August Adventures

We did a lot of fun things in August before summer was over. Starting with Aaron's birthday then camping at the Swann Family Reunion. We wanted to do a lot of camping since kids were older and I wasn't pregnant. Unfortunately we didn't get as much in as we wanted. We did get together with Eric's friends to camp up Amasee Valley on Aug 20-21. We were there with Nate and Audrey's family as you can see Zayda in the lower right picture, Roy and girlfriend, and Riley- you can kind of see the guys in upper right picture. The kids had a pretty good time running around. We all had some interesting car troubles though.

August 23 we made a trip up to Cabella's to pick up a gun for Eric's dad and I think the kids might have enjoyed it more than all our other excursions. They have fishes and animals to see, but not too much like at the zoo or aquarium and lots of running around; up and down, etc. Aaron loved pointing out the animals while Miriam liked feeding the fish.
She spent a lot of time picking up the little fish food and throwing it into the fish. We could hardly pull her away. Besides how much better is free?! On August 28 Spanish Fork opened a new park right off the freeway and they had a grand opening with a lot of too do. We stopped in for a little while before we headed up to Salt Lake to attend Eric's work managers wedding lunch. First we went around to see what was there then waited in a long line for the carousel. While waiting I decided to go get some popcorn. When I first saw the popcorn line it wasn't very long but it got longer and I missed the kids ride on the carousel.

After a very nice luncheon in the Joseph Smith building we looked around Temple Square. Saw the statues and the Christus. Then we found the log cabin that was featured in the Friend because I hadn't remembered it being there before.

I'm glad we're able to get and do/see more as a family this year. I love being with my family in all settings!