Pioneer Trek

Bret and I were blessed to be Ma and Pa to an awesome group of kids on our Stake Pioneer Trek. We were gone 4 days and walked about 30 miles. We missed Max and Maddie a lot but they were well taken care of (Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Nicholson and Jodi and Neil).

This is our family at the beginning of Trek. We had 9 kids and a flour sack baby.

This is the Women's Pull, we had to pull the handcart up a big hill without the boys to help.

We had a great family, our kids were all very positive, didn't complain, got along and had a lot of fun together.

This is a video of our family on the last day, after being drenched several times, doing our family yell.

Good Night, Sleep Tight

The other night the kids made a "clubhouse" in Max's room. They had a great time playing in it and they wanted to have a sleep over in it. They did eventually fall asleep and I was able to get some pictures of them.




I have mentioned in previous posts that before I go to sleep at night I always look in on my kids. Last night, I opened Maddie's door to find her half way hanging out of her bed. She was sound asleep. Like brother like sister I guess.


I tried to swing her legs around to tuck her in but she woke up and stood up a little disoriented.

I told her to climb back in bed but she was too tired so she layed down right where she was standing.

We had to lift her back up into bed and tuck her in. What a silly girl.


While I am posting pictures of sleeping kids I decided to add this one that I took awhile ago. I went in to check on Max and he was asleep holding a balloon that he had gotten and the store earlier that day.

One more sleep story. Last Sunday morning I went in Maddie's room to wake her up to get ready for church. As soon as she opened her eyes she said, "Hey, Giraffes don't have hair!" then she looked really thoughtful and said, Giraffes don't have hair, that would be silly."
I would love to be able to see the dream she was having when I woke her up.