Cornelius Chronicles

It's that time of year again.  Piano Recital Time!  Maeve did a fantastic job on a very difficult piece!  Owen performed like a pro, even memorizing TWO songs!  And John was fabulous for his very first piano recital performance.  He was adorable and did a great job!  

Thanks to our neighbor's abundant apple tree we had a fun weekend of apple picking an apple preserving.  We had lots of fun and worked hard to make apple sauce, apple juice, apple jelly, and apple pie filling.  Yum!  

 Show me you're potty training with out telling me you're potty training.  :) 

It's always a good evening when we make time for an evening hike at Snow Basin.  Such a beautiful place in our backyard.

Loyd saved for a whole year and bought a whole pallet of fireworks for the 4th of July. :O  It was so many fireworks it took 4 nights of pyro techniques to get through them all.  I hope he got all that firework fun out of his system, because my poor mama heart sure did!  Thank you for a fun and exciting fireworks show, Loyd!

Summer Family trip to Blanding!!  We had the best time staying at a super cool cabin in the Abajo mountains outside of Monticello.  We brought Grandma Phillips along for the adventure fun again too!  It was our family vacation dream team. :D This time around Dustin took the big kids on some mountain bike trails on the Abajo bike trail system.   We visited the local San Juan county libraries and were able to donate the book I compiled on my Grandad Loyd Young and the book he wrote on his dad, William Lorenzo Young, to the San Juan County Historical Society, Monticello County Library Local History Special Collections, and the Utah State University South Eastern Campus Library.  It was so amazing that we could get my Grandad's books into an academic library for everyone to learn about him and his amazing family and the contributions they made to the people and landscape of San Juan County.   We hiked the entire 2+ mile loop around Loyd's lake.  ...