Summer Ends with a Bang

I have to say that we are a very lucky family. We have two sets of wonderful, active grandparents who love to get together. So, this weekend we had to find a way to be with both. Thursday night we drove to Thayne Wyoming to stay with Tom and Mary in a beautiful log cabin (really, it was a log house) on a golf course and only an hour away from Jackson Hole. Even after driving 5 hours (we missed a turn off and extended our drive by an hour) and arriving at midnight our kids still said it was worth it because the log house was so cool. Friday morning we got up and drove into Jackson Hole. We hiked a newly developed trail that was a three mile loop to a gorgeous lake that was owned by the Rockefeller's until a few years ago.
We shopped a little and Nate and I reminisced a lot.
We spent our honeymoon in Jackson Hole, the Tetons, and Yellowstone. Tom and Mary even gave us the night off and let us have a date which was so fun.

Us then.
Us now. Saturday we went golfing. We did as much as possible to disobey golf edicate by letting our kids hang with us while we golfed and even drive the golf carts. They had a blast!
And, of course, to my horror, we spent Saturday night watching the BYU game. I said that we didn't drive all that way to watch tv. Nathan said that this particular BYU game was huge and that he must watch it. Honestly, I am glad we did watch it because I would have never heard the end of it if I had made him miss that amazing game. Even I was interested in the last three minutes. We drove home after the game arriving in our drive way at one a.m. Exhausted we all fell into bed.

Now, I know you are all bored but the second half of our weekend was about to begin. After church and Nathan's first time conducting in sacrament meeting(he only messed up a little) we headed in the opposite direction to Aspen Lakes, the camp where my parents have been serving as camp hosts this summer. We arrived there just in time to put up a tent and go to sleep. We spent the next day motorcycling, playing on the ropes course, and zooming down the zip line.

Nate and I even made a determined climb to the peak of a hill where we stumbled on a huge flock of sheep and were almost attacked by sheep dogs.
We all played, got very dirty, and had a super fabulous time. The kids were very brave jumping in the ice cold water from the zip line. I did it and I thought I was going to die. I couldn't move my body. Poor Rachel wanted to jump in so bad. She had watched Conner, Ben, and Sophie all brave it but when it came to her she just couldn't do it. She wouldn't get out of the swing when we pulled her back in. She was so embarrassed that she couldn't do it. She said "I want to jump in but I am too scared." It took me a while an letting her use my camera to convince her that it was ok.

I thought this particular photo was kind of artistic.

So, after that whirlwind weekend and about 15 hours of driving we are all exhausted. My house is kind of messy. And, instead of taking care of it I am sitting here remembering our trip and wishing we could be having more fun. We are so lucky to have such great family. Can't wait to be together again.