Four Wheeling Fun!

Last Saturday, we took the girls four wheeling in Wasatch Mountain State Park.  We rented a big six-seater four wheeler, and took it out into the mountains for about 4 hours.

We explored all over the mountains, up and down, around, through streams, even through a little rain.  It was really a lot of fun.

The Wasatch 100 was being run through the park, and we even picked up one "pacer" who had fallen behind and one competitor who was not going to make the 5:00 p.m. cutoff.

Quite an adventure!

Miss D broke her arm.

Poor angel.  A beautiful Saturday morning.  Ice cream for breakfast (long story).  A ride on the swings in the back yard, jump off the swings, and *snap* a broken arm.

She has a supracondyal fracture, which is the most common kind of fracture in kids her age.  Hers was a III which is the worst severity.  Basically, her humerus bone snapped just above the elbow joint and the bone displaced itself over two centimeters.

She had a little surgery to put in three pins to hold it together while it heals.  In a week, she will have a cast put on.  Three weeks after that, it should be all better.

It is her non-dominant left hand, so school should not be a problem.

This picture is Miss D in the car leaving the clinic on our way down to Primary Children's Hospital to see the orthopedic surgeon.

Sun Valley, Idaho - Glamping

The whole fam (on my side), all 13 of us, trekked to Sun Valley, Idaho, this weekend.  Grandma Libby and Grampa Irv camw down from Pullman, Washington.  I drove up with our three girls and my sister's oldest two and her youngest one, pulling our camper.  It was my first time pulling the camper, and it was white-knucklish for me, but we made it! 

We met at Easley Campground, 14 miles north of Ketchum, on Thursday night.

My sister and the rest of her family came up on Friday afternoon.  We stayed until mid-day Sunday.

There was a hot springs pool right by the campground.  The kids rode bikes a ton.  Daddy-J and I got to do an awesome 12-mile mountain bike ride.  8 miles of climbing and 3.5 miles of rip-roaring downhill!  Seamus came with us and did really well.

Sunday we took a whole-family bike ride.  K-Wiggles is our last kid on training wheels, and she is "this close" to being able to a two-wheeler.

We ate a ton of food, as always.

It was a really great time.  Not sure we'll go back, 'cuz it's a really long drive, but it sure is a beautiful part of the world.