High Adventure to King's Peak

So I realize that this blog has both Chantell's and my name on it but let's face it she is the only person to have blogged here for the past two years! But enough is enough, it's time I take a turn and give a little update to the world.

Last week I went on a week long, 50 miler scout camp trip to the High Unitas in eastern Utah. We hiked, camped, fished, hiked, saw some moose, hiked, climbed King's Peak, and oh did I mention we hiked. Well actually the leaders did most of that hiking and playing around while the kiddies hid from the mosquito's in their tents! All in all it was a blast! Except for the part of being away from Chantell and Presley for a few days :( that was not so fun.

This is one of many stops on our way into base camp.

This waterfall was awesome! We could see it from camp. And on the last day we decided to test our strength by pushing boulders off the cliffs into the river below! Ya know typical man stuff!

Standing on top of the waterfall looking back toward camp. We camped at Henry's Lake, the second one in the picture and fished in the streams and lake!

Henry's Lake right by camp

A moose just being awesome! A leader spotted this moose just standing in the middle of the lake so we ran over as quick as we could and watched it just hangin out in the lake for probably 5-10 minutes.

Just a cool rock climbing wall/cliff I found while out exploring!

This is the last climb up King's Peak. The picture does this nasty climb NO justice! These are pretty big bolders, I'm sure if you look hard enough you can see people trying to make their way to the top. From here it was about 1/2 mile straight up climb to the top!

The top of Utah!! King's Peak reaches about 14,000 feet!

Instead of hiking the long way down like the way we went up we decided to slide down this HUGE rock slide! Once again the picture really does this NO justice. You can probably find people on there to give you an idea of how high this slide really was! It took at least 30 minutes just to go down.

Sick Baby :(

Presley had a bit of a rough week. She has been very congested and stuffed up. It is so sad to see her have a hard time! It really breaks my heart and I want to just take it away from her. I took her to the doctor and they did some suctioning to get the mucus out. It was so sad...she did not like it, and there was quite a bit of it! But they checked everything else out and her lungs and ears look great. She just has some bad sinus congestion. So thankfully it's nothing too serious, but it is still sad and she sounds awful when she is so stuffed up and trying to breath. Lots of snorting and crying :( But all in all she is being a trooper! I just snuggle her all day and try to help her to sleep. The doc told us to do the Saline Spray and suction when needed. So hopefully they will help clear it up! Wish us luck!

Still smiling even when she is sick. Oh how I love this little lady! She is my world :)

Family Gateway Outing

I think she may have liked it! What do you think? :)
We went on a much needed outing after Joel had been gone all week with the scouts on a high adventure backpacking trip through the Uinta's. It was so nice to go out as a family and spend the day! I loved every minute! Needless to say, we missed him A LOT!

Grandma and Grandpas House!

This weekend we got to go visit grandma and grandpa Welch's house! It was so much fun! We all had a blast! All of the cousins were there and had so much fun playing all weekend. Presley already loves it there and loves when grandma holds her! :)
Presley is sometimes a cheater when it comes to tummy time haha. She likes to rest and take a break.
Bergen and baby Pres
Sweet cousins, Matayia and Presley
Grandpa and Presley
Grandma and Pres. Her face cracks me up! I had to post it. This is one girl of many faces! She is always making us laugh.
Sweet sleeping baby. Grandma Welch has the touch!
Her monkey face :)

Thanks for letting us come and play! We had a blast and especially loved the zoo and snowcones! :) We will be back soon!

Joel's Soccer Tournament!

This weekend we got to go to Cache Valley and watch Joel play in a soccer tournament. It was so much fun and he did great! Their team did really well, and they were ahead but the other team scored in the last 19 seconds of the game making it a tie. So they called a shoot-out (best out of 5) and sadly we lost by one goal in the end. But they did amazing and had lots of fun!
Presley and I rooting for the red team!
My mom and Stetson came with me to watch and cheer on Joel! It was a lot of fun. Thanks for coming!
Our little family! Joel came to say hi at half time.
Stetson was a riot and loved watching Joel play. He kept yelling, "Run Joel run!" and "YEAH!" every time Joel would kick the ball. hahaha I loved it!
Presley cheering for daddy from the sidelines!
Stetson loving on baby Presley. He was so cute with her! He would kiss her feet and give her hugs. I just love that little boy. We will have to visit them in Vegas a lot so they can continue to be little buddies!