Swim til you drop!

Last week the kids and I had a fun, crazy, wet time at Green Canyon Hot Springs. They offer "condensed" swimming lessons...the kids had 2 hours of lessons in the morning, then in the afternoon, we'd swim swim swim til we could swim no more!! Dallin was in heaven splashing to his hearts content. (In the afternoons, I took the plunge with the kids, and let Kami and Dallin swim til they tired out). We were up there camping with about 25 other homeschool families...so the kids had so much fun being with their friends ALL WEEK LONG! It was one big party. They especially enjoyed lively games of capture the flag in the evenings. By the end of the week, pulling them out of "bag" for their 8 o clock lesson in the morning was a bit of a struggle since they were so tired out from late nights and long days! One day they had 3 lessons in a row! That's a lot of exercise!!




Porter was determined to catch a fish with his net...but only found a water skeeter and some burrs that kept getting tangled in the net.


Feelin' Groovy...
The kids and I hung out in Sunny the happy VW van (complete with Ron Paul sticker, which got us some nice attention). So we had a nice groovy hippie experience, cooking one pot meals on the backpacking stove and roasting marshmallows and starbursts over the fire in the evenings. Today Porter told me he used to like marshmallows, but not anymore since he ate so many when we were camping! We had a great(but a bit chilly and breezy) week, and by the end, they were all genuine little fishies!! (Fishies with very dried out chapped skin!!!)


Lookin' crusty...but having fun!!