Our Summer...finally

Ok, so here is a partial rundown of our super fun, super crazy, super busy summer!

The first week we went to our family reunion in Monroe, a little tiny town just outside of Richfield in southern-ish Utah. It was so great - we learned a lot about our family history, and did a mini handcart trek. For the trek, we each had a name of someone who died along the way - which was really touching - it was like a way for them to be there....even though they never made it. Spencer was harnessed to the wagon - because one of the families that crossed the plains had their 8 year old son harnessed to a wagon, and pulled it the entire way. It was neat for Spencer to feel just a tiny piece of what one of his ancestors, who was the same age as he was, had to go through to get to the Salt Lake Valley.

All the families were divided into groups - your "trek family" and we are standing in front of one of our ancestors cabins - the original cabin that belonged to them. It was so awesome!

After the reunion, we went to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, in Kanab Utah - one of my new most favorite places! This was one of the most special and awesome things we have ever done. All the animals there are rescue animals. Spencer's class sponsored a pot-belly pig named Pepe. And we decided that we needed to go visit him, and that is what sparked the idea to go and spend a couple days there. It was awesome - highly recommend it.

(http://www.bestfriends.org/)

Spencer's story will be featured on their website - they are in the process of writing now, so we will let you know when it will be on!! It was a really sweet experience... All of us were very sad to leave, and got very attached to all the animals we took care of.

Megan's dream came true - to take care of the horses. This horse is Shadow. He took a liking to her as well. She spent 4 hours taking care of the different horses. She came back wanting to take them all home with us!!


Cam's favorite was the bunnies - he loved it because one of them jumped right into his lap! It was really cute. They all had such a great time. We are even more excited to go back next summer!!

I will post more later - don't want to go too crazy!!!!