Summer Fun

Since we got back from our trip to the Outer Banks we have been able to really enjoy summer. We went to the Lehi Round-up rodeo. Before the rodeo we bought hats from my Uncle Chip. The boys look a little Amish with their hats on.

That weekend David had a Court of Honor. He received his Second Class rank.
Kelly left for South Carolina to work. My parents have a time share in Park City. So the boys and I headed up to spend some time up there. My mom also came and spent the weekend with us. While we were in Park City we went to the Mountain Resort and rode the Alpine Slide and Coaster. This is always lots of fun. We went swimming and went out and watched the kids jump at the Olympic Sports park. One morning my mom and I went walking to a beautiful little old cemetery that had a gorgeous stream running through it. Even though we only spent a couple of days there it was a great little get away.


Saturday after we got back from Park City we went on a jeep ride with my mom and dad. We went up American Fork Canyon on lots of the dirt roads. We ended up at Cascade Springs and we stopped at Sundance as well. The Canyon was absolutely gorgeous. It was a great day for a ride.That night when we got home we had F-16 Fighter jets fly over our house about six or seven times. I thinks they were flying over Stadium of Fire.
Monday was the Fourth of July. We went to my mom and dad's for breakfast then we went up Provo Canyon and hiked to Stewart Falls. Chelsea, DJ, Amber, and Gregg and their boys all hiked with us. It was an adventurous hike. There was an injured hiker that search and rescue were working on getting off the mountain. We watched that for a while. We also saw a moose along the trail. That night we had a BBQ and lit off fireworks in front of my mom and dad's.
Yesterday Amber called and invited me and the boys to go swimming. It was free swim day at AF pool. Amazingly it wasn't too crowded. After swimming we went and got pizza then we went and watched the soap box car derby. It was a fun evening.
I hope that we continue to have a fun summer filled with fun summer activities.

Trip to OBX, NC

A couple of weeks ago my whole family went to the Outerbanks of North Carolina. We stayed in a beach house just steps from the ocean. It was a very fun trip! For the writing class I'm taking I had to publish a book. I made a book about our trip so here are the picture collages that tell all about our trip.



























These are the pictures we used on the t-shirts we made for everyone to wear on our first travel day of the trip. We got a lot of funny looks and stares wearing each other on our shirts.

Aladdin

David participated in the school play again this year. He was part of the Ensemble. He had a great time. They had three nights of performance April 7, 8, & 9. It was a cute show! These pictures were taken Wednesday during their dress rehearsal.

Davids PAC 3

Polar Plunge

Kelly and Kage did the polar plunge again this year. It was gorgeous weather for February. Here they are just as they jump. kage was all ready to go that morning but when we got there he started to freak out a little. We talked him into jumping anyways.
As you can see when he came out of the water he was still freaking out a little. The face says it all!

He quickly calmed down and even said it was fun after the fact!

Cruise 2011

We had an amazing opportunity to go on a cruise this month. We took our kids and we went with my Mom and Dad, my sister Chelsea and her husband DJ, and his parents Dana and Rand. We sailed out of Tampa, Florida. We left of Sunday, January 15. We spent Monday at sea. Sunday night our family got really sick and I was worried that this was going to be the worst vacation ever. We survived and by Monday night were feeling much better.

Our first stop was Grand Cayman. We went to stingray city and interacted with the stingray's. Then stopped at two other spots and went snorkeling. David loved the stingrays and Kage loved snorkeling. The weather at all of the stops was just amazing.

Our second port was Isla Roatan, Hondorus. We took a taxi over to a private resort and spent the day on the beach. Roatan was beautiful! It was probably my favorite spot, it was so tropical.

On Thursday we were supposed to go to Belieze but because of some lack of agreement with the tenders they canceled Belieze and we went straight to Cozumel Mexico. Kelly, DJ, my Dad, and Dana went scuba diving. They all came back saying how amazing it was. The rest of us hung out on the beach while they were scuba diving then we went parasailing. That was very fun.

Because we didn't get to go to Belieze they took us to Costa Maya Mexico instead. While this wasn't my favorite stop it was still very interesting to see how they truly live in Mexico. Many homes there didn't have electricity. They had been hit by a category five hurricane in 2008 and there is still a lot of visible destruction. We took ATV's through the town and along a road that ran along the beach. We stopped and played on the beach for about a half hour. We went to Senior Frogs for lunch. It was fun even though they totally ripped us off (our bill for 10 of us was $279.00). We all got balloon hats.

We had a fantastic time and wish we could turn around and go back today!

Ice Castle and swimming at the creator

Yesterday Kelly and my dad were finishing their last dive's to become certified Scuba divers. My mom and I and the boys went up as well. We started out going through the ice castle in Midway.
After we walked through the ice castle we joined the guys at the creator and went swimming.