End of Summer

David and Kelly hiked Kings Peak this weekend. They didn't quite make it to the top due to weather. David and Kelly on the bridge on the way out.

Here is the snow on the way down. They had gone on the trip with some friends.

Kelly hiking up.

David enjoying some popcorn.

Kelly and David with Kings Peak in the background.


This last week the boys also finished up a second round of swimming lessons. They both did awesome. I have some pictures but not downloaded yet. I'll have to get them up. This week school starts so its back to schedules and real life.

Hellfire and Backpacking

So we have had a very busy and fun week and a half. This last weekend we went to Hellfire. It is UROC (Utah Rocket Club) big rocket event out on the salt flats. The salt is an amazing place to be. We had fun flying and crashing rockets, swimming at the pool, and just hanging out on the salt. Here are a few pictures from our adventures on the salt.






The weekend previous we went backpacking in the High Uintahs to a lake called Quiant. We spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. For the most part it was great. It rained a little on Friday afternoon then all night Friday night, and most of the day Saturday. It finally cleared up Saturday evening and didn't rain again even though it threatened a lot. We did a lot of fishing, playing games, and just relaxing. It is a beautiful lake. Here are a few pictures from that weekend.

A week of fun

This week we have done several fun activities with my family. On Monday night we went to a Bees game.

They lost but we still enjoyed the game. On Tuesday we went up the canyon and spent a few hours playing, cooking dutch oven dinner and enjoying the out doors. I didn't take any pictures. Yesterday we went swimming at the American Fork Pool.
This morning we went to Timpanogus Cave.

The boys loved it. They did great hiking up and down. I forgot how chilly it is inside the cave.

There are so many neat things to see in the cave.

On the way down David kept telling people that the hike was worth it. Tomorrow we are off on a back packing trip for four days.

Weekend in Vernal

This weekend we went to Vernal to spend some time with Kelly's Family. On Saturday morning we hiked to a place called twin caves. They are two shallow caves on the hills above Vernal. It is a place the Indians used to camp out. There are remnants of them there. There are a some pectoglyphs in the rocks. Here is a picture of our family at the caves.

I don't know if you can see it but this is a picture of one of the pectoglyphs. It is an Indian necklace.

That afternoon we went and did some cliff jumping at Steinaker Reservoir.




The boys were very daring. They both jumped before I dared to jump. The water felt good on a hot afternoon. On Sunday we went white water rafting on the Green River. Kelly's Brother Bryce and his Daughter Alania along with Kelly's dad Evan and his wife SueAnn made up our group. We did a section of the Green that goes through Dinosaur National Monument. We had great rapids and calm areas that turned into big water fights. I ended up on the lunch boat that stayed out of most of the water fights and didn't have to paddle like everyone else. The kids had a blast trying to paddle, swimming in the river and riding the rapids.

The boys played in the river while we waited on the beach for lunch to be ready.

A picture of a water fight on the river.

Long time no post

I know it has been a very long time since I have posted anything. I'll start with the baby birds. In the spring I posted a picture of a bird nest. The birds finally laid eggs and here are the baby birds.

My boys took swimming lessons here is a picture of them with their teacher.

A couple of weeks ago I went with my family to the Oqurrah Mountain Temple open house.
Here we are outside the temple.

Now to switch gears a little bit. We have been pretty busy spending time with family lately. My little sister Chelsea got married a week and a half ago. We have been doing some fun activities getting ready for that. A couple of days before she got married we had a little bachelorette party. We went to the cheesecake factory for dinner all wearing little crowns and Chelsea in a ti era that said "Bride to be" and a red banner with lights flashing that said the same thing. They brought a cute cheesecake that chelsea dumped on the table.

Here we are altogether.

On the way home Kathryn's car broke down and we turned around to help her. Here we are standing around as Dad gets here car going again.

The week after Chelsea got married we went to Park City. Here is David coming down the slide.

We played in the park

and went to the Olympic winter sports park

We spent one day fishing at Smith and Morehousereservoir. They were actually stocking the lake while we were there. The kids had a good time throwing the fish back into lake.
My mom bought all the kids these cute sweatshirts and wanted a picture of them all together in their sweatshirts.

We found this cute spot to take the pictures.

We spent some time over at the resort playing. David climbed the rock wall.
Here's Kage playing on all the blow up bouncy toys.
We spent the morning of the Fourth of July up there before we had to check out. Here are the kids playing with bubbles before the parade started.

This week we have spent a couple of afternoons at the pool.
The boys have really enjoyed that. This has been a pretty random post but hopefully it fills anyone out there on our activities for the last few weeks.