Ride!

Another one of Shelby's favorite hobbies is riding his motorcycle. Luckily this is one that I can do with him. These are pictures from one of our saturday rides to Scofield. I had never been there and it was such a pretty ride. It was us and Mike and Jess. We had so much fun.

The River of No Return!!!

Our favorite thing to do in our family is go white water rafting on the Salmon river. The problem is it is really hard to get a permit. You just have to get really lucky and this year we did finally. We only had three of the original Stephens kids on the trip, but we got to bring along most of the in laws which was great. We got on the river on Monday and off on Friday. It was so much fun and it is always so sad for it to be over.

 Chard at the Fireman memorial on the way to the river. He used to helireppell just like they did.

 Chard showing me his yummy food on the river.

 A lot of relaxing on the river.

 Dinner time (fish tacos and cafe rio salads) delicious!

 Potty break on the way home

 Lunch on the 12 hour drive home

Hopefully we get a permit for the river again soon!

So much family fun!

We had a few days with all of the family this summer and I can never get enough of being with my family. Everyone was home for the river trip, but some were left behind so the days we got all together were great.

 Stories with Grandpa

 Almost the whole family it was raining so this was the best picture we could manage.

 Too much playing with the cousins

 Impossible to get a picture of Shelby and Riley both smiling.

 Saying goodbye is always the worst part. There are always tears when the Texan's leave.

Another picture with almost the whole family. Can't wait til next time!

Texans come to town

My oldest brother Chris and his wife Cindi and their cute 7 year old daughter Riley live in San Antonio, TX and there is not a day that goes by that I don't miss them. They came out here this summer so that Chris and Cindi could go on the white water rafting trip with our family. Cindi and Riley flew in sooner then Chris so me and Shelby picked them up and got to have them stay with us for a couple days. We loved it. One of the days Cindi, Riley and I went up to Sundance to ride the chair lift up and go on a hike. It was a beautiful day and we had such a good time.

We had so much fun together. I am so lucky to have the family that I do. I can't wait til they come back for Christmas!

One of Shelby's many favorite hobbies

One day Shelby convinced me to go up hobble creek with him to fly fish. I don't know how to fly fish so basically I got to walk around in the water and take pictures while he fished. It was surprisingly fun. Here are some action shots of Shelby/

One with me too! Shelby tries to fly fish as much as humanly possible.

So many updates!

I have been putting off updating my Blog since July because there has been too many things and I do not have patience to take the time to do it. I decided I should update and then try to stay on top of it so that I don't get behind again and not want to update. I figure since this Blog is really mostly just a journal for me it doesn't matter. So here goes this post is about our 24th of July celebration in Cokeville, WY. The 24th of July Celebration is always one of my favorites. It is only my third year going, but it never disappoints. Uncle Tom brings a general authority and they do a family fireside friday night. Then saturday morning we get up way too early for how late we stay up talking the night before and we run a 5k. This year I was the most out of shape, but it is always fun. Then its time for the parade.

 This was my favorite float this year the Zumma float and yes they were doing Zumba on the float and yes their float did say Zumma not Zumba.

 The marrieds watching the parade minus James and Melinda who were at home preparing for the arrival of their sweet baby Brooklyn.

 Camille was obviously worn out that is how we all feel after that fun filled weekend.

 Then is time for the flag football tournament always Shelby's favorite part of the weekend.

 Hanging out on the grandparents front porch.

 Sunday dinner in the church parking lot.

We will be anticipating the next 24th of July but in the mean time we will be in Cokeville for Thanksgiving and can't wait!