i'm finding it very difficult to "catch up" on blogging. i'm just now realizing how much has happened this last year. but family is something that has been on my mind a lot lately so i figured i would share with some pictures from my family reunion in utah this summer.
so remember in that last post how i talked about my mom and how she does 'energy work'. i can't even begin to describe it all because it's complicated and you'll think i sound like a crazy lunatic. well last night my mom was talking to kenneth and i and telling us to just be extra careful because there was a lunar eclipse. and apparently, when big movements and changes happen in our universe, it can really change the energy movement in our lives. without going on for a long time to explain it all, basically... the moon changes, life changes, we change.
i love my mom. and i believe in some of her ideas about all her energy work that she does. but i'm definitely not a 100% believer in all of it quite yet. although i will say i've seen some pretty cool things that have happened from it. but sometimes, my mom can sound.... a little crazy haha. my sister and i tease her a lot about it, but it's all good fun and i know it's something my mom is really passionate about, so i'm willing to learn more and have accepted some of her ways of thinking in my own life.
with all that said, last night, my mom was explaining this to us and how we needed to be extra careful and make sure we were staying grounded and focused. after my mom left, kenneth and i sort of laughed about how my mom was sounding really... hippie-like and a little weird.
(warning: story goes from a little funny to a little scary)
and then we get a call to find out that my grandpa fell and broke his arm and is in the hospital.
and then a few hours later we find out that a wildfire started and was half a mile away from my in-laws house in northern california, forcing them to evacuate.
and then kenneth and i decided that my mom wasn't so crazy after all.
unfortunately, my grandpa is still in the hospital and not doing too well at the moment. he was released this morning and then readmitted this evening.
my in-laws still can't return to their home and the fire is 25% contained which is better than it was last night. but it's pretty scary to look on a map and see their street and then the red marking showing the fire just a few streets away. it looks like the fire is moving south from their house so that's really good news.
it's always so interesting how quickly things change. i look at these pictures from this summer and see me with my grandpa and now i think about how he's in so much pain and in the hospital. life changes so quickly. it most certainly makes me appreciate the good moments.
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while in utah this summer we had the opportunity to go rock climbing.
i've never been before and i was grateful to have an uncle and some cousins that were pros at it to teach me. alright, i never realized how physically exhausting rock climbing is! i have such a high respect for rock climbers.
let's talk about my mom and how awesome she is! she made it all the way to the top! (and she probably did it faster than me!)
not going to lie, there was a point when i was about half way up and i was stuck for a while trying to find a good place to keep climbing. as i was contemplating where to go i thought... i'm tired haha. maybe i'll just go down. and then i thought... wait, i can't go down. my mom just climbed this whole thing and that's so embarrassing if i can't climb it after she just did haha. i really hope i'm like my mom when i'm her age. she does so many great things and she's in awesome shape. yeah... she's pretty rad.
later that week some of us hiked timpanogos cave. i hiked it the summer before with my friend jordan, but it was fun to do it again with my family.
i love my uncles. they always keep me laughing.
we got to go to timpanogos temple. my mom is 1 of 9 children. yeahhhh. talk about a lot of cousins. so it's pretty rare when she can get together with all her siblings. it was a special moment to share that with all of my aunts and uncles & grandparents. not to mention what a beautiful temple!
so funny story. my uncle and his family used to live in alaska. kenneth's family used to live in alaska. yup... they all knew each other! my uncle and my father-in-law would go hunting. granted kenneth was only 2 or 3 at the time before they moved to hawaii, but still a cool experience for him to meet my uncle again. such a small world.
for the 4th of july we watched the provo parade in the morning and then ate lunch at my grandparents house. my uncle kevin & aunt kathy run a shaved ice business where they cater at weddings and other events, so they brought everything to have yummy shaved ice after lunch. let's just say everyone's tongues were a lovely shade of blue. and i'm not complaining about that.
love my sweet niece ana!
i'm so grateful for these pictures to remind me of all the great times this summer with family. it's a weird feeling to grow older and move away from family but then also start your own new family too. i look at this picture of kenneth and i with my grandparents and think about how one day that will be us standing with our grandchildren. that just blows my mind that there is so much more to come in this beautiful thing we call life.
xx
such fun memories!!
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