This and That

There are a few things that didn't get mentioned in previous posts and pictures that I don't want to forget so here is a little of this and that.  I love this picture of all five boys together and at church.  Henry was forced to tuck in his shirt and wear a tie and I'm thankful for older brothers who have the energy to fight battles I no longer want to have.

Smashed in the Audi and driving somewhere with my "big" boys.  I love all those big smiles.  We really do love being all together.
 

Henry discovered a fro-yo place by the stake center and if you go on Friday nights you can fill your cup and add all the toppings you want for $7...a deal we take advantage of frequently.  

Another year of Young Men's Camp.  Randy and Landon were the leaders of Parker's group.  Randy takes a million pictures but I only have a few to share.  They always have a ton of fun and get little to no sleep.

These boys can do hard things on no sleep.  Also, the smoke was pretty bad this year.

I love where we live.  This is about 90 minutes from our house. 

And while everyone was at camp except for Henry, I made the best decision of this year by putting Henry (and Jack) in a weeklong football camp.  They loved it!  This will be a new tradition.  Next year I just need my sisters to fly up and hang out with me while everyone's gone.

I took Henry to the pump track with much resistance from him.  But he ended up loving it and got so much better at biking.  I'm too old for this stuff!

I took Henry and Jack to this place for Henry's birthday.  We got to go back another day for free so we went two weeks later for Jack's birthday.  

We didn't go to Pine Lake most of the summer and I was not okay with that.  So the last couple weeks of summer we went several times a week to make up for it.  I can load up all the paddle boards with the boys help in no time.

AI makes Parker look super jacked

The football star

Labor Day Adventure:  Biking across the 520 to eat lunch at Din Tai Fung with Parker and Henry.  Pretty sure this is the last time Henry gets to ride on the back of my eBike.  The lazy bum.

I had to take photos to make the older boys jealous and it worked.

We biked onto UDub campus.  It's so pretty!  And weird that Randy went to school there.  Since he spent all his time at the dental school and nowhere near the main part of campus, it doesn't really feel like we have a connection to it.

The two other guys we share the boat with are in charge of Henry's Valiant activities.  They took all the boys and girls out on the boat one night.  It was a lot of kids!  I offered to stay and help and was so thankful they said they had it under control. A few of the kids had never been on a boat before which seems so weird since we practically live on our boat.

Henry worked hard and after a lot of trial and error, made it to the top of the zip line at Big Rock Park.  I had fun watching :)

This picture has a good story to go with it.  Henry, Jack, and Eli were playing at the park while the moms were sitting at a table chatting away.  The boys ran off to play in the dry creek bed like they always do so an hour later when it was time to go, I knew exactly where to look for them.  Lauren and I called for them and got no response.  We couldn't hear them or anything.  We yelled some more and began searching a bit when suddenly all three boy come running to us from the playground area where we had just been.  They were relieved to see us because they had actually gotten really lost.  So lost that they prayed for help and keep wandering around.  They were yelling for us but were so far away we never heard them.  They prayed again and came across a house.  They knocked on the door and a nice elderly woman answered the door.  They asked how to get back to the park and the lady gave them a ride back.  They were so lost!  It was quite the story.  The boys were dirty and covered in scratches from black berry bushes.  They had been crying too.  I took this picture a few days later when we took a plate of cookies over to the woman with a card they had signed and thanked her for her kindness.  I was especially thankful she didn't call the police!  All three boys mentioned this experience when they spoke in the primary program a few weeks later.  Prayers are answered!