Park Time with Jaxon

There are so many new parks in St. George-so many it seems like a lot of the smaller older parks arent as busy as the new ones so we usually try to go to the smaller ones because we usually have the park to ourselves! Luckily we had time to play and hang out at the park before it started to rain today...one of the things I love about living here is the summer rain...even if it is humid once it quits raining! We also went skating around the park...another thing I love about this park is the trail around it and the volleyball court...Jaxon loves to play in the sand-I didn't get any pictures of that though! Jaxon seems a little bit young for this park but it's really one of my favorite parks!

First we skated around the park

He kept trying to squeeze his face through the holes! He is one silly boy!



I thought I changed this pic but after a few times I gave up! He loves to swing and make his mommy nervous but he didn't fall and he was having fun and no other kids were at the park!

Baby Brylie

Brylie Sackolwitz was born on July 31st! She is THE CUTEST baby girl! I forget how small babies are when they are first born. She has beautiful skin and dark hair! Her big sister Brooklyn is all ready a big helper!

A Day at the Beach

Kolob

WOW I Never Thought I Would Experience This!....

I never would have thought I would see a chicken be skinned!!! Russell, Jake's cousin wanted me to experience holding the chicken by it's feet (which felt really wierd)! I was supposed to swing it around by its feet to make it dizzy because that's apparently what you do when you get ready to chop its head off! CRAZY I couldn't do that part because I was thinking that I'd probably lose my grip and it would go flying and probably hit a fence or something-get stuck in the fence and then I figured it would be not good to eat anymore?! LOL Russell was really good and didn't make me do anything I didn't want to-and so Jake decided he wanted to chop off its head (no surprise that my husband would want to do that-nothing like being eager to chop off a head (not to be graphic, but you may or may not have seen what I saw that day that will forever change the way I look at packaged meat aka chicken for the rest of my life! I will never forget it...but it did make for a nice crock pot dinner...I just had to look away a couple times when I was cutting the fat off! Anyway, that's about as graphic as I'll get-hopefully it's G rated!

Jake and Russ skinning the chicken


Jake in his element...chopping things! Haha


Me holding the feet...with two cute little kids :)

Mother's Day!

On Mother's Day we went into Zions and did a few hikes and enjoyed the cooler weather! We had a picnic at a park in Springdale and Jaxon loved every minute of it! I think he is going to be my little hiking buddy! He loved going to Zions to hike, play in the water and and ride the shuttle!

I did it! With alot of help!!!

WHOO HOO! I'm so excited that I finally graduated with my Associates! I havent been in school for years and I have always wanted to at least get my Associates but now that I've finished I want to keep going! I started upper division courses last semester and have enjoyed almost every minute of it! haha There have been so many friends who have helped me get this far and my husband has supported me every step of the way. I don't know when I will get to go back but I'm really looking forward to it, when it does happen! The Salutatorian at the graduating ceremony was a 16 year old girl who was graduating with her Associates (majoring in Chemistry) before she graduated from high school-she's graduating from high school at the end of May! AMAZING! She talked about how you can never have enough education and it's one thing that can never be taken from you....maybe that's why I have wanted to get my degree for so long and it's amazing how everything has worked out! I'm so grateful for my friends and family who have supported me!