Saturday, May 12, 2018

Toddler, Trips, & Track

It's been awhile since I updated this blog. Between the life with a toddler, taking trips, and coaching track, the weeks have flown by. Todd has only 2 weeks of school left, and the track season wraps up on Friday with state finals. We are enjoying one of our first weekends at home without a track meet in a long time.

The track season is going well. The Region Championships were this past Wednesday and Thursday. Our boys team finished 1st and our girls team finished 2nd. We had 20 individuals in 31 events qualify for the state meet as well as 6 relay teams. We will be down at BYU for the state championships this Thursday & Friday.




Note the ice bucket being dumped on Todd's head :)

In March, Sam and I flew to Florida to visit Kyle & Kristen Mast and their two boys. We currently have the benefit of flying standby through Todd's brother, Grant, so we have been taking advantage of that as much as we can. Sam loved playing with Ben & Danny, and I loved catching up with college friends!

Ben & Sam

Walking around the Masts neighborhood


Cape Coral Yacht Club

Sam loved Danny

Bunche Beach

Throwing shells into the water

Sanibel Island

Cooling off with Gelato

For Todd's Spring Break, we took a road trip to Zion National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Las Vegas. Sam did great in the car, and loved doing some hiking of his own in the parks. We had beautiful weather! We always enjoying exploring new national parks (and revisiting favorites, like Zion!). Todd and I have now visited 28 national parks since we got married!

Emerald Pools Hike, Zion National Park



The highlight of the park for Sam was riding the shuttle bus ("choo choo")

Virgin River


Petrified Forest National Park






Grand Canyon National Park
South Kaibab Trail

I promise he had fun :)

First glimpse of the river

Lunch break!




 Hoover Dam

Las Vegas

Jeff & Bonnie came out for a weekend in early April. We had really rainy days while they were with us, so we visited the Aquarium. Everyone else had the same idea, but we still really enjoyed it! Between rain storms we visited Temple Square to see all the blooming flowers!








In April, Sam and I flew to Michigan for Weston's baptism. Unfortunately, the baptism was rescheduled due to freezing rain! But we were so glad to have gotten to see everyone in Michigan even though we missed the baptism.


Children's Museum


Fredrick Meijer Gardens



Less than 24 hours after getting home from Michigan, I left for Chicago to meet up with Bonnie & Allison for a Mitchell ladies trip! We flew to Belgium for a weekend, and took a train to Bruges. The city was charming & beautiful, perfect for a girls' weekend. We ate lots of great food (well, mostly waffles, chocolate, and frites) and drank some delicious Belgian beer. We were spoiled with first class seats coming home. I told Todd I could get used to that...he said that I shouldn't, haha. 


View of the city from the Belfry Tower


SOOO good!



Love Lake



Here are a few more pictures from the last 3 months.