Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to this amazing Dad! Russell is a wonderful husband and father! I don't know what we did right in the preexistence to deserve him but we pretty much won that lottery. We love him so much!!

We sure love our Dad and we love spending time with him too.  To celebrate Father's Day, we spent the afternoon at Porcupine Reservoir on Monday.  

We love kayaking and had a blast at the lake.  The water is really high this time of year so it actually covered the trees and made a nice shady beach/docking area to play on.  We kayaked and floated all the way across the lake and explored the shoreline on the other side of the lake.  There were some nice rocks to cliff jump off of but we were not sure how to get up there.  This is a really nice lake to play in because it is a little less populated than Hyrum Dam.

One of my goals this year was to learn how to make a t-shirt quilt. I gathered all of Russell's old Fire/EMS shirts and made him this awesome quilt to use at the station. I love how it turned out and so does he!

For Russell's big present this year, he got this awesome shed.

Okay it is actually Happy Father's day, birthday, anniversary, and probably Christmas! This shed is something Russell has wanted and we have needed for quite a while now.  Thanks to the Covid-19 government stimulus check, we were finally able to make it a reality. 

Russell has been working so hard to get the ground prepped and ready for the day when his shed would finally arrive.  He even recruited the kids to help him out with measuring and hauling and laying gravel.  The kids found these awesome hammocks at Al's Sporting Goods and really wanted them.  We told them that they had to work for them and earn some money.  Russell decided hauling gravel was the perfect job for that.  They spent all day one Saturday hauling and laying gravel in order to earn their hammocks.  They did a really great job and the pad was ready for cement when they were done.  That day they went and bought their hammocks and relaxed the rest of the day!

  Little did we know that we don't really know how to prep a pad for cement.  When Russell's co-worker came over to lay the frames, he kind of laughed at us and said we needed a lot more grave.  We had to make the gravel level for the cement.  Because of the slope of our yard, this meant a lot more gravel to make it level all the way around.  The front of the pad needed about 2 inches of gravel while the back of the pad needed about 12 inches to make the whole thing level.  Well this meant another Saturday of hauling and laying gravel.  The next time his co-worker came to lay the frames, he was much happier.  Then it was time for the cement.  This also took a lot of man power so we were glad that a few of our friends were able to come and help.  Finally, the day arrived for Top Shed to come and build the shed.  When they were done, we were so pleased and it looked so awesome!

Happy Father's Day!!

Another fun thing that has happened recently is Charlotte has decided that riding her bike is fun!

She used to think it was way too much work to pedal her bike but now she realizes that she can go much farther when she is pedaling.  There are some nights that we ride around the block multiple times.  She thinks it is pretty awesome to go exploring on her bike.