House O' Sullivans

Last Thursday we took the kids to a Bees baseball game.  Earlier in the day, Zeke was playing in his room and he turned to me and randomly said, "Mom, I just can't stop thinking about the game."  He was pretty excited to go to his first ever real baseball game. After about an hour of watching the game, and watching the people around us consume large quantities of expensive ballpark fare, Zeke turned to me and said, "How come we don't have any treats?"  After that Casey went and got a giant bag of kettle corn and some lemonade for the kids and they were sufficiently satisfied. Although it was allegedly supposed to rain, it was just cooler and ended up being the perfect night out with the kids. Last Saturday was the big 4-0 for me.  I'd wanted to do an epic family activity--something outdoors--but the chance of rain was so high that I'd consigned myself to a small hike in the rain.  Saturday morning came with mostly clear skies, so w...

Last week we had a couple of torrential downpours.  Apparently torrents of rain are irresistible.  The kids were instinctively drawn outside and into a frenzy of activity--riding bikes and scooters up and down the soaked sidewalks and through the flooded gutters, laughing wildly. Hallee on her bike I've been loving the sporadic heavy rains--just enough to keep my lawn from crispifying so that I don't need to turn on the sprinklers.  (I'm feeling frugal, knowing that we have a $7,500 maternity deductible coming up.) This is what kid-joy looks like. Zeke--soaked and happy. Last week Casey invited us to join him at Interstate Brick for lunch and a tour of the brick-making facilities there.  It was customer appreciation day and I had no idea what we were in for.  First of all, they fed us a fancy steak lunch.  We were the only family there--it was mostly a bunch of worker-guy and burly mason types.  Somehow we got the golden ticke...

My youngest brother, H.B., flew out from Florida with his family for the last week of July and the first week of August and an epic cousin-fest ensued.   It was constant action for two weeks straight!  Here are a few of the things that we did, although most are undocumented: Visiting the Church Museum of Art and History downtown Wild Mexican dancing in the museum Lunch at the Lion House and a visit to Temple Square Arden and Maddie We went on an epic tour of the newly renovated Ogden Temple on the very first day of the open house--first tracks, as they say in the industry--and all 20 of the White cousins were there. Zeke, Hal, and Soph outside the Ogden Temple. The Florida contingent: Karen, Mae, Maddie, H.B. and Mia Some of the massive herd of cousins The first Saturday in August, we floated the Provo River from just below Deer Creek Reservoir to Vivian Park.   Zeke, riding the shuttle bus up the river, ready with his s...