Lake Powell

Our friends, the Bergstroms, invited us to go to Lake Powell for Memorial Day weekend. So we loaded up Trent and Noelle's trailer and headed down to page. The first day, Friday, was really windy so we didn't stay out on the lake for very long. Luckily the campground we were staying at had an indoor pool and hot tub so we went swimming for 3 hours. Saturday was a beautiful day and we spent the whole day on the lake.

All the kids hanging out in the trailer.

Addi seeing what the world looks like upside down.

Mom and her "bandanna girls".

Addi and Kolton

Matt and Jason

Jensen, Kolton, Lexi, and Ethan

Lexi, Addi, Mom, and Oakley

Addi, Mom, Jensen, Oakley, and Monica

Lexi and Jensen

Tyler, Lexi, Jensen, and Kolton's hairy legs

Matt and Jensen

Kolton

Oakley and Jason

Kolton wake boarding

Addi loved sitting in the front of the boat when we were flying across the water.

Mom and Oakley

Kolton, Lexi, and Jensen

We found a beach where we had lunch. Then Monica and I and some of the kids stayed there to play in the sand while the boys and Lexi did some more boating.

Oakley

Monica wake surfing

Sleepy Addi

Jason and Ethan wake surfing (show offs!)

Kolton wake surfing

Got up on his first try!

Matt giving it a go.

He did it!

On Sunday we went to the Glen Canyon Dam and walked across the bridge. Zane, Ethan, Monica, Eli, and Tyler

Jensen and Kolton

Sunday afternoon we went on a short hike. It ended at an awesome overlook.

The fam minus Kolton, he wanted to sleep instead of hike.

Oakley, Jensen, Lexi, and Addi

Addi

Oakley

Zane, Tyler, Lexi, Marilyn, Monica, and Oakley

After the hike we went back to our campground and swam.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SUPER OAKLEY!

Addi, Matt, and Tyler

Jensen and Lexi

Kolton even came with us for awhile.

This hill was right next to our campground. Those dots on the top of it are Jensen, Ethan, and Kolton. One of the kids favorite things about the trip was a ride in a limo that I didn't get a picture of. Matt asked about the best pizza in town and found a place that would pick you up and take you back home in a limo. It was a Cadillac Escalade limo, really nice and the kids loved it!

School's out!!!

Here's a couple of pics from the last week of school.

The choir presenting Mrs. Henderson with a quilt of pictures of last five years teaching at Payson High School. She's not coming back next year and it's been hard for the kids to say good-bye.
She's an awesome choir teacher.

Oakley's end of the year program.

MORP, again

Kolton got asked to Salem's MORP, luckily by only one girl this time.

This is what he looked like when he got home. They had a paint war. Fun huh?!

Another cute Addiism

Addi sneaks into Lexi's room and climbs into bed with her every night. Last night when I was telling her good night I told her to stay in her own bed. Her reply was, "I don't want to go to Lexi's bed, my legs do. They just get up and take me in there. You need to tell my legs to stay in bed and not go in Lexi's room." Well I told them but they didn't listen, darn those legs, I guess they're grounded.

Out of the mouth of babes

Awhile back in primary Addi learned about the war in heaven. She came home and told me that we chose Jesus and we know that because we're here on earth and have a body. But some people chose Satan and they don't get to come to earth and get a body. For some reason it really stuck with her and she's talked about it a lot since then. The other day we had a conversation that just melted my heart. Addi said "I'm sad that some people chose Satan." I asked her why. She said, "because maybe I was friends with some of those people and because they chose Satan they don't get to come to earth so I never get to be friends with them here." I thought it was pretty deep thinking for a 5-year-old. It certainly got me thinking.

MORP

Kolton was asked to MORP last night, twice.
Around 9:00 the doorbell rang and we found this plate with banana bread on it.

About 20 minutes later the doorbell rang again and we found this bag full of Clemetine oranges.

Yup, it was two different girls. Someone's heart's going to get broken :( Okay, maybe not so much broken but it's still sad.

Prepardness and pixies

On Saturday I hosted another food storage Saturday. We canned 300 lbs. of steel cut oats and made homemade liquid laundry soap.

Here's my studly husband helping with the canner.

Stacy, Noelle, and Kristi all came.

We ended up with 60 cans of oats.

Filling our empty laundry soap containers with homemade laundry soap.
We got done so fast we went to a girl's lunch at Olive Garden.

That night Addi had a dance recital. Her class were pixies. She was so adorable. She really loves dance. She did such a good job, she knew the dance really well.