Hatch Week

Since the big girls were going to be gone later during the Hatch's visit, and so that Sarah could use my camera, they stopped by!  We all got to meet Izzy which was really exciting.  This girl is SO CUTE!!!  Look at those chubs!!  I can't get over how much she looks like Brent and Alvin.  In a girly way of course.  But anyway.  It was fun to see Charlie, Alvin and Savannah as well!  We all got a kick out of Charlie and the Rubik's cube!  He's really good!  Noah and I were both a little rusty to be competition.  6-21-18

Wednesday was a lot of fun.  I'm going to affectionately call this day Hatch Day because it was our main day to hang out with the Hatches.  We went really late to playgroup on Wednesday, so we only got to play with friends (or avoid playing with friends, I should say) for a little bit, but then headed off to the Zoo to meet up with Sarah and her kids.  Unfortunately, and embarrassingly, I missed the exit and had to go all the way to 3300 S. because I was buried in the carpool lane, so that was a bummer, we got there like 20 minutes late!  But after that it was smooth sailing.  They even let us in without any trouble.  Pretty cool.  We had a lot of fun looking at the animals and just being with them.  Sarah and I stopped in all the shady spots to catch up, and the kids were back to being best buds right away.  I love how kids do that.  It was a VERY hot day!  97 degrees is pretty hot for the zoo.  Who goes to the zoo in 97 degree temps?  But we all agreed that the drive to Pizza Pie Cafe was almost worse than the zoo!  Even with the AC blasting!  We met up with Grandpa and Steve for pizza.  That was a crazy little trip to PPC, but the kids loved being with their cousins and I got to make Steve laugh when I dumped my Ranch tainted lemon wedges onto his empty plate.  They were all Ranch-y, I couldn't squeeze them into my water after that.  He thought it was really funny for some reason, so I'll take it :).  It's not everyday I get to make him laugh.  Returning the favor.  I had a ginormous salad and thought I was doing so good with the KETO, but when I put it all into my ap, it was like 50 carbs?  I kinda think there was something wrong, or maybe it wasn't NET carbs... not sure.  Anyway.  After pizza, we went up to Grandpa Hatch's house.  The kids went through Grandpa's change collection and adopted all the ones they wanted. HA!  Great way to steal money from someone :).  Then we went and got snowcones together- kind of a tradition with us, Grandpa and the Hatches.  Lots of fun!  We made some pretty memorable messes!  I loved Savannah's "all the girls together!" poses :).  She's adorable.  Even with a red tongue.  Then Noah, Jack and the Hatch kids all slept over at Grandma Hatch's house!  Erika didn't want to leave Molly out, so she decided not to sleepover, so we took advantage of the opportunity to have a "girls night".  We went to Walmart, got some clothes since ours were all dirty (HA!  I wish this could always be the answer to that problem :).  Just kidding)- one more day without a dryer!  Then came home and watched Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken on my bed with my laptop.  Just the three of us :).  It was so much fun!  I loved Molly's little forced toot followed by, "I tooted in you bed" big smile :).  She's hilarious.  She fell asleep before it was over so I took her to bed.  Erika wanted to sleep with me :).  6-27-18

Week of 7-29-18

ABBI GADD HOMECOMING

I was so happy that we were able to go to Abbi's homecoming talk.  I have loved that my girls have had her to look up to.  Kelly just adored her before she left.  It is great to have such a good role model for them.  I loved hearing more about her mission and experience.  Scares me a little for when I have missionaries out, but I can tell it is the Lord's work and that he protects his missionaries.  7-29-18

two girls keeping the Sabbath day holy.  Kelly was drawing whatever Molly asked her to :).

LACIE'S PAINTING CLASS
Erika, Kate and Rachel all got to go to Lacie (Cole) Goddard's painting class on Monday!  It was so fun to see Lacie and the girls had a blast.  She's so cool.  7-30-18

CHICKEN POX?
Okay so Monday-ish- I finally took a closer look at the rash/spots Erika had on her body.  It started out with just a clump on her hand and I told her they were mosquito bites and wanted it to disappear, but it didn't.  I started doing a little research, and got a little concerned.  I decided to stop Googling and called the doctor's office.  The nurse I talked to basically confirmed what I was afraid of and pointed to Chicken Pox.  She gave me some ideas for symptom cover-up, but didn't offer much else by way of remedy.  So we went a day or so thinking she had chicken pox.  That was stressful.  I was doing what I could though and Erika seemed mostly happy that she was getting attention.  By Wednesday, things weren't really progressing like chicken pox and I started wondering if it could be something else, so I called the doctor again, mostly to make an appointment because there were several things she was going to have to miss if she was contagious that I didn't want her to miss if she wasn't!  (Activity days, soccer practice, etc.)  This time, the nurse on the phone said possibly poison oak??  So I started to think in that direction, but a few minutes later just wanted an appointment and some actual answers- so I brought her in!  They made us come in the back door in case it was contagious then he slowly looked at the rash on her tummy and chest and back, the lumps on her ankles and hands, and the spots all over everywhere else.  They were not consistent with chicken pox and he eventually settled on the linear placement and decided it was poison oak.  What a relief that was!!! I can't even express how relieved I was!  Poor Erika had to be overdosed with Benedryl and some steroids before it all went away and it was a couple days, but she wasn't contagious, so that was good news!  I'm sure glad my kids have all been vaccinated and that we don't run into chicken pox as much as we used to.  However, in my research, I learned that because of our chicken pox vaccine, our kids will need another vaccine for shingles when they are in their late 40's/50's because they have not built up the antibodies for it.  Fun fact.  7-31-18

ERIKA THE SOCCER PLAYER
She did it!  She went to her first soccer practice!!  She loved it and she was pretty good for a first timer!!  I'm so glad Emily told me how she was feeling about soccer so that she didn't miss out on this opportunity.  8-1-18

BASKETBALL CAMP FOR LUKE AND BRAD
We did the Kaysville Jr. basketball camp this week.  The boys seemed to have a good enough time.  Got shirts.  It's things like this that make me so happy my kids are passionate about things like their sports.  I am glad they get to participate in these things.  8-2-18

ROUND TWO AT THE FARMER'S MARKET
Our second time at the market was GREAT!  We earned twice as much money and ran out of meat right at the very end, so no leftovers!  It was awesome!  We had SO MANY family and friends come down.  So much fun to do this as a family!  8-2-18


HERRIMAN HIGH 5K
Jen and the Harris's invited us down for Evan's school's fundraiser 5K!  We all ran it as a family- except Jack and Molly they stayed back with Nancy and Grandma Ruthie.  What a fun time it was though!  I got to be with Kelly the whole time- she had to drag me through the finish line, but we made it!  And did pretty good if you ask me!  Then we sat there for about an hour as everyone won raffle prizes and stuff!  Which our kids love!  Erika got second place in her age division!  Pretty sweet!  Free shirts, free stuff, family and pancakes- can't go wrong.  8-3-18




GIRLS CAMP FOOD
I spent the rest of Saturday packing and shopping for girls camp food.  I was a wreck!  It was a big job that most of the work had to be done at the last minute or things would go bad!  So a little crazy, but I do remember saying a prayer and feeling calm and at peace for a good portion of the evening.  That was a huge blessing.  I'm really looking forward to girls camp and hoping I can do the right stuff with the food!  8-3-18

Week of 7-22-18

REVERENCE
The Bishop was trying to give a little Shpeel on reverence today in Sacrament meeting, taking things very seriously, and Molly turned into a little monster right in the middle of it.  Full on screaming!  It was actually almost funny, just the timing and all, but then of course, it continued through the whole meeting every time I brought her back in.  Not sure why I kept bringing her back in... well, except that I did want to hear Luke's talk and stuff... anyway.  Kinda funny, kinda not.  Little stinker has done so good the past few weeks, it was just an off week I guess, but man... the timing!  7-22-18

LUKE'S FIRST TALK IN SACRAMENT MEETING
I was SO PROUD of Luke today!!  I could not have been more impressed and pleased with the talk that he gave!  I pointed him at lds.org a couple weeks ago, told him to come ask if he had any questions or needed any ideas, and then I never heard another thing about it!  And the Sunday that he got the assignment, which happened to be two weeks ago, he was right on it!  I was so impressed.  He solidified things yesterday of course and made a few changes that he told me about, but he wrote that amazing talk, ALL BY HIMSELF!!  So impressive!  He just looked so grown up up there!  And such a profound talk about Patience.  I love that kids are given this opportunity in our church.   He has such a strong testimony.  So sincere and so firm.  Makes me so happy.  And so proud!  7-22-18

MOLLY
In the car after church, we got some funny information from Molly.
"I have uh owiE on mY BUM!"  And then the funniest part: "My teehuh waff aT mE!"  Basically she had an owie on her bum and told her "nurfey" teachers and they laughed at her!!  Made us all laugh.  And then try to stop because we realized what we were doing... Funny girl.  I love how she says Nursery right now!  So cute!  She's trying so hard to say her "th" sound too, but just not quite getting it.  I think "sh" is just as hard for her.  Cute girl.  7-22-18

PADDINGTON 2
The Maughans invited us to go see Paddington 2 with them on Monday morning.  That ended up being a lot of fun!  The theater had the really comfy reclining chairs and the kids all did really great!  The movie wasn't half bad either.  Such fun friends we have.  So grateful for them.  7-23-18

PIONEER DAY
We had a really nice and relaxed 24th of July.  We just went out to Lynn and Ali's for a barbecue with everyone.  That was really nice.  7-24-18

LUNCH WITH KRISTA
I got to go to lunch with my friend Krista on Thursday.  That was nice.  She has a way of making me feel normal.  I love hanging out with her.  7-26-18

KAYSVILLE FARMER'S MARKET PRACTICE ROUND
So we did it!!  Nate's dream is coming to fruition and our first time at the Kaysville market was a success!  I mean, if you measure it in certain ways, not as successful, but for our first time-- SUCCESS!  We had enough food and everyone stayed busy, working together, it was a great team effort!  We know what we want to do differently for next time and how to work out some kinks, so that's promising as well.  It was fun to have Grandpa Hatch there, and several others' support.  Good stuff.  Here's to next week!  7-26-18

LUNCH WITH KENNI AND EMILY
Kenni was in town so that called for lunch :).  I was so happy when Kenni said we should invite Emily!  We had a great time.  I can't get enough of these friends.  I love them so much.  Nate and the kids had to pick me up for our movie.  7-27-18

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3
We all went down to the Bountiful theater for a movie together on Friday!  So much fun.  I loved the movie.  We were glad that Luke was able to join us after a three hour trip to the temple with Clint!  Pretty packed time of day to go I guess.  It was nice of the Sanders to bring him to the theater for us.  Everyone seemed to love the movie.  Good times.  7-27-18

WEBELOS DAY CAMP
Noah got to go to day camp Saturday.  He had a great time and came home with fun souvenirs.  It's a little weird to think about the fact that Jack will probably never get to do that.  Maybe The Church will come up with something cooler by then?  7-28-18

Week of 7-15-18

PORTER'S BLESSING
Getting up this morning was probably one of the hardest things I've done in a few days.  I was so tired!  It was too early.  But we were determined to go to Porter's blessing at 9:00.  Brad was the only one who missed it because he had BYC.  We went to their ward which is actually a branch.  The kids couldn't believe how empty the chapel was.  There were probably not even a hundred people in there and a lot of them were there for the blessing.  So strange.  But still nice.  Nate and Luke even got asked to pass the sacrament!  John did a great job on the blessing.  Heidi had asked me to write it all down.  Hopefully I did okay on that.  We went to their house afterwards for some breakfast and visiting.  I wish I'd been able to hold him, but we did need to get home for our ward.  7-15-18

NOAH AND THE PRIESTHOOD
Barbara asked Noah if he would share how the Priesthood has blessed his life in Primary for part of her sharing time.  He and two others.  He was last and can I just say- I had no idea what he was going to say because he had acted so nonchalant when I was trying to help him think of stuff- I was a little nervous for it.  But he got up there and bore THE sweetest testimony of the Priesthood and shared an experience where he had been having some trouble with some of his friends and had a blessing and how much that had helped him.  It was so sweet!  He had completely broken down and was in tears by the end.  Most of the room was in tears actually- it was SO SWEET!!  I only wish satan hadn't tried to get him down by making him think he needed to be embarrassed afterwards.  But what a sweet boy.  It was really neat.  I loved it!  Proud mom moment.  Humbled mom moment as well, since I'd had so little faith in the whole thing.  7-15-18

FHE
For family night Brad taught a lesson on strengthening our talents and developing new ones.  We are all supposed to think of something new we want to work on or get better at and work extra hard on it.  We'll review them in a month.  For the treat Noah picked Dippin' Dots.  He wants to get to the point that he can say, "The usual" and we all know what treat he wants to have.  We played Simon Says as Luke's activity.  Molly was adorable doing the push-ups- I think that was my favorite part :).  7-16-18

KELLY'S TEMPLE DAY
Kelly got to go on a day road trip with the Mia Maids to six of the temples in Utah County area.  They would stop and teach each other about each one.  Pretty cool.  Seemed like she had a great time!  7-17-18

FARMER'S MARKET
Thursday, we spent most of the day getting things ready for the Farmer's Market!  Nate and I did some last minute shopping.  The kids all pitched in and helped with odds and ends.  It was a real family effort.  We were all happy to have successfully completed our first time.  We did really well for the first time!  Brad and Kelly were our sample offerers/cashiers, Noah and Erika were our little go-to-ers, I was in charge of getting a Food Handler's Permit (insert eye roll!  I guess the one Nate got wasn't the one the Davis county people would accept, and he had put off getting the right one, so I was chosen to sit and watch the most ridiculous hour and a half video to get the right permit... I was actually more than happy to do so- we all know I love germ stuff- but MAN that thing was lame!) So I was a little late, but not too late to bring the canopy and shed a little shade on the subjects!  Nobody told us we needed to provide our own tent.  But all was well.  We did really great!  Brought in quite a bit of money and enjoyed our time together doing it!  So now we feel a little more prepared for the next time- we know that we need about 10 times as many gloves :).  And hopefully it will just keep getting easier as we go.  It's fun that we all get to be a part of and help Nate with this crazy hobby of his.  7-18-18

SHERRY AND THE DILWORTHS
We were invited to meet up at Lodestone Park out in West Jordan on Friday morning.  Bright and early 9:00, along with the Stricklands.  Sherry was in town!!  I have not seen Sherry for about six years!  Maybe five... but the last time I remembered was when we got together at McD's and I was a couple days away from having Jack.  But anyway- it was SO FUN to see her again!  She is seriously the funniest person to be around.  I laughed 80% of the time!!  She's so funny!  And such a great friend.  I wish we had stayed in touch better.  It was fun to see how grown up her kids are and fun to see how well our kids all got along.  Kids are so great that way!  I loved talking with Sherry and Abe and catching up with them.  Good stuff.  I hope they consider my vote and move back and to Davis County :).  Funny thing that happened: Molly got a wood chip stuck up her nose.  A tiny little piece that definitely could have gone up further and possibly caused damage, but possibly have done nothing.  I wasn't too worried, but I still wanted to get it out.  Amazingly, Wendy had some tweezers so she let me use them.  By the time I got Molly to hold still and let me look, the wood chip was no longer visible.  I panicked a little, and wanted to think of ways to make her sneeze or something, but then, I caught a sticky, little, green booger-coated wood chip on my arm.  It had been stuck to Molly's shirt.  It was definitely the piece that had been lodged in her nostril.  Thankfully!  And how funny is that!  7-19-18

TIOS
Since we were so close, we decided we needed to go see Grandma Ruthie!  She so generously invited us to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants, Tios, and then treated us to lunch.  It was a lot of fun.  I think my favorite part that afternoon was Molly and how talkative she was with Grandma Ruthie.  She is super shy around so many and takes so long to warm up, but she does have select few with whom she is more than willing to strike up a conversation.  She was so excited to tell Grandma about the park and all that she had done.  It was super cute.  We didn't mind the compliments from several other restaurant patrons as they left, about how well-behaved our kids are :).  That never gets old.  We had a nice time with Grandma.  We went back to her house for a little while and then headed home.  7-19-18

ANNIE AND THE VEENENDAALS AND COLES
This has been the month of visiting old friends for sure :)!  I have absolutely loved it!  Cute Annie and her family are in town and made time to have us over for the afternoon.  We went had pizza at the Cole's and got to catch up with Gentry and met Angelica and Austin's new baby boy Daxtin.  Then we walked over to a nearby Elementary and played there for a bit.  It was SO HOT that day, but we had SO MUCH FUN!!  I just can't get enough of Annie.  She is too cool.  I love that she lets me call her my friend and that she makes time for us.  I hope their next year and a half goes quickly and that this whole Air Traffic Control thing is not a huge regret to them later.  They're almost there!!  And now I'll complain less about the overtime, because she's right- having Salt Lake Center understaffed is going to be a good thing for them!  I only wish we could have seen Margo!  I love and miss her too!  7-20-18

Camping with the Maughans- Journaling from the Kids

ERIKA:
Erika Maynes 7-15-18
On wednesday we went camping with the Maughan's.  My favorite parts were when we did Tidie shirts.  I did my shirt all dark colers this time.  My other favorite things are the lake which was very cold and the marshmellow war.

BRADLEY
07/ [I think he was going to write the date... you know it's a good summer when you have no idea what day it is :)]
this past week we got to go camping with the maughans.  It was so much fun.  some of my favorite activities were fishing, the lake, and the marshmallow war. 
I went fishing almost every morning and night.  I motly went with dad and we had so much fun doing it.  I caught about 15 fish in total. 
The lake was also a lot of fun too.  I swam along the shore catching minnows along the rocks I caught 6 of those.  Then we went in the canoe and caught 1 fish in that.  I also collected a ton of lures and am keeping those.  I had so much fun in general when I was at the lake.  At the end of the campout we had a huge marshmallow war we first did boys vs. girls then did kids vs. adults then did teams of 2 and then everyoen vs. me. the boys won almost all of the wars. then the kids barely lost to the adults.  I barely got out because I thought dad only had 1 life left but hd had 2.  in the teams of 2 my team dominated twice. we were awesome then in everyone vs. me was intense.  I ran all the way to the river and hid right there.  I shot Josh then got Luke but he said since it hit his gun it didn't count so he kept shooting so I stuck my gun out so he would stp but it hit his head and he got mad then left.  that's ok though then I hit kate then Noah then Rachel.  It was awesome.  I actually won!!  Then we packed up and left.  That was an awesome campout

NOAH:
My favorite part of our camping trip was the marshmallow war.   We each had some Marshmallows and a marshmallow gun.  Some of us had to take the guns apart because we did not have enough guns.  For a couple rounds we did boy vs. girls the boy won alot, and the girls won twice.  than we did a sardeen version wich was really fun and than kelly hurt her ankle and it made it a little hard to make even teams but it was alot of fun.

LUKE:
Last week we went camping with the Maughan's.  A few of my favorite things were, #1, making tie-die shirts becase everyone made really cool shirts.  I amde three because we had extra all of mine turned out really cool.  I also loved going to the lake.  I, first, just was skipping rocks but it was windy so it didn't work as good.  Then I made sand-castle with Molly, Jonah and mom.  Then molly wrecked it.  Then me, molly, Jack adn will made a trail that we would dump water down and it would go to the lake.  we did that for like an hour.  After we made boats (A.K.A. sticks we found with mud on them) and raced them down a river by the lake.  And then I did nothing for a while and then played with a tube and I rolled it and it went clear acrost because of the wind.  That night me, rachel, charity, and kelly played cards and we kept onlaughing so much.  we played kent, monopoly deal, and millionair.  It was fun.  And last we had an epic marshmello war.

KELLY:
07/15/18 JOURNALING  Kelly :)
This last week was such a fun campout!!  Every year our campout with the Maughan's just gets better and better.  I loved so many things about this campout, one of which was just sitting around playing games.  Me, Luke, Charity, and Mom, and Noah- he joined in a little later- played like wayyy too many rounds of kent :)  It was so much fun!!  we were laughing like the entire time.  I also loved teaching them how to play the game bunny bunny.  That wa ssuper fun and I'm sure all the campers around us loved hearing how loud our game got.  That was also full of TONS of laughing :).  I really just loved the times when all or most of our family was sitting around the campfire just talking and making jokes and laughing- especially about our little swear turd bird :) we definitely all strengthened our relationships as a family.  So I actually had a lot of fun at the lake this year!  Normally I'd be supre stressed and frustrated about the sand and everything but this time I just got in the water and had so much fun talking with Rachel and everyone else.  I wasn't eve thinking about how I would get the mud off :)  The good time I had wasn't even ruined when I slipped and fell in the river haha.  Two things I was SUPER glad about this trip were that mom made my favorite grape salad!  Which was absolutely amazing!  I pretty much ate the entire thing on my own.  And teh other thing was that dad let us buy dried mangos to take as a snack!  They were sooo good!!  Another thing I loved this year more than in the past was making woofums!  Normally I really stink at it and either burn or undercook them but this year they (all 5) turned out pretty perfect!  Made me happy.  It was really funny when all the cows started coming into our camps and we had to go chase them out :)  This was definitely a camp to remember and I really hope we keep doing this tradition.

CHARITY:
Charity Maynes 7-15-2018
Maughan's and Mayneses campout

This campout was so much fun!  I loved every minute of it... mostly haha.  I think the best thing that happened to me was the cute lil' chipmunk eating out of my hand twice :)  Their little paws were so tiny and felt so weird!  I also loved the tie dye shirts this year.  Mine turned out pretty good!  Kelly said it looks like a stoplight and I'd have to agree!  My other favorite thing (:) ) was the cows!  The boys had left to go fishing and while they were gone a bunch of cows went into the Maughan's campsites we had to chase them out.  It was hilarious!  I loved playing cards with Kelly, Luke and Rachel.  That was tons of fun.  Laughing with them and playing kent :)  Those were my favorite things :)