The Gunn Family: October 2010

Red Butte Gardens 9-14-10

In September I was able to go on a field trip with Riley's Class. There were two classes of first graders that went. We went to Red Butte Gardens. I totally reccommend going if you haven't been before, it was amazing. I was over a group of all boys!!! It wasn't too bad, they were pretty good. We were lucky enough to have an amazing guide, the boys loved her. She was so fun and showed the kids some amazing things, including her holding a bumble bee. It was so much fun learning about all the different flowers and plants. There was so much to look at. I couldn't get over how beautiful it all was. It was cool seeing Riley pick out the plants we have at home and actually being able to name some of them. After we finished our tour we headed off to Sunny Side Park for lunch and to get the kids energy out. It was a great field trip and I am so glad I was able to go and have so much fun.
The First Graders

Our Guide Has a Bumble Bee in her Hand

Our Guide Holding a Bee

Pears Growing on the Trelis

Yellow Daisies

Hanging Basket of Flowers

A Beautiful Waterfall

The water

Lily Pads

Pretty Yellow Flowers

The boys trying to touch the fish

Fish

Ground Squirrels

Mrs. Beckstead with our group of boys

A Bumble Bee

Ry and some of his classmates

Pretty Flower

Wood Betony

Ry by the rattlesnake fountain

Some of my favorites

I loved all the beautiful flowers

Labor Day Weekend 2010

For Labor Day weekend we took the boys camping up to our friend's property up by Starvation. Our friends and their two kids came in the motorhome with us. On our way up we made our annual stop to Swiss Days in Midway and had dinner and walked around. We got a little lost trying to find the property in the dark, but we made it and setup the motorhome. We did a small fire and hung out by it for a few hours. The next morning everyone else slowly started showing up. The guys decided to go out on the boat and get some wake boarding a sky skiing in before everyone else showed up. So we fed the kids lunch and once our friend Angie got their we headed down to the beach to meet up with the guys. The kids were all so excited to go out on the tube. This was a first time experience for our boys!!! They had a lot of fun, but I think Logan got a little scared when it got going to fast. I switched him places and went out with the other kids for a bit and it was a lot of fun. We took the kids back to shore and left them with Brandon. I stayed on the boat and went out with some of the others. It was so much fun, I forgot how much I missed being on a boat. The wind came up like it alkways has seemed to do at Starvation so we packed up and pulled the boat off the water. That night we hung out and celebrated Tyler's 30th birthady!!! It was a lot of fun, we sat around the fire and hung out and had a few drinks and listened to the music. The next day we got up did the whole breakfast thing and packed lunch and headed back down to the lake. However it was so windy that we couldn't put the boat in the water. We decided to hang out and let the kids play in the water and hang on the beach. We had a great spot where the wind couldn't completely sand blast us. Later we went back and cleaned up a had dinner and hung out by the campfire again. Brandon and I had a smore off which was a lot of fun. We came up with all kinds of different concoctions. I of course beat him with my mad smore cooking ideas. It was such a great weekend with minimal injuries. I am so glad we got some camping in this year.
Tyler and LaRee

Angie and Lora

Don, Ty and Brandon

Cheers to Tyler

LaRee, Lora, Traci, and Angie

Conner, Logan, Ry, and Abby

The kids on the tube

Ry, me, and Abby

Tubing with Ry and Abby

My dirty puppy

One of our friend's on the sky ski

Brandon trying to be the karate kid

Brandon and Tyler

Angie, Lora and me

Crazy Hair Day and Egg Drop 9-2-10

The kids school has spirit days every so often. For this particular day they got to do crazy hair!!! I have a bunch of colored hair gels and so we went to town doing the boys hair and one of their friends.

Ry's crazy hair

Zac's crazy hair

Logan's crazy hair

Three crazy boys

Back view of their crazy hair

This also happened to be the fourth grades egg drop. We only had a week to come up with an idea. The only rules were that your egg had to be hard boiled, and no glass. Pretty simple!!! I helped Logan with his project. It was a lot of fun. We took a styrofoam block and hollowed out a spot for the egg to fit, lined it with cotton, put the egg in and duct tapped the entire thing. We even did a practice run and dropped it out Logan's bedroom window and it survived. On the day of there were lots of fun cute ideas. Logan's egg did survive the fall from the roof!! I was so glad we came up with a winning project.
Waiting for the egg dropping to begin

Mr. Spencer dropping Logan's egg

One of the 4th grade teachers opening his egg

Logan holding his survived egg

Lava Hot Springs 8-27-10

Back in August we went to Lava Hot Springs for the weekend to celebrate my sister in law Tricia's birthday. We got there late on the night of the 27th. The next day we had plans to go swimming and possibly go tube the river. The boys were so excited to go to the pool, because of the big slides. When we got there the weather didn't look to promising.

Hailey Bug

Logan Bud

Riley Bug

Travis

Everyone at the top

Brandon making a splash

Ry and Uncle Travis

Logan the water bug

Brandon at the very top platform

Brand jumping from the top platform

However it held for about an hour of fun before the sky opened up and began to pour!!! The closed the pool in hopes that they would re-open if the weather permitted. Once back to camp we retreated to the motorhome to get out of the rain. Let me just say that it was tight quarters!!! Finally the rain decided to let up and the pool was re-opening. A few of the others decided to hit the river while the rest of us headed back to swim. It was a lot of fun and wasn't to cold. Logan was fearless on the big slides. I was super proud of him, I have to admit I was a little scared being that high up. There were two different slides, a purple one and a yellow one. The yellow one went down part way and then had a bump and dropped off. The purple one was a straight drop off!!!

The purple one was Logan's Favorite

Brandon, Jeremy, and Rick

Jer, Brand and Rick

Brandon took Ry down the river with him and needless to say he didn't like it much because Brandon scared him. So Ry ended up in the pool with the rest of us for about a half hour of fun. Brandon cooked a fabulous dinner in the dutch oven that night. It was a great day!! The kids even got to get Aunt Tricia with cans of silly string for her birthday!!!! If that wasn't enough we finished the nigt off with smores and the Hot Pools. The next morning Brandon got creative making breakfast. He kept cooking the hash browns into different shapes which Riley got a kick out of. After it was time to pack up and head for home. It was a fun filled weekend rain and all.

Rick