Capital Reef Campout

We took our kiddo's out to Capital Reef to go hiking and camping. It was a lot of fun. Boys are just meant to be outside. We decided that the best hike we could do was Capital Gorge. The boys were having a good time until it was time to hike back. Chris and I ended up carrying them most of the way in the heat. I thought if I stopped I really might die. There were some pioneers who carved their names in the mountains there and I just kept wondering if I really could have made it all the way to SLC. One mile hike was enough for me. Really it was beautiful and we enjoyed the time off. Capital Reef VC was neat too. They had a cute Junior Ranger program for Brandon (he got a new pin for his hat,) and they had a family fun backpack that had cute things in it to keep busy. Oh yeah I have to tell you one more thing. Brandon must have watched some show that had camping on it because he had these ideas in his head of what we needed to do- one of them was to tell spooky stories at night. Oh course Chris and I went along with it telling the least scary storied you can think of. I believe Chris's story had to do with ponies and butterflies- because my story was too scary. Poor Brandon was so scared he woke up in the morning still talking about it. HA Ha we could have told any story and it would have been scary at that moment.

Bean Museum

Chris treated us to a fun day out. We went to the Bean Museum at BYU and then to Seven Peaks with some friends. Matt Meese was one of Chris's mission buddies and then his roommate in college. He works at the museum now and showed us a good time. With a little peer pressure he even got Chris to hold a tarantula- Chris is super scared of spiders. Notice how he is holding Aaron's arms away the entire time. Aaron wanted to grab hold of the thing and well Brandon is hiding where his dad probably wanted to be too.

Happy 4th

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th! We decided to go up to Ogden to celebrate. Chris was happy to have the day off. We started at the Riverdale parade which was great. We must have sat right at the beginning because people were very eager to throw out handfuls of candy. There was a dance group that was on two semi-length truck beds and had given every little kid a bag of candy to throw. For a couple minutes we thought candy was raining from the sky. Brandon and Aaron got so much candy that Chris and I both had to take it to church and we gave bags full to our neighbors, friends, and anyone else we saw. After that we had dinner with grandma and did fireworks with friends. Brandon was happy with the sparklers and Chris had fun lighting a few fountains. All of my pics are terrible so bummer there but oh well.

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Grandma Collyer's Funeral

I know his eyes are closed but look at that cute grin.
So sweet! Grandpa told me I was in trouble for taking such a picture. I can't help it I love this.
My dad is so stinkin' cute. I made him these picture books from all of our vacations. He brought them with him and showed them to all of the aunts. One proud Papa I would say.
All of the posterity singing

Daddy and the Boys

My Great Grandma Collyer passed away this past month. Went went down to the funeral and met my dad. It was more like a giant family reunion. I am so grateful to know that families are forever. Grandma lived a long (92 years) and happy life.

Fish Pond

This was a fun day. Chris had no school or work so he woke up early with his buddy and took Brandon fishing. B chose a totally rad transformers pole. I think it must have scared all of the fish way- to scary. They only ended up catching one little fish but Brandon and Aaron still had fun playing in the sand and water.