Piute Reservoir

We went camping to Piute a couple weeks ago. We had such a great time. We found this "Enchanted Forest" of cottonwood trees where there we no people. The trees were huge and provided some great shade and they were full of Night Herons and Great-horned Owls. (For a bird-watching family, this is quite the highlight!) Ben made a teeter-totter out of a huge log and we spent much of our time there. We also waded in the lake (the water was way to cold to actually swim), ate some delicious food, did a little rabbit hunting and fishing (more luck with the rabbits than the fish), and made some great memories. Thanks Ben for always taking us on such fun adventures!


Check out our sweet teeter-totter!

Sean can climb!

Nothing like little boys and lots of dirt!

Dad...do you see what you've started? Kyle thinks he needs to pull up his shirt in every family photo:)

MAYHEM

To anyone who ever looks at this blog...sorry it's been a while. We've been too busy having fun:) I would get the desire to blog, then think of all the things we've been doing and I would get overwhelmed with all I wanted to post. Lame excuse, I know, but it's all I've got.

So...I'm just going to skip the last few months and go straight to the good stuff:)

We were able to go see my parents in Hawaii while they are serving as missionaries on the Big Island. It was absolutely amazing! And crazy! And in a word...MAYHEM! That's our new family motto...MAYHEM It just seems to sum it all up. But our trip was fantastic, better than we ever dreamed. It was so fun to see my parents and see what amazing missionaries they are. A few days after we left they held a baptism for 13 people! Wow!

While we were there, we went to beach every day, we ate shave ice (but only once due to the amount of spilling and sliming that was occuring to other people's shoes and clothing that caused them to give us dirty looks and move away from us), we swam with turtles, we snorkeled, we boogie boarded, we watched the sunset, we ate AMAZING food, we had an unfortunate potty incident involving a large scary dog, we swam in swimming pools (sleep-deprived Riley even fell asleep once while in the pool), we visited the ancient hawaiian place of refuge, we got tans, we were like a traveling boy circus (we got comments/questions about our 4 boys several times each day), we caught ocean fish on bamboo poles with grandpa (whom Sean and Jason woke up at 5:45 am with poles and mackerel in hand) and we had the TIME OF OUR LIVES!!!