A trip to Cedar City

While the boys were playing in the woods, the girls headed to Utah to check out St. George and try to find housing for the upcoming move.  

Tress lives in Cedar City and played Hostess for Gma Marie, Elliot and I.  (We had dropped off Caleigh with Aunt Shannon and Ashlyn).  

Tress showed us a great time.  We hit a green show at the Shakespeare Festival, a movie night, and swimming.  Every night she cooked us a yummy dinner with tons of produce from her garden.   

During the day we would head to St. George to look at rentals.  Elliot was such a good sport we took her to TJMaxx to buy a prize.  She ended up picking out a tattoo kit.  She loved giving everyone tattoos!  

We didn't find a rental, but got to see family (thanks to Lucas for driving us around, and Kiva for watching Elliot).  It was a good trip, and got Elliot and I excited to move to St. George.

Cabin Trip 2013

The boys talk about this trip for months.  They have such a great time, and come home with many stories and memories.  This trip was injury-free, thank goodness!  Uncle Matt brought his tree camera and got a lot of great pictures.  One of them was a mamma moose and her calf.  

 The scout pond is a great place to fish and relax.

some odds and ends

At the end of the school year(last school year) Griff, Miles, and Caleigh all received awards.  They had all taken the California standardized test and gotten high scores.  Griffin's was in the Math portion.  Miles was high in both math and reading, and Caleigh was almost to the top with reading.  I'm so proud of these three and their efforts in school.  Miles and Caleigh even received the presidential award!

At work with Dad

Summers are slow at a University, so Mike would take one of the kids with him.  Not everyday, but I think they all got a turn once.  He would let them look at books from the library, shred papers, play on his computer, then he would walk them around campus.  UOP is a beautiful campus, so it was a treat.  Griff is our sporty boy, so Mike knew he would enjoy seeing the baseball stadium.  

And then some fun with the schools mascot.  

Micke Grove Park in Stockton, CA

A quick visit from Gma and Gpa Head is just what we needed.  Gma always magically cleans my house, and does all my laundry.  It's amazing.  She helped me get the house ready to move and packed a bunch of boxes.  

So we needed a little outing for a much needed break.  A few miles from our house was Micke Grove Park, so we packed a lunch and went over.  The best part about the park is the Japanese Garden.  It's small, but has some really fun rock bridges.  

We were so worried about not letting Gma fall and get hurt, that Caleigh took the fall for her.  She slid on some wet pavement and ended up with some pretty good scraps on her thighs, but she rallied quickly.  It was a fun day watching Gpa play with the kids.  We ALL got dizzy on one of the spinning toys at the park.  

Such a fun day!