Rhino Rally 2022

Wade, Silver, Merril, and Jack rode in the Rhino Rally. Ryan Rosenberg was on a team with Jamis but I don't have a picture of him. 

Mark really wants to ride it. Wade, Merril, and Jack both finished. Silver was a DNF. Wade's time: 3:25:51, Jack's time was 3:39:23, and Merril's time was 3:44:35. Jack said it was super hard to ride for that long. 

We were the spectators! Merril thinks Mark with ride in the kiddo class next year. 

St. George Temple Legos!

I failed to mention that Merril got me this St. George Temple Lego set! I've told him that they are so cute at Deseret Book but they are like $80. I just don't feel like splurging that much on knock-off Legos. The kids and I put it together and it's so cuteeeee!

It came with a little married couple. It also came with instructions to send away for a set of missionaries. So we ordered those as well.

They came a week later and we put Maxine and Sister Maughan on the temple grounds!

I intend to switch out the hair color so it matches the sister with whom Maxine is serving.

Oh, and Maxine found a killer place to get ice cream. It's called Bruster's and she's saying that we have to try it!

Conscientiousness Award for Mark

Awards are given out at Coral Canyon every quarter. This quarter, Mark received the Conscientiousness Award from his teacher.

Mark's teacher said he's always polite and helpful. That makes a Mama heart happy!

 

Pie and Hiking for my Birthday!

I just wanted to hike and eat pie for my birthday!

We hiked to the Snow Canyon Overlook trail. It was a little cold and windy, not gonna lie. I was glad some friends were able to come! As we were talking, Tiffany, said that she'd never been camping. 🤯 I couldn't believe it! 

Later we had pie! Yay! Merril was singing some tunes.

42 feels just like last year. Feeling good! 

More Eye Trauma

Mark's had a rough time with his eyes. He was riding his bicycle and came home and complained of something in his eye. I tried to flush it out with saline solution but it wouldn't come. We had another follow up scheduled for his dart to the eye so we just went to the same doctor. He did the follow up and used a tiny set of tweezers to remove the foreign object from his eye.

The doctor said it was like a piece of a nut shell, something concave. It suctioned to his eye. He held very still while the doctor was using the tweezers. He said that most adults aren't as brave as Mark. He did great!

Valentine's Day!

Daddy's still riding home from Cabo but I got home a lot faster. Delicious Valentine's Day dinner. But let's just be honest, everyone just wants the fondue.

Because it's so dang good!

It hasn't been a tradition for that long but I feel like if I stopped doing it now, people would be sad.

Cabo Adventure

We planned an adventure with Merril, Darryl Zitting, and Darryl's father in law, John Davis and their wives. The guys were going to ride motorcycles down to Cabo and the wives were going to fly down together. Two days before we were to fly, John Davis' wife became sick with a cold. She tested negative for covid but she was afraid she would test positive at some point in the trip and not be able to get home. Shauna decided to stay back. I decided to fly down by myself. Merril picked me up from the airport and away we went.

We came out to El Arco. It's a cool little arch that's only accessible by boat. 

Poor Darryl and John didn't have their wives with them but Merril and I had a great time.

We stayed at this nice place! It was like condos but someone had theirs rented out through airbnb.

Tacos!

The rest of the biker gang.

And then I flew home by myself and the motorcycle gang rode home. It was also the first time that I've boarded a plane from the tarmac and not in a jetway. That made it fun!

There's was plenty of room on the plane and that made it pleasant! 

Home again to regular life!

 

Mikayla's 10th Birthday!

Yay! Double digits for Mikayla! 

Double digits means you can finally get your ears pierced! You can tell she's nervous.

She did great though! Jesslynn came to watch.

This isn't birthday related but isn't this eye makeup amazing! Juliet pulls off the coolest looks sometimes. Not that she wears it to school or ever out of the house, but she's got skills!