2nd Week of August

Here are some highlights from the 2nd week of August.  It was the last week before school started, so we wanted to get in some fun.

We went over to Blackridge Reservoir for a quick ride on our kayaks.  After we found Nyles' kayak on clearance at Sam's club, we decided to get a 2nd one at that price.  Carter tried my other orange adulte kayak and did great!  The adult kayaks are ironically easier for the kids to balance on, and pretty easy to steer as well.  We ended up selling Nyles smaller kayak but plan to keep Carter's so Hudson can use it in a couple years.  We had a great time rowing around.

Carter trying an adult kayak, Nyles w/ his new green adult kayak from his birthday.  Hudson catching a ride w/ me on the other green kayak.  

Later Hudson catching a ride w/ Steve and Carter getting pulled by Steve.  Since it's been so hot, the water has gone down and algae/moss was everywhere!  It was kinda gross so we didn't stay very long, but it was still nice to get out for a little while and kayak.

Steve took the boys to Thanksgiving Point to the "farm" section for a few hours.  They wanted to hit it up again before school started.  Carter loves to visit the goats and they love him!

Carter went to 2 birthday parties this week.  There were both boys from his preschool class.  He had a great time at both of them.  One they did face painting.  While he was gone Steve took Nyles and his friend Lincoln back to Thanksgiving Point and then got ice cream.

Thursday the boys had a back to school night.  We went and met their teachers.  Carter was so excited to meet his Kindergarten teacher and be at the school Nyles is going to.

Friday morning, on Nyles birthday, Steve got the boys up early (6:30am) to go watch the hot air balloons launch here in Sandy.  Nyles really wanted to go watch them for his birthday, so he took them.  They had a great time and enjoyed watching them.

Cool hot air balloons!

Carter w/ his tie dye shirt he made at the other friend birthday party.

Cute Hudson during nap times.  Friday night the boys had a free family event for their marital arts group.  This time it was a Swim Party and BBQ dinner.  It was threatening to rain/storm, but we lucked out.  We stayed for an hour, then went and got ice cream and made ice cream shakes w/ candy bars.  Our yellow Day Lillies are in bloom also!

Saturday morning we got up and drove up to the Uintas (Moosehorn Lake again) to kayak and celebrate Nyles' birthday more.  He really wanted to kayak and go fishing for his birthday.  We bought pole holders online and Steve installed them on each of our kayaks.

Dave and Steve fishing from the shore, Nyles on his new kayak out fishing, Phil taking their dog Mesa for a ride in our kayak, and Mt. Baldy right next to us.

Cute Hudson.  Joann and Dave taking a break.  Joann was a trooper coming up w/ her recovering knee.

Stacie getting ready to go out, Hudson going w/ me on a kayak ride.

Nyles caught a fish all by himself!  Hudson went on a ride w/ me and Carter took the adult kayak out.

Nyles just enjoying life in his kayak fishing.  Phill then took Conor out for a ride on our kayak, trying to catch a fish.  London Claire trying out our other adult kayak as well.  She said she definitely fits better and wants a larger kayak.  Such a beautiful lake.

Joann holding Hudson's Gogurt.  Diane giving Hudson a treat.  

We had sunshine for a while in the morning.  Carter getting a cookie.

Nyles caught another fish!  And another!  Stacie's family out for a ride.

It started clouding up in the afternoon.  After much attempt, Conor finally caught a fish!    

Nyles w/ another fish as well!

Diane and Steve helping Hudson and Carter throw rocks in the lake.  Nyles w/ another fish.

Dave, Joann and Diane helped sing happy birthday to Nyles, then left around 2pm.

Happy Birthday to Nyles up in the Uintas.  I made indoor s'mores for his "cake."

Shortly after they left, it started to rain HARD, so we started packing up as well.

Raining up in the Uintas.

After packing up to leave from the Uintas, Stacie thought she heard air leaking.  We looked at our front left tire on the driver's side, and noticed there was a screw in our tire.  It was slowly leaking.  Ironically we saw the alert on the dashboard come up while driving up, but just thought it was the cold air setting it off.  Thankfully we had a portable air pump in the car (bought for emergencies) and were able to air it up.  We then drove to Kamas and used the free air pump at the gas station.  The air gauge showed we weren't losing a lot of air, so we decided to drive it all the way home.  We passed Carrie on the way down, but she turned around and talked w/ us for a little bit in Kamas.  We all headed home, so she did too.  Hopefully next time she'll be able to make it.

We had 2 miracles driving home.  The first was that the screw held the whole way home and we didn't have to put on the donut tire.  The second was while driving down the canyon from Moosehorn Lake, as if we weren't stressed enough w/ the tire situation, all of a sudden a big flatbed tow truck came directly at us in our lane (on a 2 lane highway).  Steve miraculously was able to swerve out of the way just enough so he didn't hit us or the trailer we were pulling.  Steve also didn't swerve too far that he hit the gravel on the edge, causing himself to overcorrect or something.  It all happened so fast, but thankfully nobody got hurt.  Looking back, we definitely felt the Lord's hand during that moment, and the entire way as we were on our way home.  We know were blessed w/ safety.

We went over to Costco Tire before driving home, but they said since the screw was so close to the edge, they couldn't just patch it.  After airing it up a little more, we drove home w/ the screw still in the tire.  

Later, our neighbor Ron came over and helped up take the tire off and put on our spare.  

Nyles helped also and Carter watched.

Nyles helping take off the tire.

`    On Sunday, we went over to LuDean's/Diane's to celebrate Nyles' birthday some more.  Hudson got a water coloring pad from Nursery, for his birthday coming up.  We also changed his car-seat to a forward facing one.  He is so happy to be in a bigger car-seat!  Later Hudson playing w/ the toy that sings Old McDonald.  Singing Happy Birthday to Nyles.

Blowing out the candles and opening his gift.  A pretty flower in the front yard.

Singing Happy Birthday to Nyles.

Thank you everyone who came to support Nyles during the outing and overall for his birthday.  We really do appreciate it and love you all!  Thank you!  We are so proud of Nyles in all that he does and who he is becoming.  We love him so much and are extremely blessed to be his parents.

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