Little Wild Horse Canyon Hike

The hike started out pretty difficult. Dad had to find us a new way down and then help us one by one down.

We found a nice shady spot for some lunch.

And then we were off.

Emily and Abby were awesome hikers.

When we let Hayley out for a bit she was so funny. She loved hiking but her little legs just were too slow to stay out of the pack for long.

Lindley hiked 99.5% of the hike all by herself. She would get mad if you offered to help her. If Emily and Abby could do it then so could she.

Once we got into the slot canyons it was all fun. There is usually a least one tragedy on the hike and I bit the dust at the very end trying to jump a little too far down. I'll gladly take one for the team. The girls did really well. It got a bit hairy about half way. The girls wanted to rest and Steve wanted to keep moving so we could make it back to camp sometime. We decided to turn around and head back the way we came. We saw the girls attitude change immediately when they knew what the rest of the hike would be like. They were a little irritated that we weren't eating everything in the packs though.

Goblin Valley

We spent some time exploring Goblin Valley.

Abby liked to see how high she could climb.

Lindley loved sliding down the rocks. She tried to keep up with Emily and Abby which drove them crazy but was fun to watch.

My beautiful dirty little girls.

Emily is not a fan of climbing to high and dangerous places. Huh! I wonder where she gets that?

I scared myself a little with this little climb. It's the getting down that makes me a little nervous. Steve however is a "Mountain Goat" he definitely made it the highest. Too bad the picture didn't turn out so great.

Hayley thought she was pretty hot stuff climbing the baby one rocks.

My cute lil explorers. 

One of the lizards we spotted.

Camp Sweet Camp

We camped in an amazing spot. It was a wonderland for the girls. In fact they loved it so much they probably would have been content to just stay at camp and explore than going elsewhere. Here was our camp set up. I forgot to pack a few important things  (hatchets, salt & pepper, vegetable oil) but somehow we survived(thanks to our genius Super Scout Steve).

  

This is where the girls were dying to go as soon as they woke up each morning. They were so tired after exploring Goblin Valley and hiking Little Wild Horse Canyon but as soon as we got back to camp they were off climbing rocks and playing in the sand.

While the kids were playing Steve caught a lizard we named George.

Here the girls are telling a very frightened George goodbye.

Hayley woke up a 1:00 AM and threw up all over her bedding. Luckily we had an extra sleeping bag. It wouldn't spread out right so we had to trade sleeping bags again. I think we finally got back to sleep around 3:00 AM. Never a dull moment.

Emily and Abby slept in the back of the truck. Which would be perfect if we stayed at camp the whole time because they had to keep folding up their cots when we went somewhere.

Emily is going to girls camp for the first time this year. Steve taught her how to build a one match fire. She did it even though she was afraid of lighting the match. He had her build a fire again Saturday night.

Poulson Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday we went to the Annual Poulson Easter Egg Hunt.

The girls had a blast finding lots of candy and eggs and a fun bag of surprises.

Lindley and Hayley

Abby

Emily enjoying some candy

The whole gang

Time for dying eggs.

I don't know which age group had more fun...

Hunger Games!

Friday Grandma Rochelle picked up the girls and headed to watch Hunger Games. Abby who started the book but hadn't read it all liked the movie. Emily my little reader who is already reading Mockingjay the last book in the series was upset that parts in the book were missing or changed.