Sunday, July 26, 2009

Lake Powell

Lake Powell top 10
10 beautiful scenery
9 stars
8 night time "spa time"
7 fire work show
6 boat ride to rainbow bridge
5 great food
4 slide and floating
3 hikes--especially slot canyon hike
2 swimming/water sports
1 family


Thursday, July 16, 2009

Freezer Stencil T-Shirts

We went up to Al's house last week and did some more stencil T shirts. Caroline just painted with the soft scrub bleach like Natalie did last year. Natalie and Joseph were both done with the freezer paper stencil method. Joseph wants to do another with a drummer. This is fast fun project and a great way to refurbish a T-shirt.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

2nd generation garage saler

Natalie decided she wanted to go with me garage saling today(she even woke up at 6:00 am). This is what she found for $19.75. She was so excited about what she bought and how cheap it was and would repeatedly say, "I love my stuff!" I don't think she will come with me every week, but has definitely caught the garage sale "bug". I also bought some great things which I will not list or photograph--I think I need to go to yard sale anonymous. :) Here is a break down of what Natalie bought:

shorts-------------------------------------------.50
lucky jeans------------------------------------1.00
perfume and make up samples-------------1.25
pink bag---------------------------------------1.00
jeans (7 brand)-------------------------------4.00
American eagle jean jacket------------------8.00
3 pairs of earrings---------------------------1.00
Jazz baseball hat-----------------------------1.00
vintage box (will use as a lunch box)------1.00
groovy black boots*-------------------------1.00
(*she wants to wear these on crazy _________
dress day or for Halloween-not 19.75
every day use)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Bear Lake Family Reunion

Bear Lake Reunion Highs:

Great weather
Great company
Great food
Great fireworks
Great Napolean Dynamite tour (Josh with some of the cousins and uncles went to Preston ID to check out all the sites from the movie)
Great four wheeling--Natalie's favorite
Great Boating/tubing/swimming
Great Movie nights
Great Raspberry Shakes

Bear Lake Lows:

Caroline splitting her toe open on first morning and unable to swim the entire time (Uncle Doug glued it back together with surgical super glue)
Family stomach flu bug circulating
Not seeing the families who could not attend.
Mosquitoes at the house
Flat Tire at beach
Sandy Babies at Beach
Discovering suntan lotion on my camera lens

All and all a wonderful and memorable time at Bear Lake. This video is a collection of photos--I will try to put it on again in a higher quality later.

Desolation Canyon River Trip by Josh

My scout group rafted 90 miles down the hot Desolation/Grey Canyon. The first day we just set up camp. There were so many mosquitos it felt like an angry bee hive was attacking that did not stop attacking. The food tasted really good. The second day we rafted 30 miles down the river. The river was calm that day. We would jump in the river every once in awhile because we were baking in the hot sun. The river was so refreshing- we swam about a mile and then would get back in the raft and paddle. When we arrived at camp there were more swarming mosquitos. We set up camp and had a fireside in the cool clear night with the stars and the full moon glowing. We roasted star-bursts in the crackling fire. The next day we rafted 30 miles down the river. We stopped at different places to hike. We hiked to a indian stone house and to some petroglyphs. Then we saw a old ranch with log houses.
On the 2nd to last day we went over this towering rapid that were twelve to fourteen feet high. There were a few rocks but we made it safely. When we got to camp, me and a few boys went hiking up the mountain, but one boy cut his knee pretty bad. When we got to the top we could see the river and the canyons in the beautiful orange sunset. The last day we went the rest of the way and hit another gushing mad rapid. Only two boys fell out, but they where fine. That was my exciting adventure on the river.

Coolest Joe swimming lessons by Joseph


I had a fun and it was really hard. I learned back stroke. My favorite thing to do was dive for rings. I loved going on the slide on the last day.

Shadow Mountain Camp by Caroline

I went to Shadow Mountain camp for three days with a friend. It was very fun. I went on a hikes, panned for gold, made s'mores, drank from a spring, did archery, and saw Saturn's rings with a telescope. My favorite thing of all was making new friends.