Right Fork of North Creek Day 2

 Our second day in the canyon started off with a bang.  We found a nice paw print next to our camp site.  It wasn't there then night before! We were glad we had all slept well with a cat on the prowl.  We slipped back on our cold wet suits and jumped back into the water.  We found some beautiful waterfalls.  Some great pools to swim in and down climb.  The Grand Alcove was Grand and large. 

We finally found a spring were we could find fresh water. Lovely fresh water.  Then we started a good hike out.  It was lovely and actually relatively cool weather. It was Laceys birthday weekend so she bought us all fun clothes and we made a silly dance movie.  

Right Fork of North Creek Day 1

I love these adventure ladies.  We have done so many fun things together.  This adventure was close by Subway but one canyon over. We had an early start and had beautiful weather.  Some pretty good bush wacking for a while.  But we finally made it to the first rappel.  We discovered that the flash floods that had crashed through early in the summer and wiped out almost all of our rappel spots.  Webbing was damaged and buried.  Everything took so long to do.  Many of the wet suit swims were filled with logs and smelly debry.  We had some major log soup to crawl through.  We weren't able to make it to fresh water that night.  We had to filter and strain some water from a somewhat drinkable pothole.  We got some rest, not to eager to put back on our wet wetsuits the next morning.   

 

August 2021- A Wonderful Weekend

We had an amazing summer but this weekend was the very best.  My friend, Ang, brought her band to my back yard.  They played fantastic music and we danced and ate.  So many good friends came.  Friends from childhood, college, ski team, neighbors, climbing.....   Darren cooked for everyone. We had lots of good for to eat!

The next day we headed to Soldier Hollow for Tyler and Ellas first school race.  Darren is a great coach and has helped them so much.  They don't even realize how lucky they are.  Abby is our trusty little side kick.  Running around with us.  It was a muddy raining day but they kids did great.  A crashed pretty hard after a fun weekend and enjoyed some sleeping in the car (just like my mother always did!)

On Saturday/Sunday we had Stake Conference. I have been trying to figure out how to have a better felling in our home especially on Sundays.  I like this quote that was shared.  We also continue to watch the series "The Chosen" about Christ.  Ella has learned to braid hair and I love it. 

 

August 2021 - Let School (Routines) Begin!

After a fun summer -school is going to start.  Routines are great.   Abby chose to wear a mask every day so she wouldn't get COVID.  The Elementary school age kids are more prone to Covid now. 

Parents were just as excited to send kids off as the kids were ready to be sent off.  

Soren and his family went to Puerto Rico before school started.  Soren got Covid and had to stay there for two weeks to quarantine.  Abby was so glad to have him back.