Summer Vacation #2

Our second vacation was a trip to Utah.  We spent two weeks there, the first week we spent in Beaver visiting with family and having fun.  The kids got to ride horses;

go up in the mountains and roast hot dogs and marshmallows, ride in canoes, and catch fish;

Tyson and Justin also got to enter a pie eating competition.  Tyson did it first he was very excited at the start of the race

He seemed to enjoy every minute of it

until the end, he said he didn't want to ever eat another lemon meringue pie again!

He did get third place!
Justin decided to give it a try next, since they didn't have any adults enter the competition they decided to have a second one with kids so Justin was able to get in on it with some of his cousins.

Amy and Justin were excited to get started

The excitement didn't last long, Justin told me he thought he was going to throw-up, I told him just to quit, but he kept on going.  He ended up getting third also!

After the pie eating competition we headed up to Centerville to visit my Aunt Marie and celebrate the 4th of July.  They were doing their celebration on Saturday instead of Monday.  Here is a picture of the kids after watching the parade.

We visited with lots of family while we were up there.  We were so grateful to my Aunt Helen who hosted a wonderful picnic at her house.  I got to see some relatives that I hadn't seen in a long time.  We stayed with my sister Saturday and Sunday night and the kids enjoyed playing with all of their cousins at her house.  It is so amazing to me at how well they can get along and play when they only see each other once a year.  I am so thankful for wonderful cousins and nieces and nephews.

Monday we headed down to Provo for Tennis camp and Soccer camps.  Emily did tennis camp and Tyson and Justin did soccer camp.  They had a good time, and I enjoyed shopping at all of the fun stores there in Provo.  We also got in some hiking, more visits with cousins, water park fun, a BYU men's soccer game, and a behind the scene tour of BYU studios thanks to Ellen's nephew.  It was all a lot of fun.  Here are some pictures from there camps.  My camera battery ran out so I don't have very many pictures.