Hurricane

We had left our bikes down in southern Utah when we were there for Thanksgiving. We also came back for Christmas and rode them then when we came in the spring they were waiting for us. We headed straight to the rocks. The day was perfect! Low dust and not too hot!

Daddy took the boys on a little ride.

This time Zaylie even got a ride! It was a pretty long ride too. Dustin came looking for us and we were further than he thought.

Hurricane riding

We brought our bikes down with us and took rides around the property then Saturday on our last day there we went riding near their house. Zaylie took naps in the car and the boys rode on fun trails. McCall collected bullet shells with Bronson and Lukas.

Andrew on the 50

  Jackson on the 50. I had to brib him to take a few spins. Last time on the bike he took several spills and I think he was timid to get back on. I told him I would give him 50 cents. After showing him a cool figure 8 path I couldn't get him off.

They did take a long brake from riding to do some red rock climing and battling

McCall's bullet shell collection. She was sad to find that we did not get home with her bag of shells and red dust. I threw them out at Grandma's and hoped that she did not remember. She did ask about them on the drive back home and I told her we left them at grandma's and would get them when we went back.

Summary of May Events

Dustin took the boys to the Father's and Son's camp out. They had lots of fun hiking and roasting smores by the camp fire. They slept in a cabin with bunks and got to stay up very late, they were asking to go to bed.





Andrew felt a little out numbered for his Preschool program. The only other boy in his class did not make it for the last day of school so Andrew had to stand up there with all these girls. Ella was his favorite (last one on the left) and he frequently asked if she could come over and play. Andrew's riding partner all year was Callie (second from the left). Andrew never did warm up all the way in class. He did get to where he would speak to Mr. Douglas and tell her things about race cars or trips we went on. He never did really get comfortable enough talking with the other kids.
For memorial day weekend we drove to Hurricane, Ut and spent a few days at the Blad plantation! We went hiking up in the Red Hills and played around the house with Ryan's family, Ben's and Dannene's. We even roasted smores up on the property one night with the older boys. Andrew thought that was pretty cool that he could stay up later than most of the other kids, especially Jackson. We drove back the old 1996 Crystler mini van in hopes to sale our Dodge Durango. We ended up selling the Honda Fit instead 7/08. No one was interested in paying $4 a gallon to fill up the Dodge!



On the hike we had nothing to carry McCall in so we made a sack out of McCall's blanket and she rode on my hip.

All the kids take a break after a long day of playing. We slept in the basement of grandma's house and the boys slept in our room on bunk beds. Andrew fell off the top bunk one night and after that I didn't sleep very well in fear that he would fall off again.

McCall liked to ride around in Grandpa's toy fire truck until Jackson or Andrew start pushing her in it really hard from behind!

Grandpa and Grandpa are the emergency preparedness specialist in their ward. They often have the dry pack sealer at their house. We brought back two bags of White wheat and canned them here with the Garden City Cannery dry pack sealer. We had people over all week from the ward using it! We got some young families thinking about their food storage!

The boys had a blast with some Beebe guns that Danna and Drew brought with us on a 4-wheeling adventure.

Thanksgiving at the Brown's

Andrew has had a countdown of the days till we go to Grangeville for Thanksgiving. Everyday he says, "only four more days till we go," this stared with six.

We ate our traditional homeny casserole and honey glazed ham that mom brought. Lance mashed the potatoes as he does every year. Brandy made mom's yummy homemade crossant rolls. Between Cynthia, mom, Brandy and I we had 13 pies to eat in 3 days! We almost pulled it off.

There was so much snow that the kids spent most of the time sledding out Brandy's backyard. The kids made a nice track with a jump. Amazingly no one was hurt. Andrew did come in once because he had gone out with no socks on and snow got down in his boot! The older kids spent the night out in the half court size gym that the Brown's built for their kids two years ago. Brandy made us work out the next morning in the gym to work off all those pies.

We all had a great time.
Thank you Joel and Brandy Brown!