At the Park City Doggy Parade
It’s that time of year again, where kids get crazy with the clothes and run around sugar crazed. Too much fun. I missed the Doggy Parade this year, but (thankfully??) Halloween is more of a ‘season’ than a single day.
Scaring away the crows
Here’s a walk along Scarecrow Lane by the White Barn in Park City with Aspen and T’ai, Heather and Serisa, and Tory, Tegan, and Kari. The kids got to make their own scarecrows afterwards.
Tory and Tegan on the Horizon
Fall means canyoneering around here, so we headed down to the North Wash area of Southern Utah. It’s located between Hanksville and Lake Powell – essentially BFE. Heather, Josh, and Sirisa, as well as Babbie, Brad, Tai, and Aspen showed up too – But the first morning was just us. We took the kids through a canyon called Lucky Charms – a perfect little slot for kids.
Tory got on rope and let me lower him down a 30ft rappel. He was a little nervous at first, but was determined to do it. And he liked it!
There aren’t more shots simply because lugging the camera through skinny, sandy, hands-on canyons is a pain. We need to get a little point and shoot for these kinds of things.
The boys warm up before the game
Growing up, soccer wasn’t available in my home town. Here in Park City, though, it’s as big as football in Texas. There’s Spring and Fall kids leagues (and probably Summer and Winter too, not sure) and we finally got Tory on a team this fall. He was lucky enough to be put on a team with his good friend Evan, but also made a few new friends: Alex, Finley, Christian, and Adam.
I was bummed that Evan wasn’t at this game, the only one brought the camera too. The last game was also canceled due to snow – so I didn’t get a team picture. The game may be rescheduled for next week though, so I may get one yet.
It was really fun watching them as they start learning the game. Since I know nothing about soccer myself, it’ll be fun for me to learn it too.
Hiking at Brighton
Rather than try and go back and separate out each event that happened over the last two months, here’s a bunch of photos from that time.
The main reason I’ve missed so much is our camera had a series of unfortunate events… but we’ve got it back now so I’ve no longer got an excuse for not posting.
It shouldn't be this easy!
Potty training is one of the milestones I’ve been looking forward to the most. With Tory we experienced a long, drawn out process that required much bribery in the form of ‘potty prizes’. It was never meant to be this way… we’d started him sitting on a mini potty from about 5 months and were convinced that by a year old he’d be pooping on his own, and probably even scrubbing the pot when he was done. Not so.
So with Tegan we just decided to let nature take it’s own course and let things happen in due time. For the last 6 months or so we’d as if she wanted to sit on the potty and she always just said no. Until last week that is. She began asking to sit on the potty, and even though nothing would happen, it was encouraging to hear.
And then lo and behold a miracle occurred! I came inside one afternoon to find Tegan sitting on the potty by herself, and actually using it (no 1)! Later that same day she did it again and left a little brown treat! Were we excited? ah haha ha aha aha!
She’s had a few accidents here and there but overall, she’s good to go. There’s still the nighttime diapers for a while and I’m not sure if we’re ready to brave a long afternoon in public, but I’m ready to call this milestone achieved! Way to go kid!
Tory navigates a corner.
Big Milestones this week – one for Tegan that I’ll write more about later, and the big T rides his bike without training wheels! I’ve been bugging him for the last few weeks to let me take them off and he’d been reluctant. Then one day he asked me to take them off, so we did. I held him for the first few seconds, gave him a push and off he went! Now, a week later he’s able to get up and going on his own and rides back and forth to the neighbors house.
Now I need to get him up on the trail!
The Park City Fire District has a wood chipping department, and since I have an in with the chief they’ll sometimes drop off the chips in our driveway. This load the kids have been helping us distribute.
Since I’ve been such a slagger with updates these past few months, here’s some randomness from May.
Aunt Jenny stopped in for a few days while on route to Crested Butte. We tried to convince her to stay but her heart was set on a return to her old stomping grounds. I don’t blame her, Kari and I both had many good years in CB.
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