Ford Family Reunion

Every year on Brittney's mom side of the family, we have a family reunion with all of the Fords. This is a picture of Great grandma and grandpa Fords and almost everyone was there. What a blessing it is to have two great-grandparents still be apart of our lives. Everyone usually goes camping but we were party poopers this year and just went up for the day. We rode four wheelers and had lots of fun.

Sand Dunes

We went to the Sand dunes with our friends Brooke and Cole last weekend. We camped over Friday night and rode four wheelers. Brooke and Cole own a couple of blasters and we rented a 450 for me and a 450R for Scott. We had a blast together. Brittney had food poisoning while we where there but tried to make the best of it. I think it was the first night that Brooke and Cole left their little boy Kaison overnight, but as far as I know everything went fine. We roasted hot dogs and had smores for dinner.




This is sand mountain. We all climbed up it. It's pretty steep but our four wheelers had sand paddles on so it wasn't too much of a challenge to climb it. Sand paddles would of been helpful on our trucks because we got stuck on our way home. ha ha

July 4th weekend adventure

On the morning of the 3rd; me, Scott, my cousin Sadie, and Amanda all ran in the 5k together. It was a lot of fun. It was Sadie's first 5k race. We all did good. My goal was to not walk and I didn't. Yay!

After the 5k, we went to the Centerville parade and celebration with some of my family. We like the Centerville parade the best because it's usually not to long and they through candy.






We went to the Oakley Rodeo. This is one of mine and Scott's traditions. We've done it clear back before he went on a mission. We were on the top row and behind us were the bulls. Two bulls got in a fight with each other. It was pretty entertaining. After the rodeo we went up to St. Regis in Deer Valley and stayed the night. We relaxed in the spa together. Then we went to a barbecue with my family and one at Scott's mom's house. We had a firework show at Monique's circle.

Washington DC Trip

I'm so glad Weston (Elder Sill) is home. This is us when we first saw him at the airport in DC. It felt very surreal.

My dad and Ty riding the sphinx.

My dad had to scooter around everywhere because of his broken foot. He was a trooper. We were just glad he was able to come.

We went to the air and space Smithsonian museum. Scott loved it because he's a pilot.




One day we went and saw the Washington monument, Lincoln monument, WWII memorial, and the Korean War memorial.










On Sunday when we were there. We went to two different wards. We also visited the temple. That temple is so big. I guess it's second biggest to SLC temple. You don't see it until you come around a corner because of all the trees and then wam it's there. almost every night members fed us. Sometimes we would have two meals because they expect you to eat. We ate everything from Mongolian food to all kinds of African food.



We went to Mount Vernon one day and the Arlington Cemetery. At the cemetery we watched the changing of the guard for the unknown soldier.





This day we took a tour of the capital and we went to the botanical gardens.






This is us at the top of the Washington monument.

This day we went to the national zoo (above); The picture is my brother riding down the hill at the zoo on my dad's scooter. We also went to the national cathedral. It was very pretty. It was probably one of the favorite things I saw.







This is the day that we toured the White house. Scott and I had to go through separate because you can't bring purses inside. When we went through we saw pres. Obama get in his helicopter and fly off. We then went to the natural history and american history Smithsonian museums. We also went to a sculpture garden.









We went to the newseum and the spy museum this day. Those pictures below are on the roof of the newseum.



Tyler got sick on our trip. My parents took him to the hospital. We think he had some kind of stomach infection. Poor Ty was kind of miserable for some of the trip.

Our very last day of the trip was father's day. We didn't have much time to sight see because we had to make our plane. We were able to go to Jefferson memorial though. That was the only one we hadn't seen yet.


We loved our trip to DC. It was very exhausting. We tried to see and do everything there; so we were running on little sleep and traveling in a 7 passenger Dodge Carrivan. We all felt like we needed a vacation from our vacation when we were done because we went nonstop. It was good to see Weston again and see all of the people he taught. They all truly loved Weston there.