Uncle Travis visits!

Once a year Uncle Travis visits from Chicago, we had 3 days of fun and late nights.

Every night we had a backyard cook out at Grma Susy's. Ray loved the watermelon!

Grpa Vic, Travis, & Gramie
Then we all sat around and visited!

Tiesha, Weston, and Ellie showing Uncle Travis her Hawaii report.

Chris's big fire!

Ellie, Klint, and Bekah relaxing around the fire.

Bekah and Tiesha roasting marshmallows.

Klint did a fireworks display one night, and also let the kids play with sparklers

Ray and Tiesha

Ellie!

We had a good time visiting and playing with Uncle Travis.
We wish he could come more often.

Suzy Bogguss Concert!

Lyn Surprised me with Suzy Bogguss Concert tickets, for Saturday nights concert at Sage Creek Arena in Charleston.

This is me with Suzy and my Big Perma Grin!
I was so excited it was all I could do to stay in my seat and not get up and dance around with excitement!!

She gave an awesome performance, and was very personable with the crowd, told some great jokes and even lost her place in a song.

She sang all my favorite songs, for my college days, and even some new ones too!

Suzy and her husband, Doug Crider even performed together.

On the last song, Suzy had Richard and Mary Kaye, and Doug sing the Red River Valley with her.
The sounded great together! Amazing harmony!

Lyn, Me, and Suzy

All my Suzy Bogguss stuff, that I had her sign!

F.H.E. Hike!

Monday the 6th for Family Home Evening, we took the kids up to the Wasatch Mountain State Park Campground(where Lyn is currently working) and went on the Pine Creek Nature Trail Hike.

It is a little over a 2 and a half mile hike round trip. It was a mostly shaded, single file hike, with lots of place to rest, and information signs about the local plants.

Ellie, Weston, Ray, Bekah, and Dad showing off their muscles.
At the top of the hike is a Boulder Field, that was made by glacial ice runoff.
The kids thought it was fun to climb the rocks.

I made it!

Ellie and some pretty purple flowers.
It was really hard not to pick some for a bouquet.
It was a fun hike, Ray made it the whole way without being packed!

CUB SCOUTS

One of the reasons for doing the hike for F.H.E. was to see if I could make it!

We took the Cub Scouts on Thursday, afternoon. It was hot, but fun!

The gang at the Boulder Field!
Mr. Becker(cowboy hat), Drew, Mrs. Becker, Gunner, Page, Tanner, Weston, Derrick, Connor, Kayden's cousin, and Kayden

All of us at the entrance to the Lost Mine!
The boys thought it was cool!

4th of July Fun!

Small Town Quilt Show

I made this baby I-Spy quilt, for my niece Chloe. She loved it!

Over the 4th of July weekend, the Zurmatt Resort, in Midway hosted a Small Town Quilt Show.
There where a little over 100 Quilts on display, and despite the rain quite a few people came.
I was truly inspired by all the fun designs and beautiful quilts.

I love this block.
I'm going to combine it will some other blocks I love and make another Patriotic Quilt.

This Block will be a fun way to use all the old jeans I've been saving.

This one is called grandmother's hankies.
Way cute idea!
These are some of the quilts I loved!

Really liked the colors in this one.

Really love the stars in this one.

This one was my favorite of the whole show.
I'm on a Patriotic kick lately, and just love this design.

This one is my design and quilting job. I didn't have it judged because I'm still learning. I made it for the design challenge this year and it's called Baskets of Friendship. I made it for Aunt Kathryn for her birthday,

Kandy, Maurice, Ellie, and Maria went with me over to the show.
Here are their favorites!

Maurice loved the black Kaleidoscope Quilt

Kandy loved this barns and chicken quilt, especially the red, white, & blue chicken laying the eggs. She really loves chickens!

Ellie's favorite was this Stained Glass Quilt, it also won Best of Show.

Maria loved this Moda quilt, by our fellow quilt guilder, Natalia Bonner. She used layer cakes and charm packs to make this quilt, also she won 1st place at the show with another of her quilts.
I'm really glad I took the girls with me, going to this quilt show even inspired them!

A Fun Day in Odgen!

We went with Grandma Berg and the Berg cousins to the Eccles Dinosaur Park & Museum in Odgen. It was KUTV special discount day, so we all got in for $2 each.

The dinosaur fossil and some of the kids.
(l to r) Bekah, Maria, Mason,Sam, Ray, Ellie, Brieanna, Sydney, and Maddison

Ray and Sam with a dinosaur bone.

They inside of the museum was great because the kids could touch and feel just about everything!

Bekah with a Utah Raptor.
The neatest part of the museum was the robot dinosaurs, that really moved.
A mother Triceratops defending her babies against an Allosaurus. They kids were mesmerized!

Outside of the Museum the Dinosaur Park was just as cool.
Ray and a Raptor footprint.

The Scariest Dinosaurs in the whole place!

l to r- Ellie, Brigham, Bekah, Brieanna, Sammy, Maria, Weston, Emma, & Mason
The playground had lots of dinosaurs to climb on and play with.

Ellie and Emma

Cowboy Weston riding a T-Rex.

Bekah and a baby dinosaur.

Ray and Grandma Berg and a life size Triceratops!
There was so much it see at the Dinosaur Park that we could have spent the whole day there, however the kids were hungry and it was way past lunch. So we headed back to Tyler & Susan's for a BBQ and some pool time!

Swimming at the Pool

at Tyler & Susan's

Ellie just relaxing!

Weston ready to dive to the bottom.

Aunt Mandy teaching Bekah, a new swimming move.

Ray still holding on to the side!

Mandy, Beckham, & Brigham playing motor boat.

Abram with his new ball.

Sammy, Bekah , & Mac enjoying the water.

Looks like Ellie has an good idea of what to do next.

It was a Hot day, so it was great to get to play in the water.
Thanks for inviting us Tyler, Susan, and the girls.
It was so FUN!