A Few Days in the Garden of Eden ~2

"You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you,
as you are to them."
~Desmond Tutu

Ethan

 Our family outings the last few years have included geocaching~ it is fun for all of us and we get to hike and see some great places and the call of "buried treasure" keeps the kids hiking onward and upward!  We found three hidden caches on this trail near Pineview Reservoir.

Brittany, Hunter and Ashton

The wildflowers were breath taking !

Grace, Hunter and Ashton ~ happy hikers

The hike overlooks Pineview Reservoir

Cori ~Aha! We FOUND it! 

Geocaching is lot of fun ~Especially when you actually  find the treasure!

Ashton

Eden and Jesse

All tuckered out

Ashton and Grace

We spent another day at the lake - we had intended going to Pineview, but because of cooler temperatures and threatening storms at Pinewview, we ended up back down at Willard Bay, which was a good choice - the weather there was beautiful, the temperature perfect and the water, GREAT!

Cori and Randy



Grant

Megan and Joshua ~ he wasn't too sure about that cold water

Tickle Bugs . . . Ashton and Grace waking up Papa Ray

Ashton and Grace ~ "Well, we said we were hungry and wanted a BIG Breakfast, hmmm . . "

A few days in the Garden of Eden ~ 1

"I don't care how poor a man is,

if he has family, he is rich."

~ Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

Hunter, Grant, Ashton, Grace and Cory ~ bug hunters

Tuesday we headed up Ogden Canyon to Eden located in a beautiful, peaceful valley.  We rented a lovely home there . . . there was plenty of room for all of us and we had a great time~

Grandma Sandy brought some "Bug Hotels" and nets, tweezers, etc and the children got busy looking for insects of all kinds. They found quite a few ~ beetles, butterflies, grasshoppers, spiders . . . observed them for a while, fed them, then let them go back home.



"Oh, my goodness, what did you find?" Brittany with Hunter, Charlie and Grace

The beauty that surrounded us, beckoned us outside ~ we went on several bike rides and hikes in the area.

Ethan, Joshua and Megan

Cori, Grace and Grant and Jesse

Sandy and Ray

Ashton and Hunter



Grace and Grant getting buckled in

Joshua and Megan

 The new Momma and their babies ~ life couldn't be more beautiful!

Jesse and Eden

Arianne and Nathanial