Hiking and Tomatoes

We have enjoyed going hiking up Logan Canyon, to get out side and get ready for Glacier National Park. We are going up to Glacier and Canada next month for family vacation. This will be the first time I have ever left the country. I know that I will only be going an hour across the boarder but it is still outside the USA.

While hiking up Crimson Trail in Logan Canyon Debbie and I found giant dandelion flowers to blow. They were actually kind of hard to blow but it was worth the effort.

Curt and I are trying to grow a tomato plant on our back porch, we can't keep any thing alive so we are excited that we actually have tomatoes growing. I can't wait until they are rip I love fresh tomatoes.

4th of July weekend.

On Friday we watched the fireworks with our friends. We sat close enough to the stadium that we could hear Diamond Rio performing and the music they played during the fireworks. While waiting for the fireworks to start we played games and ate treats. One of my friends brought glow sticks that the adults had as much fun with as the kids. We made a giant circle of them and let the kids play in it. We decided to wrap Curt up in them and turn him into a Christmas tree. The fireworks were amazing, but the kids were not sure what to think and by the end Emma was crying.

On the 4th Curt, my sister, my brother, and my dad all ran the Clearfield Freedom Run 5k while my mom walked the 2 miles. I am proud to say that I finished and was not last out of everyone, just last out of my family. It was a great accomplishment but I don’t know if it was the smartest thing to do after not running for a few months. My sister invited Curt to run with them and I really had no intentions of running it until a couple of days before because everyone else was and I felt kind of silly walking with my mom. Curt thinks that he would like to run some more 5k's but if I run them with him I will have to train before. I am still very sore.

That afternoon we went to our family reunion it was good to see my cousins that I have not seen in a while. I guess I should have gotten some pictures of them but their kids are a lot cuter. One of my cousins little girls attached herself to Curt and I. She told my cousin’s husband that Curt was her new best friend.

After the reunion we went to see Kung Fu Panda 2 with my family it was a cute show, but we decided that it reminded us a little of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Story of Moses combined.

Camping and Friends

Curt and I went on our second annual Friend’s Camp-out with some of our friends from Aggie Village, Holmes, Dutsons, Monroes, Lofleys and a few others. We decided this year we would invite a few more friends to join in the fun. We had a couple extra friends come up and roast marshmallows but only one other family spent the night. We went up Green Canyon in Logan, usually the river bed is dry but with all the rain there was a nice river running though the canyon. One of our friends built a bridge so that we could get across which was wonderful, but everyone else who camped near us used the bridge and cut though our camp. Luckily we did not have any one cutting though the night, but we did have some crying kids :).

We enjoyed a nice evening of tinfoil dinners, S’more with Reese's :), dutch oven cobbler, camp fire and stars. It was so nice to get away from regular life and white walls to enjoy an evening outdoors with friends.

The little kids were so fun! One of the little girls, Audrey Holmes really wanted to help Curt with our bed and even helped pump up the air mattress. (We really enjoyed our new tent and sleeping bags we got the kind we could zip together :). The next morning the kids enjoyed playing in the field while we made mountain man breakfast. I went out and played hide and go seek with the kids and took picture while they picked flowers.
Later that night we had a barbecue with some of our friends that used to live in Aggie Village but have since moved away. The guy in the hat is Rusty Hansen, one of Curt's best friends from high school. They are now living in Layton and he is working at an accounting firm. The other couple the Anderson's are friends we met while living in Aggie Village. Him and Curt bonded over a sports games and we have been good friends with them ever since. They are moving to Missouri to go to med school. We will miss you Talon and Nicole and hope that we can stay friends for a long long time.

Girls Night, Barbque, and horses!

While the guys went to the Father and Sons Camp-out, the girls had a spa night. We soaked our feet, painted our toes, and put on face masks. Then we ate dinner on fancy china and watched Nomeo and Juliet. It was fun to spend time with just the girls.

The next day for my sister in law Julee’s Birthday we went up the canyon. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows (we put Reese’s on the S’mores yummy!!) and homemade root beer! All my nieces Emmy would eat was Cheetos and s’mores. What a great dinner.

After dinner we rode horses, the kids love the horses and I actually got to go on a ride as well. It was fun even though it was only for a few minutes, I want Curt to take me on another real horse ride one day.