July 4th 2016

I love when my favorite holiday approaches! The days are long, hot, and filled with fun. I love the warm summer nights and taking walks around the neighborhood in bare feet. July 4th will always be such a special holiday for me! This time around we went bowling in the morning with the Flake family, then went to see Finding Dory, and then ended the day swimming at moms and lighting fireworks. I also love the Hillsboro party every year on July 3rd. It has such a community feel and of course all the food. We just eat and eat and we love it! Even with the move just 2 days before we still managed to enjoy every second to this holiday! 

And we are MOVING

The time has finally come!! We close on a house on July 8th (just a couple weeks away). This has been such a wonderful 10 years in the house! Nick moved in while we were dating back in 2006 and I moved in just 4 days before we got married. We never imaged we would stay as long as we did but I am so grateful we did. I have loved our ward, friends, area, and Scarletts school. I love being close to shopping, parks, and really everything! But our new house will be amazing too and our whole family is so EXCITED!! I will miss all the windows and light this house has but will not miss the stairs. Every afternoon I would sit on the couch and look out our kitchen balcony window and the beautiful trees outside. It felt like I was in a tree house. We will miss our "enzo bean poll"!

Park City Family Reunion

We all had such an amazing time up in Park City last week. We missed Caity and Kim but loved spending time with Brady and his family. Their is very little that warms my heart more than seeing my kids love their cousins. My kiddos don't even know how lucky they are to have so many cousins their age. We spent Wednesday to Sunday partying it up and we all left exhausted. Thursday we spent the day going on a hike to Steward falls, Friday we went down the Alpine slides (which was the favorite of the trip), and Saturday we went to the zoo and Kamas pools. The theme of the week and really the whole summer is "the fun just doesn't stop"!!

Stewart Falls after a 4 mile hike. The girls did great and Jack loved being back packed in. 

Pictures taken while riding the Alpine coaster. It was the BEST part of the whole trip 

Favorite pic of the whole trip. We got home just in time to celebrate this mans 33rd birthday. And celebrate we did by eating our heart out a Wolfgang Pucks restaurant in the MGM. 

Kindergarten Graduation

                         
Scarlett just finished her last day of kindergarten. Nothing reminds me of the passing of time like the start or end of the school year. I wish time would slow down. I feel this constant tug at my heart whenever I am reminded of just how fast this wonderful stage of life has gone. With that said, it has been such a fun and fast year!! Scarlett loved her class, making friends, and going to al the school festivities. I loved having her home in the afternoons to keep us all company and entertain Alice. We will sure miss her next year when goes all day.

Her graduation was adorable and I could hear her sing the songs for days before. She loved to practice all her songs for me in the afternoons when Jack would take his nap. She was so excited to get her diploma and have cupcakes after. I love this sweet girl!! She has such a vivid imagination and loves to play with her siblings. I love that Scarlett always stops to smell the pretty flowers and can find anything!! She is always coming home with little treasures. I hope she knows how much her family loves her!