First Cookout of the Season

Spring and summer are in the air and we decided to take advantage of it and head up the mountains for a cookout. We love being in the mountains and living so close to American Fork Canyon is such a treat. Being that it's still spring there weren't many people in the canyon and we were able to get a good picnic sight without much trouble. We cooked some chicken, had frog eye salad and tried out our peach cobbler recipe (even though I forgot the butter.) After dinner I took the youngest 4 kids on a little walk while Kenny taught Ben and Sarah how to make a fire. We ended the cookout by roasting marshmallows and have Smores. It was a great evening with the kids and something we have to repeat often.

Dan loves being outside.

Adam and Hannah playing around on the rocks.

Dinnertime.

We always have to stop and look at every sign we see.

A hiking we will go.

Starting his first fire.

They did a good job on their fires.

Yummy peach cobbler.

Hannah was a fan of the peach cobbler.

Showing off his Smore.

Roasting marshmallows on the fire she built. Way to go Sarah.

My girls enjoying their Smores.

Sarah thought she needed a picture of me.

Roasting marshmallows

I love how these 2 still goof off together.

My beautiful Sarah the Kate.

After dinner we decided to take a drive up the canyon. It was dark, but Kenny wanted to drive up to the upper lake. The road up there is a dirt road and when we got almost to the top we got a flat tire. Being that we didn't have a spare, we knew we were in trouble. Kenny drove down the dirt road as fast as he could and when we got on the pavement we realized the tire was completely flat. Our only option at that point was to drive slowly down the canyon. We drove about 5 miles an hour down the entire canyon until we got within cell phone range. At that point we called Kenny's cousin Chase who nicely came and rescued us. It was quite the adventure.