Let the fun begin

The first several days of our trip to Utah we spent up Fairview Canyon at the cabin. It was a lot of fun hiking, fishing, kayaking and four wheeling, add in some beautiful weather and lots of family it definitely made for a great trip.

Utah 2011

These are some of the misc. pictures that didn't really fit in with any of the other post that I did from our trip.

Down on Grandma's farm........

Dave's mom Lutie invited us over for a family gardening class. It was very informative and made me excited to plant next year. I only planted squash and zucchini and pumpkin this year. It is always intimidating to move somewhere that you are not very familiar with the soil and plant anything. Here we have to worry about moss, in Kentucky the soil was like clay.

Dave the Spartan

Dave's good friend Eric talked him into doing a race (which doesn't take much if you know Dave) while we were in Utah. It consisted of an 8 mile run up some pretty hairy mountains and 17 obstacles. Jaxon did the kids race, which he loved. The race was pretty intense, I really miss doing races but I think I might have had to sit this one out.

So Sad.............

Dave's sister past away unexpectedly from cancer while we were in Utah on vacation. I am glad that we were able to be there even if it was under such sad circumstances. I am extremely grateful for the plan of salvation and the knowledge that I have of why we are here on this earth and what is to come. Seeing the big picture makes times like these bearable.

The kids welcomed Katherine to heaven with balloons.

All of the brothers except Scott.

All of the nieces and nephews except for the Texans.

Oldest to youngest.

Katherine you will be missed.

Roughing it

This is the first time in what seems like forever that we have been camping. When we lived in Utah we did a lot of cabin camping (if you can call that camping). Over Memorial weekend we headed out for a camping adventure. First we stopped by the Adventure Center here on post and got us a little pop up trailer which was fabulous and we were the first ones to use it which was made it even better (I love new things have I ever mentioned that?). We headed up to Anacortes by the San Juan Islands which is up at the top of Washington across the water from Victoria, British Columbia.

The camp ground had a lots of cute little bunnies hopping around and we were right next to the play ground, the kids loved it. Why do we not camp more often? Hopefully this will become a monthly family outing. I love spending uninterrupted time as a family, no other distractions, no work, nothing but family bonding and making memories.

The next couple posts include some of our fun adventures on our camping trip.