For Memorial Day weekend, Caleb and the kids camped in the backyard. The kids thought this was the greatest! (I thought it was great that we didn't have to pack and unpack the car and drive somewhere to set up tent...) We also had a fire and roasted marshmallows. Fern didn't bother with the roasting part and just ate the marshmallows.
Fern, Henry and I went to UT to visit my family for 9 days, while Caleb stayed home and worked. (Landscape design doesn't slow down for summer vacation...) The kids had a lot of fun with their cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. It was tough to get them to go to sleep at night...but that's another story :)A group of us went on a hike to Timpanogos Cave while my dad stayed home with the younger kids. It was a fun hike up, but Henry wasn't a fan of being inside a dark cave...thank goodness for uncles---Peter for bringing a flashlight he could hold and Taige for helping him going down narrow passageways--since I couldn't be in front and in back of him at the same time :) This is a picture of our whole group.
And on the way down there was a torrential downpour. We got to witness big boulders come rolling down the mountain...along with a waterfall....and cover the trail ahead of us.....and after the water slowed down (and we were freezing...), the ranger said we could go ahead and hike down. Luckily there was a couple and their two 20-ish year-old kids that were able to help us traverse the rock slides...definitely not my favorite part of the vacation...but we made it down. (Also, luckily uncle Taige carried Henry all the way down the mountain...when the thunder, lightning, and buckets of rain started, he was DONE...and that was before the rock slides...) This picture doesn't do this rock slide justice...it was much bigger from the other side's angle and on the other side that you can't see there was a stream... (I didn't even take pictures of the other slides, for fear of ruining my camera with rain.)
Fern loves her cousin Judy and at every activity wanted to be with "Judy boody".
Happy Henry on a horse
Happy Fernie in a small playhouse
It was lots of fun to go and spend time with all the cousins and everyone. Caleb was very glad when we came back--he missed all the chaos of having all of us around :) Seems that the house is far too quiet when we're gone. We're glad to be back too.
