Soapstone Camping

My sister Amy started the whole wilderness painting thing last year at Scofield and it really caught on. All the kids spent hours painting their little fort area, it was awesome. Don't worry it's not permanent, after a couple of rain storms the trees will be back to normal. Jade and her cousin Jake where so cute together, they worked side by side for hours!



Sage loves to paint and it shows.




Our cousin Jake Wight, Jade's little accomplice





Jade ruined more than one set of clothes this weekend, good thing it was all water based paint.


The kids had so much fun riding in the Ranger, the jeep, and on the four wheelers. It was like musical chairs everytime we stopped. And we had to stop a ton because the girls thought it was so fun to use Grandma's potty. Grandma decided to stop giving them water because it was getting a little out of hand, it was so funny.




We found some Mountain Goats on the cliffs we stopped to look at, Ricky and Matt where so excited you would have thought they found a pot of gold. They took a ton of pictures. It was cool because the kids got to see the goats. The mountain goat is right next to the tree in the first picture. It's kind of far away, but that little white spec is a moutain goat laying down.
This goat was literally on the edge of the cliff, it's hard to see it but it is near the middle.
Here is the same goat looking up at Ricky





Rain was the story of the day on Thursday, It was nice it wasn't dusty.
Here are some wild flowers Ricky found on one of his early morning adventures. I don't understand why he doesn't want to sleep in when we are on vacation, oh well.



Kurt Draper, Matt Drapers dad, tracked us down with his GPS and dropped in to say hi. Their bikes where so shiny, they seemed out of place with all the dust.



Ricky really likes his new truck, even though we have had it for a while.

Thursday Night we went to the Oakley rodeo.

More Rodeo and bugs

Not sure what the boys where looking for, but I don't think they ever stopped looking for it.


Sage wants a pet goat now, I don't see that happening

Aren't those boots so cute!!!



Hunter still loves the rodeo










I don't understand Ricky recent interest in bugs, but apparently we have lots of them in and around our yard.







Glad these critters aren't any bigger







this dragon fly is actually on stucco








Chipmunk



















May in a Glance........

So I have not blogged forever! May came and went and it seemed the last thing I wanted to do was blog! Well today I decided that it was finally time! So sorry about the wide assortment of pictures but this is what we have been up to in the last month! The first pictures are the most recent and then they go on from there! This first picture is of the air show last Saturday! It was really fun to go watch the Thunderbirds!

This is something Ricky found excited one night! Getting pictures of water! I don't understand him! But it turned into a cool picture!
He has also been really excited about taking pictures of bugs! Tonight he wants to take the kids for a bug hike to go find bugs!

These are pictues Ricky took while Sage was watching TV and I was reading!





In May Hunter also had another rodeo! He did great!











This was our San Rafael trip over Memorial Day weekend. It rained a lot but we still had tons of fun! We did Goblin Valley again which the kids love and went on some great trails!













On Sunday there was a flash flood covering the road. It was crazy how much water there was! We had to wait about 30 minutes before attempting to go through!














This was Sage's first grade program at the end of the year!

Sage also had a dance competition in May!


And also in May Sage turned 7! We went to dinner and then had cake and ice cream! It was a great day!