Hiking

This photo op took 3 tries, I had a hard time making it before the flash went off. This was above the Secret Pools. Gage is quite the hiker and rock climber.

Snorkeling

Off from Secret Beach is the Secret Pools, there were fish and the view was incredible.

More Beach

The above 3 pictures, while hard to see, must be included into the beach blog, broken boards, missing swimsuits, saltwater where saltwater shouldn't be, were all part of this activity. Any given day, at any given beach held its own special set of treacherous situations.

There was a lot of this activity each day. What you may or may not see is Taylor, hands on hips and looking into the sea. One might ask what he was pondering, but I believe that he was playing Simon Says and could not get Destiny to participate. Laura is averting her eyes, Dillon looks on in wonder, and Chris is playing possum.

More relaxing on the beach, Taylor has gone on to see if he could get other families to participate in his game of Simon Says, and notice Chris is still playing possum...man he is good!

At the Beach

STUD MUFFIN and his daddy, sshhhhhhsh, I think he is sleeping.

Where we goin' (clap, clap, clap) Where we goin' (clap, clap, clap)

Mia, making the decision at an early age to go into medicine like her daddy, has taken it upon herself to cure the coral scrape on Uncle Ryder's stomach. It required sand, a rock, and some rubbing...this type of healing may be more typical of her Aunt Destiny....hmmm

Gage plays football with Uncle Ryder on Secret Beach, they go long, go short, and go into the ocean!

Family Pictures in Kauai

While this looks like it would be easy, this is the one picture with many tries that everyone was in focus, and while some are blocked and may have had better jumping skills, Destiny in all of them looked approximately the same. this is mysterious to me. I have to also tell anyone viewing this picture, that Gage, Mia and myself not only had to jump (this requires anticipating the click) but had to push the button on the camera and then run to our spots, WE DID A LOT OF RUNNING.

The Yoga Experience at Lake Powell

You work your sides

You work your abs

You Balance like a dancer

You just balance

and balance some more

Then you step on an earring

And create some whinning rather than a "zen like" state

The Gang!

Here is the group!

Lake Powell Super Pics

3 Beautiful Gals

The 3 beauties go for a ride, they laugh, they lean and they hold on tight because you never know what Captain Chris has up his sleeve in the name of "FUN"!

 

GAGE the Hunter

On our trip to Fish Lake, we were out on the 4 wheelers stopped and heard a few elk bugling back and forth for about an hour, we were sitting and listening, having snacks, and water. Dillon and Dad went over to see if they could spot any of the elk. Gage and I were just talking and he looked at me and said "what is Googleing?" I said “it is when you look something up on the computer” gave him some examples of how people would use it in a sentence….he just looked at me like I was insane! I was proud of my very great explanation.

Dillon comes back over and Gage said to him “could you see the yelk googleing?” I though….holy smokes no wonder he kept looking at me like I was nuts. He thought that they had said the elk were googleing, and with my explanation they would have been up on the hill side using a computer to look up information. The rest of the trip we (Dillon, Dad, Kenny and I) would say “hey, did you hear the yelk googling”?

THE FLIGHT OF MAN

He stuck the landing.......... I give him a 10!

The Incredible Journey

Can you say-concussion, bruised ribs, neck and back trouble all in the name of

FUN!!

First Things First

While there are a lot of things that I must catch up on, first and foremost, I must tell you all the conquest of the "Devil Bush"! I have been tormented for a couple of years, with a rose bush gone rogue. This was once a beautiful small, low growing rose bush, that turned into Satan Incarnate. I had been snagged, scratched, scraped, and thorn ridden by this plant for the last time! I started calculating my assault. I thought it through and these were some of my options: Chain Saw (hmm loved this one) Burning Bush (felt it would be most appropriate) an Ax Murder (could go either way, because I would need to get close to chop) but when the option of the 4 Wheeler was presented, this is the direction we went. Dad hooked up the chain, and gave me the go ahead! I gunned white lightening, and after many backing ups, and gunning it, the "Devil Bush" was expelled from it place of origin. Dad finished up the job by taking out the last remains of a root system, and the balance of power has been restored.