Wow - What a Summer!!!

Holy Cow - we have had an amazing summer. It has been so very busy and so very, very fun! I know that my blogging has just "slightly" been a little slow but hopefully with school getting going I might find some more time to sit down and blog. We had such an amazing summer I thought I would just post some pictures and short explanations of what we have done. I have posted through the 4th of July and things after that continued pretty strong. We had something going one almost every weekend or every other weekend. So - since we left off at the 4th of July here we go on to our next outing!!

WINDRIVERS!!!

We had an absolutely amazing trip to the Windrivers in Wyoming! We hiked in for three days with most of the Hall clan. Craigers family, our family, & Pappa did the "REAL" kind of camping. We caught a fish with almost every cast (really - I'm not just saying that) and we canoed and attempted to get in to the very, very cold water. All of our kids have said that Windrivers is their favorite vacation. Hooray, hooray - one of my favorite things in the world will continue with my own little family!!!

Here we have the mightiest and bravest of all hikers in the world. They have conquered all mountains!!!

We had some pretty awesome fisherman/chefs!

**I have some many fun pictures from Windrivers that I think I am going to put up a little slide show to show all the fun we had -- stay tuned!!(hopefully it won't take 6 months to put up).

Madison & Mom in California!

Our next trip was to Irvine, California for the Slammers Soccer Tournament. Madison and Mom enjoyed three days of the California weather and sun together. Madison had a soccer tournament where she was the team MVP for two of the games that she played. Not only that, but we got to go to the California Adventure park, Newport Beach (one of our most favorite spots in the world) and we had an incredible time just being together!!! I am pretty lucky to have such an incredible and awesome daughter (not that I am biased or anything).

Even the flight over was a lot of fun! I killed her in UNO!!

Look really close & you can see us on the elevator ride at the California Adventure Park. I was a little bit more nervous than Madi was.

We got a little wet!

This is a look of pure 100% joy and happiness on Newport Beach!!!

Girls Camp

The next part of the summer was Girls Camp. I had the opportunity to spend three days with our ward just past Morgan, UT. I had a wonderful time and it reminded me of the things that I should be focusing on. I missed my family and I realized I needed to put all the outside stuff away to focus on my family and the gospel. Thank heavens for the small and simple things that remind us of the important things in life!

Ahh, yes the wondreful things we do as leaders!

Fathers and Sons Campout

I got back on thursday from girls camp and on Friday, Sean and Mason took off for Fathers and Sons. Mason was very, very excited to spend time camping with his Dad. He was ready to go with Gatorade and camping treats!

Ready for the dark!

Just a bit excited!!

***Yikes - I am getting tired and I sure you are too. So - the remaining part of our summer....to be continued.