Mountain Biking at Snowbird

Snowbird is obviously a pretty special place to us.  We got engaged there....we got married there(10 years ago in a few weeks!!).  Paul worked there, we had our first season passes there, our kids are learning to ski there. We've celebrated many holidays there, we love their concerts, and we love Oktoberfest.  We are so excited to add mountain biking to one of the things we love doing at Snowbird.  They have a loop trail at the base that we're enjoying; it's got some good climbs, some fast downhill parts and some technical parts to make it challenging.  They recently just opened a Big Mountain trail that is 7.5 miles downhill from the top of the tram.  We were really excited and went up for the first day it opened.  

Waiting for the tram

Top of the tram with a bike instead of skis 

We(mostly Paul) took a lot of pictures to document our first ride.  It was SOOOO pretty!

I'm in this picture

I did get one of Paul

Summer Fun

The kids have still been going to the Home Depot Project the first weekend of the month when we are able to. This last month they made bug cages.  They loved catching bugs to put in it.  I guess there's a pretty funny story of Mimi running down the street after a grasshopper!

 Colin had SOOO much fun playing summer soccer.  His coach was great. He kept the kids in line well, on track with what was going on.  He really rewarded Colin for his hard work on the field.   

This next video is a little "BLURLY".  Try not to watch it, you'll get dizzy, but listen to Audrey, it's so cute! She loves taking videos and pictures lately.

Audrey really wanted to play this summer so we put her in too. She did awesome at the skills/practice day but when it came to a bunch of kids screaming on the field and fighting over the same ball....she wanted nothing to do with it.  She's really good at it when she plays daddy and Colin but right now the sport is not for her.  

 A couple pictures with Mimi

At Snowbird's Cold Air Concert. This night was so much fun. The band was great!

Having a breakfast picnic and playing soccer at the park

We went and got our nails done again while Mimi was here

Colin the artist

Colin drew a picture of Audrey hula hooping.

Father's Day and Lagoon

 

We had a lot of fun on Father's day at the park. We all went on a family bike ride and then flew kites.  We had a picnic, played frisbee, and just played on the playground and swings.

In June, we also went to Lagoon for a Promise Family Day.  The kids loved it!

The bumper cars were a hit

That night we headed up to the Snowbird Cool Air Concert with Tara and Ben

Trying to take a silly family selfie

Boating, Triathlon, Delicate Arch

 Paul really wants me to be better about keeping up on the blog so I'm trying....again....to catch up a little bit.  I'll be having a bunch of posts coming up that are old, stuff we want to document.  In June, we went boating with Breck and Preston.  We all had a ton of fun. The kids, especially Audrey, LOVED tubing.  

Audrey tubing with Skye

Audrey tubing with Colin

Audrey tubing with Mimi

Paul trying out surfing

Audrey was really excited when Preston let her drive the boat

The following weekend, we headed to Green River so Breck and I could do a triathlon.  However, the river was too high and we couldn't do the swim.  We just did the bike and run.  

 Breck came in first place, I got second

After the race we headed to Moab to take them to Delicate Arch

July 4th 2014

We had a lot of fun celebrating July 4th this year. I was able to get off of work and it was fun that it was on Friday and we didn't have to worry about work the next day.  

I showed my mom my July 4th Pinterest board and she took my ideas and did some creative things with the kids for the holiday

Breakfast

 We went to the Granite community parade and carnival again. The kids have so much fun with it.  

They were so excited to have some treats that they even shared!

More Pinterest ideas! The table looked so cute!

Yummy corn on the cob!

Tara and Ben came over for dinner and brought the four wheelers. The kids had a blast.

We stayed up late enough to do some fire works and sparklers in the dark