Doughnut Falls

This past weekend, we went with Trents family on a hike up to Doughnut Falls.

Jerry and Ruthann

Kelsey and her Daddy

Kindi was done with pictures at this point and just wanted to play in the water. We still had to get a picture with Ruthann and her busiest grandchild.
Jerry in the middle of the river looking for rocks to splash Trent.

We got to a point where the only way we could go further was to cross the river. Trent was the only one brave enough (and with the right shoes) to go accross. Though he did give Kelsey a piggy back ride to the other side. What a nice brother. Kindi had a hard time with them crossing becuase she was scared for her Daddy. She kept saying "no daddy, naughty daddy".
A lot of the time, Kinnedi wanted down so she could walk the trail on her own. She was even able to keep up with the rest of us.

Trent carried Kindi through the hardest parts of the hike. She would get scared and hold on as tight as she could.

It got a little cold, so Kelsey was nice enough to let Kindi wear her Copper Hills hoodie.

Camping up Ephraim Canyon

Trent, Kinnedi and I went camping up Ephraim Canyon. On the way we had some interesting things happen. I think this has to be one of the craziest trips I've been on. First, we went to the gas station to fill up the samurai and explorer and I'm not sure if the samurai clicks when its finished filling up but gas started spewing everywhere. I've never seen that happen before. Everyone was honking to let us know. Then we went and picked up Kelsey, she was going up for youth Conference and we were just going to drop her off. Everthing was going really well, then I think that a driver in the right lane must have blown a tire or lost control and swerved right into our lane really fast. Trent was pulling the samurai so it was a little harder to stop. Luckily the van next to us got out of the way and Trent was barely able to go around it. Wow that was one of the scariest things ever. We finally got our breath back and our hearts slowed down and we see lights and sirens and we got pulled over. Trent was going too fast in a little town, we were so lucky the cop was really nice and let us go. NO ticket. YEAH!! we were very lucky. Finally we got to camp.

On Friday my parents, Emma, Dallin and my Grandparent's all came up and we went wheelin' all day long. It was so much fun. There were Trails everywhere to go on.

My dad, mom and Dallin.
Grandma and Grandpa Jensen and Emma in the back.
Emma and Kinnedi loved riding together. They would make each other laugh.
My dad coming up a muddy hill. He dared Trent to do it and after Trent was able to tackle it, dad got stuck and had to back up and go around

Trent had to play in the mud.

We went up higher and found some snow and played in it a little. My dad and Kindi had fun playing in the snow.

Trent climbed up to the top of the snow bank and had to show off.

After we played all day we drove down to see the Manti Pageant. We had a lot of fun, had dinner there and found seats and watched the pageant. Kinnedi liked the first few minutes then she was done. I had to walk around and get her to go so sleep then I as able to enjoy the rest of it.

A Fun rainy day

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple today. It was raining really hard until we got there and the rain stopped.

The lightning was really bad it even got Moroni.

This is Emma and Kindi playing in a huge water puddle at Golden Coral, where we ate dinner for Dallin's Birthday.

They had a blast. Kindi was really mad when I took her out of the Wa Wa.
Then we went Wheelin. This is before....

Me and Ashlee going thru the Mud.

My dad is in the white one, well, it used to be white and Trent is in the Silver muddy one.

Trent took Steve up on a dare and got stuck. Luckily, Ashlee has some mad praying skills and they were able to get out.

Mud,Mud, and more Mud.

This is my little brother Dallin's first time driving and he went right thru the mud, he was a crazy driver.

Me and Trent, Look at the window, I'm glad I rolled it up or that would have been me.

Yeehaw!!!

Wheelin!!!

Normally I just let Candice work the blog, however, I felt that this post was sufficiently manly for me to tackle.

As many of you know, for some time I have been working on turning a piece of junk Suzuki Samurai into an all out 4 wheelin toy.

It was finally ready by last Saturday so we decided to take it for a spin down at Five Mile Pass, (15 miles west of Lehi).

We had a blast, especially Kinnedi. She sat in the back in her car seat and kept saying "Whee whee"

This is the only "before" picture I could find. This is actually once I had it all stripped down and had already done all of the body work and had it ready for paint.

I had my Dad paint it for me. I also had to put new shocks, a muffler, fold down windshield and several other things that need to be fixed or simply pimped out (note the transformers decal). I almost had everything ready to go when I discovered that the engine block had cracked because the antifreeze was too thin and froze over the winter. Luckily I found another engine for only $100 (after some fine swindling). Once I got the new engine in, it was pretty much ready for the trail.