Super Summer Silliness, Skiing, and Success!!!!!

This summer has been just one big party!!!!  We have absolutely loved being with our family so much!  Sometimes you can feel kinda locked in Provo during school and everything, so this has just been a family feast.  Here are just a few of our pictures from Hebgen and my parents house (the Richards home)

Which one has the biggest stomach?!?! Lets take a vote.  Whoever wins gets 5 pull-ups added to their woodland conference total. (My parents take our family up to some property near Kamas during General Conference, and the boys usually have a pull up contest! Oh boys.  What can we do with them?!) This was one of our goodbye pictures.  This shows how serious we are during these moments...
We miss you Will and Wendy!!   We loved spending time with you and your darling children.  Dave is enamored by those little ones.  Annie, Dave says hi!!!!  He misses you!!!

Our drive home was incredible!!!! We couldn't believe how thick and beautiful these clouds were!  It was raining a little bit and the purples and oranges were all around us!  There was a full rainbow and part of a second on the other side of the road.  We couldn't believe it.

Dave is now officially part of the family!!! He has been to Hebgen and he LOVED it.  He has loved learning how to ski.  Thanks everyone for being so nice and making it such a wonderful experience to be there with everyone.
His favorite skiing trick, attributed to his beloved friend Spencer Craven.  We couldn't believe he could do this just after learning how to ski!!!! Very impressive Dave.
Ouch! he had a couple of crazy falls.  They made for great pictures so I had to upload one!
One of our highlights was being with our fun nieces and nephews. This was a fun moment that shows just how much Dave loves kids!  Thanks guys for having such fun babies!

Beach

Observation point is always a wonderful place to admire God's beautiful creations.  I wanted to share this with Dave.  It was awesome.  A rainstorm was rolling in on the left side of this picture.  I'm so grateful there are such beautiful places on this earth that we can just go and bask in the blue skies and waters, green trees and feel the love of the creator. 

(Oh yeah, and if you were wondering about Hebgenman, well, Davey won!!  Hooray!!!!  He was really nervous.  He had a very worthy apponent (Josh).  Well, hope you enjoyed the pictures.  More to come on our Cali trip! )