Camping at Horsethief Reservoir

For Bryce's birthday he wanted to go camping. So we packed up the whole house, or so it seemed and headed to the great outdoors. We left Thursday night and came home Saturday. We found a very nice camp site at the reservoir and set up our brand new tent. Grant was so excited to be camping. That first day we discovered that there were little tiny tree frogs all over the place. The boys were scared to touch them at first but they got over that quickly. Unfortunately Kent was a little rough with the frogs and a couple of them met at early demise. About 9:30 that evening we were roasting marshmallow's by the fire when a huge storm came through. We ran to the tent just in time for it to start pouring down rain. It stormed all night with thunder and lightning and of course tons of rain. Amazingly enough the boys slept through it all. Bryce and I on the other hand were up all night. Needless to say in the morning the boys were happy and wanting to play and we were not happy campers. Luckily the next day was warm and sunny. It just took an hour our so to hang everything out to dry and to soak up, as Bryce called it, Lake Belnap from the bottom of our tent. Then we were off to have some fun for the day.



We went swimming at the little boat ramp. The water was amazingly warm. We got to try out the new life vests that we got the boys. They thought they were great fun. Kent kind of freaked out when he would get deep enough to start floating. He couldn't figure out what was going on. We had fun splashing around.





Next we went fishing. On Grants little pole we just put a bobber without a hook. He loved to just throw it out and reel it in. We meet a really nice couple that were camping next to us. The boys took to them like they had known them there whole lives. We went fishing with them Saturday morning. Grant is helping her reel in a fish. It was so funny, Grant was so excited about going fishing until we actually caught one. Once the boys saw that fish flopping around on the ground they screamed and ran away. Grant said," I'm scared of the fishy". I caught only one fish, Bryce came close a couple of times but it always seemed to get away. Our camping neighbors had better luck then us. They caught 11 trout in the short time they were there. I guess some people have all of the luck.



Here are a couple of pictures of us hanging around the camp. The boys are cooking there hotdogs over the fire. They were a little crispy but they still ate them. I am cutting up catalope in the cooking area. overall it was a pretty good camping trip.

July Fun

This month we bought an inflatable water slide for the boys. They were both a little scared of it at first but once we had some friends over they saw how much fun it could be. Kent even went down a few times. He mostly liked to crawl through the tunnel. Also this month Grant was in swim lessons at our local Rec center. The first couple of days were rough. Grant just cried and refused to do anything the teacher told him to. The second day I got in the pool with him. He would do some of the water games with me but refused to look at the teacher and freaked out if one of the other kids touched him. Over the first week he gradually warmed up. Everyday he was more comfortable and participated more. The second week he would go by himself into the pool and let the teacher actually touch him and work on the swim lessons. By the last day he was loving it and wanted more. He even went down the waterslide with the teacher. He came out of the pool with a big smile and said, "That was fun".



The boys are helping mom make cinnimon rolls. They had a ton of fun and made a great big mess. They really like to eat them too.


I thought this picture was funny. I put a dinasour costume on Kent and Grant thought it was great fun the chase after him and grab the tail. They both were laughing so hard.

Family Reunion

July 9th through 12 we went to the Belnap Family reunion. This year it was held at Solitude in Utah. It was good to see family and let the kids play with there grandparents and Aunts and uncles. The boys had the most fun down by the fishing pond. The did a little fishing and a lot of splashing in the water and throwing rocks. We did get to see a Moose with her baby one evening. The boys also loved the Thomas the Train party. Boys Love trains. Byce had fun mountain biking and playing Frisbie golf. Even though he said that the course on the Mountain was a lot of work. At least it was good exercise.




After the Reunion we went to my Sister Laura's house. It was my neice's birthday so we stayed for the Party. My parents and older sister Maria were also there. The bubble party was a big hit with the kids. Grant and kent had fun playing with all of the toys. We were planning on staying the night, but Grant had decided he had enough family togetherness and insisted that we go home. He could not be distracted from this. Not even riding in there jeep would distract him. So we came home a day early and we all slept great in our own beds.