Monthly Archives: July 2014

Ben LOVES playing baseball!  He had his last game today and they celebrated with cupcakes after.  He’s quite the great little hitter and is learning the game slowly but surely…

He still has his moments though, where we wonder what he’s thinking…  🙂

Great job on a GREAT season Ben!  He can’t wait to play next year!

Today, Kirstyn started working at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory with Brittany!  She is so excited to now have a source of income and savings for college!  What cute girls!

Since Kirstyn is still in school, she won’t be working a TON of hours, but enough to give her some cash and help her learn to balance the responsibilities of work and school.  🙂  I guess I can say that we are now officially a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory family!  All of our girls work or have worked there!  🙂

It seems like all we’re doing is going places and having a great time nowadays!  🙂  We just a had a GREAT weekend up in northern (the beautiful part) of Wyoming with Angela’s brother Jim and his family.  Unfortunately, Brittany had to work so she couldn’t come, but she called to check on us a lot to make sure we were OK.  🙂

We had a great extended weekend (Thursday – Sunday) hiking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, having a BBQ, going to church, and hanging out with them.

On Thursday night, we had a BBQ with them and some friends that live up there.  The wife went to high school with Angela and they hadn’t seen each other for over 20 years!

On Friday, we went out on Jim’s boat on the lake and river!  We went up from Wyoming into Montana on the river as well and saw some beautiful country!  The boys and Kirstyn REALLY loved that!

After boating, we went back to the house and did a little horseback riding, which Kirstyn was especially excited for!

After a good night sleep (and a much needed one after all the fun activities), we went fishing and hiking all the next day!  We had a blast and the boys had a LOT of fun casting their lines in a pond and catching fish!  Zach wasn’t quite sure about pulling apart worms and sticking them on a hook at first, but eventually he got to be pretty good!

We then all went hiking around the area and it was beautiful!  We hiked down to an incredible waterfall and enjoyed the cool temps down there!

Today we got up and went to church with Jim and his family.  After that, we started the long 9 hour drive back home!  We had such a great time!  Thanks so much to Jim and Heather and the kids for having us up there!  We can’t wait to go back!  🙂

Today, the boys and I were invited by a friend of ours (Ty Martin) to go with him and his boys to a Rockies game!  We had a blast!  The boys had a great time and loved the experience of watching baseball, eating hot dogs, drinking drinks, and waiting for foul balls to come our way (which, unfortunately, they didn’t).  🙂

The Rockies beat the Padres 2-1 tonight and the boys were excited for the win!  Thanks for the invite Ty!  We had a great time!

Happy Birthday Zach!  Big 10!  To celebrate (in a way), over the last 2 days, we went on a camping trip with our friends the Pocock’s to Rocky Mountain National Park!  It was such a great getaway and even though it rained the night of the 4th and we got a little soggy, the weather was great and we had a wonderful time!  We went hiking all over and drove to some absolutely stunning sites!

No, that picture above is NOT of a stuffed elk!  It’s the real deal.  We were so close to it, we could have walked up and pet it (absolutely NOT the smart thing to do)!  🙂

Up on the northern side of the park, we drove way up into the mountains and hiked up to the top of a 12,000+ foot ridge that had stunning views!

We sure do love living here!  You can’t get these kinds of views in the midwest!  🙂  Everyone had so much fun!  On the drive home, we went through Granby and visited some friends of ours (the Pedersen’s) from our ward.  They used to live there year-round, but they now just have a trailer up there and go up on weekends.  We went out to dinner with them before heading back home!

What a GREAT weekend so far!  I think Zach really liked that experience as part of his birthday present!  🙂