Birthday Hike

We went on our traditional Birthday Hike on my Birthday. It was beautiful this year. It reminded Bryce and I of the first year we went exactly ten years ago. The boys had fun as usual. We saw a snake. Bryce fell in the river (as usual) and Simon fell in while we were eating lunch. He was soaked. Poor kid. I love this tradition. I will post the pictures of years past next post. But for now enjoy :)

My Little Hyrum

Oh how I love my little Hyrum. He is so much fun right now. He has started to walk. He cant push himself up yet but he walks everywhere until he falls and crawls to something he can stand up with. About a month ago, all the other boys were gone and I was eating lunch. I started saying my prayer and I noticed Hyrum got really quiet. So I turned to find him folding his arms. So cute! Love this little guy!

I hurried and snapped a picture of him folding his arms.

Summer Camping and Cabin

We had a fun summer in the outdoors this year. Bryce didn't go camping as much as he wanted to but all the boys sure loved it when they did. We went to our cabin with my parents. I didn't take any pictures with my parents... I know sad... they even floated down the river with us. They were good sports and put up with us.

Looking for small fish at the cabin

Our small break from floating down the river

Awesome boys in their element

Calvin walking up the stream

We pulled this little boat behind the kayak. That is Levi and Calvin asleep. I wanted to curl up in there with them :)

Hyrum fell asleep by the end too

The boys at Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons with a neighbor boy

Fathers and Sons... Levi sleeping

Fathers and Sons... Simon with two friends

Uintah camp out

You can tell the boys just goof off the whole time... I think they have a lot more fun with Bryce than me. This was Levi's first backpacking campout with Bryce

Sherpa Bryce... once again. Glad he loves his boys enough to carry 500 lbs :)

Ogden Temple

We went to the Ogden Temple open house as a family. The boys were actually reverent through most of it :) It is beautiful (definitely an improvement from the old one). Simon gave a talk in primary the next day and took the pictures we have of us in front of the temple. They talked about temples during the sharing time and Simon kept pulling the picture out to show everyone. When they sang "I love to see the Temple" he once again pulled it out and stood in front of the whole primary. Glad we took pictures :)

Sports

We have been trying out some different sports. Of course we have done soccer. Throughout the summer the boys did BMX and Simon and Calvin tried out Karate on Simon's birthday. Calvin has started wakeboarding. He can get up and stay up for a minute. (we dont have any pictures of this because Bryce was driving the boat and I was too excited to take pictures:)

 Calvin's spring 2014 team (Coach Carrie Rigby) with Rex Rigby and Zach Rawlings

I coached Simon's team last spring

This is Simon's fall (now) soccer picture

Levi in BMX

The boys were really excited to get trophies

Simon in Karate on his 5th birthday (in his blue sonic shirt)