My Boys

so today while watching the kids play I was watching my two boys.  One who is very tall, a spitting image of his father, a gamer, easy going and gentle, and a mama’s boy.  And then my other one who is very dark complexion, very competitive, also shy, a quick temper, yet lovable, and a daddy’s boy.  Yet they both come from the same parents and yet so different but they love each other and make their personalities work.  I took some pictures to portrait my thoughts.  To my two sweet boys who will forever be brothers together.

Piedmont experience

So today Daniel and Suzy came from Ogden to spend the night so I thought it would be fun to go somewhere new or in this case old.  We stopped and got some water and treats and headed out of town.  The clouds were building up and the thunder and lightning was getting stronger in the direction we wanted to go.  After taking the wrong exit, then missing the right exit we turned around and found the dirt road to our destination.  The kids were a little concerned about the rain coming and especially the lightning.  Our first encounter was with a badger, the kids thought he was way cool, but a little ugly.  After a 10 min ride on the dirt road with me thinking  “if I get a flat tire, who would come out and help us???”  Finally arriving at the kilns, the kids thought it was cool.     They found some different animals,      bats, dead bats, almost dead bats, a little bird.      The kilns were interesting           then we headed up to the town, or the remnants of the town, there more animals, a bunny rabbit and a big dead bird.   The rain came in bits, but we had fun and enjoyed the adventure and yes, we did make it home safely.

bear river parkway adventure

our adventures started in the morning with bike riding and

playing in the water.

The kids chased down tadpoles.

 

Later in the evening we headed down by the pond with the intend to walk, but they were still renting

boats and canoes.  So Duane took the three youngest and headed out on the paddle boat

and soon they realized they weighed too much to much with the boat,

 

so the kid at the boats jumped into the canoe and took took casey and carson out

and Duane and Bryan were able to paddle back were they all got into the canoe and were able to enjoy a nice canoe trip around the

pond.  After that we continued our walk and came across a kid who caught a crawdad, yuck, they are ugly

and we also caught a small garter snake.  To end the great day we got shakes at mcdonalds.

a trip to Bear Lake…

On the way there we had to stop for road construction a mile from our exit for 10 mins.  Alexis got bored and took some pictures.

 

Once there the kids loved the inlet that let them play as much as they wanted yet not too deep.

 

Even though it was 70* we still all got sunburned…

carson playing soccer and the mud races

Watching Carson playing soccer.  A lot of fun.  Going to the mud races..a first for all of us.  We cheered Chad on.  (One of Duane’s customer)  It was great fun and as before we want to go again next year, but we will bring ear plugs this time.