Going Buggy

One thing I'll say for Kenzie is that when she has something to do, she puts her whole heart and soul into it!!  With school just beginning, one of her first big assignments was to collect a bunch of bugs, then mount them and identify them.  The whole family was involved in the search.  They found quite a few while we were up on the mountain and I even picked her up from school one day at lunch in search of the "walking stick".  Sadly it was the one bug that would have brought her score up to 100.  She labeled each species and made sure proper credit was given to the person who found the bug. Who do you think the #1 contributor was...her little brother Taite.



Our Labor Day Campout

This weekend was our annual camp out with our family up Fairview Canyon.  The past two years we had a secluded spot (that we drove the trailers up to a week before Labor Day weekend just so we could save the spot) but this year someone beat us to it!  So we went to option #2 - C canyon ridge.  As the weekend went on we remembered why we love this spot and why we had camped there for so many years while our kids were growing up.  Our names were on almost every tree in this little spot.  These pictures below were of our family names carved in this tree back in 1987 and Jason and Krystens back in 2003.

This year we invited my nephew Steven, his wife Katy and their little boy Steller to join us.  There is plenty of room up there on those mountains.  We had tons of fun sitting around the campfire, going fishing, hiking and cooking our meals in the dutch ovens.  Aaron and Holly did make it up Sunday afternoon for dinner but we still haven't been able to talk Brandi and her family to join us.  Maybe next year :-)

Here are just a few of the pictures of our fun weekend...

Jason and Wyatt in "Ray"

Gavin just enjoying the shade

Fishing on the rocks

Logan, Haylee and Tia

Steven and Steller

This picture pretty much sums up how many fish Steven caught

 

Katy and Steller...and Randy in the back pumping gas

Steven teaching Taite how to chop wood

Dominic just kicking back with Tia

This is the "hut" the boys worked on together

Jason giving the crew a break on their beaver pond hike

Hanging out around the campfire

The beaver pond

The yummy raspberry cobbler Jason and Krysten made in the dutch oven

For a minute I thought Kenzie was praying...then I realized she

was just bored!!

I love this picture of Kenzie!!  It looks like she is just leaning in space.

Actually, she is leaning on a shovel.

So...as you can see...we had an awesome time.  Being with the ones you love...out in the beautiful mountains that God created for us to enjoy...what more could you ask!