Ririe Lake/ Henry's Lake

This morning after teaching dance for 7 1/2 months of this pregnancy, loading and unloading camping gear and lifting kids for the past 2 1/2 weeks. I bent over ever so nicely to pick up a small piece of paper and my back went out. Awesome. So I am home from church at Mom and Dads and I so I will post some of the pictures from our fun outings over the last couple of weeks with a little summary.

1st off: Ririe Lake

Highlights of the Ririe include: Easily 30 hours of packing for the trip. The "gray Cho Cho" as Tate would call it (horse trailer), never really used to pack the horses but always used for packing our stuff around whether its going to a wedding or camping. It's a part of the family and needs to be where ever we are and it also needs to be packed to the very top, not just half way ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP. "Go big or go home" has always been Dad's motto, (as seen by the tent picture) so we didn't leave one thing behind, not one thing... Except for all the stuff that Tanis, Tim and Redge picked up a couple hours later. We had all the camping gear we have accumulated over the past 25 years with of course a lot of new additions because most of the items were to far back in the storage unit right now to get to them so we bought new stuff. In other words we set up a small town at Lake Ririe and it was delightful. I could probably live there. The next item on Mom's never ending list was food lots of it, the people at Sams club knew us by name by the time this trip was over. We gathered sleeping bags, blankets, pillows for 20+ people (yes everyone had a pillow which was a small miracle), 2 pack and plays, stoves other miscellaneous items that were in the shop also made it on the trip like boxes of PVC pipe and other random things to fill up the Cho Cho. And enough activities to keep us occupied for weeks let alone 3 days. We left the boat home and then of course we woke up the next morning and decided to go get it. Because the water was beautiful and we needed one more thing.

Beautiful Ririe Lake/ Mom and Dads Ward Campout

The Tuttle's Camp Site

Back to the Highlights of Ririe:

• Claire's Justin Beiber dancing and singing. May the song that can not be named get out of our heads. Even little Millie knows it word for word.
• Porter and Hudson's first waterskiing runs.
• Swimming on the dock, Hudsons Cannon Balls and Belly Flop Dives
• Tate's vocabulary "me way cool", "just me size", "me Tate, I'm Hungry"
• Millie's Sugar Highs- love her sugar waves and energy. Never seen sugar work so good. And hearing her sing at the top of her lungs in the tent- Do a Deer.
• Lukers wandering into all the strangers tents. Giving that little smerk on his face. And eating everything except food he could get his hands on.
• Redge coming back to camp after wake boarding and not remembering what happened for the past 3 hours. That was fun. A huge concussion wiping out everything that happened before and after waking boarding. Let's never do that again. It's good to remember life in general. That was scary.
• Dutch oven cookin, us never winning any ward cooking contest ( nobody tried our chocolate cherry dessert, except for Tate who sat on the top of the table when dinner was all done and ate right out of the Dutch oven saying "umm so good, me like this" At least one person liked it.
• Tyler got scalped. From the sound of Ericas scream I thought someone had died. I didn't see the scalping in action but a little church B-ball with a slam dunk and a head dive into the court will get you a big chunk of hair missing on the back of your head.
• Taily pole Story and The Vindow Viper stories around the camp fire.
• Joni skied and Dad didn't even have to yell at her to get out there.

Henry's Lake

We then packed up camp and the boys went off for a "Mans Day" of shooting and other man things. One of them will have to report about this day. The girls went back to the apartment got the food ready for the cabin and it took the full day of course. A couple highlights from the cabin.

Grandpa Jack's Watchful Eye: Let the Fishing Gods Come Down. I am sure Grandpa Jack was up in heaven orchestrating all of this. Mom and Dad took most of the grandkids out on the boat late in the morning around 11am. The fishing hadn't been that good but they thought they would try. And little did we know but Grandpa Jack would make sure those kids caught fish. 8 big suckers in an hour and a half. Small miracle but a happy thank you to the fishing gods.

The Dock Dwellers