ASPEN GROVE

During our first week in Utah we had a family reunion at Aspen Grove. For those of you that don't know what/where that is - it's awesome. It's a week long family camp up Provo Canyon and it's owned by BYU - which means 98% of everything is run by BYU students. The absolutely best part is that every age under 19 has a group that they attend all day (minus lunch) - but you still feel like you're spending plenty of time with family. The beauty of the kids groups is that the adults can then do a multitude of things or nothing. It's totally their choice. But either way they can enjoy a vacation as well. It's fantastic. Brad and I: swam, did the ropes course, pottery, hiked, water color class, pen making class, volleyball, shuffleboard, badminton, paintball, air rifle, pin pong, ate way too much creamery ice cream. The weakest part was the food but there was always something to make the meal work (hint: chicken fingers stolen from the kids bar makes for a killer chicken salad). They also had plenty of family game activities in the evening and the Carn clan even won a few awards at the end of the week (all together we are mindbogglingly competitive). All in all, it was a great week and we would do it again in a heartbeat.

One of the things we did just as the Carn family was have a talent show, which was mostly for the kids but the grandparents couldn't resist getting in on the fun.

The elder girl cousins did a rendition of "Pants on the ground." Never gets old.


Spencer tried to outdo his "Eye of the Tiger" performance from the previous year... us adults might have put a little too much pressure on him.

Three year old Ella sang a beautiful song for us.

Magician Ethan did some magic.


Logan stole some Diet Coke from his Aunt Brooke.


Cooper entertained Finley in the back of the room. He's such a ham in front of the camera... as Cooper says, "It's how the man do."


Very pregnant Angie looking beautiful.


There are going to be quite few Utah posts coming up. Hope you don't mind. Cause if you do I might have to send my niece after you. All I'm saying is that she has street cred with urban demo. Can't you tell?