Family Working Together

This year was the perfect year to do something for my dad he couldn't do himself. He recently had a heartattck and a stent put in. He is on doctors orders not to put any strain on his heart. So this year for Father's Day we decided to dig out the grass around all the trees in their yard so they can put bark down. Dad has wanted this done since they moved in about 6 years ago. For those of you who don't know, my parents built a house in the orchard on the farm. Hence all the trees. We started out thinking every adult could dig around 2 trees and that would get about 30 trees done. Well I think they ended up doing around 50 or so trees with about 20 to go. I say "they" because I didn't do much digging, I did however help pick up and load the sod after it had been cut. Hopefully this will cut down on the yard work and keep it looking nice.

Me, Mom and Jenny loading the truck.

Brett, Mike and JD (in the background)

Casey

Ben

Spencer, Kim, Abby and Landon

Ben being supervised by Josh

Dad and Emilee keeping kids entertained

Kids playing with their new puppies. Who would have ever thought that everyone in my family would have a dog (but us of course).

P.S. Thanks for the pics Brandi

Camping in Goblin Valley

We went CAMPING! We really did, and we had a blast. We went to Goblin Valley with my family over the weekend. I do have to say the camp ground was really nice. It had showers and bathrooms. We had the group campsite, so we had our own little cove a way from all the other campers. My parents rented an RV and were kind enough to let JD and I sleep in it with them. Lexie and Payton were excited to ride in the RV and did pretty well on the long ride down. The campsite had a big pavilion and picnic tables which saved our food from the rain on Saturday night. Saturday is the only day that it rained, it came out of know where and poured. The rest of the time the weather was great just a little windy. We hiked Little Wild Horse Canyon. It was seriously one of the funnest hikes I have been on in a long time. It is slot canyons and it was easy enough that I could do it and my dad could do it without putting strain on his heart. We enjoyed lots of family time and the great outdoors. Thanks to everyone for going and making it fun. Following is an overload of pictures. ENJOY!

Lexie (our little ghetto girl) at The Valley of Goblins

Mom's reaction to the following picture. The grand kids love to scare grandma with anything that crawls.

Gavin showing grandma the lizard he caught.

Gavin chillin' after climbing. If you look close at the next picture you can see how high he is.

Taking in the view.

Abby and Emma Kate resting.

Me and Kim taking a break in the shade.

Family pic at The Valley of Goblins.

Grandpa acting as tour guide to the little ones.

Taking another break in the shade.

Hell's Angels

So many fun places to climb.

Gavin (the oldest grandchild) leading the way for all the others.

Lexie

Lexie overlooking The Valley of Goblins.

Gavin and Kaleb reach the top.

Mom and Marley

The Valley of Goblins.

Tina, Mom and Casey

Adam, Payton, Kaleb, Gavin, Lexie and Emma Kate at Little Wild Horse Canyon

Family pic at Little Wild Horse Canyon

JD and Lexie, some places in the canyon were a little tight to fit through with the backpack on.

The whole group trying to climb the rocks and stay out of the water. What team work!

Spencer and Emma Kate.

JD and Lexie

Lexie chillin' by the campfire.

Lexie on her four-wheeler.

Hell's Angels again.

Little boys by fish rock

Lexie playing in the dirt as soon as she stepped out of the RV.

Mom and Jenny, we climbed the rocks by our campsite to catch the sunset. We were barely to late but it was still an awesome view.

Payton and Lexie starting out on our journey.

Disney Train

Yesterday, Crystal and I decided to take the kids to the "Christmas Carol Disney Train". We had really good intentions but when we got there the wait was 3 hours to get in. It was hot and with three little kids we decided they wouldn't know what they missed. We rode the Jupiter train and let them play in the fountain. They were happy with that so we left. It would have been cool to see everything, but 3 hours is just plain crazy.

More Wedding Pics

Cutting the cake

Casey and Tina and all the grandkids

Family at the temple

Jake, Lexie, Josh, Cambree and Payton at the Jordan River Temple

Tori and Lexie

My beautiful sister Tori

The happy couple

Dad, Mom, Tina, Casey and Grandma

The whole Family

All the boys

All the Girls

Mom and Dad

Tori the last one standing

Just Married