So much to do, so little time

I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. It was a whirlwind for us, it is amazing all the things we did in 3 days. We were excited for the long weekend and finally some warm weather!! So we decided we'd head over to Kanab and see what we couldn't find to do. It's funny cause we didn't have anything planned but we sure found plenty to do! If you know Shaye we can never do enough outdoors or have to much fun, so as soon as we got to town Friday evening we fired up the fire pit in my parents backyard and had ourselves a nice little roast of hot dogs and marshmallows. That was just the beginning, there are many pictures to follow of all the good times. The funny thing was that Friday, Saturday and Sunday we did a lot of fun stuff and we didn't even leave my parents neighborhood, and it was all free:)

Here's Brandon and Shaye roasting their hot dogs. It's fun to have most of our siblings home for the summer so we can see them when we come to town.

Nate loves it when we come to town, we never have to ask him twice if he wants to roast mallows or go for a hike, you say the word and he is ready. This doesn't happen with all things you ask Nate to do so we can only assume that he enjoys the outdoor activities:)

Everyone enjoying the fire, it was a little windy but it was great!

Day two of our long weekend was wonderful, we went hiking, fishing and had a cookout. The best part was we never left our neighborhood!! It was a great day.

We hiked up Pugh's Canyon right up the road from my parents house. It had been years since I hiked back there and Shaye had never gone all the way to the end. It was a great hike, I thought there would be more water at the end where there is a water fall, instead it was more like a trickle:)

It was still a beautiful hike. I love that all this stuff is right in our backyard! Gotta love that nice shot of my belly, it is ever growing:)

Nate was being a cowboy for the day. He hiked the whole way in cowboy boots, a jacket, jeans, and hat, we love you Nate. You always keep things interesting:)

Shaye and Brandon hiked up on top of the water trickle to see the view from above.

Nate followed them half way but then just decided to wait for them on this rock.

Here's me and Mom down below.

Next item of business, fishing. Nate had found Shaye's fishing pool in the back of the truck and kept signing fish. So Shaye promised him they'd go catch a fish. They just walked down to the pond on the golf course right behind the house and caught a few fish. Nate was loving it, he was real interested in how Shaye was catching the fish. Shaye would catch them and let Nate help him reel it in. He loved it!

Last item of business for day two was making tin foil dinners and heading up the mountain across the street from my parents house. Here's Dad at the top of the mountain.

We were happy Jenn didn't have to work that night so she could come join us for our dinner in the mountains. It was the perfect night and the perfect ending to such a great day!

A view from up top. Shaye is so similar to my Dad in some ways that it makes me laugh. They take everything to the next level, if they are going to do something they are going to do it all the way. They decided to make this little place like home so we could come back here often. They made a lovely fire pit, they cleared the nice porch Jenn and I are sitting on.

And to top it all off....

they made this staircase up to the porch:) They are so funny and they take their projects so seriously. We can't wait for our next cookout:)

What happened the next day was another unplanned activity. Sunday night we decided to head out to Lake Powell, thanks to Brandon and his nice mission companion that said we could stay on his families nice house boat. Even though it was a crazy last minute thing it was a lot of fun!

Shaye pretending to drive the boat. Neither of us had been the Lake Powell since right after hight school so we were enjoying every minute!

Here's some of the boys trying to go for a kayak ride. They didn't make it far before falling in.

Here's Shaye getting ready for a ride out on the open sea, he couldn't be happier:) Today he is feeling pretty sore from rides on the tube but he says it's all worth it! He had a blast!

What a weekend! We loved every minute, good memories. Hope you all had a good weekend too!:)