Paul and Mandy's Goats

 My brother, Paul, and his wife, Mandy, have their very own herd of goats.  Needless to say, we are jealous!

 

Garden City, UT - Minetonka Cave

 Aaron and I have lived in Logan for a combined 16 years and neither of us had ever been up to the Minetonka Cave near Bear Lake. 

We were pretty excited but most of our pictures turned out black...we were in a cave after all.  But these two turned out.

Basically that's what it all looked like.  I don't think I'll be paying $7.00 to go back any time soon but if you haven't seen it - it's worth a once over.

Vernal UT - Dinosaur National Monument

One of my favorite trips as a child was to Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, UT.  I must admit that Aaron and I have visited several of our "favorite" places from our childhoods and have been slightly underwhelmed but this time I was taking reinforcements  - my two sisters and their families. 

This adorable kid is my nephew Ripkin.  He is obsessed with dinosaurs.  This is the face he made when Tracy told Rip that Aaron is a scientist.

While I must admit that the park itself was not quite what I remembered, it was saved by the fact that we had kids there.  It was so fun to watch them get so excited about the dinosaurs. 
 

 

This is the point where I begin to worry about our future parenting skills.  Aaron was like "Hey Hallie, you should go touch that dinosaur."  You didn't have to tell them twice - we did get a little more responsible when she shook it's "hand" and the whole thing started to sway back and forth.  Maybe the rope is there for a reason.

Now, I shouldn't make it sound like the kids were the only ones having a good time.  Aaron is a sucker for dinosaurs.  We frequent the museums in Northern Utah on a "pretty frequently considering we don't have children" basis.

We decided to hit up a national fishery so Aaron could hit up the guy about how to fulfill his dream of running one.  As you can see, it was exciting.



On the drive back into town we decided to stop and let kids throw some rocks into the Green River. It didn't take very long before we had all decided to jump on in.  Probably the highlight of the trip!

 





 I'm so glad I married someone who is so spontaneous.  

We decided to drive home by way of Flaming Gorge.  It was a beautiful drive and a wonderful way to end a beautiful trip.

 

Thanks Alli and Tracy for coming and making this such a wonderful trip!  I'm already planning one for this coming summer!

Testing the limits...

What would you do when you see this? ...........  Awesome, that's not what we did. Let me explain,

When we first bought the van we had some trouble with the gas tank.  Sometimes it would be close to empty but it would only let us put like 10 gallons in.  We knew that Stan had a ginormous gas tank (meaning we looked underneath and it "looked" big) so we concluded that the gas gauge must just be broken.  So how do you test is a gas gauge isn't functioning properly? Naturally you run it on empty and see how far you can go. 

Fortunately we didn't get far (Corinne, UT).

Paul and my Dad came to the rescue. 

 I had to add a picture of my Dad's mini-truck. He loves this little guy!

We still don't know what was up with the gas tank but now we know empty means empty.  

Feast or Famine

So I've come to realize that I suck at this blogging thing.  In an effort to get caught up before this summer's adventures start back up, I'm going to put up everything I missed from last year.  Sorry for the feast or famine atmosphere.