Camping, Canning, Las Vegas, Utah

Over Labor Day weekend we went camping at Dog Lake.  Here is our campsite and you can kind of see the lake through the trees.  Jesse is standing next to his new grill that I got him for his birthday.

Kade had been sick and come to find out was still sick, poor kid. It was also kind of cold.  Kade loved it though he wandered around and we met everyone at the campground.

We went on a hike and found a river and I learned to shoot the hand gun.

On our way home from camping we found a fruit stand so we picked up 2 boxes of peaches.  They were huge and so good.  I canned 12 jars, and then made jam and froze a ton.  I also made a super yummy peach pie.  Sunday over labor day weekend we went on a walk and found an awesome area for blackberries. We picked a ton so I made blackberry jam.  I am pretty proud of all my canning and I will be doing more since I bought another box of peaches yesterday.  Yes I may be crazy.

Kade and I took a trip to Las Vegas to visit my old roommate Melissa and her family.  We had such a great time.  Here is Kade and Mitchell they are a few months apart and played so great together.  Kade taught Mitchell how to scream really high pitched (sorry Mel) and Mitchell taught Kade how to pick his nose.  I guess we are even.

Emily came down from Utah and then her and Melanie came over and swam with the boys. Kade loved all the attention he was getting.

Kade loved being thrown up in the air. Thanks Emily!

I know this picture is blurry but look at Kade's face!

Kade loved the hot tub because we turned it on and the water was warmer than the pool.  The pool was so cold he would not go in, well I guess he fell in twice and didn't like it. The weather in Vegas was perfect.  I may have to make it a tradition to go down this time of year every year.

We also went hiking in the mountains of Las Vegas. We tried to go to Mt Charleston but it was freezing okay like 50 but it was cold.  So we found a different hike lower down where it wasn't so cold.  The boys did awesome at walking.

Mitchel smiling for the camera.

Melanie!

Kade and I.

Kade saw Mitchell drinking his milk in the bouncy seat and had to copy him.  I thought he looked so funny.  Its crazy how big he is getting.

The other reason we went to Vegas was to watch my old roommate Sarah participate in the half Ironman.  I am not going to lie i thought it was a full one so I was a little surprised when I learned it was  only half.  She is still amazing and did awesome.  She got 5th in her age group and 11th overall for the women.  It was a lot of fun seeing Sarah and her family.

After Vegas Emily and I headed up to Orem.  I'm pretty sure that was the longest drive from Vegas to Orem I have ever had.  Emily's poor car had some issues and we never got above 50 going uphill and we were lucky to go 75 down hill.  Kade did amazing and I owe most of that to Emily and her amazing sticker book. Have I mentioned that Emily is amazing because she is.

Kade LOVED Emily's garden and loved the orange tomatoes.

Emily has the biggest garden ever and Kade loved it.  He loved eating all her raspberries.  And was learning which ones to pick.

Love!

Such concentration

We had the most amazing time in Utah.  We got to see lots of friends and eat lots of fresh produce.  I wish we would have stayed longer but we couldn't.  Now its time for everyone to come visit us.  I don't think I'll be doing much traveling after the new year.  I'm kind of sad that I didn't take more pictures I guess we were just having too much fun.  We even saw Erin and didn't get a picture with her...what was I doing?  Thank you Bunns, Melanie, Warner's, and Avery's for letting us stay with you.  We had such a wonderful time and it was just what I needed.  Now back to life here and time to get some projects done.  Thank you Rebecca and Melissa for the motivation!