More Photos from My Over-scheduled Summer

I'm going to have to reassess my evaluation of myself as a person who isn't very busy. This summer has been the most intense of my life. I have never tried to have so much fun in so little time. Note previous posts about Disneyland and Arches, plus all the little things, like a movie every week with my sister, craft day every week, hanging out with friends more, playing baseball for the older two boys, and then there are still four more majorish trips we have planned for this summer. Zion, Yellowstone, another family reunion and climbing Mt. Nebo. I swear, this is turning into a travel blog. Sorry, I swear I'll stop after the summer is over.

In the past few weeks, we went to David's family reunion. His parents and all their eight children, their spouses and then all the grandchildren gather every other summer--the only time we are all in the same spot. It's an event.

Some of my favorite pictures from the week:

Maxton playing the piano at the piano recital.

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Silhouette Portraits

As part of my on-going quest to avoid sliding deeper into hermit status (and I'm serious about that--I can get in a rut where I realize I have literally not left my house--even for the mailbox--in three or more days--that is SCARY people--but that is just when I've been deep in the clutches of a mind-engrossing, time-sucking thing called college, on the internet), as I was saying, as part of that on-going attempt, I sat down with some of my extended family and planned a lot of trips this summer.

One of those trips was to Moab to see Arches National Park. I'd never been there before. I'd never been to any of Utah's national parks until my visit last year to Zion.

I went up a day early by myself with my four kids to get a campsite by myself (did I mention I was by myself?). I was worried if we showed up on Friday night, we wouldn't be able to find a campsite. Considering once I got to Moab, I drove around for 2 hours trying to find a campsite, that was probably a good hunch I had there.

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