"America the Beautiful"

Boy did we have a great and very busy summer, currently we are back home resting and being bored! Here is a very long list of the most exciting things we did and then following are a few pictures of some of our activities.

 

Besides going out to eat alot to catch up on all our cravings,

 we went to Millcreek Canyon, for hotdogs and s'mores

and we went to Rocky Mountain Raceway
 we watched and set off lots of fireworks
Wolfcreek for two Family Reunions
Snow Basin, the gondola and a hike

We went swimming several times
Museum of Natural Curiosity
Duchesne Demolition Derby
Ogden Temple Open House

Hollywood Connection

Several sleepovers
Alpine Water Slide 

Night in Midway

                              Gardner Village                              

Night in Heber
Shopped a lot!
Several Parks

Tracy Aviary
Seven Peaks

Ice Skating
Splash Pad
Pineview
Trafalga

Lagoon
Movies

 

 

Saratoga Springs 

 

Neptune Park with good friends the Moffats and McNeils.

Kamree and Emily at the top of the pyramid.

Bellon Family Reunion

Kamree and Adrielle getting reacquainted at the reunion at Wolfcreek.
 

Uncle Ben kindly took the brave kids for rides on his too cool bike.

Morgan wore the helmet since he went outside the parking lots for a longer and faster ride!

Kamree liked it so much she went twice.

 

Mason has never gone shirtless swimming until we were up at Wolfcreek in the pool on a rainy/overcast day.  His skin was so ghostly white that it only took a couple of hours to give him a 2nd degree burn.  This picture was taken on day 5.  He went shirtless for several days after due to the intense pain and for fear of the blisters sticking to the shirt. It was so painful that he would cry if anyone breathed on him.

Lake day at Pineview reservoir.

Independence Day!!!!

Grandma Bellon's 4th of July Stake Breakfast.  This was when we really felt like we were home.


 
Some of our huge home fireworks after the barbeque and before going out to watch the real fireworks throughout the valley.

 

 

Playdates 

 
This is a new park in the Daybreak community.  It is one of the best parks we've found.  With the Pendletons and Deckers.

Sleepover with the Wells.

Showing off the soccer shirts and Kamree's Spanish shirt. (the only shirt we've seen in Spain with Spanish writing)

 

At Trafalga with the Chatwins.  Chris is driving Kamree and Kaiya bringing up the rear.

Brandon driving Mason.

Rocky Mountain Raceway and the double deckers.

 

At Tracy Aviary with the Decker boys.

Rock Slides in Alpine 

 It's about a half mile hike up to these secret slides and it was brutal in the heat and super bright sun with very little shade.   This was just a couple days after my PRK (eye surgery) so my eyes were extremely sensitive to the light even with dark sunglasses and holding an umbrella.   Kamree is going down a small slide below the large one above that ended in a large pool.

 

Mason, Payden and Morgan are standing at the top waiting for their turn to slide.  The place was extremely packed leaving little room to even watch.  Morgan was the only one that went down the slide leaving the rest of us to hike back down wet only from our sweat. 

 Fortunately this splash pad was on our way home so the kids did get to eventually cool off.

Morgan practicing for the American Ninja Warrior.  (with the Davenports)

 

 Kamree learning to climb the silks from Heidi the silks pro.  We spent this afternoon/evening with the Davenports. 

Huber Family Reunion

Pictured here is one of the two owls that live in the trees near the pool/ sports area at Wolfcreek.

Kaiya and some of the girl cousins eating one of the many yummy dinners.

Morgan and the boys being boys. 

The day at Lagoon began quite rainy but turned nice and cool by the early afternoon and the lines were short the entire day!

 

Morgan flying high on the Jungle Joe at Pineview reservoir. 

On our way up to hike the peak on the Gondola at Snow Basin.

The hike wasn't too steep, but the gravel/dirt was slippery.  We had a few tumbles including Brent's parents which sent them both to the Instacare.

 

Most made it to the top!

Can you guess which one is Kamree and which one is Kaiya?

We had a week long reunion here at Wolfcreek with the Hubers and then Kaiya went up to Idaho with Grandma and Grandpa for a couple more days of fun.

Ogden Temple

The new Ogden Temple Open House.

Duchesne

We went out to Duchesne to see Corey's new house and four-wheeler.  The kids loved it all!  We went to the Duchesne Demolition Derby that is apparently the biggest attraction of the year.  We had to stand in line for 3 hours before the show was to start to get good seats.  It was great but it made for a late night drive back home. 

Corey's Wedding

It's official:  Corey (my sister) and Brandon are now hitched!!!

Our 4 kids playing after the wedding luncheon with Corey's kids(-1),  her new kids and new brother in law.  Perhaps there were a few too many kids on the trampoline. What do you think?

Millcreek Canyon

We had yummy fire roasted hotdogs and s'mores with the Deckers and Pendletons.

It was great, the adults sat around talked and ate while the kids ran around having fun playing games.

 



Seven Peaks

We went here 5 or 6 times during our stay in Utah.  This time we were with the Brinkerhoffs,  Payden, Adrielle and Parker.

 

Kamree and Adrielle on one of the many slide rides.  We could not keep Adrielle off the slides.  She loved them!!!

Oquirrh Ice Rink

 

You would think no one would need help being the 3rd time here this summer.

Outside the skating rink, as you can see, Kamree has grown a bit this summer.

Hansen Family Reunion

This was during the Day Reunion at Melissa's house the day before we came home.  Maybe this was a goodbye hug?

 

 

 

Goodbye to possibly the "bestest summer" ever!!!

 

 

 

Thank you Corey for the use of your vehicles, we couldn't have done it without them!!!!

 

And THANK YOU to Grandma Bellon for her hospitality and the use of her home for nearly 2 months!