lucky enough to welcome Brayden home from his mission.

Marshal was so happy to see him!

We were happy to enjoy the celebration!

Life in June

Top Left: Me and my boys! Top Left Middle: Marshal's great bedhead! Top Right Middle: He makes us laugh! Top Right: We enjoyed attending Aaron's farewell! Bottom Left: Cort and neighborhood friends Abella, MakayLee, Rose, and Megan! Bottom Middle: Roasting marshmallows at the Rojas' house! Center Right: The darker circle at the base of the teeth on the right is a tooth bud growing in Cort's mouth. I didn't even know that could happen. Crazy! Bottom Right: Marshal's night time fort! lol

Top Left & Bottom Left, Bottom Middle & Center Right Top: Photos of all the places Marshal crashed his plane. Top Middle: Cort has finally passed me up. Top Right, Center Right Bottom & Bottom Right: The yard's state this summer. We've got some dead spots in the grass.

The line "That God will force no man to heav'n" was powerful to me! 

Free will really is ours to claim for ourselves!

Cort made a mean from a photo I found on Facebook of a moose. Nice work! We learned about ancient tabernacles and I loved the information we were given! Cort was dying of heat while mowing the lawn! Sometimes I get some good steps in!

BeReal

Beautiful World in June

"Misery might love company, but so does joy. 

And joy throws much better parties." 

-Bill Ivey

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, 

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

-Neil Gaiman, Coraline

"True is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, 

but it ain't goin' away."

-Elvis Presley

"I cannot do all the good that the world needs. 

But the world needs all the good I can do."

-Jana Stanfield

"Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. 

Loving people want you to see how powerful YOU are."

-Chief Red Eagle 

"I am NOT what happened to me. 

I am what I CHOOSE to become."

-Carl Jung 

"I pay more attention to people's intentions 

and mindset rather than their appearance. 

Don't confuse the soul with the shell."

-@R.P (Life Motivation) 

"Let the refining and improving of your own life 

keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Be a star in someone's dark sky."

-Matshona Dhliwayo

"God isn't asking you to figure it out. 

He's asking you to trust that he already has."

-Toby Mac

"Raise your words, not your voice. 

It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

-Rumi