Quinten and Jen

Beaver Mountain – Labor Day

Quinten — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:53:53 +0000

We had a great trip with mom and dad over Labor Day weekend. Yes I know, that was almost a month ago. Here are a few photos. We had lots of fun.

Thomas and Grandma worked on these hats between the hiking, fishing, movie watching, quad riding and marshmallow toasting. They all got to pick their own colors.

Scott wore this hat all weekend...and then for several days once we got home. Its been unseasonably warm...but that didn't stop him.

We stopped on the way to Puffer Lake to hike around this meadow and reservoir.

We enjoyed jumping over the little streams as we hiked through the meadow. Unfortunately the children were wearing their new school shoes and didn't always jump all the way across. Oh well, guess that is part of being a kid...wet shoes. And part of being parents of kids...watching them wear out shoes almost as fast as they grow out of them.

Scott enjoyed pushing the wheel barrow all over the property. He had so much fun I don't think he realized that he could have put something in there.

Emily had a great time introducing Haley to everything that camping has to offer. Its nice that they are getting old enough so that we don't have to worry about them so much.

Bryce celebrated his 9th birthday a few days early. He was excited to get his first pocket knife. As you can imagine, he found lots of uses for it in the mountain. Let me put it this way, we had no shortage of sharpened sticks.

Kayaking on the Provo River

Quinten — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:19:15 +0000

: This is the model of kayak I was in.

Jesse Dean, a friend in my ward, took me and another friend Jay Shular to a slow spot on the Provo River to teach us how to roll a kayak. I’ve always wanted to learn how to do this. The water is below 50 degrees so we dressed in wetsuits and dry tops. You know, two layers of neoprene around the waist is very slimming

We practiced wet exits, various stokes and rolling for five or so hours. With a little help we could right ourselves, but I never rolled back without help. I was surprised how disorienting it was to try and do upside down, under water, what seemed to make so much sense when I was upright.

Regardless of how the rolling went, we had a great time.

Summer in Review

Quinten — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:18:13 +0000

Its hard to believe the children return to school in a few weeks. This summer has gone by very quickly. Here are just a few of the highlights!

On the web…again

Quinten — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:53:42 +0000

I was inspired by Allyn’s recent blogging activity and thought it was time to actually get back to this.

We will try for at least a monthly update. Since today is the last day of July, look for something as early as tomorrow