Sometimes your parenting mistakes give your kids a chance to really shine. Davis, age 7 (almost 8) was assigned to give a talk in primary today. We parents neglected to help him sit down and prepare that talk this past week. During sacrament meeting this morning (we have 9am church …

Micah has been part of the district wide Canyons Youth Symphony this year, playing upright bass. They had their final concert this evening and the American West Symphony (Sandy City) joined them for their last song. They played 7 songs. These are the ones I recorded:

• Ancient Echoes of Time …

There was a concert last night at Brighton High School where the advanced music groups from the two middle schools that feed into it performed. The two middle school groups and the high school groups each performed individually and then all together. It was a long concert, but very fun …

Isaac and Micah are both in school-district-wide Honors Orchestras, Micah on string bass for middle school and Isaac on trombone for high school. Each year those groups get to play a few songs at the home of the Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, and that was last Monday. The high school …

This year we celebrated 13 years of wedded bliss.

The activities:

To celebrate I told Bryan that I don’t care if he thinks I am geeky for wanting to do this, but I will not settle for anything else but going to the Thanksgiving Point Gardens and touring them …

Last night we were reading scriptures as a family like we usually do- each person reads a few verses, then when we are done we pray and then we go to bed. We do not have Davis read, probably because he is only 2 years old, but last night he …

The summer has flown by and we are now on the thresh hold of the month of August. This last month we have done more good stuff worthy of mention.

• Hike up to Lake Mary- or Another Knee Bites the Dust. We have a great little Falcon Guidebook that is …

Davis has outsmarted us and figured out how to open a few of the gates we have in our house. Twice this week he got into the office and wreaked major havoc. This was the result.

From July 29, 2012

I think he is a super genius/ future menace to …

This summer we have been having fun. Here is what we have been up to:

Swim lessons at the rec center down the street- so I can make sure Reece is less likely to drown himself.

Swimming in the rec center pool. We finally got Reece to go down the …

To get out of the heat on the 4th of July we took a day trip up into the Uintah Mountains. It is so pretty up there, I think it’s my favorite place in Utah. We drove through Kamas and onto the Mirror Lake highway. We stopped at the …