Monday, July 29, 2013

Family Time in the Mountains

Jason came to Utah and spent a week with us! 
He flew in late on a Wednesday night. Thursday morning we picked Ranell up at the airport and headed up for a retreat in the mountains with the Balls family. 
It was nice to be together in a beautiful place making great memories. 
It is horrible how I only use my phone now for pictures. It was refreshing not to have phone service so we were phone free, which meant not a lot of pictures. 

We had the best time canoeing in the prettiest place. 
We miss the mountains and often remarked how great it was to be surrounded by them. 
It was fun to go out on the water as a little family for a little while. I got to ride with two really cute boys.

 Everett and Papa

Darren, Jason and Jack
This was one of my favorite memories from the trip. 
Jason, Jack and I were out on the water in our canoe. We saw Ranell and Nolan heading toward us in another canoe. I couldn't tell who were all riding in it until it turned. To my surprise there were three cute kids occupying the middle bench and each of them had a paddle!
Ranell, Tyler, Everett, Jonah and Nolan



Nolan, Corie and Everett out on the water

I finally got to meet the two new babies, Abby and Marshall. I
 loved all the time getting to hold, watch and kiss on those two. 

Abby and Ranell
Papa and Grandma made stomp rockets and rockets for the grand kids. 
It was such a good and fun idea.
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I loved being able to be with Jason and was so glad he could come out.