A Quick Trip to the Zoo

We ran to the zoo on Saturday, July 3rd (when the majority of the state of Utah was there...and celebrating the 4th btw).  We love being able to go whenever we feel like it, due to our season pass.  Matt's sister Rebecca and her husband Clint gave us a season pass for Christmas last year.  We've gotten a lot of use out of it, too!  We were in and out of the zoo in an hour and a half!  We weren't running, but we were also not just standing around.  We got in and got to see the things we wanted to see.  Skyler and Matt weren't with us because Skyler went to see Trent McCormick before his mission, and of course Matt had worked the night before.

Just monkey'ing around...
Ok, gorilla'ing...They wanted to try to climb on this statue, but they kept sliding off.

One of the monkey's has a stuffed animal               Just a rhino...

that it held on to the whole time. Cute! 

This Tiger was kind of funny. He was pacing back and forth by the fence through a sprinkler to keep cool. 

Brig in the lion's mouth                                 Cam in the lion's mouth

             

Cam ready to hatch                             Zack's not sure how he got in there

 Awww...give me a hug

Movie Night at the State Capitol

We went to the Utah State Capitol for a movie on the lawn.  They do this for a couple months in the summer.  This week, they had a fairly large crowd -- Matt says around 800 people.  It was pretty fun and the boys liked it.  The movie was "Sandlot".  It's a funny one, but I forgot how much the little boys swear in this movie. Oops.

After the movie, we got a personal tour of the inside of the Capitol building.  Matt has just transferred back up there (he was with protective services when he first hired on w/UHP).  It was a little eerie being in there at night, I mean, think about it...that's a pretty old building. 

This is a shot of the Rotunda.  It so much more spectacular in person!  Breath-taking!  As Matt was taking us through, we got to peek inside the Supreme Court room, the legislator's chambers and a couple others.  The elevator ride was pretty cool, too!  Then Matt got lost and couldn't find the underground hallways to get back to the security headquarters.  Lots of fun!

The Line Up.  What's Caden doing?

You don't want to mess with these guys...

The 3 Stooges.  Shooter, Captain & Happy.

Camping on the Kaibab

We went camping in June on the Kaibab in northern Arizona with my husband's family for the Cluff reunion.  It was tons of fun!  The day we got there the weather was beautiful and we were looking forward to the cool days and even cooler nights.  So day two came, and the morning started out nice, but then the clouds came...and didn't leave.  We were there two full days and it rained for a day and a half.  We were pretty soggy, but still had fun!  I wish I would have taken more pictures.  I took one of our camp, then this silly one of Cameron.  I'm not sure why he thought to pose that way, but I decided it's because he was pretending to be "deadly-armpit-hair-guy".

Here is a picture of our tent.  We just got it and were so excited to camp in it.  Matt's parents bought it for Matt's graduation present (thanks!) when he received his Bachelor's degree.  Through all the rain, our tent was about one of the only ones NOT to spring a leak.  I would recommend it to anyone looking for one.  It's a Kodiak (like a Spring-Bar) and it has basically 3 poles (one across top, one on each side) and the awning poles.  The easiest tent to raise, ever!  It was hard for us to go from being trailer campers back to tent campers, but with this tent, it is not as bad as I thought it would be!

Here is the outfitter's tent that Matt's mother purchased especially for this reunion.  It's a good thing, too, because the weather (this picture is deceiving...this is the next morning before the clouds moved in) really decided to not cooperate for most of the time.  It was a fun reunion though.  A lot of people came and the boys had a chance to ride their motorcycles.  Caden was able to ride the 125cc for his first time, and had a blast!  Zack was able to ride the 80cc, also his first time (on a motorcycle) and did excellent!  They can't wait to go to Fredonia again just so they can ride their motorcycles!  It's tough living in the city...

Cameron had so much fun. The other kids were having fun, too. They were just not always around to be photographed. Cameron is an animal...he learned these "rock on" hands from his brothers. he he he