mothers day

For mothers day we went on a fun hike at a park named "The Thousand Acre Swamp". It was super fun, despite scaring off of any wildlife in the surrounding area. It would be nice if somebody could show me how to put blogger video's on here, cause I have some good ones of the walk. Had strawberry pie for dessert. What could be better?

Elias's b-day party

Elias's 12th b-day party was a sleepover, and very fun. They did a treasure hunt, with the best treasure... ice cream cones.
They watched some old movies, Candleshoe, and Follow Me Boys. They also had a water fight in 60 degree weather, which ended up throwing water balloons at trees, because it was to cold to throw them at each other, played nerf tag, and the sock game, somthing we made up, and will definitly teach cousins when we come out this summer. Mom made an amazing cake to suit the picky needs of some of Elias's friends. One couldn't eat chocolate, and one only liked chocolate. So she made one round white, and one round chocolate and cut them into quarters. Then stacked two chocolates, two whites, and a white on top of a chocolate, and a chocolate on top of a white... if you can get your brains around that. It was delicious.

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Our latest fun project

We (Elias) thought up the idea to have a pulley system and repel up tree's. Okay so his friends were doing it, but still, he went to the store and got supplies. We hooked it up (wish I had some pictures of me hanging out of the tree trying to loop the rope through the pulley with Elias shouting up directions but I was too busy) and have been enjoying it alot. As you can see the pictures of the boys trying to get Atticus to let go of the rope, maybe a little bit too much. The extra boy is Elias's friend Joey. Just so you know we didn't adopt anybody. lol.

beautiful spring

Okay so I found this mode on my camera that is just for taking pictures that are really close up. There is even a little picture of a flower next to the dial. So what do I do? Take pictures of flowers. How original. Anyway, we are enjoying a "Utah spring" here. Hopefully it lasts, although mom predicts that it snows one more time.

DADS BIRTHDAY HIKE

We went on a hike up to a lake called Canadice.The weather report before we left called for lots of rain, but we went anyway
because we got rained out last year, and dad always goes on a hike on his birthday
so we were definitly going to go. As luck would have it, it only sprinkled at the very
beginning, and we walked 3 miles round trip nice and dry. We had a ton of fun.
However, some of the photos need a little bit of explaining.
1, 2. mom and Satchel watching a mysterious bird later defined as a slate colored junko.
3. Dad trying to find a dry spot to sit and eat tropical trail mix
4. Atticus's favorite part... eating trail mix.
5,6, and 7. dragging out of the woods a dead tree, and standing it up... now what?
8. Atticus's gangster hat ( baseball hat and knit hat layered)
9, 10. Onward, ever onward.

bike rides to the park

Is there a better way to enjoy spring than to bike ride to the park... and have a picnic?