Silverwood

We love the summer reading program offered by Silverwood. If a school aged child reads 10 hours or more above and beyond their assigned reading time, they earn a free ticket to Silverwood. Mason and Cooper both took advantage of that this year. We went on a day (yesterday) when school for many local districts were already back in session, so there weren't any lines anywhere. Gotta love that!

 

 

 Someone was not very thrilled that his parents were *making* him go on the roller coaster.

 We played a joke on the captain at Jeff's fire station. He told Jeff not to go on the Tilt.A.Whirl (Tilt.A.Hurl). So we took these picture above and below and said "advice not taken".

One Giant Red Carrot

FIRE

We had very little snow fall this past winter and higher than normal temps this summer. Now it seems our entire state is burning down right now. There are a lot of firefighters on the line fighting it and we pray for their safety and for their families to have an extra measure of strength as their loved ones are risking their lives to save others homes. Many districts have been depleted, Jeff's district is not exception. Jeff has spent some time on a few local fires as well as some time on one of the bigger ones in our state. He has also gone on more calls within the district than usual. 

The air quality here stinks, so we have spent the majority of our days indoors. Here are some pictures of Jeff on the couple of fires he was on as well as pictures of how bad our air quality is.

Near Long Lake 7/31/2015

 Rutter Canyon Fire 8/11/2015

 

 

Palisades/Houston Rd. Fire 8-18-2015

 Carpenter Road Fire 8-23-2015

Our air quality

Cooper and Kinley's birthday celebration

 Cooper got his own set of scriptures for his birthday. The mail carrier thought it would be a great idea to put them in our mail box instead of the bigger mail slot that is meant for packages. The problem with this is that the actual slot is bigger than the opening. We got smart though and grabbed a butter knife to hold down the top flaps. Finally came out. Gotta love smart people.

Immediately following Cooper's baptism, our family came back to our house for cake and ice cream for Cooper (8) and Kinley's (3) birthdays. We didn't do a friend party for Cooper this year (fail). We had enough to do between Mason's birthday July 15th, Cooper's birthday August 12th, Cooper's baptism August 22nd, and Kinley's birthday August 23rd. 

Cooper's baptism

Cooper was baptized a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints last night. We were blessed to have a lot of family and friends there to support him in his decision. We are so very proud of the young man he is becoming and look forward to watching him as he continues to grow up and grow closer to his Savior.

 

Station 95 open house

Yesterday was the open house. Mason and Cooper went with Jeff for the entire time and helped out. They squeezed in a bit of fun too.

 

They added a few games this year. One was where they had to knock down a set of cones with the fire hose. This is Mason going up against one of the other firefighters sons. (Mason won)

Peach picking at greenbulff

We went to Yaryans on greenbluff and picked some beautiful peaches with the Snells and the Franks. As you will see, I gave the job of photographer to Mason. Can't wait to can so yummy peaches and eat some fresh ones too.