Backpacking trip

We went on a super fun backpacking trip last month to White Pine Lake. It's about a 4 mile hike in to the lake, and another 4 miles back out again.

  Roo, all ready to hike

 Doodle with his pack on

 Doodle, Roo and Ben hiking up the hill

 Bug, the awesome hiker

 Bug in his hammock inside the "man cave" (the triangle of trees the 2 big boys put their hammocks in)

 Doodle in his hammock- these Hammocks are SOOO much more comfortable than the ground!

 The big boys on their "log kayak"  it didn't work too well with both of them on it. They made a makeshift paddle with a baggie and a stick

 Ben with a nice little Brook trout he caught

 Dinnertime!

 Roo with his dinner

My favorite flowers, Indian Paintbrush

We had a fun time backpacking!

Cabin Vacation Part 2-

Ooops! Apparently I "forgot" to post part 2 of cabin pics! (ok- so maybe I didn't forget, but simply haven't gotten around to it yet;)

 Cousins C, K, and A, such cute girls!

 The elk on the lawn at Mammoth

 Cookout time- A thinks Bug is pretty cool. 

 K and M sitting around the fire

 Pam in the canoe

 4th of July fireworks- playing with glow in the dark light sticks

 C went fishing with us, she was SOOOO proud of her fish, everyone who canoed by us (in the rain) heard about her catch.    She was such a sport, not even complaining about the rain falling on our heads.

 My fish ;) yup- I outfished Ben.

 Doodle and cousin N.  I love the way the little ones look up to my Boys!

 Part of the crew at the bridge feeding the fish

 Ben, Doodle, Roo, C and I went hiking in Yellowstone

 All of us on our hike

 C,  and the buffalo off in the distance- we had to bushwhack around him- he was too near our trail.

Roo celebrating, almost being back to the car

Cabin Vacation part 1

Oh Wow!  How do I share all about  2 amazing weeks at the cabin? We had a great time! We went up to the cabin to finish up the bathroom remodel project. (had to have it done by the 4th of July when the whole gang was going to be up there!)   and looking through my pics- I didn't even get pics of the remodel project.  oh well!

We had to do more than just work! Taking a break from the work to go fising.

Took a trip into Yellowstone for an evening picnic and Ranger Program. Bug *attempted* to start the fire without matches.

Then we went to the ampitheater to listen to the Ranger presentation about the stars over Yellowstone.

What happens when these buffalo

 

decide to come up into THIS ampitheater?!  Excitement- as they made us move to the back, then  out of the area, and into the parking lot,  and into our cars while the Bison march on through.

 What's even more exciting- when they come stampeding back down the side of the benches in the middle of the presentation! (sorry- it was dark- no pic of that!)

Sunday Morning, Ben and Bug headed back home, Ben had to be to work on Monday :( and Bug had Scout Camp.  Pam, Doodle, Roo and I stayed at the cabin. :D it was GREAT! 

With lots of....

Archery!

(look at that bull's eye!)

more archery

Kite flying

Work projects

Doodle sanded the picnic table and we refinished it.

And Roo painted the log swing.

Of course, what's a cabin trip without a(nother) trip to Yellowstone!?

We watied for an hour for Castle Geyser to go off

It was worth the wait!

Castle is one of our favorites!  It only goes off about every 14 hours, but if you can catch it, it's SO  AMAZING!  It goes off for like 20 minutes, and shoots pretty high, and is much neater than Old Faithful ;) 

Doodle and Roo earned their "Young Scientist Badges" at Old Faithful visitor's Center.  Such cool programs they have for kids!

 On our way back to the cabin- we stopped, and just happened upon Great Fountain Geyser that was set to erupt- (pretty cool! I don't remember ever watching this one before!)

So we pulled out our chairs for a tailgate treat.

More of our adventure to come!

Take me out to the Ball Game

We got some tickets to a Salt Lake Bees game, and took the kids down the other day.  My brother Eric, his wife Natalie, and their 3 kids went with us, as well as Pam.  We rode the frontrunner train and then Trax down to the game.

Roo and his cousins, H, C and M

Natalie

Pam and M

Ben's sister, Amber and her 3 boys met us at the game-

The little kids think Doodle is the coolest kid ever.  Its neat to see the way he helps take care of them and play with them

 

We finally found the Bee! Bug, N, W, H, Roo, C and L.  

Lessons learned- a baseball game is L----O-----N-----G, and none of the kids really knew what was going on or cared much about the game! lol  But we had a fun time anyway.

Newest addition- Sally

Roo has been anxiously awaiting "mid-June" for a while now- because that's when his goat Nanny was due to have her kid.  Sally was born EARLY Saturday morning.  Roo is so proud of Nanny and her baby.  He spends every waking minute out checking on them.

Proud Roo with his goats.

Nanny and little baby Sally.

Sunday Drives and Nature Center

Summertime.... We love to explore in the summer.  Lately, we've taken to going for Sunday afternoon drives, and just see where we end up.

 

Roo, on a recent Sunday Drive- finding cool rocks.

One of our Sunday Drives brought us right past the new Brigham City Temple.  We are SO excited for this temple to be dedicated and ready to visit!

Yesterday's Sunday drive- we ended up at Tony's Grove, and had cookies for a snack.

Roo eating his cookie- while bug looks cool.

We stopped at the nature Center on our way to the Library one day.



More exploring

Aren't God's creations amazing!?

Beautiful flowers we saw at Tony's Grove- gotta look em up.