Keeping Up With the Joneses

November started out with McKay turning 5! We had a family party with his cousins with a PJ Masks theme.  Add caption They celebrated his birthday at preschool. Towards the middle of November, poor Myles started having stomach pain that got a lot worse over night. Finally early in the morning I took him to the hospital. We were thinking he might just be constipated (this has been a problem before) but it turns out he had appendicitis!  They quickly removed his appendix and he was home by the afternoon. Grandma and Grandpa Goates came to help take care of Myles during his recovery. Myles was able to make it to school for a few hours later in the week to present his science fair project on how playing video games helps prevent pain (something he learned during his recovery). We ended up going to California for American Thanksgiving and enjoying spending time with my family. This pictures was at Six Flags.  A trip to the beach made me wonder why

The school year started out with a bang with these boys entering 8th grade, 6th grade, 3rd grade, and preschool.  McKay continued to love school with Miss Linda at Its Fun to Learn Preschool.  In September, Myles got to meet some of his favorite celebrities from Studio C. We spent the year helping out a refugee family from Congo. We became really close to the mom and 5 kids.  Marshall and I changed up date night a little bit and went to a fun game place.  We had Jessica's family over for dinner and the kids played a quick game of chess.  In September I took a group of graduate and undergraduate students up to the North  American Society for Psychotherapy Research which was held at Snowbird this year. They did a great job presenting research we had been working very hard on.  Because I already had a hotel room up there, Marshall brought the kids up and we had a fun little mountain vacation. We took the gondola to the top of a mountain. Can yo

The month started with my grandpa Milne passing away peacefully to join grandma. I went to the funeral  while the family stated here in Utah.  Max took grandpa's passing pretty hard. Max has such a tender heart.  For Fall break, I took the three older boys on a 4 day trip to San Francisco. We had such a great time. Here is us at Ghiradelli Square.  I played around with my new iPhone and got this great picture of Myles.  We went to the Museum of Ice Cream in San Francisco. It was a delicious experience! The highlight for the kids was the ice cream sprinkles pool.  Add caption I love that my kids enjoy good food as much as I do! This is us enjoying sourdough bowls at Boudin on Pier 49. Max was incredibly excited to visit Alcatraz. He had learned about it and in every gift store we stopped in, he would find a book and read as much as he could before it was time to go. I ended up buying him a few books about Alcatraz.  Alcatraz was def