Bball with the Metfielders

A few times a week Corbin (and usually Soren) meet up at the Bella Vista church building or metfield park to play basketball for a few hours with several of the young men in Metfield ward. They love it. There is only one other incoming freshman boy in our ward, so I’m grateful to the boys who are a grade above and below Corbin for including him in their shenanigans. They gather to watch sporting events, play video games and watch movies, but it’s usually basketball for hours and hours with anyone who will play. 

Summer Internship update

My internship at Branded is still going strong. I’m tired and would rather intern at Summer 😂 

But I’m doing good work for Lindsey creating surveys for incoming clients, fliers for doctors offices, article writing, and this week, moving into a temporary indoor facility. Lindsey is incredible, her mission is incredible. I love this non profit and I wish I lived closer so I could be a regular volunteer there with my kids. 

Temple Day

One of my favorite summer traditions is to fill the van with the kids friends and go to the temple. Last week, I took my three teens plus Mary S and her three teens up to KC for the day. It was Riley’s first time at the temple, and Davey’s first time doing baptisms, which made the day even more special. It was a really spiritually uplifting day, and we listened to great tunes, laughed hard, and snacked hard on the drive. And we of course stopped to see a roadside 8 ft gorilla on the way home because obvious reasons. 

They’re such goofballs. 


I had to include this last pic as evidence of Quincy finally crashing after going hard on the fun all week. One might think that after a full day going to KC and back, we’d take it easy. Corbin and Soren invited Kellan, Chase and Landon White, Gabe Miller, Neal

Ratsachack, and Ammon Johnson over to watch the World Cup. Isaac brought Ammon and stayed to hang out with Quincy. But this was Quincy. Don’t worry, she woke up and they went out, but we all had some fun taking selfies with her dozing off first.

Retro Arcade

Today we took the Hayes Boys (plus cousin Oliver) to he retrocade in Fayetteville. It’s Fin’s bday and we loved getting to celebrate him with his family. Happy 13th, Fin! 

Quincy and I spent half the time at the arcade playing this game called, Magic Sword. We laughed so hard narrating the excitement as we got to level 24 with our little Viking warrior avatars. We relentlessly teased Q that her* avatar looked similar to her friend Davidblol lg

The Summer of George: Quincy Edition

Quincy is having quite the social summer. Her friend, Cadence, moved to California last year, and is here visiting for a few weeks. Everyone was very excited to see Cadence and Cadence had something fun and/or a date or two lined up for every day and night that she was in town! All this fun means our lucky little Quincy has been invited to be the date for the buddies of Cadences many suitors hahaha. Quincy said “nothing wrong with second place!” jokingly all week when she was invited to join as someone’s plus one, because she says they are all really there for Cadence. She’s delighted to be second choice if it meant hanging out with fun friends and endless summer adventures. She’s also been out on other dates, and to a million gatherings. We can’t keep up with her, but she’s having fun and we know all the people she’s with and they’re great kids. It’s so good to see her out having fun. 

She played with fireworks at Murray’s, Ratsachack’s, Gordon’s and Saumwebers, beekeeping with David, swimming at Parker O’s, Metfield pool, and David S’s many times, playing at Lake Ann at Baylee and Benny’s docks countless times, hiking and SUP with Zach VanS, SUP with Olivia, hiking with Scott G, Cadence, and David, kayaking at Lake Leatherwood with David, Will, and CJ, out for Andy’s with Gavin F, Cadence and Will, SDC with Reese, Tommy and David, pho with Benny, boating on Beaver Lake with Ethan A, Scott G, and Cadence, the redneck waterslide with Baylee and Will, floated the Elk River with Scott G, Spencer B, and Cadence, Sonic with Isaac, a charity carnival, to Becks property, movies night with Ena, Cadence, Davey, Baylee, and Will, she goes over to Davey’s gym a few times a week (for “peachy glutes”), Fallout Boy with David and Parker, and a dozen nights where 12-30 teens that we call the “Krusty Krabbs” or “Creekers” show up at our house, Grover’s dock, Gordon’s pool, or Saumwebers to do whatever.  That’s like…a sampling. The girl goes 100 miles an hour when she is with friends, and when she’s at home playing cello, working, babysitting so I can do my internship or texting the short list people she texts —I’ll add that text not her fave form of communication, but there are a few friends she will text at rapid speed and keep conversations going for hours with. Same for FaceTime. She has 2-3 friends she almost exclusively FaceTimed with.

Add a bunch of movies, house parties, swimming, lake days, food dates, shopping, and trips to the gym since I started this post weeks ago and you’ve got Quincy’s summer in a nutshell. Girl worked HARD last year and is living her best life for the last few days until school starts.