This is one of the many Michael summer injuries. We sure have a lot. That boy has so many bumps, cuts, bruises and band-aids, well it looks plain awful. That or it just looks like a boy being active in the summer. This one involved his brother and the cord on the blinds. I have yet to get a clear story from the boys. At one point, Michael told someone asking that his brother sawed his neck. Sounds great huh. All is healed now and we are on to other injuries.

Scot had a few days off and we were able to go camping at Lake Chelan, Wa. We had a great time swimming, playing, roasting marshmallows and being a family. We had a perfect campsite, perfect weather and no bugs. On the way home we stopped at Grand Coulee Dam and stayed for the laser show.

Some fun pictures of playing at the beach at Lake Chelan. The weather was perfectly warm, the water however, was a little on the cool side.

The boys' favorite

part was playing

with a log they

found and pretending

it was a canoe.

Michael and Braxton have signed up to take summer sports classes. Michael chose to do soccer and Braxton is practicing baseball. They sure are cute to watch and they are doing very well.

Here are some pictures from our fun trip to Utah. The little boys and I headed down to Utah a few days early to attend my brother's graduation. Congrats Brett. The boys then got to go down to Fish Lake with the Pettey's and they had a blast. Mom enjoyed and worried about being so far away from them. Scot arrived and we went with the Everills to St. George, Sand Hollow, the Coral Pink Sand dunes, and through Zion's and to Bryce National Park. We got to go boating, 4-wheeling, jump off dunes, swim in the hotel pool and best of all, play with family. We had a great time, although we may have spent more of it in the car travelling than anything. Braxton and Michael are still very upset with us for taking them away from grandpa and grandma and cousins and their favorite Utah.

The boys hiking around at one of our stops in Zions.

Braxton, my little sand man.

This was Michael waiting on the 4-wheeler for a ride. That was all he wanted to do and asked constantly. Nothing made Michael happier.

The boys want to go 4-wheeling again so bad. They had a blast.

We went to a little fair in Riverton to watch Lindsey dance. The boys got to do some rock climbing and were amazing.

Braxton enjoyed rockclimbing too. He was a little mad to be bested by his brother though.

Braxton trying on Brett's graduation cap. Just a few more years right.

Michael and his namesake Brett.