3 Jennings: president day hike

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

president day hike

The kids have been spending WAY too much time indoors lately so on President's Day we decided to take a hike up at Red rock Canyon. It was windy and freezing but the kids still wanted to go. I actually tried to convince them that the playground at McDonald's would be fun. (you know how much I hate that place so now you know how cold it was). I think the kids really wanted to be outside as well. We took two of our cute little neighbors with us and we had a great time. I froze but the kids were troopers. They never complained. Actually, they wanted to keep on going. Way to go guys!

riding the lizard at the visitors center

I love the beautiful red rocks. It reminds me a bit of Southern Utah where I grew up.

we hiked to a river. OK it was a tiny stream but to us desert dwellers it might as well have been the Mississippi.

cute little bunny

Red Rock Canyon is beautiful and we really should spend more time there.

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Funny Kids

3/15 Clara "you don't need to give us consequences because Jesus will already do that."
2/15 Clara asked for a drink of my diet coke. I told her it wasn't good for her. Her reply "isn't that like being a hypocrite"
1/15 a few weeks after watching the movie Annie we were visiting Grammy. She made a comment about all the little girls everywhere. Cameron replied "everywhere I look I can see them."
4/13 Cameron after listening to the tabernacle choir "That was a long fermata"
Mom "Do you want to watch Ice Age: The meltdown tonight?" Lauryn "Who's gonna have a meltdown?"
Lauryn has been bedreaming (daydreaming)
7/13 Lauryn "Mom that cloud looks like a volcano that is interrupting"
2/14/13 Clara "Mom, I hope the cupid shoots me today."
11/13 Cameron was up in Cedar City with Dave "after only 30 seconds in this freezing cold weather I am already showing signs of hypothermia"
1/13 me "Lauryn, are you murmuring?" Clara "Mom, she didn't kill anybody!"
1/13 Clara "I smell something like throw up." Lauryn "Its probably your breath"

"In choosing how we spend time as a family, we should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave little time for that which is better or best. A friend took his young family on a series of summer vacation trips, including visits to memorable historic sites. At the end of the summer he asked his teenage son which of these good summer activities he enjoyed most. The father learned from the reply, and so did those he told of it. “The thing I liked best this summer,” the boy replied, “was the night you and I laid on the lawn and looked at the stars and talked.” Super family activities may be good for children, but they are not always better than one-on-one time with a loving parent." Elder Dallin H. Oaks