Homecoming Dance 2011

The kids were buzzing after last night's big win!  It was a great game, and ... fireworks!  Awesome!  Tonight is the dance.  I had to take a lot of pics of this dress 1. because it is beautiful 2. because it is even more beautiful with Kori in it and 3. I worked hard on tweaking and hemming and so it just needed lots of pictures.  Here is the gorgeous dress (and girl):

The shoes:

The hair:

And the date.  This is AJ.  Don't they look cute?

Their group had their "day date" yesterday after school because a lot of the boys had a cross country meet today.  They played a version of mini golf at a park, ate dinner with their hands all tied together (sounds awkward and totally fun!) and went to the game.  It was kind of nice to have that out of the way today so we could spend lots of time getting Kori ready for the dance.  I hope they are having a fantastic time!!

Homecoming Week

Ahh, Homecoming.  School spirit, dress up days, games, dances, all that stuff.  I love it.  This is how it's been going down at our house this week:

Superhero Day:

Harry Potter Day:

Senior Citizen Day:

Decade Day:

Kori threw candy out at the parade:

I wish EVERY day could be Spirit Day!  Look how happy they are at 6:30 am!  If only they could be this happy about going to school all the time!!

And on to the game and dance this weekend!  Go Bobcats!!

Salmon Time

It is definitely worth the drive up to Porcupine Dam to see the salmon jumping up the river.  They'll be there another week or two.

There were a lot of these guys together in this little pool.  These falls were probably pretty daunting, but one by one they were making it up past the rocks.

Kori felt sorry for them.

If you look closely you can see some bright red fish that were making it up these rocks.

I have no idea why these goats were there, but they were totally posing for my camera!

There was a lot more water in the lake than last year when we were here.  It was a gorgeous day!

Camp Fire

We found ourselves in the middle of a wildfire at our Labor Day camp!  Sunday afternoon we were just chilling in camp.  I was in the camper writing a letter to Colton, when I heard sirens and saw a police car and a fire truck come up the road.  I thought at first that someone had gotten hurt, but then I turned around and saw the hill right next to us was on fire!

Next thing we knew, we had about 15 fire trucks there, and our camp became Firefighter Command Central!

We pulled up our recliners and binoculars and just watched the firefighters go to work.

Luckily it was slow moving, but it was definitely spreading throughout the day.

More trucks arrived throughout the day.

Here is our camp in Command Central.

Kori's little truck was right in the middle of the action.

All of the camp sites above us were evacuated.  I was a little worried, but we did have all of these professionals between us and the fire!  We talked to the firefighters a bit.  Mostly we just watched them go to work.

Silly Clint!

The flames were really visible as it got dark!

This is what it looked like the next morning.  The fire was out, but the firefighters were still there all day, putting out hot spots and clearing debris.  We are grateful to them for coming out on a holiday weekend and keeping us all safe!

Labor Day Camping

We went up High Creek for Labor Day weekend this year!  It was a memorable trip in more ways than one.  The first night, Wes woke up in the middle of the night to strong skunk smell!  He was worried that our whole camp had been hit, so he went out to check things out.  All of our stuff was okay, but our dog had gotten a glancing blow of skunk.  Poor Cider.  We call her Stinker anyway, now we have a new reason for that nickname!  Luckily she didn't get much, she wasn't bothered by it and we could just catch a whiff now and then. She has been washed a bunch of times and I think after a few days we won't even notice anymore.

Wes said that Clint had a spiritual prompting because when we were getting ready for bed, Clint said "Dad, aren't you going to lock Cider in her crate?"  Wes didn't want to because he didn't want to have to get up early to let her out.  But he should have listened I guess.  Our Family Home Evening lesson this week is all about that skunk!  And how sin is like a skunk, you don't want to get too close or flirt too much with sin or you'll get sprayed!  Then you have to suffer the consequences, and other people have to live with those consequences too.  Sometimes it takes a long time to get over those things.  It's a good analogy!