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You may or may not remember our giant family reunion extravaganza from last year in Beaver. Good times and great memories. This year we did it all again in Brighton, which is up the canyon from Salt Lake City. Linda found some amazing cabins in the mountains and we enjoyed lots of family time there. You must watch this video that Devon put together. Major kudos to him. It makes our family look so idyllic! This year the theme was dragons, and all the kids did dragon art and read dragon books and even got to hunt for their very own dragon puppet scarves. There was food, games, and walking in the woods. We had lots of face painting, we sang some songs, picnicked, and just hung out. Aria and I were totally twins this day. We didn't even plan it. Elaina and Lindsey We found the treasure chest! Ace, Embry and Sky Micah keeping hydrated. We had a teeny tiny bit of rain during this walk in the woods. It was delightful! After a picnic lunch one day, several of us stayed and played in the st...

One 2017 family goal is to hike either Little Wild Horse Canyon or Peekaboo Canyon and Spooky Gulch. One family member in particular may have been most adamant about this being on the goal list, but let's not get into that. We checked Little Wild Horse off the list in March, and I figured that would be it. But my dad's company is working on repaving Highway 12 near Escalante, and he wanted us to come down and explore the area with us, so who were we to say no? We picked a beautiful time of year to visit the arid deserts of southern Utah: late June. (Hint: This is false. The weather was brutally hot and it was foolish for me to pick summertime for the trip. In fact, a man died of dehydration/heat stroke near Spooky, two days after we were there.) We made the 5-hour trip down to Escalante on Friday morning. I found the area around Fish Lake and the little towns like Bicknell and Loa to be really pretty, but we were all ready to be there long before we actually got there. Our trip...