Labor Day 2018
We had a stay at home but busy weekend for Labor Day.
We finished eating the watermelon!
We “babysat” Alex!
And we spent Monday morning brunch at Pete and Amanda’s and enjoyed their new hot tub.
Month: September 2018
Back to School BUT still Busy Busy
Cali is playing great defense in her soccer games and they’ve been winning!
Family Home evening in the backyard while we wait for the homemade peach icecream to be ready:
Brother Rob brought Braden and Bryce out to Utah to go to BYU. We had to have some arcade and pingponging.
Another day with Bennett. Millie and Tiago had to show him their new homework on the computer.
Ben got to go to the fancy barber shop with the work guys:
We spent a couple of days helping Emily and Schyleur move out of the condo and into the parents basement. Micah donated some of his Pokemon cards to us so the boys had to organize them:
Michael happened to be in town for the first BYU game of the season so we hung out with him and watched the Cougs beat Arizona.
Ben’s watermelon baby from his garden.
And our neighbor hooked us up with a Gauntlet Legends arcade!
Babysitting Becker
Babysitting Becker and Bennett! With Emily having all of her health issues we’ve been able to help by babysitting a little. Our entire house is baby hungry:
Another Scout Campout
Benji had another great campout:
They backpacked in 2 miles!
Sales Rabbit Work Party
Ben had a work party on a friday night. We took the kids and Kelsey and just hung out with ourselves :$
We had a ginormous game of knock out, Ben was in charge of the arcade station, The kids played on the bounce house most of the night. We had sandwiches from the grilled cheese truck and then tons of snacks while watching an outdoor movie.
Grandpa Beckers Funeral
Raymond Charles Becker
October 28, 1926 – August 13, 2018
Married Gladys Ludwig on December 17, 1949.
On Friday August 24th we went to Grandpa’s funeral. The funeral was in Lindon at the church across the street from the Osmond Senior Living Center where he lived. And then we went out to Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Camp Williams in Bluffdale for the interment because he served in the Navy around 1944.
The US NAVY had 2 people there to play Taps and then give the flag to Kris and thank her for her dads service. It was really neat!
After the burial we all went to the stake center where mom and dad live in Alpine and they fed us lunch while we chatted with family and reminisced about Grandpa. We had our Nettesheim crew with Rick and Savannah and then Lloyds family with Kirk and fam and Megan and baby.
This picture is one of the last times that we took the kids to see their Great Grandpa. We will miss him and his love and service.
End of Summer Stuff
Blocks in the toy room and Minecraft in the loft:
Cookies at the Hancocks!
Bunk Bed assembly in the girls room, with Erica and Michelle helping me:
Gaming with friends and cousin friends:
And the day the littles dressed up in costumes and pretended it was time to trick or treat!
1st Day of School
School Started on Monday August 20th:
1st Grade Miss Spadafora:
2nd Grade Miss Read:
4th Grade Mrs. Durrant:
6th Grade Mrs. Dibb:
8th Grade PGJH:
I got to walk the kids to Manila and make sure that Ray knew where to go:
Later that morning Millie, Tiago and I went to the back to school brunch at the Chipmans:
And then they were home!! All of them had a good day! Smiles all around:
luckily homework was just getting moms signature 49 times so we still had time to play games:
THAL Extravaganza and Demolition Derby
We hung out with the Thals on Friday and Saturday before school started!
On Friday afternoon we took them to the pond to swim and dig for clay. And find dead fish, chase the ducks, and play king of the raft!
We fed the kids at the pond and then came home and got everyone ready for bed so that the adults could go out!
The 4 of us went out to Chubby’s! and let the big kids take care of the little kids. The kids had ice cream and watched a movie.
On Saturday Morning we made paper and tape boats and then went to find a river to float them down:
We had a couple of parks in mind that have a river running through them but… there is no water this summer! So we ended up back at the pond!
The boats only lasted a few minutes but the kids ended up on the water again and we had lunch at the pond and stayed mostof the afternoon.
We got everyone dressed for the demolition derby, grabbed Kong Kones and headed to the Utah County Fair. We wanted to see the animals and the Lego Exhibit:
Then we found some fair food for dinner and headed in to the demolition derby! We had about 50 people in our group this year! Us, Thals, Pete, Matt, Michelle, Dad and Wright kids, Kelsey, Shannon and Tommi!
The Derby ended in a 4 way tie: Michelle, Tommi, Caitlin and Ellie! Through a process of elimination, recounts and Rock Paper Scissors we were able to pass the trophy on to Ellie! Another successful derby! I need to ask them to start an hour or two earlier cause it always goes so late.
We parted ways with the Thal’s ending our 32 hour extravaganza hangout.