DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.Early in the week we were trying to encourage Aurora with her potty training by telling her if she got it down well we'd be able to go see the hot air balloons. She was SO. EXCITED. We had to get up super early, and this was our first venture out of the house with a newly potty-trained toddler. :)
I had to move away with Aurora but had to snap a shot of how close Dar and Savy were to the balloon :)
We had shown Aurora some pictures of previous years we went to the balloons and she was super excited to see the "Piggy Balloon", at least until we were actually there and the noise scared her
Daddy and Rori checking out the balloons taking off
Our traditional family shot--I love how our family is growing!
We had the opportunity to ride in a tethered balloon for free, so I filled out the waivers and we (especially Dar) were super excited to try it. Unfortunately Aurora wasn't so excited. She kept telling us the balloons scared her, so we opted to skip the balloon ride for the sake of our sweetheart, but we were able to give the opportunity to ride to our awesome home teacher and his kids. Maybe next year she'll be more willing to try it. She did like "driving" the tractor the balloon was going to be tethered to though!
Later that evening after a nice nap, we met Papa at the carnival for Rori to ride some rides. She was intently watching the carousal, trying to decide if she wanted to ride it.
She's ridden one before, but I think our sweet little fearless Rori has become WAY more timid in her old age ;) She didn't want to sit on a horse, even with Daddy holding her.
After a minute or so, she thought this would be a fun place to sit for the ride :)
She ended up having Daddy hold her for the whole ride, but at least Papa and I got some waves from her!
After a not-so-good carousal ride, for some reason she thought she wanted to ride this little space ship ride by herself. We decided to go ahead and let her try it.
She liked driving the space ship, until the ride started. She wasn't prepared for the jolt of the ride starting and wasn't holding on and fell backwards a bit when the ride moved forward. She immediately started crying and was crying so hard the operator had to stop the ride to let Aurora off. Yep. That was OUR kid :) We were proud of her for trying it though!
She was really pretty hesitant with any of the rides after that, but Dar was able to get her to go on the really big slide with him. She didn't like that one either.
We tried to get her to go on a couple other rides, but she wasn't having it. Luckily Papa and Gramma's neighbors were there with their son, so we gave the rest of Auroras ride tickets to them. Thanks again, Papa, for taking us to the carnival!
Our traditional family shot--I love how our family is growing!
We had the opportunity to ride in a tethered balloon for free, so I filled out the waivers and we (especially Dar) were super excited to try it. Unfortunately Aurora wasn't so excited. She kept telling us the balloons scared her, so we opted to skip the balloon ride for the sake of our sweetheart, but we were able to give the opportunity to ride to our awesome home teacher and his kids. Maybe next year she'll be more willing to try it. She did like "driving" the tractor the balloon was going to be tethered to though!
Later that evening after a nice nap, we met Papa at the carnival for Rori to ride some rides. She was intently watching the carousal, trying to decide if she wanted to ride it.
She's ridden one before, but I think our sweet little fearless Rori has become WAY more timid in her old age ;) She didn't want to sit on a horse, even with Daddy holding her.
After a minute or so, she thought this would be a fun place to sit for the ride :)
She ended up having Daddy hold her for the whole ride, but at least Papa and I got some waves from her!
After a not-so-good carousal ride, for some reason she thought she wanted to ride this little space ship ride by herself. We decided to go ahead and let her try it.
She liked driving the space ship, until the ride started. She wasn't prepared for the jolt of the ride starting and wasn't holding on and fell backwards a bit when the ride moved forward. She immediately started crying and was crying so hard the operator had to stop the ride to let Aurora off. Yep. That was OUR kid :) We were proud of her for trying it though!
She was really pretty hesitant with any of the rides after that, but Dar was able to get her to go on the really big slide with him. She didn't like that one either.
We tried to get her to go on a couple other rides, but she wasn't having it. Luckily Papa and Gramma's neighbors were there with their son, so we gave the rest of Auroras ride tickets to them. Thanks again, Papa, for taking us to the carnival!
We had planned to go to the fireworks that night too, which we always love, and Aurora was looking forward to that too, but she was being super grumpy and not very nice so we ended up staying home so she could get a good night's sleep. Maybe next year :)
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