LITTLE SAHARA SAND DUNES

My family makes a yearly trip to "Little Sahara" for memorial weekend. Unfortunately this trip was mostly rained upon. We only recieved a couple nice days and of course the best day was the day we came home...typical right!! We had the Robisons come down for a day and of course it was when we were recieving all of that lovely rain. Mike and I felt really bad and I had wished many times that the weather would of been in my hands. Hopefully they will join us again when its not raining... The highlight of the trip was diminished as well. My dad is a sand rail fanatic and has so far built 3 of them. I was looking forward to taking a ride in it, as well as many others but as the luck runs in my family, it broke. My dad took it out for 10 minutes and discovered that the oil seal had come loose and oil was leaking like a waterfall. Despite all of the drama, we had a nice time visiting with friends of the family and being able to take some rides on the dunes. As always, we look forward to our next sand dune adventures. Some of these pictures were taken from a previous trip.

ICE BLOCKING!!!

For Family Home Evening we got together with the Raddons, Truscotts, Robisons, and Hokansons for a fun filled evening of ice blocking. There is an awesome hill in Fort Union called Flat Iron Park. As you can see from the pictures, the hill is pretty steep but boy does it give you a thrill while going down on a block of ice. We all had an awesome time and plan to do it again this summer. Mike and I have thoroughly enjoyed this group of friends that we associate with on a daily basis. We are very grateful for them and hope that our friendships can last a lifetime. Thanks for a great night everyone!

USA YEAR END BASH!!

The University Student Apartments put on a party for the residents families to celebrate the close of another semester and so we joined in on the festivities. They had alot of fun activities for the kids and some for the adults. Quinton was able to go into the jumping house and loved it so much that he had to go back about 3 or 4 times. They also had a blow up jousting arena that the adults could go try. Mike and a few of his friends that live in our court gave it a try. Poor Mike got nocked to his feet a few times...but I would too if I were in his shoes. He did get a couple good hits in though...go mikey!! Quinton also enjoyed the petting zoo and tried his best to scare the poor animals. He kept growling at the mini horse and goat, but all they did was stand there and continue eating...quite the character he is. We had hot dogs, chips and drinks for the meal and this year they treated all of those that got there right around 5:00, Jamba Juice's...yummy!! We had a great time and enjoyed visiting with friends.

FUN WITH FRIENDS :)

We had the opportunity to go spend the day with Steve, Katie and there kids in beautiful St. George. We were going down Saturday morning for Mikes brothers' graduation in Cedar City and then a baby blessing the following day. Since I talk with Katie often, she suggested that we come down a day early and spend the day with them since they were going to be there, so we did. We had alot of fun having a picnic at the park and then later going up to the DIXIE rock and looking around at the neat rock formations. We also were able to go to the "narrows" where we could try to squeeze ourselves through the small crack. Mike and the children were able to make it through. The kids ran through it like it was nothing. Katie and I decided to try and unfortunately I was unable to get through so I had to take an alternative route. Katie made it quite easily...way to go!! We did have a great time and look forward to our next outdoor excursion. After we were done with the outdoor adventures we headed back to Steve's parents and had dinner, visited with Steve's family and had a fun but messy chocolate fondu party. The kids had a ball and quinton was beside himself. He had never seen anything so cool, and of course he didnt want to eat the chocolate coated fruit just make a mess covering the fruit. Needless to say it was a great start to the weekend. Thanks Steve and Katie for inviting us down and thanks to Steve's parents for letting us stay at there home. We look forward to many more adventures!!