Island Park with the Strong Side

Our last summer trip was the Strong Family Trip to Island Park. Ryan's family had never been up there and so I hope his family loved it as much as we did! We had a blast all staying in a lake side cabin and playing for 3 days. We spent the first day driving the fun 6 hours up there, but of course you can't keep the kids from getting out in on the lake so Ryan and Steve took some of the kids out to get some tubing time in before nightfall. Later that night Steve and Brad had an adventure with the boat and a sandbar and to get the full story you will have to call Steve! Lucky for us the boys and a lot of pray got the boat off the sandbar the next day and we put in a full day from 9am to almosts 8pm boating, swimming, tubing, wakeboarding, kneeboarding, laying out, and basically have a great day at the lake! Friday we went up to Yellowstone then came back and did a little bit more swimming and boating. Saturday it was time to go home but our family, Larsen's, Janette, and the Lamberts took a little detour and spend a couple hours at Lava Hot Springs getting in a little bit more swimming before it was time to head home. It was a great couple days and as always the kids had a ball getting to share a big bedroom together and staying up late playing games and laughing a ton. The adults also had fun staying up late playing games and talking.

I wasn't too good about taking pictures and I will get the ones off Ryans phone soon.

The girls S,S,S weekend....... St. George, Shopping, and Swimming!

While the boys were away eating ramen noodles and working up a sweat backpacking into their camp, the wives all took off for St. George to do some swimming, shopping, to see Aladin down at the Tuchan, and a lot of snacking! We went down on Friday that the boys all left at 4am, so all the women had been up for a while getting their men off before it was time for us to leave. Marla, Liz, and I left first, then Stephanie and Diane made it down a couple hours after us. Friday night was off to see Aladin. I stayed back with Emery and Oakley and we had fun having a little PJ party and watching Trazan on TV. They got back late from the show but all the girls had a blast and Halle kept telling me her favorite part was whenever the Geenie came out. Saturday we spent the first half swimming at the pool and then shopping, and boy did we shop! We met our Friend Jessica at Brick Oven for dinner and then went back to the condo. The little girls all had a blast getting to have a giant sleepover and they just didn't want to sleep so they had yet another late night while the mom's had a really late night since Stephanie, Diane and Jessica went out for some late night shopping at Walmart. By the time they came back and we stopped talking it was 4am! Lucky for me I feel asleep somewhere around 3am. Sunday was another day of swimming and a little bit more of shopping. Marla and Diane had to get home and the rest of us stayed from one more night. We played games and talked again until 1 or 2 am. Mondy came to fast and it was time to go home. It was a great weekend and the we all had a blast. Halle loved having a gaint sleepover with all of her friends, and Emery can't stop talking about Oakley and how much fun they had playing Choo Choos and shopping!

Emery got into my lipstick and told me "look mommy pretty"

The crew at Brick Oven

Boys Weekend to Escalante

Over the Weekend of July 20th the boys took off with the nieghborhood dads and boys for a fun weekend in Esclante. The Kids (including dads in this word) had a blast backpacking in and playing around for 3 days. They even got the excitement of watching a waterfall come down into their camp due to some rain showers. This was Treven's first year going and all he told me about was sleeping with the spiders, playing in the water, and catching a frog. Tyler had fun hanging out with all this buddies and swimming. There was a crew of about 22 people that included the Strong family, Clements family, Johnson Family, Kyle, Omen family, Call family, and the Grover family.

Treven's first battle wound from the hike in.

July Fun with the colton's

After getting home from our Averett Family Bear Lake trip we got to spend even more time with the Colton Clan! That very next week Kenadi and Megan had a baseball tournement up in Salt Lake area so we spend some time playing at Grandma's and going up to the living aquarium to see the peguins which Emery loved! Then the next week Tyson had a baseball tournement up in Salt Lake and so for the next couple days we got to spend more time playing at Grandma's house, going to the park, and watching Tyson's team wim the State Championship. The week went by fast but it was soo nice to have my sister and the kids up.

Emery and Halle got a little hot playing at the park, so while the rest of the kids walked over to the libary these too played in the ditch and had a ball! It reminded me of when I was little and we didn't go to Seven Peaks everyday because we would find the ditches down by the Jr. High and spend the day laying down and riding the water down the street!