Tuesday, May 18, 2010

warm springs

We enjoyed a ward camp out at Warm Springs. Next time, I want to let the kids explore the streams. I noticed there were families exploring all over the place. I followed some voices and found a pocket where a stream widened into a little pool. What could be more fun for boys...and girls too? The warm water makes for great swimming!



This is the main spring. The whole place is owned by the church. The kids swam with fish, and they were entertained all afternoon swimming down to touch rocks and bringing them up to the surface. Back in the day when Kyle and I came with our own families, they had a rope swing and they allowed cliff jumping. I am so sad the rope swing is gone.



The kids enjoyed sleeping in a tent and playing with ward friends. We should buy a family tent and do more camping.



mini vacation...only in vegas

I have not been into taking pictures lately, but I thought it would be fun to do a post about our mini vacation to the Golden Nugget. The kids loved staying overnight in a hotel and swimming in this vegas style pool. The water slide goes through the shark tank. Only in Vegas! We have the biggest, brightest, tallest, shiniest, out of this world, unlike anything you can imagine. Once in a blue moon a creation will be classy. The Bellagio fountains are so beautiful, but most attention grabbers here make me laugh and think "only in Vegas". That being said, the boys LOVED the shark tank slide. We'll have to do another mini-vacation this summer.



I liked how we could swim right up to the tank and watch the sharks.

Jonah: big 6 year old

I made treats and took them into Jonah's kindergarten class to celebrate his birthday. Jonah held the globe and walked around the candle (the sun) 6 times to show his 6 years of growing. These kindergartners really understand what a year means!



They are giving Jonah a birthday wish. Violet is in the background in pink and she's not about to hold hands with these strangers.



Jonah had a big family/cousin birthday party at the park. We enjoyed games, water balloons and a Star Wars cake. Cody and Jana won the water balloon toss and Granny and Grandpa Lewis were the runners up! The kids had fun with their games too :). The highlight for Jonah was getting a 10 dollar bill from Grandma and Grandpa Nielson. We were all surprised with how excited he was. He did a dance (literally) and shouted for joy. The next day he told everyone in primary and the home teachers about his 10 dollars. He also told his school class (when I went in for his treat) about his AMAZING 10 dollars.