August...Almost All in One Big Post!

With all the smoke in the air from neighboring states' fires we've had some pretty amazing sunsets!

I snapped this one on the way out to my parents' house one evening.

Angie was able to be in town for a little while following Grandma's funeral.

All of us girls went to the cute, new, little restaurant called Crush.

It's completely plant based and has fun smoothie bowls and things.

Abby and T had been there before but it was a first for the rest of us :)

We went back to Crush a few mornings later when Dan and Maggie got into town.

Love this sweet little lady!

She's such a doll!

Kind of a sideways picture but these were my first real attempt at florals...

Along with the florals I also did my first cookies with my own projector!

It made such a difference with the lettering!

So fun :)

First day of school!

Ben changed schools...he's now a 7th grader!

I figure I include so many pictures of Ben because it's hard to get the perfect shot of him so I include a few of all the different facial expressions I get :)

Abby is a Junior!

And Matt is now a Freshman at the High School!

My workout lady friends were able to help at Chanelle's daughter's wedding.

We put together the charcuterie cups...

It was super fun!

I sure love these ladies!!!

Chanelle gave each of us a centerpiece bouquet the next morning.

They were so beautiful!

I can't remember who stuck this duck down Ben's shirt (I think Abby) but he went around for quite a while with it in there.  We gave him all kinds of names such as..."Quakymodo" :)

It didn't seem to bother him at all and it made for some pretty cute pics :)

Bryan Family Reunion

The evening after Grandma's funeral we drove down to Park City to join the Bryan family reunion in process.

As the families get older and kids graduate, go on missions and get married it obviously gets harder to have everyone together at the same time so we were missing a bunch but we still had a good crowd and it was good to see those that were able to make it.

One day we went to Jordanelle Reservoir.

The kids enjoyed the water while most of the adults stayed out :)

Ben, of course, was content to just sit and throw a ball back and forth with whoever would play with him...

Sibling pic!

Andy was the only one not wearing his reunion shirt...

...or sunglasses :)

Abs and some of the girlies...

Andy wanted Ben to have a chance in the water so he took him out in a kayak...

Time was cut a little short on the water as lightening was spotted.

There was some lovely cooler weather while in Park City.

I had to go sit out on the back porch and enjoy it.

This was my view for much of the trip...

Ben loved sitting at the top of the stairs and throwing the ball down and having me throw it back up to him over and over and over.  We literally did it for multiple hours while we were there.