Beginning of October

Ready for conference! There is a present for each apostle or member of the first presidency. The kids get to open them during the breaks. This has been fun to do so the kids stay interested and looking forward to the talks. They also have to take notes on the talks before they can open the presents.

Celebrating Kailee's birthday at Leatherbys during priesthood. It has become a tradition to go to Leatherbys early and then go thrift shopping afterwards while the men at at Brothers and Brats and Priesthood session of conference.

We were triplets so we had to take a picture

How can Kailee be 25??? Carina gave here these ginormous balloons!

Three cute daughters!

Shakespeare performances

Kailee still obsessed with Harry Potter! they are slowly coming out with these new illustrated books so the crazy continues!

After Carina went through the temple we tried going every week until she left for her mission. This time we went to the Salt Lake City Temple. I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend one on one time with her before she goes out to serve for 18 months. I'm so proud of her!!!

September 2016

For Labor Day we went on a hike to Doughnut Falls. Beautiful area! Beautiful day! Beautiful hikers!

I love going in hikes with the family!

We took Post to Golden Corral for lunch! There are four of us that work closely together and we have become good friends. Brooke (other school counselor), Preslee (student services and our assistant), and Post (aka Simon, he is the director of secondary).

Cee Ryle got answered to Homecoming with these chocolate frogs!

One Sunday we decided to just go to a park and just spend some time together. We went to Memory Grove. I just have to get as many pictures as possible of Carina before she leaves.

This is a picture of two trees made by my leaf electric car! That means I was a very efficient driver! Idk why I'm posting this here?! 

On September 16th Carina had the blessing to go through the temple for the first time! It was a wonderful experience for all of us but especially for her. She went through the Provo City Temple.

Afterwards we went out to eat crepes!!!

Cee Ryle went to Homecoming with Emma Judd. 

His group included Emma, Sydney, and Aiden. Wardie group this time :)

Derick was here to celebrate his birthday! A few weeks late but fun celebration non the less!

Preview of Mary Poppins!

Suicide Awareness walk with our HOPE Squad. We have participated in this walk for a few years now. Suicide is one of the leading cuases of death amongst youth in Utah. There is a big push to bring awareness to this. HOPE Squads help by helping other students that may need someone to talk to. Students are trained to listen and then tell others to Hold On Pesuade and Empower. I get to help these students with training and assistance if they need to refer.

Since we couldn't go anywhere before Carina leaves on her mission because of time. She decided she wanted to spend a day as a family at Lagoon. We had a fun time together!

Carina vloged about this day: I PEED MY PANTS

Kailee was making an Arthur music video of our family before Carina leaves. Making music videos has become a fun tradition for our family! The final product is in the link below:

Arthur Browns by KaileeCristina

Cornbellies!!!

Who knew that even adults could have lots of fun in corn?!

Gracie and I did it together. Gracie found a friend from class and they talked and walked at the same time.

Casey won a medal of course!

Gracie's school had a 5K fundraiser. the three of us ran it and we even won a few prizes!

Month of August Random Events

We wanted to spend some time with Gracie after going to Guatemala so we went the Tracy Aviary and had some fun looking at all of the birds. Including up close to an owl.

Trying to be creative at taking pictures?

We went to the parade of homes with Annie and Jef. It's a tradition if they happen to be here during the parade :)

The backyard view from one of the houses.

Awesome work space adjacent to the kitchen. I would have loved to have this when the kids were little and doing homeworking while making dinner!

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It's going to be great having Jenner and Annie in Utah :)

Gracie dog-sat MeiMei while grandma and grandpa went to education week.

First day of 4th grade. She's getting so big!

First day of senior year. Twelve years sure went by fast!

Cee Ryle had the opportunity to play for a FHE at a nursing home. We got to go and watch also.