Lane Family Adventures

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

One more July Adventure

**This one didn't add to the last post**
To round up the end of our July adventures, we had our Schuring Reunion at Flaming Gorge. We we able to go on a river run on the Green River while we were there. I wasn't too sure if Hailee would actually go since she has a fear of things and wont try them. She was having fun and had a outlook on what we were going to do. When we started to hike down to the river, she was getting nervous and didn't know if she wanted to go. We kept pointing out there were a lot of kids and nothing was going to happen to her. We got her in the boat and we took off. She stayed by me and held on tight, with a little time passing, she got more comfortable and started to move around the boat. The river was pretty calm and had few rapids, mild rapids. The rapids were ok, I didn't want anything that would scare Hailee and make her not want to go again. It was freezing cold water and the weather was pretty mild. When we finished, Hailee wanted to "river run" again and was pretty upset that we couldn't go again. We got back to the cabin where the rest of the family was and Hailee was able to make a bubble gum bracelet, she loves it. Hailee was so excited to sleep in the tent with all of her cousins. She is my little outdoors girl, she loves camping and the mountains. Good thing cause her parents do too!! We had a great time at the reunion and love spending time with the family that we don't see very often!!

Our July Adventures

Our 4th of July was way fun!! We went to NSL for a BBQ at my uncles house and fireworks at the golf course. We went to the races at Copperton Park. Hailee was so excited to run the races. Jimmy ran a race and I ran a couple of races as well. Hailee was so excited to do the hula hoop race. After the races we headed to the Magna parade. Hailee loved all of the activites we did on the 4th.

Since the weather has been cooler this year, the snow took longer to melt in the mountains. By now we have spent many days there hiking and taking walks at the lake. We took a picnic up to the lake and it was rainy and cold so we didn't stay really long. There is a waterfall by the lake and usually isn't very big, but with the run off there was a lot of water coming down. We miss not being able to get to the mountains more this year.

We went to one of our friends daughters birthday party at a park/pond in Spanish Fork. While we were there Hailee wanted me to take a "photo shoot" of her. She wanted to pick out the places to get pics and the poses she wanted to do. Everywhere we go she wants to have her pics taken and like to model for the camera.

On the 21st, we went to Lagoon. Hailee was so excited. She loves to go. When we got there we found a table to dump our things so that we could take off on the rides. The first ride we took her on was the new Lagoon ride, Bombora. At first Hailee was yelling and laughing as we went up the hill, we started to go down the first hill and around the corners and she wasn't too sure if she liked it. At the end she wanted to go again and again. We met my brothers fam and my mom there. Hailee conquered her fears while at Lagoon-a-beach. She has not liked to get into pools of water or go on water slides. She did both!! She then kept talking about Bombora and wanted to go again. We went on a lot more rides this year since she was taller and could go on more. It was a good day to go, not really long lines and it wasn't really hot!! We actually stayed for pretty much the whole day and night!!