We have a busy summer ahead: visiting family, finishing house projects, camping, celebrating our 10-year anniversary, and relaxing. Here is what we have been up to during the month of May:
May 11th-13th: Abby went to Boston with Andy's mom from May 10th-15th so Andy, Emma, and I ventured down to Torrey, Utah with some friends.
This was the view from the lodge we stayed in!
Hiking time!
playing a little baseball in the yard
The next day, we went for another hike and saw some pictographs.
May 19th: Running with Ed! This year, our school dressed up as farm animals. Next year, Abby said she wants to run!
Here we are!
Some of the teachers' kids dressed up, too!
Emma 1st leg = 1.5 miles
My teaching partner, Nora, and I had to take a selfie in front of the McPolin Barn, a very iconic building in Park City, while running our 5 mile leg.
Yay! We have another mama and baby moose hanging around our yard!
Emma had a "Spring Sing" at school.
She is in the middle on the top step.
Memorial Day Weekend: Aunt Tina came to visit! She spent a couple of days with Abby.
She had never been to southern Utah so we to her to Moab to experience Arches National Park. It was also the first time she had camped in a looooooong time
May 26th: On our first morning, we packed up lots of water and food and started our trek to Double O Arch, a 5-mile roundtrip hike.
Do you see the Double O arch in the background?
On this particular hike, we saw 6 arches.
playing horseshoes back at camp
It was Andy's birthday so we celebrated by cooking steaks over the campfire (one of his favorite camping meals) and...
...a birthday s'more!
May 27th: Today we hiked to Delicate Arch, explored a few more arches, and ventured out of the park for a bit.
We also stopped at a few other arches after the Delicate Arch hike.
We left Arches National Park and took Tina to Deadhorse Point State Park. The girls were fascinated by the ranger talk.
If you have seen Thelma and Louise, this is actually where they filmed the final scene, even though the movie said it was Grand Canyon.
On our way back to Moab, Andy took us down Long Canyon which entailed driving under a rock. Crazy!
playing around at camp
watching the sunset
our campsite
May 31st: Our final unit in 2nd grade was all about Famous Americans. As a culminating activity, the kids chose a famous American to study, wrote a biography about that person, and presented a haiku poem as they dressed as their person. Emma chose Betsy Ross.
My mom sewed her dress. It was perfect!
Later that afternoon, we celebrated Abigail's preschool graduation!
This is Ms. Jo-Anne. She pretty much helped us raise the girls. You see, she was their infant teacher at the daycare. Even though she doesn't work there anymore (and hasn't since Abby left the infant room), she took time off of work to see Abby's graduation (Abby's class was her last class before she moved on to another job.)
I'd like to introduce you to the newest member of our family--Andy's new truck! He finally got his Tacoma back after having to trade his old one in for the 4-Runner before we had Abigail. He is pretty excited!
just a recent update on our friends
We took our 2nd grade classes hiking up PC hill today and we are very fortunate Andy could sneak out of work and go with us.
