Scripture Time

Our Family accepted the challenge from our Bishop to read the Book of Mormon as a family in only 80 days. We should finish the night before school starts! It takes us about thirty minutes each day to finish our assigned reading and the picture tells it all - this is how it usually ends.

Our Summer So Far

We started off the summer by having Greg and Amber stay the night that school got out for us. The kids built a fire, ate marshmallows until they couldn't eat anymore and then slept under the trampoline. They all had such a great time with the cousins and were so sad to see them head back to Nebraska. On Monday we had the Broadhead cousins come to stay two nights. Between rain storms we took a hike from 2nd Dam down to the Stokes Nature Center, then back to the car to eat cake straight out of the pan without any napkins. I think the kids thought that was the coolest idea of the summer, the entire cake disappeared and the kids were using their fingers to get the last few crumbs out of the pan.

This to me is the picture of the summer, they were all so happy and all together at one time, didn't last long, but at least I got a picture of the moment.

When We're Hiking We're Happy!

We took a group of friends and hit the trail on Memorial Day. The goal was Ephraim's grave. Made it a little over 2 miles up the trail before we had little kids ready to head back, it is 5 miles to the grave. So we will keep hiking this summer and will make another attempt on the goal later in the year. The hike was beautiful, green and we didn't lose anyone. We came back to the vehicles and pulled our watermelon out of the river! Definitely doing that again.