Here is my semi annual post for the year! This catches up the last 6 months or so. My kids have spent hours catching/chasing butterflies, insects, and dragonflies. They have quite the collection! It's not uncommon to find dead butterfly parts laying around in my freezer. These pictures are backwards as far as a timeline. This is the last week before starting school so we have been cramming fun things we wanted to do! These are the wildflowers on the hike to cecret lake up Little Cottonwood canyon. I have been there a few times but NEVER seen the flowers so beautiful! I really wished I had thought to dress us up a little nicer and plan on taking pictures. The girls were happy to do some poses and take pictures in the flowers..... the boys not so much, they were busy chasing butterflies and throwing rocks This is the best I could do getting all 4 to look at the camera. I told Wyatt to smell the flowers and this is his smelling face:) The Salamanders are of course the highlight for the kids! Here Wyatt is kissing his before he lets it back into the lake. Salamanders are strange looking things. Kind a creepy, I think. My kids love to catch them? Here is another lake we visited recently with the Jona & Brook Tadje Family. Forest Lake. More salamanders... Angie and her cousin Morgan sitting at the fire. Angie LOVES to hang out with her and can't get enough of her. They are quite adventurous when they get together.
Everytime we visit these high mountain lake the kids end up wanting to swim and we don't usually bring swimming suits, so they always end up in there birthday suits.. but after this trip I think they'll think twice before swimming, when they got out they were all covered in leaches!! They panicked a bit when they saw them.


Brook and the newest addition Ollie! Kyson started scouts and here received his Bobcat We took a trip up to Flaming Gorge and had a really great time. We haven't done very much camping and it wasn't long enough. The kids had a good time using the little gun Paul got them last year and Kyson and Angie both killed their first animal all by themselves! Our little hunter Kyson. He has a love for the outdoors like his dad Here is our campspot. We have camped here on and off over the last 8 years. We love this spot! Of course there is lots of fishing Kiki turns 7 Here we hiked to A place we call Moose meadows. It was a beautiful day and so green Kiara and Wyatt enjoying a drink The kids have spent a lot of time in this plastic walmart pool. IT is perfect and Koda gets in and plays every once in a hilw Family picture at Moose Meadows Kyson got baptized! I'm so proud of him and all my kids, they are such fun, great kids. I love them and am so lucky:) This was 6 months or so ago. Wyatt would take a nap on the couch when I was working and Pistol often would join him. Girls being silly

It has been a while since I posted so here is a few pictures of the last 6 months. I have to admit I haven't been taking hardly any pictures lately but Angie got a camera for Christmas so almost all of these were taken by Angie. Thanks Ang!!

My kids want to go sledding whenever possible!
I thought this was just way to Cute. My chubby little baby loves to watch for dada to come home!!
Kyson being silly. This is a SCARY picture
Wyatt enjoying Angie's cake before it is cooked
Angie LOVES to hang out with her cousin Morgan and they made this chocolate cake. I tried to convince her just to use a box cake but she insisted on finding the recipe herself on google and making it from SCRATCH. It was very delicious:) Angie loves to cook
Paul built this playhouse last year and the kids have spent hours jumping from the deck of it to the tramp and then trying to capture great action shots in the air.


Lots of snow at the Cabin this year. They dug a tunnel through the snow that falls from the roof

Wyatt loves to go on "rides" & the first thing he says to Paul when he gets home is "ride". Now that the weather is cold it has converted into piggy back rides instead. He would ride this all day long!
Here is what Paul's been up to the last 3 months. Hunting, Hunting, and more hunting!!

Wyatt giving his cousin Rylan Kisses.
Halloween 2010!
Angie doing her first cliff jump @ Lake Powell
One of the many sand castle's built in Lake Powell
This is all Kyson did the whole trip!! He didn't want to do anything but fish & catch lizards and he caught a lot of both
Me and Brook on an enjoyable tube ride:)
I wanted to post this right below because the above picture shows the mother's of these two in the same spots!! Kiara & her cousin Annika
Wyatt had a blast playing in the sand and water. I will say it was very stressful taking this age to Lake Powell, especially cause Wyatt is not afraid of the water & would walk right in.
Kiara and one of the toads they caught

Here are a few highlights of our yearly Lake Powell trip! Thanks to my brother Richards hard week all summer in Lake Powell, we had a very enjoyable week with PERFECT Weather. I seriously LOVE THIS PLACE!!