August 2017

This month we went to our ward's breakfast social where we are very slowly starting to get to know some of the family in the ward.
I took the Hill family pictures.
I went to Amber Wright's house to help out with the twins.
And then we went to Montana for our Huge Family trip!

We went to the yearly Cherry Pit Spitting Contest at the Red Barn in Sanaquin. Sadly we didn't do as well as we would have liked but it was still fun. And this year was the first year we had the kids participate in the spitting! haha We love doing this fun little tradition. It would just make it even better if we could get a win!

At one point we were both in first place! 

Look at that form! haha

Our Garden is Growing!! Here is the start of our giant pumpkin! Chris even got his dad growing one to compete on size haha

My cute Boy showing off his muscles!

Kids all wanted to sing happy birthday to Aunt Amber, Chris's sister. 

I got called into Young womans as Laurals Advisor.  I was so excited when I got this calling! I have been wanting to be in the young womans for a long time! Cant wait to really get to know these girls! My first activity that I got to do with the young men and woman was go boating! So fun! They didn't know I was pregnant and kept asking me if I wanted to go out on the water wake boarding...just had to keep telling them no! :)

Bonding with The young womans president!

Matt and Chris went back packing to island lake in the Uintas. They had a good time together!

My silly little girl!

I went to Grand Junction to help Chris's sister Amber with the twins she recently had. I took Caden with me and we spent almost a week there. It was good that I was able to go and help but it was VERY hard for me to be away from Catherine that long! Missed her so much! Glad Caden was able to come and play with Coulsen, they had fun together. The twins are SOO cute!

I can do this!!

We finally went and bought a couple Kayaks for our Montana trip!

My first photo shoot living in South Jordan. Turned out beautiful!!

WE ARE OFF TO MONTANA!!! We drove to Idaho falls and stayed a night there which was so cool to have our hotel across the lake from the Temple. The next day we slowly made our way to Montana where we stayed at a hotel and went swimming and out to eat at a Mexican restaurant that was not that great! haha. The following morning we made our way to Canada where we found the perfect little cabin to stay a couple nights at. It was in the mormon town of Canada, Cardston. It was settled by mormons. We were able to go to church there and afterwards go see the Cardston Temple, which was the first Temple built outside of the US. We then went to Glacier National park on the Canadian side and camped a couple nights there. Camping was kind of miserable because it was so hot! But we had SOO much fun seeing all of the bears. In one day we saw probably about 15 bears! We also went kayaking at a couple very pretty lakes...its just too bad that their were so many fires at that time that made it very smoky and hard to see at times. Overall SO much fun, but Tons of driving!! Kids and a pregnant woman did great!

Idaho Falls Temple!

Saw many helicopters fly in and out of Montana. 

Waiting at the Mexican Restaurant. 

At Lake McDonnell 

Stopped to have lunch and stretch our legs and see some glaciers from a distant!

OUR PERFECT LITTLE CABIN!

Cardston Temple!
Out for a little Sunday walk

The start of lots of bears we are to see!! 

We went on a little hike to a waterfall. 

Our Campsite! Lots of black bears all around! 

This was a fun long kayak day! We kayaked across this lake to the other side where we had to stay awhile to catch our breath and take a break. Chris's parents were dying because they were rowing a boat. Took forever but it was so pretty. Saw a couple bald eagles too! Technically as we were in the middle of the lake we crossed the border! haha 

Hey we have these crickets in Utah except for black. We call them Mormon Crickets!

Stopped to have lunch on our way out of Glacier National Park and decided to make our announcement about adding another addition to our family! 

Kids needed a break from driving so we stopped and did some fun things

We also stopped at this crazy Museum! It was so random full of Tons of crazy things. There was so much stuff that it was a bit overwhelming. Kind of strangely cool at the same time. haha