Saturday, June 29, 2019

Mona Lavender Fields

 I am a sucker for novelty.  I have always seen pictures of the beautiful lavender fields in France and thought that it would be heavenly to go there one day.  On Instagram I came across these fields in Mona, Utah and thought if I ever could go to them I would try to.  Imagine my surprise when I check to see how far away they were from where we were at the family reunion and found out they were on the way home, right off the freeway.  Not only that, but the lavender was in bloom.  I talked my mom, mark and Alexia into going with me to visit and I am so glad we did!
 The lavender smelled so heavenly and Mark took these beautiful pictures!  He's so talented!



Palmer Family Reunion in Fairview


 For are usually watching the family reunions on Instagram.  It was so much fun to actually be able to go to one!  Grandma and Grandpa Palmer rented a huge loge in Fairview Utah.  It has a huge screen that came down so we could watch a movie and they even had a movie theater popcorn popper!  It was awesome.  
 The kids loved the basement where the pool table and ping-pong table were.  They played for hours, late into the night.  
 Hunter had a ball with these cute girls.  It seemed that the kids all separated into groups according to approximate age and everyone did so well.  
 Ping pong before we headed swimming. 



 We went to a park and ate lunch and played games. 
 The kids all did so well together!




 After that we went swimming.  Palmer is always so cute the little kids. 
 The diving board was the big thing.  There were some pretty cool tricks going on. 




 While the life guards took a break the kids came out to play on the splash pad. 








 Back to the diving board.


 Hunter was doing backflips and making his mama super nervous!
 There was a fun playground for the kids to play on. 
 Late night games.  Josh was in heaven.
 Uncle Mark is a favorite, and his jeep is also a favorite.  



 Such good buddies!

 In the talent show these three did some cute jokes.  McKay also surprised us all (the boys and me included), by reciting the Gettysburg Address.  He has been working on it for months with dad on the way to school.  I was so blown away by it.  
 These bracelets were a hit and everyone made multiple.  
Josh and I were in charge of the treasure hunt.  This has been a tradition in our family for my whole life and I'm pretty sure before that as well.  
A picture of us all taken with a drone.  We love our family!

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Climbing at the Fitness Center

 One of the things the boys wanted to do while we were in Utah was to go climbing.  Since we have no equipment for climbing actual cliffs and didn't have a while lot of time to go to a major climbing wall, my mom was cute to take the boys to the fitness center.  The sad thing was that it wasn't a night they would let you climb very high.  The boys had to make due with a short climb :)