Watkins Family Trip - Bryce Canyon

In July we got to spend a few days with the Watkins family in Bryce Canyon. It's always a great time in the outdoors with the kids and family. The kids love the freedom of camping. They play in the fire, hang out in the hammocks, wander through the meadow and just entertain themselves with the sticks and the dirt. We did some hiking, swimming at the pool, playing in the creek and as usual ate some yummy camping food. There are quite a few fun pictures from this trip so check out the slide show.



After we left Bryce Canyon, our family headed out to the Escalante area to spend a couple days. Melissa and Jason joined us for this part of the adventure. We spent one day hiking Spooky Gulch and Peek A Boo slot canyons. They were awesome and the kids loved it. It's amazing how they can just cruise up and down the skinny spots of the canyon and the adults have a bit more of a struggle. After the hike we spent some time playing in calf creek up the road. We really had to pull the kids away to go get some food since they had pretty much just had granola bars all day. The next day we headed over to Capital Reef for some more exploring. What a beautiful National Park. We enjoyed seeing and doing some different things down there. From there it was back home again with some great memories from the week.

Once we got home from this weeks adventure we did a quick unpack and repack for Brookelyn who was able to head down to Lake Powell with her best friend a half hour later. What a lucky girl!

July 2010

Here we go again, hopefully one day I will get all caught up on my posts (or maybe not). July brought more fun in the sun.
We started the month with our 4th of July Weber River Float. Right after we arrived at the river, Blake and a couple of the boys had to do a little life saving, since a young boy was floating down alone, without a life jacket, bobbing under the water. It was a bit scary and the funny thing is, his mother wasn't even upset. Once they threw him a life jacket and got him out of the river, we all felt better even though the nerves were a little tense. We had a great crew of rafters and they all had a great time.








Brynnley got to go on Trek this month. Our stake headed out to Martin's Cove for trek this year. After a long bus ride through the middle of nowhere, they arrived in Martins Cove Wyoming. Just like the pioneers these kids had to deal with mud, rain, wind and pulling their belongings behind them in handcarts. They were lucky enough to be a little more prepared for the weather than the pioneers were. The kids all had a great time and hopefully returned home with a greater appreciation for our pioneer heritage.