The Greatest Waterslide in South Dakota

We went on a long road trip. The boys weren't super excited about it, and I don't blame them and we had debated about whether or not to leave them home but then Pres. Oaks talked about having more quality family time - so the road trip was on! We stopped in Casper and Gillette so Toby could get some work done. Then we went to Devil's Tower (my favorite), Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse and then finally to the hotel with a water slide! That's all the boys cared about. And it didn't disappoint. It was a really fun water slide! We had a fun trip. We couldn't decide if Wyoming was pretty or not. Max decided it's just sad. The best part of the trip was that Sam had to write a talk for church on the Family Proclamation so he talked about our trip and getting to the water slide.

Unfortunately the Casper temple was closed for cleaning.

The sunrise was amazing

Sam went fishing while we waited for Toby to work

Watching the prairie dogs

This is Chubs. He was my favorite

Devil's Tower

After we left Mt Rushmore we took the scenic route through the needles. It was so pretty! We went through 3 tunnels and cool bridges that looked like this. Max turned on the Car's movie playlist while we wound through. It was awesome.

What the Crazy Horse monument will eventually look like

What it looks like now. Yes, you should be laughing. We were. The boys were not.

Who knew there was a random Flinstone Land in the middle of nowhere!

The water slide!

The 1st snowball of the season!

Martin's Cove - can you tell Sam was sick of the car?!

Devi's Gate

This is the actual Cove (behind and to the left of the antelope) where the saints found shelter

Our map of where we went.

All State Choir

Max got to participate in All State Choir. It's where a the best singers from each high school in the state come together to perform. It's always amazing. And being at the tabernacle was even more amazing. The acoustics in there are crazy good. Max had lots of rehearsals and a really long day but it was totally worth it.

Farmington High School

We had hurricane rain that night that we had to run through to get to the tabernacle. My hair was dripping. Good memories

 

Happy Fall Y'all

Max's choir concert - he accompanied A LOT!

Fall has kept us busy with all the usual things. Concerts, recitals, lacrosse - all good things!

We had all the youth over for the worldwide broadcast

Max took 3rd place at his DECA competition at Utah State

I counted 5 people trying to but together Bish's witch

Conference shenanigans 

 

Max got asked to Harvest twice

Toby had another birthday and got another thing that's orange. Yes, it's a problem

Homecoming

Max took Riley to Homecoming and they had a great time. He's got a great group of friends that makes me want to be in highschool again. For their day activity they rented a ginormous slide and had it in the backyard with some fun games in the backyard. We were in Powell for the actual night but Megan and Gracie came to the rescue.

When you're parents aren't home, these are the kinds of poses your siblings make you do.