Yellowstone Park

We decided we wanted to get away before school started. So we finally decided on a camping trip (yes you read it correctly I went camping)The kids wanted to see Yellowstone Park. We started the week by stopping at Lava Hot Springs to go swimming. Since earlier this summer we went but Jaron was sick (stomach flu and he and I spent the time in a laundromat washing clothes when everyone else was swimming)





Here are some of the animals we saw


We did not see a lot of different animals, Kory really wanted to see a bear, unfortunatelywe did not see one, so I guess we are going to have to go back some year.
Lower falls at the grand canyon of Yellowstone Park
We went to the grand canyon of Yellowstone the falls were great.

Sitting around waiting for Old Faithful to erupt


Our waiting paid off.
We had a great time. I'm glad I gave in and went camping with the family.

What about the ice cream?

Tonight we were coming home from playing volleyball with some friends. And this was the conversation between Jaron and Kory, it was so funny both Kory and myself had a great laugh.

Jaron: Can we go there?
Kory: where?
Jaron: To Nielson's Custard
Kory: Its expensive
Jaron: How much does it cost?
Kory: A cone costs a couple of dollars
Jaron: How much does the ice cream cost?

Summertime pictures

Amandee at EFY




Basketball tournaments Karla played in was at the UofU. She can now say she has played basketball in Huntsman Center.

Jaron's All-Star team Olympus Titans

Summertime

Okay summer is here and I'm having a hard time posting on my blog. We have had a very fun packed summer so far. Well okay most of it has been fun.

We started our summer by moving houses, I found myself packing way to many boxes and unpacking all those boxes asking myself why I didn't get rid of the stuff before I packed it. Yesterday my nephew Travis came and helped me organize the storage stuff in the basement and I did throw some of the stuff out. Thank you so much Travis for your help. The best part of organizing all the stuff was..... I found my cricket machine the sole purpose of organizing all the boxes. It was the one thing I had not been able to find from the move and I was getting just a little bit worried, but I found it yesterday Hooray!

Karla and Amandee have been having a fun packed summer. They started it off with Basketball camp, and also playing in a couple of basketball tournaments. They both went to Youth Conference at the U and loved it. Girls camp with the new ward and decided it was the best girls camp they had been to, (that was such a relief I was just a little worried about Amandee.)
Karla and Kory went on a river rafting trip on the Colorado River down by Moab, had a great time. Amandee is now at E.F.Y.

Nathan has been having fun meeting new friends in the neighborhood. This is the first time my boys have friends in the neighborhood, and I don't have to drive them to their friends house. Nathan gets to go to camp within the week.

Jaron has been keeping us way to busy! (Don't get me wrong, I have loved it!) Jaron was picked for the All-Star team this year in Baseball. He played in three different tournaments in 3 weeks, I think he played something like 15 games. They took 2nd in District, but unfortunately they lost their first 2 games in State.

When Kory and I were at one of Jaron's games we decided that we had been to about 125 different games this year for all the kids...... So our blog name Benchwarming Browns fits us to a tee.

Hopefully I can find some time, and also get the computer to work so I can down load some pictures, of all the fun activities

Enjoy the rest of your summer.

Getting your kids to want to work

Have you ever wondered how you can get your kids to like to work around the house? Well I found the solution..... last week my vacuum died, the kids were so excited because they didn't have to vacuum last week. Kory got on line a ordered me a new one. On Saturday UPS delivered my new vacuum, I put it together and then decided to vacuum the up stairs room to see how well it worked. The kids were so excited to see and use the new vacuum (you would have thought it was Christmas) they were begging me to let them finish vacuuming the house. So if you need to an idea on how to get your kids to want to work around the house....Buy a new vacuum. (mine is not purple but a teal blue not sure if I like the color but it does vacuum so I can't complain.)