Amanda's girls camp pictures!

 It's kind of fun when Amanda syncs her phone because I get to see her pictures!!!

 Cute girls and fabulous nature pictures!

Dog Days of Summer

We tried hard to do more hiking this summer than last. I think the girls were at dance when I took Brandon down to Alta Ski Resort and hiked Albion Basin. Great hike and beautiful!!

 Feeling nature :)  Brandon is a stud!

 Sydney  has an obsession with taking hair off Mike's legs!  She has tried duct tape before.  This time she used his shaver!  He was silky smooth.....but I think he secretly loves the attention from his kids!

 Here are a bunch of pictures that Amanda took while we were in NYC.  The top is Ripleys' stockade.  By the way, the bathroom at Ripleys has fart sounds going while you are doing your business and then gives you some interesting facts about potty time!  Had me laughing out loud!

 On the subway...Miley Terry, Erin Berry, Chaylor Gunther and Evi Harvigetson (can't spell her last name)

 The Stardust Diner.....

 New world trade center building.....

 Times Square...Chaylor, Amanda, Maya Roundy, Kaitlyn McBride and Chay's mom, Lisa in the background

 Upper West Side buildings

 Our cook passes at Madison Square Garden!...

 Even though our plane landed at 1AM and we didn't get home into bed until 2 or 2:30am, we were up the next morning at the crack of dawn to go to Brigham City and Brock's homecoming!

 And to stay awake, Sydney was taking pictures!

NYC - Insta

Here's one way to make sure I blogged everything about NYC.  My instagram posts!

It was a really really fun trip. I'm so glad Amanda talked me into going and choosing this trip instead of a car for her 16th birthday!  It was fun to travel with her in her favorite city!  I was a proud mom watching her perform at the Statue of Liberty and during the dance class the Moms were allowed to attend.  And I'm grateful to Mike, Sydney and Brandon that made it possible for Amanda and I go to! It was a family group effort for sure!  Love you guys! 

Statue of Liberty performance!

I love these pictures with the city in the background :)

 This is one of the coolest parts of our trip!  Amanda got to dance Body Rock - her hip hop dance from 2014 at the Statue of Liberty!  She was even the main part!  Front and center!

 It was hot...super hot!!  I videoed the performance on my iPad. No idea how to get the full performance transferred to they Mac and then how to upload, but trust me...it was AWESOME!

 The girls and teachers posing after the performances.  There was another team from Utah there and we took turns performing while crowds gathered. So cool!

 Lots of posing....

 After performing, we went to the 9/11 memorial.  We have seen the pools, but not the museum.

It's still such a peaceful place in the middle of this big city!

Extremely sobering....We didn't even want to go in the area where all the live news reports were running.  It's still too recent....

Sorry, all these pictures are loading out of order and I am too lazy to fix them.  More posing and jumping pictures....

Love these girls!