Catching up on June

I knew when I started this that I would have a terrible time keeping up with it, so here is June in a nutshell.

June boiled down to pretty much one week, June 19-26, which is when Kurt and I went out of town, Nate went to cub scout camp, and Chris and Justin went to Zion's camp.

June 19 was just crazy with me working, trying to get the all the camping stuff together for Zion's camp, and trying to get Nate packed to stay with my parents and have the things he needed for day camp. We finally dropped the dogs off with my parents about 9:00 and then took Nate to stay with John and Rachael for the night since my parents had just gotten back in from Arizona the day before and were still trying to get caught up from their trip. Kurt and I finally left for Crested Butte around 11:00 that night.

Twenty years and counting:
Kurt and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary on June 22. Kurt arranged for us to go away for a few days in Crested Butte. I think this is the first time we have spent any real time away from our kids ever, so it was kind of nice, especially with Kurt working 6 days a week with his training schedule and running bike tours on the side.

I have to say that it didn't start out well as we got into Crested Butte at about 3 in the morning and found we couldn't get into our condo because we didn't have the code for the lock box the key was in. Kurt had set up the condo through a guy John knows at ReMax, so many thanks to John for getting up at 3 in the morning and helping us figure out how to get in.

We didn't get a whole lot of rest as we spent most of our time hiking the area. I probably got more exercise in those 3 days than I normally get in a month. The first day, we hiked around Crested Butte and saw some scenery.

The next day, we were up early to drive to the Maroon Bells, where we hiked around and saw more scenery.

Kind of all looks the same, huh?

Crested Butte is known for their wildflowers and we saw a bunch, but mostly lots and lots and lots of these yellow ones that seemed awfully familiar:


Though, okay, we did see a few of these as well:



















Saw some critters, too:


But mostly we just got to spend some time together.

Zion's Camp:
Chris and Justin left Monday morning for a week at Zion's camp. This is basically a missionary prep course up in the Colorado mountains. They camp out all week, along with scripture study and a lot of outdoor activities, like high ropes courses, rappelling, and canoeing. We went up Friday night for parents' night and were met by all the boys singing (Justin is in the middle behind the kid in the camo coat).


The boys then served their parents dinner. I had to have pictures because you know this is the only place it will ever happen :) (and, no, that isn't Chris's tie - he had to borrow one because he forgot his).
















All the boys then put on an after dinner show where they went through some of the things they did over the week. Chris's group sang and Justin's group sang and signed (they do a lot of singing at Zion's camp).






We then came home and the boys stayed until Saturday and came home very, very dirty, cleaned up, and went to bed.

Cub Scout Camp
Nate spent 3 days at cub scout camp. I am a bad mom and don't have any pictures, but he had a great time.

And that was all the exciting stuff for June.