Rasmania 101: Another quick trip to Flaming Gorge

Last week I was able to skate with Dan's girls, and this week I met Ollie and Gunnar at the rink. I had told Adrienne that she could push Finn on the ice in the stroller, so she was totally planning on that, but at the last minute decided to try him in a pair of skates. Big Mistake. No way was Finn going back to the stroller after that. He loved it, even though there was no possible way he could stand on his own. He wanted to, though. Gunnar skated until Adrienne and Finn got off the ice (about 10 minutes) and Ollie lasted 15 or 20 minutes. They were mostly in it for the treats. Still, we had a good time.

Crista came down on Thursday to put up apricots. I was so glad she was ambitious enough, because I hated to see all our beautiful fruit go to waste. Roy asked me to do 12 jars, even though we're moving, so I did. Sara came over, too, and made fruit leather for us. We also made some jam and we accidentally made syrup because I read the jam directions VERY poorly. I snuck away and went skating for a couple of hours because I'm selfish like that. (I justified it because I worked on the apricots for at least an hour and a half before Crista arrived).

Roy and Caitlyn and I drove up Friday to take the trailer back to Flaming Gorge (we had it down for some repairs). We took Gunnar and Ollie with us. They had a ball. We showed them the cool dead tree on our hiking trail. They were a little more concerned about the bugs than Dan's girls were--especially Gunnar. someone had built a swing. The boys tried it out, but it wasn't very comfortable.

Losing daylight--but so beautiful

Ollie loved the horses in the neighboring field.
We took the boys swimming in the lake. I thought it was something they'd be use to doing, but walking into the lake from shore freaked Gunnar out a little bit. I guess he usually swims in swimming pools and maybe off the boat. It might not have helped that I found a dead crawdad and showed it to him. He was a little afraid that the crabs or fish might get him. He swam about 10 minutes and Ollie lasted about 15. This seems a bit similar to the skating experience--Is there a pattern here?
We saw a chipmunk, some lizards and deer. We looked for the marmots, but couldn't find any.

Sunday we had Adrienne's and Nick's families to dinner. Dan was in California, Crista home in Logan, and Elise home in Texas.
Here are a few more pictures of the camp-out, and a couple of others that were sent to me this week.