To Stitch or not to Stitch?
We decided not to Stitch… he and Ray were running around in the kitchen after our camping trip. He smacked it on the kitchen island.
Month: July 2020
Big Rock Candy Mountain Camping!
We went camping on Thursday with some Nettesheim Fam!! We had such a fun trip. It had been a long time since we camped with this crew! We stayed at Castlerock Campground on the other side of the Fremont Indian State Park. 2hr 20min to get there. We left early to try to get 4 walkup sites and it worked!
We set up camp and figured out Boy tent and Girl tent and how to sleep on gravel! Then we went exploring on the backside of camp!
The girls had mini girls camp and got their hair done by the older cousins:
It was so hot we didn’t really need a fire! (opposite of our last campout) We ate delicious foil dinners and P&A got there late in the evening. Everyone did some Star Gazing and Smore’s and then off to bed!
This Tent Buddy was so HAPPY – that smile and glimmer in his eye makes the work of camping worth it!
Friday – Good Morning! The sun came up and roasted us out of our tents. We had some yummy breakfast and tried to stay in the shade. The kids hiked and explored camp. Some of us played a full game of 5 Crowns. Christian pocket knifed his finger and had to go get stitches 🙁
Around 3:00 we headed over to “Candy Mountain” which was really nothing to see… we tried to find something to do or see until it was time for our 5:00 river Tubing! We stopped at the Mountain, couldn’t find the lemonade spring, drove to Marysvale, then to Hoovers for some Ice cream!
The River Float was AWESOME! The water was warm and the current was perfectly slow and we just had a blast. All 27 of us were laughing and smiling.
Benji 
Tiago 
Millie 
Millie, Rose 
Ray 
It took about an hour to go down the river. You could touch in some spots but not all. There weren’t any big rapids but it was a steady flow. The kids were linking up and standing up. At one point we all joined in a circle around the raft. The only scary parts were the ropes to get out = Rose got stuck on the first one and tubes pushing up against her so she couldn’t breathe and on the last rope Tiago was out of his tube swimming and got stuck at the rope for a minute. And in one part lots of people were banging their knees on the rocks! 12$ each. So fun. Something we will definitely do again.
We headed back to camp for a late dinner and then Jamie convinced us to drive over to the state park and check out the petroglyphs!
Campfire, Stories, Treats and bed!
Saturday was already clean up and go home… We all slept until 8am and then french toast for breakfast and taking down camp!
We decided to stop at Bullies for shakes on the way home and then headed to the Mona Rope Swing. The rope swing was PACKED and we were tired so we decided to head home and unpack and clean up and go swimming in our 80 degree pool!
We had a GREAT CAMPING TRIP! Excited to do it again soon!
Little People in the House
We had Joel and Megan’s kids over for the day. Just to play and swim and hang out. We also babysat Cousin Colby’s little guy, Nixon, in the afternoon/evening. Just in case we had forgotten what it was like to have little kids everywhere – this was a good reminder!
My kids really love having the littles here and I really don’t have to do any of the entertaining and just a bit of managing 🙂
4th of JULY!
Ben got the 3rd of July off, a Friday, so we took the kids and Mia and Luca to the Provo rec Center Pool! We swam and swam and the kids barely needed us! We did all of the slides and everyone had a blast. We stopped and ate at Culvers on the way home!
On Saturday I went on my 21 mile bike ride and then we ate breakfast and went over to the Hancocks. We played Pickleball with Than and Erica and then we had a Homerun Derby! Somehow we let Pacen win!!
Than 
Benji 
Than 
Erica 
Kyle 
Ray 
Cali 
Ben 
Tiago 
We swam in the neighbors pool and then headed home around 3 to get ready for some Netty fun. Matt and Jamie decided not to come for the BBQ cause one of their cousins maybe had Covid?, then P&A also decided to come after dinner cause some family stopped by. So we had a delicious BBQ with the Falabella’s.
After dinner we headed over to Manila to have a Homerun Derby! We met up with the others and battled it out. Somehow I WON!!! I was smashing the homeruns 🙂
We also introduced everyone to Trashball! and played that until we had to hurry home for the fireworks! And singing to Julia and doing Sparklers!
The kids had so much fun singing and dancing in Lilys party car!
Happy 4th of July. It’s been a controversial year but I am grateful to live in this land and I’m grateful for freedom.
July is Here!
Can you drink a gallon of water a day? 
Michelle is still Taller! 
Dumb birds – Get out! 
Summer Chores! 
Evening Ride!
We had a BBQ with Falabella’s and Cody and Carter before Cody left for his mission! We had a party at the house with the Sharp’s that night too!
On July 3rd we hung out next door with some of the neighbors playing cornhole and then watching the kids play night games!
And I rode atleast 70 miles on my bike this week!
Cali’s Soccer Scrimage
They won 2-1 against a Provo team. Cali played well at Left mid and center mid!
Throwback
Some years ago at Pete and Amanda’s old house 
Tom Robertson 
In This Very Room – with Katie, Katie, and Melissa
The Side Yard Project
We started talking and making plans and now we’ve put some money down and changed the side yard and are ready to put a shed in!!
June 11th
June 12th – sprinklers moved
June 15th
June 16th
June 18th – almost ready to poor cement
June 19th
June 22
Tru and his crew did the concrete and Craig Fitch is doing the fence and gate. Now we’ve got to get started on the shed!
J&B Netty Family Mile Race
Saturday June 20, 2020
Benji 7:48
Packer 8:11
Cali: 8:46
Ben: 9:12
Jana: 9:23
Ray: 9:52
Rose: 10:44
Millie 12:21
Tiago: 13:50
Funcle Michael
Michael stayed at our house Saturday thru Thursday! We PLAYED LOTS of TETRIS ATTACK and all of the kids hung on him and just wanted to be around him. We played Nertz and Rook and enjoyed having him around during the day.
