Sunday, June 23, 2024

Hyde Happinesses

 Hello! It’s been awhile since I’ve written! It’s always so fun to see y’all’s posts… but it’s even more fun to see you guys in person and I’m so excited for this week for that reason!! :) can’t wait to see you guys. We got to see Joe and co. at the play this week which was awesome. 

This summer has been fairly busy already! A couple weeks ago we went up to Coeur d’Alene Idaho. It was pretty fun! Cams aunt and uncle own a really nice lake house up there and have jet skies and boats and all sorts of fun toys. Cams mom grew up in Coeur d’Alene and has lots of sisters that still live up there. We went out on the boat lots and played volleyball with Cams cousins. Cams younger siblings were all there with their fiancés and his mom and it was just generally a good time. Stetson slept about 0% of the time but that’s okay. A few days after we got home, we attended Lexi’s wedding in Bountiful. It was good times, except that the wedding itself lasted for 2 days. That was awful and it was blazing hot. But I always love a good wedding. 

So that just about brings you up to date! It’s really hot here now, and we just have a little window air conditioner. It gets up to 85° inside sometimes 😅 but seriously, don’t you miss the fun little college apartment phase? It’s pretty great I think, despite the heat. 

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!! 

The beginning of a very long car ride to Coeur d’Alene

First thing he does when we go somewhere new is locate all the balls. 

After locating the balls, he gives them a hug :)

Lots of morning workouts 




He’s got road rage 

Handsome boy


He got attached to this sprinkler one day


Lauren inspired me to try some charcuterie boards for Lexi’s bachelorette party


Don’t be deceived: he loved playing in the pool before the wedding 




Four generations

Wedding shenanigans 


He was happy to be home 

Pockets for the win 

His daddy loves America and is soooooo excited for the Fourth of July. 

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Flake Fun

First off, Happy Fathers day to all applicable parties.  You fellas amaze me. 

The last two weeks have been a wild ride! 

We had a small neighborhood bbq on Memorial Day.  The heart attack highlight was looking over and seeing James dangling from the monkey bars (approximately 7 ft high). He held on until I got there. 

Scott had his 42nd birthday which was 2 days of fun.  We went on a hike and James tripped and cut his head on a rock.  I would be okay with never having another head wound in the family.  He is fine now.  Then we went to a lake and rented a kayak.   

We worked a little on reinforcing the culvert in anticipation/hope of a good monsoon season. 

We went to a rocket day at the library as well as a portable planetarium show which was neat. 

We decided that we should have our septic tank pumped since it hasn't been pumped in 30 years or so.  But the plumber couldn't find the septic without remodeling our bathroom so we spent the last 2 weeks digging random holes around and we finally located the tank on Friday night! What a relief!

We can't wait to see some or all of you in a week or so! Love you all!

Our bulk chicken waterer 

The birthday pinata

The birthday boy

Taking his arnica after hitting the rock

Our neighbor's country bucket truck.  He is welding while standing on a wooden pallet being held up on the backhoe's fork attachment...

Building rockets and lunar landers

Giant bubbles


Fishing for crawdads