Elder Quinn.

We had a belated Mother's Day today when we got to 'talk' to McKay.

My parents were on a cruise during Mother's Day so we postponed talking with him until today.

We did a google hangout with McKay in Mexico City {showing us his companions in the office}, Anthony and Sharon's family in Michigan, Dallin and Becca in Virginia, Nathan and Lauren in San Francisco, Tiffany and Aaron's family in Herriman, Utah and us in Midway, Utah.

Gotta' love modern technology, especially because we not only got to talk to McKay, we got to see him!

Truman taking a turn to say hello.

Bodie showing McKay his latest skinned knee.

It was SO good to see McKay and talk with him, he is doing so great.  He is still serving in the mission office but now he is on a special assignment with a former AP to travel the mission and do special trainings.

After Truman and Bodie said 'hello' to McKay we put them in our room because they were so typer seeing McKay.  With in a few minutes this was the scene!  They were so tired.

McKay showing us how 'fat' he has gotten in the office.

Showing us how tall he is next to his companion.

We talked for about an hour before McKay had to go.  He was still the same silly baby of the family that makes us all laugh, even all the way from Mexico.  

Grandpa Quinn the baby whisperer.

Sleeping Pete.

Flathead Lake.

 Gregg was gone all week to Flathead lake on a business trip.  He sent me these pictures, looks pretty relaxing to me :)

This was a multimillion dollar home on the lake.

 I survived my first full week without him with all three kids.  Actually it was not bad, the boys are all so good and my mom stayed with me a few nights!  We played hard, worked on our yard and worked on her house.  And we watched "bonnet" movies at night after the kids were in bed.  We found a new series call 'Mr. Selfridge' on Amazon Prime.

Lake View Court.

The house that I grew up at in Park City was torn down today.

I loaded up the boys in the car and drove over to see it.

It was kind of sad.

It looked like a natural disaster hit and I had to keep reminding myself that non of my stuff was in the house, just memories.

Here is the house in December of 2012 right before it sold.

{link HERE to see all the pictures}

Here is what it looks like today.

My siblings and I decided to write down some favorite memories from our 20+ years in that house.

Tiffany

lifting up the area rugs, or blankets or pillows or whatever had been on the floor for a while to find a warm spot to lay on and warm up.

The piano full blast...Phantom of the Opera, The Beatles and Whitney Houston!

Dallin's 101 Dalmatian stickers on the wall.

Nate coming into my bedroom (future computer room) every night saying he couldn't sleep and needed to sleep on my trundle bed.

Conference in that sunny living room.

rope, strings, cords, parachute guys cars,......hanging off the balcony...always.

The dogwoods mom hated. The daisy and hollyhock garden I loved.

THE GHOSTBUSTER FORT!!!!!

The__(fill in your own colorful adjective)____Barbecue Pit. Cross country breakfasts, Relief Society dinners, Senior bonfires, and DAD.

Mowing that lawn. I never did, but it seems like someone always was.

darts on the big round window over the front door.

Parakeets in the corner for so many years!

...and rabbits on the deck, and Midnight! the cat.

rollerblading in the unfinished basement.

summer school/preschool! in the unfinished basement.

 Camille

kick-the-can, backyard parties, Christmas decorations, jumping off my loft {and apparently breaking my bed which is now Quinn's bed and she reminds me every time I am in her room that I broker her bed},

the many games on the sports court that we would make up, the tramp in the garage for the winters, the sun in my eyes at the dinner table during the winter months, being SO embarrassed to walk down ALL those stairs to meet my dates at the front door, SPYING on Tiff and her dates!, SPYING on Tiff and Aaron when he brought her home from their first date!

Sunday mornings in mom and dad's bathroom where we EACH took a turn in the bath water!

Mom always out working in her yard, 

the freezing cold house in the summer mornings

Gregg

My first kiss with Camille, 4th of July fireworks, the fire pit, whiffle ball in the cul-de-sac

Trampoline basketball with Truman

{This dump truck is backed up on the driveway to where the garage doors once were}

Nathan

Haha... I am loving this walk down memory lane and tribute to the old house. Very therapeutic.

It is really interesting that a few features and seasons stand out. I am noticing the back yard and its features.

Lauren

I'll add a few of my favorite memories from my short years with that house- Meeting Valine and Camille for the first time after Nate covered me in mud on an awesome ATV date. He told me not to worry- his family would like me more that way ;)

Coming to share our engagement with Paul and Valine. Grandma and Grandpa Arave were in town too- we shared the whole story while putting a puzzle together in the family room. I realized Valine and I have similar rings

Testing out chocolate cake after chocolate cake in the kitchen in an epic journey to find a comparable one to Magelbys.

Stamping. Stamping. Stamping. All over the kitchen and basement of that house.

Mckay's birthday scavenger hunt to find his iPhone

The family photo taken at the first Thanksgiving I joined for (Nate and I were dating). It was on mom and dad's bed- all in their PJs. Nate insisted that he didn't wear PJs and slept naked. I was asked to leave the room while just the boys took a photo to send Dallin on his mission :)

{What the back used to look like ...

 ... and now.}

Dallin

My favorite memories: hiking the PC, jumping four wheelers in the field, making cities out of chalk in the cul-de-sac, plowing driveways with the four wheeler, learning how to rappel off of Mom and Dad's deck with Aaron,

Tiff and Camille's high school parties on the basketball court where the neighbors had to call, making planes with Dad in the shop, taking Becca to meet the family, sleeping on the trampoline, selling lemonade, and night games.

 McKay

{written by Dallin}

This is my attempt at McKay's list: planking everything (including the house itself), burning Christmas trees in the fire pit, Christmas tree rodeo, jumping the new neighbor's driveway on skis, high school parties in the basement, cleaning the cars, organizing everything, making money from all of the neighbors.

Dad

Shop projects, climbing wall, outdoor movies, fireworks on the 4th of July, kickball in the field, ATV skiing and tubing in the field  

 It is the end of a really good era!

The new house is going to be great too!

Trampoline.

We have been working really hard on the yard for the last few weeks.  We decided to invest in a full-size trampoline for the boys.  Truman can already do a font flip.  I got on the tramp and just about damaged the entire front of my face trying to do a back flip for the boys.  I am not as young or as in-shape as I remember :) 

 Truman mid flip.

 Bodie's version of a flip, a somersault.  

I foresee hours of summer entertainment!

There is always a first for everything!

This is the first house that we have to take care of our own yard.

We have had fun working in the yard almost every evening.  And the Lindon nursery is my new favorite place to spend money.  I could buy one of everything there!

We planted a small garden and are trying out some new trees, flowers, ground covers and bushes.

{pictured above is a weeping cherry tree}

Mother's Day 2014.

Happy Mother's Day 2014.

Bodie was obviously really excited about taking a picture, Pete has no idea what is going on and Truman was trying so hard to cooperate!

I can't believe I have three little boys, it's going to be an adventure.

I love being a mother.  It takes a lot of hard work and patience but at the end of the day when I fall into bed, completely exhausted, I feel accomplished and thankful and I like that.

Truman's school class made this hilarious recipe book for mother's day.  They asked the kids what their favorite recipe was then wrote down what the kids said.  They also had the parents send in a recipe their child loves.

I think this is a combination of boiled eggs and scrambled eggs!

 Bodie made this picture in nursery.

 These are a few quotes I have been inspired by lately and have been trying harder to live by;

"Whenever possible say yes, they are only kids once!"

- Marjorie Hinckley

"Give your child a compliment and a hug; say, 'I love you' more; always express your thanks.  Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.  To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children.  You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well.  The are so precious.  Let them know.  May our families and homes be filled with love: love of each other, love of the gospel, love of our fellowman, and love of our Savior.  As a result, heaven will be a little closer here on earth."

- President Thomas S. Monson

"Please be patient with our children."

-Elder Russell M. Nelson

And a huge Happy Mother's Day to my mom.

This is a picture of her holding me the day I was born {December 1981}.

The end of soccer.

Today was our last soccer game for the spring season, we had a really fun team.

Gregg did a great job coaching.

The last game was especially fun because Truman scored 6 goals.

In his cute little innocent 5-year old prayers last night he prayed that he would get 6 goals in his game, and he did.

Bodie is the most patient little brother ever, he wishes so bad that he was playing too :(

One more year of watching and playing on the sidelines buddy.

Another goal.

Yep, I saw it.

Good job team.

And Bodie right there with them wishing it was him.