Upper Provo Falls

On our way home from camping, we stopped at the Provo river falls to cool off and play in the water. Not only are the falls beautiful, the river was deliciously cold and refershing.

The girls quickly took off their shoes and socks and played in the shallow pool splashing and enjoying the coolness of the water. James joined in later when the fun actually began.

After and hour of cool refreshness, we reluctently left the cold water and the cool air of the high unitas to head to the heat of the valley.

Summer Camping

This summer has flown by. It's been very enjoyable having Mark home for the summer. We had talked about all the fun things we wanted to do over the summer, and then Kenzie took 9th grade gym during the summer and James joined the cross country track team and summer track and June passed us by before I even blinked. So last week we borrowed grandpa Tobler's Truck (ours is ill at the moment) and headed up away from the heat into the High Unitas. It was a very enjoyable 3 day, 2 night trip. We camped at Mirror lake, out first time and loved the scenery. We unwillingly gave blood to the very persistently hungry vampires (akamisquotes) and caught quite a many small fries (aka planterfish).

I enjoyed watching the girls catch fish after fish at the lake while Mark went from one pole to the next as he carefully removed the hook (or cut the line) to let the little guys go so they could live to fight another day.

Olivia, of course, had to have her

pink pole, pink jacket and pink bait (but quickly switched bait to rainbow which brought in more fish). All in all it was a beautiful time away.

New Pictures of the kids

Taken May 12, 2010

Running All Day Long.

So life has gotten very busy. I spend all day moving literally. I wake early in the morning, sometimes to early for my sleepy body, to help get 4 kids off to school. The two older kids have to leave the house at 7 am to get to school on time. I drive them to school 3 days a week, then I return home to help the other two get ready for school. When it's cold (which today it isn't) I drive them and two more 2 days a week. It's then that I can finally relax, but I don't cause I have it set in my mind to get healthy and lose weight, which is going well. After my 2-3 mile walk I return home with a great desire to relax, but I don't of course because of all the housework staring me in the face. It's would be so bad, but housework is a big stinky circle. As soon as I get some of it done it's dirty again. I hate running in circles.

But let's get to the real reason of this weeks post - James. I may be busy doing things all day long but James is running in circles all afternoon, literally. In February he decided to join the High School track team. I was all for his doing something and being involved, but the kid has a hard time staying caught up with all the homework he's given with all the honor classes he has chosen to take. After much consideration and mumbling about all the extra bussing I would be doing I decided to let him join anyway. O.K so I didn't decided to let him join, Mark and I discusses the pros and con's and decided that this would be good for him. So really he's the one running around in a circle all afternoon. He decided that he would like to be a long distant runner. He's doing great. He's staying up with his homework and he's working hard. He's currently running the 800m and 1600m (or a 1/2 mile and 1 mile for us Americans)

He really is doing great. He can run the 800 in less than 3 minutes and the 1600 in less than 5. I'm lucky if I can drive the mile to pick him up from school in less than 5 minutes, stupid construction, but that's another issue for another day.

Triple Day

So April 4th was triple day. What is triple day you ask. Well that was the name Livi gave to April 4th. As we know April 4th was Easter. This was the 1st thing that made it "triple day" It was snowy and wet and it made it hard to hide the eggs outside, but it was still Easter, so we improvised.

The second thing that added to April 4th to make it "triple Day" was that it was general conference. Livi thought this was a great reason to celebrate. We got to "watch" church in our pajamas and play game while we listened. Yep I think that's a reason to celebrate as well.

The final thing that made it Triple day was that we celebrated Dad's birthday. What a great day it was. We slept in (no early morning church meeting), we stayed in our comfy clothes, we played games, we ate cake, we hid Easter eggs and spent the day together as a family. If only every Sunday could be that way.