Summertime fun

Over the 4th of July we went to St. George with my family. We had a great (and very HOT) time with my family and our boys had a blast with their cousins. We watched the fireworks, hiked the emerald pools in Zion's, and just enjoyed time with family.

Beautiful Zion

A tuckered out Caleb

Resting at the first pool

The second pool

All done!!!

Caleb playing at a splash pad park!

Cute cousins

Kissing cousins???

I had girl's camp last week (hardly took any pics as you can see), but I have to say I had a lot of fun. I don't know what it is, but being up in nature, surrounded by girls ages 12-18 with a few leaders, really brings out my inner teenager. I think I am known as the crazy dancing/singing leader. I got a few interesting comments from the girls. One was shocked to find out I had 3 kids (maybe because i don't seem mature enough to have children??) and then she said, "do your kids just love you?" I said I sure hoped they did, but they also think I'm crazy. When I came home, I asked J if he thought I was crazy, he said, "yes, but not all the time." I hope that's what those young women learned from me. There is a time to be crazy, but there is also time to be serious and spiritual. We did plenty of each, so I hope that is what they learned.


Heber Valley Camp

My girls hiking through stinging nettle :o

This week Mark is at a scout camp. I miss him. It's hard when we have camps back to back. He has to go again in a few weeks. :( We took J and A to see the new Harry Potter movie last weekend. It's only rated PG, so it wasn't too scary, but it was a little over A's head. He got a little bored during the movie and kept asking to go home. J thought it was great, but sad at the end. All you HP fans know what I'm talking about.

A few weekends ago we went up the canyon with our friends Heidi and Craig and their girls. Here are our kids with their whistle pops!



Oh, and I turned 30! Yay me!