Soccer and getting ready for Winter

Another season of soccer has come to an end. Its definitely becoming one of our favorite activities.

Kooper kicking the ball down the field.


Kollin on defense...he's grown a lot these past few months and has become way more aggressive at this sport!


Kollin taking the ball down the field.


With winter approaching we went up the Mountain to gather wood for some cozy fires.


The kids really enjoyed finding the trees that were already on the ground for Kevin to cut.


They were all huge helpers too. Here's Koop rolling the log to the truck.


Me and the girls.


Kevin hard at work...


Crazy Man...he even let me have a go at it. It was fun but used more muscles than I think I have:)


While driving around looking for more logs we found some spots that were very picture worthy!


Me and Kevin.


We're looking for wood and this is what Kevin's looking for the whole time. Lucky for him we saw a few...


Wow!! Check out those colors...




This was at Sunset so its a little dark but it was a beautiful view of the changing leaves!


After the truck was full we stopped to have some smores and fire with the kids.


Yummy!! Khloe hated the stickiness so this is how she ate hers.


The temperature dropped soooo quick once the sun went down. Here's me and Khloe warming up by the fire.


Kevin and the Kids.


Mr. Koop with the moon in the background.


On the way home we grabbed some pizza for a late dinner. It was such a nice day as a family, which is something I'm grateful for how often we're able to be together.
And to sum up how exhausted we all were by the time we got home...


I didn't realize how much Kollin's neck was about to break off, but I thought it was sweet how they were laying on each other. I love my kiddos (even more so when their getting along like this!) :)

Rafting along the Green River

This post is completely out of order but it was just too fun not to reminisce. Back in July my sister Kim came and stayed for a couple days. We've been wanting to go up to Flaming Gorge and go rafting on the Green River. So we called and ended up getting the very last raft. The water was FREEZING but kids are amazing and didn't let it bother them one bit.

Kooper hanging on to the rafts rope while we waited for Kevin to take the car down to the boat dock down the river where we'll end up.


Kaylee and Kollin excited and ready to go.


Khloe. This was the happiest she was all day. She wasn't as comfortable as the other kids on the ride. Seriously screamed every time she'd see white caps.


Kim and Khloe.


Me and the kids getting geared up.


Because it was the last raft the 7 of us had to squeeze into a 5 person raft. It was cozy for sure but I think the kids liked the comfort of being so close to us.


Finally on the river. Kim, Kaylee, Kooper and Kollin.


Kevin and Khloe.


We took a little pit stop to have a snack and let Kev fish for a while. Kim jumped into the freezing water and surprisingly enough everyone but Khloe followed.






It was simply gorgeous! Going thru some of the canyons the scenery seemed almost surreal it was so beautiful. Once we got to the end of the 7 mile ride we drove to the top and did it a second time!

Our family along the Green River.




The next day after church we went on a hike here in town that shows petroglyphs along the mountain side. It felt like 110 degrees that day but we didn't let it slow us down.

Me and the kids.


Kim and Kollin hiking along the side of the mountain.


You can kind of see the petroglyphs on the mountain side. Most of them we could make out the story they were trying to tell. Pretty neat.


This is how most of the kids ended up after the hot hot hike. Each with a small layer of clothing taken off.

Sunday Hike

The kids were in the house all day Saturday so on Sunday we took them on a hike to Jones Hole. We took this hike a couple years ago and thought it would be fun to do it again. It starts at the Fish Hatchery where they have thousands and thousands of trout. This picture is kind of hard to tell but if you look in the water and see all the little black things...well those are the trout. They have about a dozen of these pools full of them.


We were going to hike to the waterfall and back which is 5 miles round trip so we made sure they had their bathing suits on and something comfortable over (that should explain the mismatched outfits!).


It was beeaaautiful!! The whole hike is between these canyons and it really is gorgeous!
Kevin, Kollin, Kaylee and Kooper.


We ran into some random hikers which was perfect because I was on the lookout for a perfect rock to place the camera on for a family shot. So thank you random hikers:)


Kollin, Kaylee and Khloe on the trail. Kooper was usually way ahead with Kevin.


Me and Kevin.


I caught up to Kooper for a quick picture then he was off again.


Their whole motivation for walking 2 1/2 miles was to get to the waterfall at the end.


But the water was FREEZING!!! Tough kids got in anyways!


This was the extent of Khloe getting in the water...that's okay Khloe, you can hang out with chicken mommy:)


While we were there a few hikers came by to cool off too and were wide enough to plug the top of the waterfall. (Reading that back it sounds really mean. I don't mean to make it sound like they were big, but they were big enough to plug it...Oh well, there's really no nice way to say it) Anyways they would plug it just long enough for one of the kids to stand in the way then they'd let the water go and it would just pour on top of them!

Here's Kooper.




Kollin.


Kevin.


Kaylee even got brave enough to try it.


The scenery through out the entire hike is gorgeous!




I love this shot...the suns rays show what a beautiful afternoon it was!


Me and the girls.


Handsome boys.


Kaylee after hiking 5 miles. The kids did awesome. I only had to hold Khloe once after she tripped over a rock and face planted it. Other than that, they all hiked the whole 5 miles on their own two feet!! (And ended up with a smile on their face! Even better.)


Khloe cheesin' by the river.


These are the reasons we LOVE Utah:)!!