Snow Canyon State Park

I got to go on a field trip with Caleb to Snow Canyon State Park. It was a perfect day and so beautiful! We went on a hike to learn all about our southern Utah desert. 

Caleb has been so blessed to have Mrs. Mertin this year! She is absolutely amazing!  

 

I love third grade - everyone is friends with everyone and they are still so giddy and fun. We also got to stop at the Sand Dunes and the kids got to play for a little while.

 

The only drawback - riding a school bus with a bunch of kids 3 to a seat after a sweaty hike :)

Pioneer Day

Pioneer Day started out with a huge thunderstorm and beautiful rainbow!

Then we were off to the Pioneer Day float and parade.

Beckham spent most of the parade gathering candy but when we went by he came out with us and jumped on the float.

We went over to do the games and of course the minute we let them Davis and Caleb got in the line to get dunked. They went over and over!

We had a great time and came home right before the storm broke again. It cleared up just in time for us to have a big party and BBQ at our house that night!

Arches National Park

John had to go to Moab for some work, so we made it a weekend! He worked on Friday when we got there and the boys and I swam and watched a lot of cartoons, and swam more when Dad got back.

 
Then Saturday we spent the day in Arches. I figured we could do the 3 mile round trip hike with the boys to delicate arch but it wasn't easy!

We did it first so it would be cooler and then we were too tired to do anymore so we just drove around and looked.

One the way home we passed through Richfield and John had made a contact there that had apricot trees so we stopped to pick apricots. We stopped again in Cedar City for dinner and had a leisurely ride home. It was an awesome little trip with no DVD player! The boys actually did great. Sometimes I wonder if the DVD player on a trip makes things worse because they don't even try to play. This trip they had a ton of fun playing together in the back.

Since we have been back I have turned all the apricots into jam!

I don't like apricots but I loooove apricot jam!

Downpour!

Its been so hot here! Like 110 degrees! So tonight we grabbed a pizza and headed to the splash pad for dinner!

By the time we were leaving the wind had picked up and the flag looked so beautiful!

And then the storm broke - it was a wild desert storm with rolling thunder and huge lightening. It was hot and muggy and so fun to play in the rain - until the lightening started and like a good Mom I made the boys come in the house!

Davis did his rain dance!

Independence Day!

We had an amazing 4th of July! Started off with our awesome small town parade!

And homemade maple bars - Yum!

Then we headed over to the lake for a few hours. The kids dug in the sand, jumped off the cliffs, and tried to catch fish in buckets!

We showered and headed up to our ROCKIN" spot on the black hill to eat dinner and hang out while we waited for fireworks!