wild wedding week

Last week two of my handsome nephews (Randy & Mark) got married. This is Randy and Erica. They were married in the Salt Lake temple. This was highly convenient for us, especially since they had their wedding dinner at our church building. Mark and I were the dinner go-fers -- we set up the room and picked up the food for the lunch. We were worried that we wouldn't get back to the church with the food before starving people began to show up. HA! Shouldn't have rushed. It took forever for everyone to get there!

The next happy couple is Mark & Hayley. We made a quick trip to Las Vegas (flew there and back the same day) to be with them on Saturday. The temple is quite beautiful and there was surprisingly a lot of shade trees around the grounds. So with a light breeze, the temperature was actually bearable and it was a lovely day for a wedding.

Congratulations Randy, Erica, Mark, & Hayley! Thanks for letting us share your special day with you!

jared's scout camp

Jared had an awesome time at scout camp in July. I sent the camera with him for the week so he could take a few pictures. Here are a few highlights. This is Frontier Lake. Self-taken portrait, with those fabulous pine trees in the background.

Jared's most memorable and fun activity at camp was rapelling and climbing. He's all geared up to go.

The climbing wall, ready to be conquered.

Rapelling down the other side and coming down for a landing.

Our Bishop came up for an evening and was simply walking along one of the well-worn trails and ended up with this stick in his shoe -- went straight into his foot! (He was not badly injured, just poked!)

The troop job chart. Our scoutmaster is one organized guy.

What's camp without a watermelon eating and seed-spitting contest?

The three musketeers (Jared, Jason, & Caleb) tent and home-sweet-home for a week. Looks like Jared had the black bag on the right.

Jared totally loved his camp experience -- the friends, the scout leaders, the activities, and Dad visiting for a day and night!