Weekend Road Trip

In an attempt to get in better shape Matt has been checking out some possible motivators, his first thought was to make the St. George Marathon be his goal since his brother and sister have participated in it before and his brother was planning to do it again this year. He thought it would be a great reason to get into shape and alot of fun to join his brother in running it. Then he started talking to a bunch of our neighbors that are runners and has decided on the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay(http://www.ragnarrelay.com/wasatchback/index.php), he's been talking to the family and trying to get them all pumped up to get a team together for the 2010 race. The race goes from Logan to Park City and you have a team of 12 members that each take a leg of the race, sounds fun, right?!?! Yea, we think it could be, so since we were planning to go to Logan for the weekend anyway, Matt decided we really needed to check out the route of the race as much as we could( alot of the roads are impassable during the winter). Anyway, we left Saturday afternoon and headed to Heber, went up through Kamas, Oakley, Coalville, all the litle old towns that the main highways have bypassed and forgotten about. It was alot of fun and had such great scenery.

This is just a picture I pulled off the internet of the Wasatch Back,

it is beautiful and I hope I can train and be ready to take part in the

amazing experience it is sure to be!

I loved this little old church we saw in our travels.

I can't remember the name of the town it was in, but it sat at the top of

a little tree lined road right at the base of a big red rock mountain.

So Beautiful!!

Matt and the kids on the front steps of the church.

Part of our travels actually took us along the Mormon Pioneer Trail,
so we stopped to check it out and take another picture.

And here's Matt and the boys standing by the trail marker,

a bit too snowy for a hike.

We had a very enjoyable day, checking out new places and spending time together as a family!

Family Time with the Cox Tribe

Last weekend we spent in Logan with Matt's cousins for a baby blessing on Sunday. It was so much fun to spend time with them, we just never seem to get enough opportunities to get together.

We were surprised to wake up Sunday morning to a few inches of snow...welcome to Spring!!
Nathaniel, grilling up some yummy kabobs for the big get-together.

Just chillin', having a little TV time.

Sydney, Stetson, Isaac, Ethan

Sadie & Natalia.

Saying goodbye is never an easy thing...especially for Stetson and Ethan

who had such a great time playing and getting to know eachother!!

Let's do this more often, guys!!!!

I <3 FHE !!!

Monday Night was Stetson's turn for our FHE lesson...he had decided well in advance that he was going to do something with secret codes and invisible ink messages because it was one of the Achievements he wanted to pass off in his Scout handbook. He also wanted the kids to put on a skit of one of his favorite scripture stories; so he made a couple of posters using a secret code and an invisible message telling what stories they would act out. Then the kids threw together some costumes and acted out the story of Nephi retrieving the brass plates and the Stripling Warriors.

Here they are all dressed up portraying Nephi, Laman, Lemuel, and the wicked King Laban.

Thay had so much fun, and did a great job(with Dad's help)of retelling the story and helping Sadie and McCrae know what to say and do.

And I was having so much fun watching them that I forgot to take more pictures; I really wanted one of just Stetson all dressed in his skins and fur as Nephi!