All about Kage

This post ends up being mostly about Kage. We'll start with last week and Kage going to ride the Heber Creeper with Mom, Grammy, David, Colby, and Tyson.

It was a fun but long hot afternoon. We rushed home to get Kage to his T-Ball game (which will be his last because we are going to miss this Saturday's game). I think he has had fun playing. Here are a couple of pictures of him.



Then today Kage finally learned how to ride his bike! Yea Kage.

Camping Trip

We decided to take a camping/ ATV trip. We left on Thursday and went down to Marysvale. We spent the weekend riding on the Paiute ATV trail. The whole trail is over 275 miles long with thousands of side trails. So we only rode a small portion of it. We did total 175 miles in four days. We left Thursday afternoon drove to Marysvale, parked the truck, loaded the trailers we had bought to pull behind the ATV's and headed up the trail to find a camp spot. We found this pretty little meadow not far off the trail. It was a great spot!

There were lots of wild mountain strawberries that the boys loved eating. Friday we got up and took off to ride! We took one trail that ended up no where but the views were great.

At one point we had to go under this tree. Kelly couldn't get low enough to drive under so David had to drive. He thought that was great. (It wasn't his first time driving we have let him drive a couple of times before with Kelly on the back.)



We ended up coming out right a Big Rock Candy Mountain. So we stopped and bought some rock candy. I thought there used to be more of a gift shop but it is mostly just a restaurant. Later that afternoon a quick rain shower came through. We were out riding and didn't really have any where to go so we ended up hiding out under a tree eating our lunch!

On Saturday we took a loop that landed us over in the small town of Joseph and then back around to Marysvale we were stopped and got an ice cream cone at the gas station and then rode up to Miner's Park. A lot of the history for this area is Mining so we took a few snap shots by the old mining equipment.


Later that afternoon we had a real down poor. Luckily we had made it back to camp just in time. The boys and I hid out in the tent. Kelly who had to go to the bathroom got stuck in the trees. It was quite the storm with lots of hail and rain. After the storm let up we decided to jump back on the four wheelers and head down to a restaurant called Hoovers. (It was close to Big Rock Candy Mountain and was only about nine miles down the trail). On Saturday nights they serve all you can eat crab. Kelly loved it.

It was fun to ride the four wheelers right up to a restaurant, get out and eat, and then go back to camp. Crab, steak, hamburgers, and corn dogs on a camping trip is not the usual but was great food and fun! Sunday morning we got up, cleaned up camp and rode back to the truck and then back home.

The only real hiccup of the trip was the flat tire on the trailer just outside of Nephi.

We had a great trip and would do it again in a heart beat. These are times I hope the kids remember as they get older. I couldn't resist throughing in one more picture of Kage and how nasty his nose always is! He is always a little bit of a mess but here he is a big mess! Love him anyways.

Four wheeling again!

I know it seems like the only time I post anything is when we go four wheeling but that seems to be what we do most weekends and we have a blast doing it. Last weekend we went up from Strawberry over to Current Creek. It was the prettiest ride we have taken! We set the camera up for a timed picture using the Eddie Bauer tri-pod mom and dad gave Kelly last year. We are a little far away but the pictures turned out pretty good anyways.

This weekend we took the trail from Squaw Peak over into Hobble Creek Canyon. Not quite as pretty but still a fun ride. It's always fun riding! This trail was supper dusty. The dust seems to gather on body parts that stick out a little.


The views off Squaw Peak really are incredible. We finally broke down and bought helmets for Kelly and I. We look a little silly but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry.

New Puppy

Last weekend Kelly ripped out all the grass and some of the dirt along side the house to put cement to park the four wheelers on. In so doing we had to reroute the sprinklers so we went to Home Depot last Saturday. As we were leaving there were several different groups of people trying to sale their puppies. When Kelly saw that they had English Springers he had to stop. We sat and looked at them and talked to the owner for awhile and then we left. We made it to Center street in Lehi when we turned around went back and bought one of the puppies. She is really cute I will admit and has been a pretty good puppy other than a couple of potty accidents. After a couple of name changes I think we have finally settled on Tinker for her name.

Other than working in the yard and cleaning inside we haven't done much lately. We did go to Seven Peaks last night. I finally got at least one picture of the boys.



I hope everyone has a happy Fourth of July Weekend!

Summer Fun

Summer is going by so fast. We haven't been up to anything spectacular just the same old, same old. Last weekend we went for a ride up AF canyon on the four wheelers. It was absolutely gorgeous up there. We took the road up past Tibble Fork and went up into mineral basin a little bit and then over the mountain towards Midway. It's amazing that here it was Father's Day weekend and there was still patches (some big) of snow even on the road still. It was a fun ride. That afternoon after we got back from riding we went to Seven Peaks. We got season passes and have tried going at least a few times and plan on spending even more time there! Today Kelly went to Wyoming to work with his dad so that left me and the boys home. They wanted to go to the dollar store to spend their allowance. So after the dollar store and few other stores shopping we went and got lunch and took it to the park. It was nice and relaxing.


David is always doing something to his brother.

After lunch we went home for some down time playing in the small pools in the back yard and on the trampoline. Then tonight we decided to go down to the marina for Electric Boat Parade. The five boats they had lit up were pretty fun to see but I don't know if the bugs were worth it. This was the first year Saratoga Springs has done the boat parade as part of their city celebration. Maybe as the word spreads about it there will be more boats and it could really turn into something cool. All in all we had a fun night!


I know the picture is fuzzy but I couldn't get a really clear one of the boats. I have a dumb camera. But I liked the one of the boys on the jetty with the sunset.

Monday Night

So Monday night we decided to go for a ride on the four wheelers because we hadn't been out on them for over three weeks. We found a spot out west (past five mile and the little (three houses make up the town) of Faust) that had a whole bunch of cache's. They were laid out in the shape of a baseball diamond. There was a cache for each base and a pitchers mound. Along the way to each base there were several caches with the names of baseball teams. We ended up all on one four wheeler. Kelly's kept saying that it was hot. We found about fifteen caches in just a couple of hours and made it back home. We decided that his radiator vent was completely covered in caked on dried mud from the last time we went and that is why it was over heating. Hopefully the wash job will fix the problem. All in all it was a nice warm evening and we had a good time.

Camping and Free Time

Well the last few days have been pretty nice for everyone even though we spent it apart. On Thursday the boys went camping. They went up a day early for the Father and Sons. Several of our neighbors went up Thursday as well. They stayed Thursday night and Friday night (The real father and sons) and came home Saturday morning. While they were gone I was home alone! I spent most of my time doing the Utah Valley Parade of Homes. Thursday I saw nine houses by myself then Friday I spent the entire day with Chelsea, my Aunt Roshell, and my Mom. We drove to Santaquin and then slowly worked our way back up. We saw seven house all together plus had lunch. It was fun not to have to worry about hurrying back for anything and just enjoyed seeing some really pretty and some really interesting houses. It is fun to go with Chels to because she helped with a couple houses or knew the designers on some of the other ones.