Camping at the East Fork of the Bear

Last weekend Matt and I met Randy, Jenny and the kids, and Lance and Kendra and Rudy for a few days of camping! This is exactly the type of trip that I love: Not a ton of preparation, not a ton of money, but lots of fun and relaxing with family!

Eating ice cream with Harrison- he couldn't get enough!

Matt decided to wear a white polo shirt our first day... needless to say, it didn't last long

Claire spent most of the time during the days catching/killing butterflies

Claire was so funny when we went fishing! She wanted to touch all the fish that the boys caught and even gave this one a big smooch!

Harrison loved riding the four-wheeler almost as much as the rest of us did! It was really fun to ride the wheeler and follow Brad on his dirt bike! He is getting really good!

Matt and Randy having a "Bro-mance" moment together...

Harrison's huge eyes

Our makeshift fire- we couldn't have a real fire so we put the bug candles together and made this fire... Don't worry, we couldn't have started anything on fire even if we wanted to, this fire gave off zero heat!

My Camera Loves These Kids

Randy and Jenny had a fancy work thing to go to a couple weekends ago, so I got to play with the kids for the night! It also gave me a chance to test out the different, cool settings on my new camera! I am loving it!

 Love the red lips all puckered!

Harrison played along with Aunt Tori's picture-taking for a while, but then he was done!

Camping

This weekend I met my family up Little Cottonwood Canyon for a few days of camping! I met them up there on Sunday morning (unfortunately I missed a lot of fun things Saturday night) and we went up the canyon to hike to Cecret Lake. It was pretty overcast but it felt really good.... Until we got to the lake and it started to pour down rain on us! We walked back down to the shuttle, where a lot of people were waiting, and piled a million wet people into the shuttle to go back to the car. Jeff and Jake were the most wet, but we were all soaked! (Cassie was not soaked because she stayed at our camp and read her book in her car)

We hung out around the fire, played cards, talked, ate, and watched Friends out of the back of the Tahoe. Camping Fox style! Alex, Jake and Cassie went home after dinner, so it was just my mom, Jeff and I overnight. On Monday morning the sun came back out and we went up to Snowbird and did a little hike and had lunch! I had so much fun, even though we were only there for a couple days. Thanks mom and Jeff for a fun weekend!

Life in Logan

Matt and I LOVE being back in Logan. There is something every day that reminds us why we love it so much up here. 

We get to hang out with Jenny, Randy and the kids way more! We got to see Brad and Randy play in their softball/baseball games. We get to go on dates with Randy and Jenny. We also get to practice softball with Randy every week (which is when Randy got hit in the face with a softball and had some serious problems). I love that I can be around to help out, like when Jenny and Randy were in the hospital and we got to watch the kiddos.

Harrison is the happiest baby ever! It is so fun to make him laugh.

 
We live super close to Bear Lake! We got to go up to the Hodges cabin for the fourth of July this year and it was nice not to have a really long drive.

Again, more playing with the kids. Jenny takes the kids every week to a different park around the valley with the other families in their neighborhood. The kids are perfect subjects for me to test out my new camera on! (I took these pictures before reading my camera manual... Give me a break! It's 250 pages long!)

Cache Valley rednecks! Matt and I went to the demolition derby last week after it rained like crazy. It was really muddy, which meant it was extra fun!

We love it here!

Expert Tile Installers

Matt and I had the "opportunity" this week to help Randy... okay, we did most of it... install his tile floor in his basement. Matt brought me along to be the helper and we spent about 10 hours working on this floor! It was fun to be around Matt while he is working and it was fun to learn all about some of what Matt knows. He is so smart! By the end of the day, our bodies were tired, we were covered in mortar, and our hands were extremely dry, but the floor was put in. Now all that needs to be done is grout! I am so happy that I could help and so proud of Matt for being so awesome.

On our way home, Matt is sitting very quietly in the car and he looks over at me and says:
I have grout in my nose.

Fishing

We have probably a million pictures of us fishing but it is still fun to take new ones every time we go. This week Matt didn't have to work so we went up to Deer Creek Reservoir with Matt's mom and dad, our nephew Brad and Cassie to do some morning fishing!

Matt's dad recently bought a new boat (it's a "fishing boat" though, not a "ski boat") and Matt has been out several times on the boat to go fishing. This was the first time I have been out on the boat since Diet was cleared after his back surgery. They bought two trolling poles and are working on perfecting the art of trolling. I enjoy being on the boat, but think trolling is a little boring. Brad got a little antsy while we were fishing because trolling is well... boring. Sitting and doing nothing while holding a fishing pole isn't as fun as casting the line and reeling it in hundreds of time. However, we still had a lot of fun. Cassie caught the first fish, and her two fish were the biggest of the day!

Brad caught four little fish and had his fun just messing around with the poles and eating snacks.

I didn't fish, but I sat in the boat and held the pole when Brad got bored... does that count?

Matt being... I actually don't know what to say.

Unfortunately for Matt, he got skunked! It was funny because he was the most excited to go fishing and tried the hardest to catch a fish! Hopefully we can find some good fishing up here in Logan so Matt can redeem himself!

Big Green

Big Green had a fantastic spring season! We won all seven of our regular season games and then got way screwed over in the tournament (I'm not going to go into it... Matt is still pissed about what happened). Lucky for us, we still have the summer season that starts on July 9 and we'll play another seven games. I never remembered my camera so we had to take our team picture with my phone after our last game. Again, lucky for us, all of our team members were there!

From left: Tyler, Tim, me, Chantelle, Matt, Janet, Nate, Sharly, Tom, Lindsay