Summer 2012

Catching up on my blog is an impossible task, so I've decided to summarize a few months.  This summer we went camping in Moab and got eaten by tiny gnats that drew blood when they bit.  We still had a lot of fun hiking and enjoying the beautiful scenery though.

We also went to Lake Powell in July and had an amazing time there (as usual).  The weather was amazing for the most part.  We did have 1 night with really strong winds that shook up the potties on board and caused quite a stink in the house boat.  Literally.  It was gross. When we said our dinner prayer we asked for the winds to subside and the smell to go away and about an hour later our prayers were answered.  We were pretty relieved.  My little girls were so brave and decided to try a little cliff jumping.  The cliffs were only 3-5 feet, but it was enough to scare me.  It also made me feel like a wimp because I didn't want to do it; but I did!  Gotta be brave for the girls.  Other than that we spent most of the time relaxing on the ski boat, playing in the sand and jumping off the house boat.  I even jumped off the diving board on the house boat.  It's about 10 feet above the water, so that was quite an accomplishment for me.  Once again I didn't want to look like a wimp when the 7 year old with us was doing it.  Kaitlin and Cadence had fun going down the slide which is about 4 feet above the water.  Kaitlin was a little nervous and wanted Steve to catch her.  He did, and hurt his shoulder.  (We found out in October that it actually tore his rotator cuff.  He ended up having surgery on Nov. 1st to fix it.)  Our guests on the lake this year were: Brett, Cori, Lexi, Ashlyn, Reece, and their cousin Allie.  We also had Steve's cousin  RJ and his wife Kirsten there for a few days.  It was a fun trip, and probably our last Lake Powell trip for a while :(


We went to several Bees games over the summer and had lots of fun with family and friends at those.  The girls and I went to 7 Peaks 1 time & Trafalga 1 time to use our Pass of All Passes.  We gotta get more use out of those next year.

The girls performed their dance at Lehi City celebration, and also up in Salt Lake.

We spent a week down in our Zion house in August with Matt and Loni and their kids.  We had fun hiking, swimming, eating good food and being with friends.  Loni and I hiked to Angel's Landing one day.  It was a really fun hike, but a little scary.  The view was amazing though and I would like to do it again one day.

That is all I can remember at this point, and will try to find some pictures to go along with it.