Steamboat Spring Break ski trip

Nat and Michael and the boys met us in Steamboat for a few days of Spring skiing. We had the best time! The snow was crap, but that didn’t stop us one bit. The kids all skiied so hard, and my boys did their first double black diamond (Simon and I found a different way…

March 2024 Recap

Happy Easter! It was a beautiful church service, some crazy basket hunting–Josh’s was in the Frunk of the truck, and Blake’s was in the sump pump hole, and some very yummy dinner. Pre-Easter Parties. Blake and I hosted a teen egg hunt where some eggs were stuffed with gold, silver, or bronze tickets that they…

Playa del Carmen

I’m writing this now in the van to the airport in Cancun. What an amazing trip. Every trip with Tara is amazing but this one was really special. We woke up Thursday and got on the plane and I told myself if I took a quick nap I could play Civ 6 so I did…

Feb 2024 recap

Stake Conference adventure! It’s been a long time since we participated in this tradition. The weather was supposed to be beautiful, so we packed a picnic and our ice spikes, and off we went! We were one pair short, so Rusty and Josh had to share. It was quite the day. The wind at the…

Jan 2024 recap

We took all the animal loving kids to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over Winter Break. This zoo is seriously the best. It’s so much fun. We loved feeding the giraffes and the birds, and seeing the penguins. We stopped and caught a stellar sunset in Garden of the Gods on the way home. Claire and…

Christmas 2023

We got to have two Christmases this year! (kinda). Home Christmas and Utah Christmas. Home Christmas is where all the presents were. We contemplated flying to Utah (ended up driving so Dash could come) and the kids had some large, heavy presents, so we combined Dinner under the Christmas Tree with presents a few days before we…

Cornells in Hawaii for Thanksgiving 2023

For the highlights you can check out the video on YouTube. PRINCEVILLE Wednesday morning we were off! A quick flight to Vegas and then off to Kauai! We landed in the afternoon and felt the amazing humidity. Everyone was off to Costco (except Carlie and Dan who would get there an hour later). At Costco…