June 2025

 Ella and the Black Diamond Maybird girls headed to Richfield for an iCup Race.  They seem to always have fun.  Darren likes to go with them and be the cool dad!

A few fun things in June: Balls Bike Camp, Cowabunga Bay with Abby's school friends, Abby's piano recital which she played Popular from Wicked, Abby and Ella dyeing a small chunk of hair pink, Abby's YW group going to the temple, practice with the DPMS mnt bike team, talking to our favorite Tyler every week and hearing about his cooking adventures. 

Ella keeps biking.  Doing the limbo with her bike was fun to watch. Doing the "Super Crest" with Darren. Lots of elevation but also soaking in the river and icing the legs in the snow.   

Darren and I went to Kansas City for his annual Savage Leadership Conference.  It's nice to be together.  I loved the World War I museum and all our long walks around the downtown area. 

Abby, Hazel and Maybel had a great time dressing up. 

Balls Bike Camp was a sucess.  4 summers in a row now.  

Neighborhood parties to swim and play 9 square. 

The South Ridge of Superior was fantastic.  We thought about Tyler the whole time and promised we would be back next summer to do it with him.  The Larrabees joined us.  It was the makeup activity for City of Rocks this year.  We weren't able to go to Idaho to climb this summer, so this was a great runner-up.  

And... JORTS day at CCHS Mnt bike practice.  Oh my!

Ella in Missoula Montana for a National Bike Race

 Ella and Darren headed up to Montana for a National Mnt Bike Race.  Lots of Ellas Black Diamond Maybird girls were there for the cold and rainy weekend.  

Harston's in St George

It was great to spend some time in St George with most of the Harston Family.  My girls and I headed down on Monday (so we could spend Father's Day with Darren).  He got to stay and see the driveway get paved.  How nice it will be to not have dirt everywhere all the time.  We drove straight to Sand Hollow, which was beautiful.  It was over 100 degrees but the water was perfect.  We boated, tubed, and snorkeled. Then we headed back to the house to get ready for Tuachan's Wizard of Oz.    It was a late night,t but fun to see .

  

On Tuesday Ella and I woke up early to go bike in Snow Canyon. Darren wasn't there so I got to ride with her.  Then we headed to Big Shots to try some golfing. Everyone got to talk to Tyler since it was his P-Day. I snuck away to have ice cream with Tawnie who is doing chemo for breast cancer.  That night some of the adults went to the Cedar City Shakespeare Festival.  The rest of the crew stayed and played games.  I gave them my credit card and they had to go to the store in teams and find the best dessert.  We had fun eating all the different ideas. 

On Wednesday, we tried to head to Toquerville Falls.  With bikes on the back of my 4-Runner, we had to turn around.  The road was just too bad.  So we stopped and had food in Beaver instead.  Darren finally got a steroid injection in his back.  Hopefully, that will help with his 3 herniated disks.