1st day of school

Hayden started kindergarten last week.  Here is a quick picture I took on my phone.  I have some better ones on the camera but we are fixing some computer stuff so I haven't taken them off yet.

His teacher is Mrs. Finnerty.  She is actually our next door neighbors cousin.  And she grew up playing soccer with my younger sisters. 

So far he likes school.  He gets up in the morning pretty easy.  No complaints so far.

He is on the bus for a long time.  Like 40 minutes each way. Ugh 

He already missed a day due to being sick.  Dang!

The other day I went to pick up at school.  I sent a note saying this.  They lost it and sent him home on the bus.  Annoying.  Then they called the bus and told it to wait for me if I wasn't there.  So I drove home and beat the bus back.... only to have it just fly by me.  It never stopped.  I had to chase it down.  After all of that I had to take hayden back to school for testing.  (which is why I said I would pick him up in the first place). 

Testing didn't go so well.  he was super hungry.  It was 1:00 and he hasn't eaten since 7am.  My plan was to get a quick lunch together.  But that was ruined.  And I had no food on me.  So when they asked him to write his last name (which he can).  he stopped after E and said he was too tired.  And later he said he didn't know his address.  Which has known for over a year.  oh well. 

Pine View Reservoir

Mike really wanted to go to a lake as a family and have a picnic.  So we headed to Pine View Reservoir.

It had a picnic area above the beach area.  And a nice beach area with plenty of trees if you wanted shade.  And the water wasn't too cold. 

You had a pretty view of the mountains all around you.

Mike and the kids immediately started their sand castle contest.

Amelia just loved playing in the water and sand.

There was a rope swing that Hayden loved

and he would swing upside down on it.

Later Season's in laws came with their us boat and took us around on it.

Amelia loved riding the boat.

They even let us tube on it.  That was a lot of fun.  The cousins all were really good at it and had so much fun.

Hayden did not want to but I made him try it.  Here he is crying before we start.  The thumbs down is for him to slow down.  We weren't going yet!

Here we are tubing.  He  claims he didn't like it.

Amelia was next.  She  cried too.   But I think she had some fun.

It was fun day at the lake.  We had sandwiches and lots of chips and yummy cookies.

We met up with Mike's friend Larry and his family afterwards and didn't get home until midnight so it was a long day but a good one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5th Water

I have been wanting to go to 5th water in Utah since our first trip almost 10 years ago.  This  trip we finally did it and it did not disappoint.

5th water is about 2 hours from salt lake city.  It is a 5 mile round trip hike and you end up at hot springs and waterfalls.  You can sit in the hot pools and soak or cool off in the water fall areas.

Since it was a longer hike we left our kids at home.  I hope to take Hayden next time maybe.  It wasn't too bad of a hike. Some of  Our older nieces and nephews and mike's sister season came along.   

The first area we came to was our favorite.  This is the lower falls. 


It had 2 nice hot pools to sit in.  A lower...


and an upper one.


We got up early for this hike so we had the area to ourselves for a long time.  I mostly stayed in the lower pool.


Later we hiked to the middle falls.

These were much bigger.  There were some small hot pools.  But these weren't as clean on the bottom.  So I didn't spend as much time in them.

The falls had a hole in it.  You could climb behind it and stick your head out.  The water was really cold.

We also saw a snake here.

Later we hiked to the upper falls. 

We passed 2 more nice soaking pools but there was a nude man in them so we quickly walked past.

We did make it to the upper falls.  They were big.

Later we hiked back to the lower falls since that was ours  favorite.  And enjoyed the area.  By this time all the areas were getting busy.  I am so glad we came early.

We eventually hiked back and started our drive home.  We did stop at the BYU creamery for a tasty hamburger and home made ice cream.  Yum

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provo River Falls

Provo River Falls was a last minute addition to our trip agenda.
It is a 1 hour and 40 minute drive but it was worth it. 
It has three big waterfalls and lots of smaller ones that we rock climbed too.
It was such a great place.

The upper falls were seen right from the parking lot. 

We got a full family shot

The middle falls were next

and a bunch of  us climbed around in the super cold water.  The weather is much cooler because you are high up in the mountains.  You could see snow in some places. 


The lower falls were just a few yards down stream but were a little trickier to get to.

Hayden loved climbing all the rocks and looking for more rocks with Nathan.

Later we hiked up stream to see several more waterfalls and one that came from a spring.

It was so nice there.

A short drive later we looked to hike to a lake.  We couldn't find the one we were looking for so stopped at a different one.   It was so cold by the lake that no one wanted to continue the hike. 

there was tons of snow around this area and hayden loved it.

We did stop for a quick visit to Mirror Lake (the main one in the area).  We were going to hike it but the others were too cold. 

We stopped at an overlook for this nice view...

We also stopped to see some road side falls.  We could have hiked closer to them but were too tired and still had a long drive home. 

 

 

It was a fun day trip. 

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