Brigham City Temple

On July 20th we met up with Kayli and Grandpa and her kids at the Brigham City temple.  I took the younger kids to a nearby park. 

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And this is from Kayli: I have this great memory from a couple years ago, but I wanted to write it down because I don't think I ever did-- but my older kids and Kami's older kids, and Devaney all went to do baptisms at the Brigham City temple, and my dad was there to baptize them (it was the middle of the day and none of the dads were there, just Grandpa).  And so I went in and helped things move along, and so I watched while dad baptized a bunch of kids, and I started to realize that at the end, dad would hold them down just a moment, just a smidge, so that when they came up they weren't sure if they had been held under or not, but he would look at me and laugh his eyes and it was SOOO funny!!! It didn't feel irreverent either, it just felt like I love my dad so much. :)

July at Megan's House

Sunday night we headed to Megan's house where we spent pretty much the rest of July.  I took my kids and Devaney to swimming lessons in Ogden for Megan.  

My good friend Jessica Powell (we were besties in Rawlins) also had her kids in swimming lessons at the same time!!!  Crazy coincidence!!!  

As always, the toy jeep is the favorite toy at Megan's house. 

The kids earned Jake's Over the Top shakes (I can't remember for what), so after swimming lessons one day, we stopped to pick them up. 

I helped Megan faux stain her door.  

Kayli came down for Megan's mini trek she had planned for the ward's youth. I think she was primary president at the time.  She had the YM/YW be the ma's and pa's and they hiked from the church up the mountainside to someone's property and had a dutch oven dinner.  Megan is amazing.  I wish I had half her drive and ability to organize.  

The ma's and pa's were so sweet with the little nursery kids (yes, they also came) and basically the teenagers just carried them the whole way.

I have no idea where this was or why we saw it.

Awww, Isabel looking so cute!

Megan's trek talk!!  ❤️❤️

Wrestling with Cousins

 

 

On Sunday, July 17th,  we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's and afterward enjoyed a relaxing afternoon of wrestling.  As one does.  

Everyone against Chad

Hiking to the Wind Caves

Our party continued the next day and we hiked up to the Wind Caves in Logan Canyon.  It was a good day for it. Not too hot.  The kids did run into three rattlesnakes on the trail though.  Sebastian was sad that I never got a good picture of one.

Logan Canyon is so beautiful!

Aww, Elena is the best!  

The wind caves are pretty cool.  Me like.

Typical of my pictures of Isabel, she'll never stop and pose for me. 😩 Just have to snap ones when she's not looking.

Silly pictures are always the easiest to get.

Navy Bean!

I love this picture.  So cute, all the toddler-ish age kids.  

 When I was walking down the mountain, I was in the rear with Efraim and kept hearing all this honking.  I thought there must have been a crash in the canyon or something.  When I reached the bottom I realized it was just our kids.  😂

Floating the Bear River

 Link to video

On Thursday, July 14th, we all finally felt well enough that we all (Kayli, Lindsay and I with our kids) went tubing down the Bear River up by Preston.  It was so much fun!!!  One of my and my kids' favorite things we did that summer.  

In fact, we drove the older kids back up the road aways and let them kayak down again while the others watched a movie in Lindsay's mini van.  

My phone camera works great except for the zoom.  

The rapids were just perfect, not to rough for our cheap sit on kayaks, but rough enough to give a thrill.

I love my family!!

I may want to move to Preston just so I can do this all the time. 

Good times!!