Still Here

 I keep thinking I should post on here.  But then I can't think of anything to write about.  These last few months have been uneventful, to say the least.  Well, the daily grind has kept us plenty busy, but who wants to read about that?  I guess it's good to document for posterity's sake though, so here's a brief update of what we've all been up to.  Jake's more busy than he wants to be with work.  He goes crazy because of all of the babysitting he has to do every day.  In the spare time he doesn't have, he works on the trailer.  I would like to say that some day he'll slow down, but I doubt that will happen.  I do hope that some day he'll be busy with things he actually enjoys.  Zack just found out that he got a 32 on the ACT!  He's smart without even trying.  Too bad his grades don't show it.  He learned the hard way that it's hard to balance work and school.  He's also gotten too good at carpentry, so Jake always wants his help.  This is both a good thing and a bad thing for him.  Kate is killing it in high school.  She's made some cute friends.  She's the peacemaker in our house.  Zack and Sage are mortal enemies right now, and somehow Kate is friends with them both.  Thank heavens.  My sweet, sassy Sage has hit puberty and isn't quite so sweet.  How I hate puberty!  I'm hopeful she'll return to her sweet self one day.  In the mean time she's keeping us all on our toes.  We've taken to calling her Betty when she loses her cool.  She loves it.  I'm just trying to keep things together around here.  Somehow I manage to not have enough time for everything.  I'm currently YW president in our ward, so that's added a whole new level of business.  But I'm so glad I get to be in YW when both of my girls are there.  We're having a great time together!  And Jake gets to hang by himself every Wednesday when all of us leave.  Lucky guy.

I'll let the pictures tell the rest of what we've been up to.  Mountain biking is about to start, the trailer is almost done, so soon we'll have all kinds of stuff to report.

Where Jake spends his evenings.  And weekends.

Zack's awesome mask line from work

We got sugar cookies and frosting from Suss Cookies for V-Day.  It was awesome.

We spent an entire day deep cleaning Zack's room.  He loved it.  It was disgusting.

Our beautiful valley

Sage had a dance competition

Dance friends Caitlin and Kami

The purple in the walls is insulation

I made lots of jam after working all night.  My family makes fun of me for the things I do after working.  Whatever.

One of Sage's many selfies on my phone

The trailer has walls!  And yes, that's a water tank in the floor.

We went to a new burger place in Provo called 7 Brothers.  This picture does not do justice to the size of the burgers.  They were delicious.  

Bridal Veil Falls

Now we have walls and a floor

Sage had to climb in a small space to help outline a board for Jake to cut