First Day of School

Max had a rough start to his first day of school. When he woke up he started throwing up. I couldn't figure out if he was sick or if it was just nerves but then Maddie started throwing up too.


After awhile he said he felt better so I gave him some cereal but he didn't hold that down. Maddie had breakfast and seemed fine after not too long. Max kept begging me to take him to school, he really didn't want to miss the first day. So he ate some more breakfast and by 10:30 he seemed fine. So I took him to school and he ended up having a great day. He was so excited to tell me everything he had done at school. He talked non stop for an hour after coming home and then he crashed, he was so worn out. Because he was late for school we went and took some pictures by his school later in the day.

Swimming

I still have several summer pictures that I haven't put on the blog yet. Both Max and Maddie love to go swimming. The kids took 2 sessions of swimming lessons at this summer.

(Maddie, cousin Charlie, Max)

We also went swimming several times for fun. We took our camera with us when we went a couple weeks ago and with our waterproof camera case got some pictures and videos of the kids.

Fishing

Maddie picked out a princess fishing pole with her birthday money from Grandma and Grandpa so we took the kids fishing at the reservoir up Settlement Canyon. They only caught little baby ones but they loved reeling them in and then letting them go back into the water. We had a good time and got some cute pictures of the kids.

The Uintas Backpacking Trip

A couple of weeks ago Bret's sister Lori and her husband Scott came for a visit from Illinois. Bret and Scott took Max and his cousins Adam, Bekah and Caleb on a backpacking trip in the Unitas. They got cold and they got eaten by mosquitoes but all in all they had a fun time. Here are some pictures of their trip.

Scott, Caleb, Adam, Max, Bekah, Bret


Max and Caleb making a cairn to mark the trail


Bret cooked up some fish for dinner


Max fishing


I guess that is one way to do it!


Bret said that Max had fun just being in the tent


The second day Caleb fell asleep with a rock as a pillow! He got a strip of sunburn on his back.


Gorgeous views


They found some snow and build a little snow man. They thought that was pretty cool to build a snowman in July.