One of the highlights of the summer was the family reunion in Heber, Utah. LeRoy was unable to go so the kids and I packed up the truck and headed to the hills of Utah. The drive was beautiful and the cabins very accommodating.
I love watching the cousins all play together. Sometimes I worry that my kids will get bored or feel like they are just babysitting because there is such a big age gap between them and their cousins but they have never complained about watching out for or playing with them.
The men in our family are some of the best!
The women are spectacular!
Cami, Kimber, Kellie
Kate, Mom, Kara
We had signed up for some activities offered by Heber Camp. The group activities encouraged us to work together as a team. The funnest and most difficult one was the spider web. We had to get everyone from one side of the web to the other side carefully climbing through the holes in the web. We couldn't touch the web and we could only use each hole once. It became pretty tricky as we lifted family members through the top holes and tried to figure out how to get all those kids through without "waking the spider" by touching the web.
The younger kids got to go on the big swing. I mean BIG swing. It took them pretty darn high.
Nathan and Hyrum were both excited to try it. Nathan went first and loved it. He even let go of the rope to swing around with no hands and wanted to do it again. Hyrum was very brave and excited but once he was swinging on his own it wasn't so fun for him anymore. After we got him off the swing the man running it put him up on his shoulders and everyone cheered for him. It was wonderful to have support for my little Hyrum for his very brave attempt.
The rest of us went on a zip line. It sounded easy until it was my turn. First we had to climb a log standing about 15 feet in the air, then cross to the zip line with only a rope in our hands and a rope to walk on, then we got to ride down the zip line.
Levi, Erika, Derek and I all did it!
I was so proud of my Dad for doing the zip line. His knees were shaking so bad (not from fear but from a lifetime of hard work) and a couple of times it looked like he was not going to make it up the pole without his knees buckling on him but he kept on going. Grandpa set a perfect I-Can-Do-Hard-Things example!
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