The Yurt

A yurt you say? Yes, so did I. My friend Zach works at East Canyon and he reserved us a Yurt to stay in for Labor Day weekend. It was quite comical this Yurt. It's like a tent/cabin mix or westernized Tee pee even.

Here's a pic of a Yurt, not thee yurt, but a yurt nonetheless.

The gang: Jarad, Zach, Julie Thom, Mike (what is he doing? haha), & Katie in front.

We've never looked better haha eek!


Mike as you can see is really photogenic. He loves being in front of a camera haha.

Headin' out for a swim. The tough ones of the group anyway.

Needless to say the Yurt was quite an experience haha. We went night canoing which ridiculously beautiful. It was incredible the water was glassy and the stars shone so bright. We went night swimming off the docks and that was a bowl of cherries too. We had gone night swimming a few weeks before but it was muchhh colder this time. I took a serious biff on the beach after and shredded my leg pretty good but it was worth it.

Ouchie mama!

We stayed up for hours laughing, talking and laughing. Oh man! Good ol' time with some dummies.

The Lake of Powell: Antelope Point

My singing group (The Kaye Starr Singers) were invited down to AZ to perform some of our programs as a missionary effort in Page. We decided to go a few days early to get some play time in. Kent Peterson (in our group) was gracious enough to share his beautiful house boat and "toys" with us. We had an amazing to say the least! We played, played, and played!

Setting sail (Mom, Ellie 9, Dallin 13)

The Serengetti: A beautiful 4 level boat. It was enormous!

Top deck. Ridin smoothly!


The main kitchen on the boat. (Linda & Ellie)

Way too much fun..

Ellie & Nick flying on the Sea Doo. Ahh!

Lookin' like a few wind blown/sun beaten'/drown rats...we were..but it was totally worth it. :)

Rainbow Bridge

Some of the KSS gang and families (less than half of the group)

So freakin' pretty! Pics do not do it justice.

Check out that back ground. (Nick & Sydney)

Dall, Ell & Steve trying to keep up with the boat in seriously choppy water. haha! Fail!

Boating

The back of the house boat. There was a platform and a slide to go off of. We definitely utilized these both to the max morning, mid-day and eve! (Another pretty background)

Jumping off

Wahoooooooo! I loved that slide.

Night swimming. We washed our hair in the lake at night. Counter productive? I think not!

Dall head first

Playing on the beach..building Rainbow Bridge. Work of art!

Mud bath

Glen Canyon Dam


Cousins skipping to Prom

Rehearsal

Before the fireside..Jenny(violinist), Shauna, Me, Kris


Singers

Driving in the car on our way home. This is one of probably 40 pics that we took being goofy haha.

We weren't ready to come home, but we had such an amazing time with everyone in this beautiful place. You'd think with such a big group (40 atleast) we would get on each others nerves, but we just had a blast. I'm so glad Ellie, Dallin and my mom got to come with us. I have the coolest nieces and nephews out there. Thanks Kent for all the fun!

Ode to Ashton, ID

One of my favorite places on earth is up at our lil' cabin in Idaho near Island Park. I was able to spend 9 days up there this year, and we did not tire of that river. We tubed it almost everyday, sometimes twice. We had a great time even though Jed's little family all got really sick and had to go home early. But we had an amazing time!

Hike to Hidden Falls in the Tetons. Dallin, Tayson & Dad.

Warm River

That's right...I caught the biggest fish of the trip. 18 1/2" brown. Me & Pa

Catching frogs! Tayson

The gang

Dall fishing in his skivs haha! (we went fishing and he didn't thin he'd want to get in the water...but he changed his mind when he got there.)

Fishing in the rain! Our first catch of the trip. Addie and me

Outside watching a movie on the projector. Brrrr it gets cold at night!

Cave Falls

Happy Birthday dad! Sunday afternoon. We had a special dance awaiting him as he walked outside. haha...so ugly.

Feeding the fish after Sacrament

Tubing

Jackson Hole: Jenny Lake. We went rafting down Big Kahuna later that day but I don't have pics of it with me. Such a fun/scary trip. hehe

Ashton playing in the water

More tubing

Jenny Lake so pretty

Toe-tal fun!

So I like to learn how to do random things that are fun to me, just to know how to do them. I'm weird I suppose, but I thought it sounded fun to learn how to do nails/toes that you get done in the salon. Esp since my nieces LOVEEE me to paint their nails. So..with the help of my comrades Katy and Sarah the nail experts themselves, I bought the tools and supplies to do gel toes for my nieces while we were at our cabin. We were there for about 9 days luckily cause it's no quick process esp for a newby. But we had time to get most everyone's toes done while were there and the girls loved them!

Addie



Lexie My own finger nails

Nicole

Ellie

Hollie

I did a bunch more, but didn't get pictures of all of them.

Anyway they're nothing great, but totally fun to learn just because. :)