Monsoon Storm 2018

One evening a Monsoon storm starting rolling in.  I really didn't think anything of it and could see the wall of dust moving in on us.  Once the wall of dust hit the wind just kicked up and was so fast.  We were outside watching and had to run in because we had never felt wind gust like that!  We ran inside just in time to watch our neighbors tree fall over.  Our neighborhood was hit hard by the storm.  We lots over 80 trees in our neighborhood and many people have roof damage from trees falling on their home.  We were so grateful that is tree just fell onto our basketball court.  Cleaning it up was a whole other problem, but we eventually got the tree out of our yard.

First day of School Jason and Anne

 First day of school for these two kids!  These year they were more at ease and felt confident on their first day.  No more meeting new friends and starting at a new school for these kids.  I am hoping this year is a great one for both of them!
Jason first day of 10th grade!

Anne first day of 8th grade!

August Little Things

 Eliza decided to learn how to play the violin at school.  We are excited to hear all that she learns this year!

 Jason got his Driver's permit!  It has been a little scary  letting him get behind the wheel, but I have to say he is getting better and better with time!

 One Sunday evening we headed over to Mike's new office and warehouse.  We let the kids ride their scooters and bikes while there are no bottles in it yet!  I am so excited for Mike and his branch to be in this new office.  So Proud of Mike!

 Anne is so lucky to have friends that enjoy going to the temple with her!

We got a new Catcus in our back yard.  We needed to document how tall Lucy was when we first got it!

Back to School 2018

 We head back to school early here in the desert.  My elementary girls started two weeks before the older two.  We had our back to school dinner and our theme for the year is to be grateful and to work on saying Thank You more often!  Mike then gave each of the kids a Father's Blessing.  How grateful I am for Mike and that he holds the priesthood to bless our kids!  I think it's going to be a great year for all of the kids!!

 Eliza first day of 5th grade!

 Lucy first day of 2nd grade!

Zach's Mission Pictures

 We are so excited for Zach!  He is heading to the New Jersey Morristown Mission.  He is going to be a great missionary!

Cousin Pictures!

 We spend the last couple of days with Grandma and Grandpa Young.  Ryan and his family also were there so it was fun to spend time with them before they headed back to Texas.  We took lots of cousin pictures!
Also, Jacob returned from his mission!  We were suppose to go see him at the airport, but he made a surprise home coming for his family while we were at Bear Lake.  So, we saw him for just a moment after Bear Lake before we headed back to Utah!  We had a great trip back to be with family.  How important this trip is every year to make sure we develop and keep these great cousin relationships.  Also, I love seeing my own siblings and Mike's family also.  So grateful we had this time to be with family!

Bear Lake

 One morning we hiked to Bloomington Lake.  There is a rope swing at the lake and Jason and Allen spent some time going off that into the Lake.  It was fun to visit a different lake up by Bear Lake.  On the way back from the Lake Brad's van broke down, Not very fun for Brad and JanaLynn.  Also, Ryan's family had a stomach bug and at some point someone in their family was sick.  So, some hiccups, but both families had such a positive attitude about everything!

 One evening the Dad's were a human piñata!  The kids attacked them as you can see by their shirts to get the prizes and candy!

 Our last night we celebrated by lighting sparklers.  It was a fun family reunion with the Young side.  Lots of fun memories made!