Ghost Towns & Rock Hounds

We picked the coldest day in June to visit Garnet Ghost Town.  While walking through the 30 preserved buildings we got snowed on!  It was the awesomest ghost town that we have ever been to and  it got even better when Maggie helped us find our first ever Letterbox.  After Joey fell in the mud we decided that a hike to the waterfall was out so we drove to Phillipsburg where we bought a bag of dirt that we searched through to find sapphires.  When it was all said and done we had a blast and found 88.64 karats of sapphires.  We are now officially addicted and planning our next trip back to buy another bag of dirt.

Seipert Style

The Seipert family has a style all their own - TROUBLE!  Bryce has been having way too much fun shooting blackpowder pistols, making water balloon launchers to shoot into the road (or at each other), and getting questioned by police after making homemade fireworks.  As fun as it is, we're hoping that Bryce doesn't get arrested before we make it home.  Cross your fingers for us!

Summer Vacation Begins

Our summer vacation started with a bang this year!  We were so happy to have Brian, Kelly and their family stay at our house.  It turns out that Brian is really the life of the party and he started a dance fest after dinner one night.  He helped Bryce finish the treehouse as well (more pictures to come).  Our families had a great time at the temple and Church History Museum before leaving for Logan.  While in Logan we had the chance to see Landon and Tiffany get sealed in the temple and had an awesome time playing at the hotel with the whole family.  We have had so much fun starting our summer vacation and can't wait to see what else it holds for us. 

Summer's Here!

We had an awesome and exhausting last week of school.  There was the PTA carnival, Girl Scout Cookie Party and our Minute to Win It end of the year party.  When it was over Mom and Dad were beyond exhausted and the kids wanted to know, "What's next?"  We can't for our vacation to start.

No Fry Day

We woke up early (thanks to Cassie) and headed to Hogle Zoo to see their new Zoorasic Park exhibits and found much more than we expected.  The Utah Museum of Natural History has 13 robotic dinosaurs set up at the zoo that we wanted the kids to see but when we got there though there was a whole lot of something going on that caught us by surprise.  We got cheese sticks from the radio station, chapstick and bracelets from sunscreen experts (they also let us know that the sunscreen we've been using for years is no good), we got tribal patterns painted on our faces with colorful zinc oxide and each of the kids got to draw a picture on a t-shirt.  All of that on top of the dinosaurs made for a super fun day. 

Graduation Day

Yeah, it's summer!  Well at least for one of us; Joey graduated from Kindergarten a week before the rest of us finish school.  He was super excited for us to see his graduation but because it was done in the middle of the day not everyone could be there.  It's okay, Dad recorded it and we all got to have a special graduation night with ice cream to top it off.  Joey's teacher said that he was energetic and out going with bit of monkey business mixed in to keep things interesting and that he was a quiet comic that often provides a fun diversion for his friends.  Basically; he is a sneaky, off task class clown that gets everyone riled up.  We are very proud of him and are excited for him to start the dual immersion program next year.

U2 Concert

When I called Bryce to tell him that I had won U2 tickets he was almost giddy, in fact when I got home from school he even asked to "caress them".  It was an amazing concert and an amazing night.  As a matter of fact it was our first real date in four years.  It was a great way to break that stretch and it came just in time for our tenth anniversary.  We are super greatful for a great boss who gave us the opportunity to have such a wonderful night.