Our summer was busy. Ashton played his first season of soccer. He loved it. I am not sure he has a natural talent for the game but he sure had fun with the boys he played with! He will definitely continue his soccer next spring.
Jace played his first season of Baseball. Turns out he swings left and throws right. Just like his dad. Jace is actually showing a lot of potential for the game of baseball. He hits hard and straight and throws well. He too had a lot of fun and will be continuing baseball next year.
Sage spent her time over the summer earning money for her tuition for the Utah Children's choir. Sage has a tendency to not take extracurricular activities seriously. When she approached us and asked us if she could sing in the choir, we were concerned that like all extracurricular activities before, she would put little effort into her success. We decided that she should take some ownership in joining the choir by coming up with half of her tuition. She cleaned out chicken coups, did yard work, housework, and other farm chores. And by the end of the summer she had reached her goal and was very proud of herself. And we were proud of her too. Sage is indeed taking her choir seriously. Her choir director says she sounds like someone who has had voice lessons even though she has not. She is in the intermediate choir and is working towards moving up into the Concert choir.
Ryker spent his summer simply being a 2 year old. He loves all his brothers and sisters and is still my baby. He will always be my baby. All my children will always be my babies.
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| Flight simulator |
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| Fathers Son |
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| Fathers Son Camp out |
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| Remember that Time? |
Curtis was busy this spring/summer as always. With his partner Jay, he designed and built his first flight simulator and sold it to a school in Arizona. He took his Varsity Scouts on a 5 day hike totaling over 50 miles. During this hike they summited Kings Peak, the tallest peak in Utah. It was a hard hike for all those involved. But Curtis was very proud of his scouts for finishing the hike. Curtis also took the boys on a father sons camp out. They had a lot of fun doing manly things. Later on in the summer, Curtis also went on a Youth retreat called Youth Conference for a few days. He had a great time with the youth. It was almost perfect, until he backed his truck into the side of a tree. That incident made Curtis a little grumpy. Speaking of grumpy, remember that time when Curtis sliced his hand while making a sling shot! Late night visit to the ER was a blast. Wasn't it Curtis?
We have been having a lot of fun our our new boat this summer! We ventured out at least 6 times. Sage loves the thrill of being out on the water on a tube. Ashton was a bit scared at first but slowly gained his courage to go at high speeds and be tossed into the water. Jace and Ryker went out on a tube a few times. But neither of them really enjoyed it. Especially since Ryker's tube actually nose dived and Ryker did not let go of the tube for a few seconds after he had been submerged. And yes, as mom i was freaking out a bit. But his life jacket popped him up and he was fine. After that his desire to go out on the tube was lacking. Curtis LOVES driving the boat. And he looks great at the helm.
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| Sage And Gabbi are still very good friends. |
We went Camping twice as a family. Our first trip was at Payson lakes with our dear friend Krisi and her family. We had a lot of fun at Payson. We caught a lot of fish and ate lots of good camp meals! Jace did however disappear on us. We could not find him anywhere. He had walked himself down to the nearest lake and hiked to the other side of the lake. We followed tips for a half of a mile till we found him. Again, yes I was scared and yes Jace and I had a serious chat about not taking off without an adult!
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| Dudley Campout |
Our second camping trip was a Dudley get together. We camped for 3 nights. Again we ate a lot of good food and caught some nice fish from the lake of which we fried up and devoured. We also ventured out and went for a small hike for a few hours. Everyone had a great time and no one was lost.
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| Lots of Kids in the Wilde house! |
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| Singing and Playing Rainbow connection. |
In August we went to Bear Lake for a Wilde family reunion. My parents rented a very large house for all of us overlooking the lake. Most of my family lives out of state. So I look forward to these reunions! The house was noisy but full of love and laughter. We boated for one day, had a talent show on another day and simply hung out and enjoyed each others company the rest of the time. The night before we left, we had the best raspberry shake in existence. Curtis and I devoured it in the car on the way back to the house. It was a five minute drive...
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| We loved hanging out with Sonya! |
After Bear Lake we had the pleasure of having Cousin Sonya over for a few days. The kids loved having her here and we hope to get her again in the future! We went to the aquarium, a car/plane show, and played hard. And when her parents came to pick her up we followed them to Dinosaur National Monument! We do love our National parks!
School has started for the children. Sage is in 6th grade this year! It will be her last year of elementary school. This year i have decided to step back and let her either fail or succeed in school. So far she is doing ok but has room for improvement. But she is getting there!
Ashton is in 3rd grade. He thinks his teacher is pretty and he is starting to discover that reading can be fun if you find the right book. He has discovered he likes the series I Survived. I spent the summer looking for and buying all sorts of books he might be interested in reading. Most of them bored him. So I am sooo happy that he has found something that sparks his interest.
Jace is in his second year of preschool at Rocky Mountain Elementary. He is loving it and is glad to be there. He has struggled a little bit with getting along with other boys in class but has made his peace with them now. He loves show in tell and socializing.
And that is about it. Any questions? If you do have questions you have my number, give me a call and we will catch up.
Oh wait! I have neglected myself yet again. I am sorry. Some of you I know are curious about little ol' me. My summer has been spent running to and from activities, taking the kids out on adventures, improving my guitar skills, baking goodies just because, holding down the fort when Curtis was gone, helping out with scouts, recovering from a torn calf muscle (from which I am now trying to get back in shape), raising a male kitten (that can be daunting), and trying to keep the house clean (almost an impossibility in the summer!) And finally I have been working on my final child's stocking. And I am almost done! I never thought it through when I crossed stitched Sage's stocking. You see the stockings have to match somewhat! I estimate that each stocking has taken me about 500 hours to complete. That's a rough estimation. So I have spent a total of 2000 hours on these stockings! That means a little over 2 months of my life has been spent cross stitching stockings! Labor of love... labor of love.
