I can't believe July came and went with out much notice. We were so busy at our house we didn't have time to think.
July 3 we left for a 10 day vacation. We drove as far as Missoula Montana on the 3rd of July. Saw some old friends on mine, and found Jelly Stone Park. We camped the night in Jelly Stone and then on the 4th we drove up to Glacier National Park. What a sight!! We spent 2 nights camping in Glacier, then drove 5 hours across the border into Canada. We stayed in the condo in Canmore, which is just outside of Banff (Canada's National Park). We spent Sun.-Sat at the condo, swimming, hiking, Kirk even rented a mt. bike for a while, I took the kids horse back riding. We took a couple of canoes out on one of the lakes and had a great time. We saw some black bears, big horn sheep, and some deer. We did some shopping, and went to the Calgary stampeed. It poured rain of us, that day so we didn't see much of the redeo or wagon pull, but it was still fun. Sat. the 12th we drove 10 hours and stopped outside of Butte, Montana where we camped a night before driving the other 7 hours. We got home in time to have Justin at his Eagle Board of Review, and a Eagle Court of Honor for 3 of Kirk's young men. We were home for a few days and then we left on thurs. the 17th to do a campout with some of our friends. We went up to Smithmoorehouse. We had a lot of fun. Did a little fishing, and swimming in the lake.
The mon. before (July 14th) Justin was helping a soccer store move location and had a shelf drop on his toe. He was suppose to go to Scout camp on Tues. but the Dr. said he couldn't go. He wasn't to happy with her. She ended up pulling his toe nail off and putting 15 stiches in his big toe. He ended up going up to camp late, and had a great time. He kept his toe clean and dry and wore a funny shoe, but that didn't stop him from taking 2nd place in the rock wall climb. So after everyone was home again from camping, we stayed home a few days and then left for Potter's Ponds for Kirk's Family campout.
We camped thur and Fri. nights with the Phillips (about 35 of us) and then drove Sat. to St. George for Jeff's baby blessing and baptism of his kids.
We drove home on Sun. so I could get ready to go to Girls Camp on Tues morning. I got home from camp in time to shower and head to Park City with Justin for a soccer tournament. We spent Fri. and Sat. in Park City and brought home the Gold. We were home again for a couple of days and Kirk took off for Priest Camp. He'll be gone until Sat. and then I think we're done.
I decided it's a good thing I don't mind sleeping in a tent, (my trailer is better), because I spent as many nights in a tent as in my own bed the month of July. Here's some pictures from all our big trips. Enjoy!
