Ockey Family Adventures

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Jazz Game

So my older sister offered us tickets to see the Jazz play the Mavericks. Apparently she got banned from attending after a fight with an older gentleman over a Sprite ball that was launched into the audience (or something like that). At any rate, we were happy for the tickets.

Our kids love to see any Jazz game, and we've actually never seen them lose, which is pretty amazing since they lost more than half their games this year.

We were a little disappointed because we were asked to do a shout out on the bigscreen, but it never aired. Still, we were all decked out in our Jazz attire, and we loved the game!

These boys love basketball.

Ok, I like it too!

Mark and Dax taught Seth how to cheer.

Dax really believed that he made a difference on free throws.

Our intense 2nd child!

Seth loves to make silly faces!

These are the headbands that the boys won for making their shots before the game. See video below.

Mark's face was a little creepy!

Dax has high hopes of making it up on the Big Screen in this video. You can also see the baskets that they shot to win their headbands that they seriously wear ALL the time!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

In the Dog House

Today I received a pretty big chastisement from my husband about this blog. Yes, I know I haven't posted in almost a month. Yes, I know that there are a million things to write about. Yes, I know that it still says Pi Day as the top post. Yes, I know that I should be doing better.

So, I apologize for being a slacker and not updating the blog. I feel like life around here has been non stop. With two boys doing sports and many other activities, trying to potty train a 2 1/2 year old, Randy gone a lot more for church responsibilities, me trying to juggle two callings, and everything else involved in being a mother, that the one thing I can let slip is the blog. I don't want it to slip forever because it is a journal for our family, but for a few weeks it can take the back burner and no one will care, or notice.

But apparently someone did notice, so here I am writing at 10:00 at night so that I can avoid another lecture about putting up some pictures from the Jazz game (which I'm actually not doing). I'm going to share a few moments that don't normally make it on the blog (this one or our adventure one). Some behind the scenes pictures that you might not normally see, in no particular order. So enjoy!

Randy really does have a lot of fun with our boys! He is a great dad.

Randy thinks that I'm not in enough pictures, so now I have to be in lots more pictures.
I'm not really liking this turn of events.

A beautiful Pinyon jay we saw at the Bountiful temple.

Lots and lots of letter hikes. This was the easiest by far...the FG in Fountain Green.

M for Mark

Every year we look forward to seeing our friend the yellow-bellied marmot
come out of hibernation. He is alive and well this year!

Dax was a perfect poser for all my flower pictures at Thanksgiving Point.

Being silly while we wait to see some reptiles.

Nice pose, Seth!

Dax has grown about a foot this year, and he has to climb on EVERYTHING!

Pure joy because he's about to throw that snow at his mom!

They teamed up against me on the one day we had snow this year...in April!

When did Mark grow up? He is such a great kid and I'm lucky to be his mom!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

You can enjoy a beautiful sunset even in the middle of SLC.

Being silly...always!

Wolves at story time.

I'm pretty proud of this picture I took of the Provo temple!

I love that Seth still takes naps!

And that he loves Oreos as much as I do!

Dax is always happy about a waterfall.

They love Wendy's hamburgers anytime.

Seth is always up for a selfie.

Red Sox season is here. Yay and Grr all at the same time.

We have loved having the Sandhill Cranes in the field every day this spring.

Mark at pack meeting showing his muscles. This was tonight!

I still love this guy even after the reprimand. ;)
I'm so grateful for Randy and that he is mine!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Pi Day!

We love pie in our house. As most of you know, we dedicate two months of Sundays to eating different types of pies. Well, Pi day showed up on 3-14 and this year was extra specially because it was 3-14-15, which if you are nerds about math like we are, then you know Pi is 3.1415....! So we decided to celebrate in style.

First of all, we had mini breakfast pies for breakfast. They were basically breakfast casserole in pie crust.

Afterward we went to Mark's festival performance. We aren't allowed to take pictures or videos, but he did amazing! He played a mini concerto with his teacher and earned a Superior rating. We are so proud of Mark and how well he is playing the piano.

Then we decided to hike the G on a whim! We thought it would be a fun adventure and it was both! It was fun once we reached the top and headed down, and heading up was definitely an adventure. It was a one mile up hill hike...and I mean uphill all the way.

Family picture at the G. Do we look exhausted? Well, we are!

These boys are the best adventurers! We drag them everywhere and they troop along with little whining!
We are lucky to have them and love them to death!

This is the G! When you get up close you see that it's made out of fencing material. Crazy!

Dax was so excited that the Juniper trees were starting to bloom!
We were so excited that he knew they were Juniper trees!

For dinner we had chicken pot pie and for dessert coconut cream pie! So delicious. It got us excited for pie month which is only 6 months away. :)

Monday, March 23, 2015

Zoo Trip!

We had a Monday off in March...well the kids had a day off from school while dad still had teacher meetings. We went to the zoo with our cousins. It was the perfect day. Warm enough for us, and cool enough for the animals. We saw a lot of fun stuff and there was hardly anyone else there. We could go to the zoo every week and never be tired of it.