I am Me (everyone else is taken): hiking

Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Saturday, April 3, 2010

we took a hike

...and it sure was fun. Actually, it was our second hike this weekend, but I didn't take the camera on the first one yesterday.

We live on a mountain, and it's so much fun to explore. Today we took a hike to what the kids like to call "the white sand," but is really a lime pit above our house.

It STINKS to be the youngest. His legs are so much smaller than everyone else's!

Hubba Hubba

We live right there.

My windmills!

Sledding on the white sand!

The view from up there...WOW! (Love Kolby's face..."aNOTHER picture, Mom??")

He has such an expressive face...love it!

Love this face too, but it doesn't let me take its picture as often!

This one asked me, "Is this a good pose mom?"
(And has anyone noticed that Kolby has that shirt on in every picture on my blog???
I promise he has other clothes, this is just his shirt of choice most days.)

THAT'S an expressive face too. (And he said, "Mom, do NOT put that picture on your blog!!) Bwaahaahaaaha (Oh, and he ALSO has other clothes besides that white jacket.)

Yay Spring!!! Life is good.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

caveman pride

We took a hike AGAIN! This time we hiked to Timpanogos Cave. My dear old A.F. High School mascot was a CAVEMAN because of our proximity to the amazing cave. I never thought it was a strange mascot to have until I went to college and realized that most people's mascots were Eagles or Cougars or Vikings, definitely NOT Cavemen! But I still have Caveman Pride, and I still love hiking to the cave...feels like home to me! To me, there is absolutely NO more beautiful place on this earth than American Fork Canyon and Timponogos Cave.

Deep inside the cave! (For more on Uncle Clint's condition, see below)

Clint, demonstrating cave sickness, an extreme condition that sets in after prolonged lack of oxygen and too much exposure to my crazy kids...

My favorite picture from inside the cave (above) because I turned off the flash...should have done that more!

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Kyler - March 2011 - After we told him to pack his suitcase...we were going to Disneyland: "Oh my gosh. I think I almost happy-cried!"
Kyler - July 2009 - After walking through a temple open house and seeing a player piano in the reception hall: "Mom, I think the Holy Ghost is playing that piano!"
Kolby - June 2009 - Shooting his very first bb gun, taking turns with Mom and LOVING it..."I get three turns every time because I'm three, right Mom? How many are you?" Mom says, "35." {pause...pause...} "I get three turns because I'm three, Mom, but you just get one turn because you're too many!"
Kolby - March 2009 - At the dinner table Kenyon accidentally knocked over a cup of chocolate milk and it landed in Kolby's lap. We were all waiting for Kolby to freak out. He looked at Kenyon, and, in an exasperated tone, simply said, "Why." And it was not a question. It was a statement.
Kyler - Fall 2008 - We were getting ready for our Primary Program and had been practicing the song, "Onward, Ever Onward...." Kyler was in his room one day singing it at the top of his lungs, only this was his version: "Awkward, Ever Awkward..."
Kyler - 2008 - While talking with his five year old friends (who obviously have older brothers): "Kaylee is hot!" Then later, after his friends went home, to me: "Mom, what does 'hot' mean?"
Kolby 2008 - "I love you so much!" (He says this several times a day, particularly when he knows he is in trouble.)
Kolby 2008 - After sneezing on me: "I got achoo all over you!"
Kolby December 2008, at the Lion House Restaurant, very loudly - "Hey! Kyler has fire on his weenie!" (He meant to say that he had a PICTURE of fire on his BEENIE.) To which the other three boys guffawed and loudly repeated several times. The other restaurant patrons were not quite as amused.
Kolby 12/28/08 - (From his carseat, in an exasperated tone, while trying to reach something) "Aaargh! I can't get that forkin thing!" We think he meant to say "freakin" but it really sounded like something else and shocked us all.
Kolby 11/28/08 - (About Grum and Tannie) "Hey, they have the same head!"
Kaden's famous saying in response to "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit:" - "You get what you choose and you choose what you want!"
Kenyon - first grade - (Written in his Christmas wish list booklet,) "If I could have one thing for Christmas, it would be Miss Winkel's phone number."
Kyler - 2006 - After receiving a total revelation - "Mom! Did you know that every day has a night!?"
Kenyon 2005 - (At the grocery store, looking up and down the aisle for chicken broth,) "I didn't know chickens wear bras!"
Kaden - 8 years old - (When asked if he could tend our Spanish-speaking friend's snake for a couple of years,) - "I wish we could take it, but we don't speak Spanish!"