I am going to recap our summer a bit. Mostly for memory and scrapbooking sake.
May
We got back from Washington DC at the beginning of May. We were pretty proud of ourselves that we made awesome time: 2 days to drive across basically the whole country. We both took alternating 5 hour driving shifts. I should have never let Jaren know I was capable of driving that long. Now he makes me drive more on long trips. We got to see some of the flooding that was happening along the Mississippi River as we drove through. It was pretty intense. We stayed at my mom's house in Brigham City for a couple days until we got all of our stuff moved back into our apartment in Logan. Everything seemed so wide open compared to Washington DC. I was amazed that 2nd east in Logan would probably be a 6 lane street in DC. (Ok probably not that many, but it seemed HUGE!) We love that there are no speed humps here. LOVE. It was so great to be home and to see our family and friends again! We got to meet Andrew James Moncur who was born just a few days before we made it home. He is so cute and we love him! We both started back at work full time and were lucky to both get our previous jobs back. That month we played a lot of sand volleyball with friends. Jaren went undefeated for at least a month and was pretty proud of himself for it, but don't worry he lost a few times once his streak was broken.
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| Goodbye Washington DC! |
Towards the end of May, Kaitlyn graduated from high school. We all celebrated by going out to Olive Garden for dinner. She is now going to Utah State as well! We love having her so close!
For Memorial Day weekend we went camping at North Fork with my Hanks family. Its tradition. (Although, a crazy one.) We got there and pitched our tents and played with Dalyn's airsoft guns while more of the family arrived. A big moose kept walking through the field and through the trees just across from the campground. Dalyn and Jaren got some pictures of it and Moe had to run down to make sure they didn't get too close to the thing. I can't remember for sure, but it seems like we had somewhere between 50-60 people up there all together. The first night, it was SO COLD. Impressively cold. But we woke up to yummy pancakes and hot chocolate to warm us up. That day, some of the cousins and I started playing soccer in the field and soon after we had a pretty good game of soccer going. It was so fun because the youngest player was probably 6 and the oldest was 24 (Jaren). Everyone was actually pretty good! We had a lot of fun! Aunt Sandy brought her Consecutive Reader boards for everyone to make. What a great idea! Saturday night, was even colder than the first night. It was raining so Moe and Jaren set up a shelter under the shade canopy thing and we all sat by the propane heaters to try to get warm. We even roasted marshmallows over them to make s'mores. Jaren and I borrowed an extra sleeping bag that night and we stayed a lot warmer than the night before. About 2 hours after we had fallen asleep, I woke up to Jaren calling out, "Hello? Who's there?!" I was instantly terrified. And confused. Our nice new tent was gone and we were in some tiny tent that was very close to our faces. But then Jaren realized what was going on. He started to hit the sides of the tent and something started to slip off and fall to the ground. He started laughing a little because it was snowing and the weight of the snow made the tent twist in on itself and collapse enough to where it was just inches from our faces. We were awake about every 1/2 hour the rest of the night to a collapsed tent and had to keep hitting snow off the tent. Needless to say, everyone who was still there in the morning began to pack up and head home early. Bethany and Dave left during the night with their kids and their poor tent was destroyed by the snow. The poles had snapped under the weight of the snow. My mom's shade canopy was completely mangled and everything was a soppy, muddy, snowy mess. The funny thing is this type of weather isn't an abnormal occurance for us. We have had our fair share of awful weather at North Fork over Memorial Day. After 20 years of carrying on this tradition, I think people are finally realizing that perhaps another time and another place might be in order. But rain or shine ... or snow, we have had some great times and have many memories at North Fork!
