Moab

The day after Micah's wedding, we decided to go to one of our favorite places near Moab--Honeycomb Rock (or as my family likes to call it, Fraggle Rock). It's a giant rock (it's actually several rocks) with lots of caves in it. When we were kids, we imagined that it was Fraggle Rock because of the caves and the sparkly rocks.

There was a stream of sunlight coming in from a crack in the top of this cave and it looked really cool.
The kids were trying to bury the light. They thought it was coming up from the ground. It was really funny to watch.
Here we are at the top the Indian ladder (Another fun place my family likes to go at Moab). The crack in the rock on the right side of this picture is where the ladder is located. Dale, my cousin Todd, and I are on the top.
Here's me and Tasha climbing down the ladder.

Fourth of July

We went river rafting on the 4th with some friends. We all had lots of fun except Elias, who cried and whined the whole time.

Here's everyone that went...Dalan is behind Elora's head; other than that, I think it turned out pretty good for just holding it in front of me.

It turned out that the reason Elias was crying the whole time wasn't because he was scared of the water like we thought, but because he had a broken leg. :(

We had to hike down a really steep hill to get down to the river. Dale was holding Elias, slipped, and fell on Elias' leg. He checked Elias, didn't see any scrapes or bruises, so he thought he was alright. OOPS! He's got a cast now and walks all over the place (he got tired of crawling everywhere after about a week). Except for nighttime when he can't find a comfortable position to sleep, he acts just like any other 21-month-old.

Here's a picture of Elias with his blue cast, which came off (long story). He had to get another one. Elora picked out a glow-in-the-dark cast for him, so the kids think that's pretty cool.

Barbee Reunion

We hosted the Carl and Jenetta Barbee family reunion this year and had a ton-o-fun! I wasn't sure how things would go with that many people, but it went really well. We went geocaching, tie-dyed shirts, had a photo scavenger hunt (pics below), and a treasure hunt throughout Idaho Falls. We were glad to be able to visit with everyone and have so much fun together. We were sad that Charles' family and Jason & Jeannie couldn't make it.

Here's some pictures from the photo scavenger hunt.

Summer update

I just realized how long ago my last post was, so here's a few picture updates of early summer.

One day, Elias found one of the kids' bike helmets, put in on, went outside and rode his bike. He was so cute, so I just had to take a picture. The funny thing was that he never keeps hats/helmets on for more than 10 seconds and he'd never rode a bike before. He rode his bike with the helmet on for about 45 minutes.
Kydee was in a contest at school to see who could read for the most minutes in two months. She read over 4,000 minutes and won the contest, so she got to ride to school in a fire truck. They took her for a 30 minute ride around town first; she got to turn on the siren and she loved it, of course! (Dalan won the prize for reading the most in kindergarten, so he got a $5 gift card to Barnes & Noble; too bad that's not enough to actually buy a book there!)

Elora loves to help me in the kitchen and she always pretends that she's the chef and I'm the slave that has to help her. (I have no clue where she got that idea!) Here's a picture of her making bread.

We helped my parents with their cotton candy booth in Moab, UT and while there, Kydee and Dalan got to ride this trampoline-bungee thingy. They had a lot of fun.