This weekend we took the youth of our stake up to the This is the Place Heritage Park and did some service. We moved a whole lot of logs by hand cart, weeded, and just some general clean up. The youth seemed to have a good time during the service part of the activity but I think they enjoyed the pizza’s a little more. After we ate we walked over to the new monument for the Mormon Battalion and enjoyed the dedication of it.

This thing was huge

This week we took the kids on a hike up to Cecret lake in Little Cottonwood Canyon. If you haven’t been there you need to go. The wild flowers in Albion Basin are gorgeous. The hike was a good distance for the kids and they both made it all the way up and back on their own other then our little girl wanted to be carried up the switch backs right before the lake. The only bad part were the mosquitos, so we had to take our dinner back down to the car to eat it instead of eating at the lake. As we were hiking up this moose was just of to the side of the trail a 100 ft or so and when we came back down he was right in the trail so we had to go off trail for a bit to get around him. The kids loved seeing him and now think you get to see one everytime you go hiking.

Tough Guys

First off I have to admit I didn’t take the picture but I did do the editing.

Jenn’s family had their family reunion up at granite flats this year and it was a lot of fun. We spent plenty of time on David’s Polaris, hanging out at camp, and just plain old having a good time. I did get the chance to scare the pants off Jenn’s younger brother Joel and their cousin Adam with the help of Matt. I wont go into full detail but I will tell you it involved spending about a 1/2 hour hiding in the girls out house trying not to laugh while those two walked around trying to figure out who tapped on the window of the boys out house at one in the morning. The stories they came up with while looking for me are classic. It ended with me jumping out of the stall and yelling at them. Lets just say they were frozen with fear for a bit.