Hyrum Dam

We had our annual Nelson Family Reunion at Hyrum Dam a few weeks ago. Josh grew up in Hyrum, Utah in Cache Valley. Hyrum Dam was right by where he grew up. It also has good memories for Josh and I since it was down the street when we lived in Nibley. It is fun to start giving our kids good memories at this great place.

It was really the first time that I felt "Summery" all Summer.

Josh along with Uncle Neil taught the kids how to skip rocks. Josh is really good at it and could get to skip about 10 times. Palmer figured out how to get it to skip twice by the end of the day.

It really is a beautiful spot. Everyone slept over at the camp ground. My sweet sister Michelle let me stay at her house in her bed with McKay while she was out of town. I was so glad that we got to do that because I actually got to sleep. I don't think that would have happened if we camped in a tent.

Hunter practicing his "rock skipping".

Josh played with the kids all day. I think he had as much fun as the kids.

The boys all practiced their swimming while we were there. It got deep really fast, so they couldn't swim that far.

Josh would sit under his hat making it look like it was floating all by itself. He would stick his nose out of the water under the hat and breath, they boys thought it was funny.

Rock skipping.

The kids would get out and get in, dry off and then go and jump in again.

Lincoln found some little shells.

There were some gentle waves on the beach that they kids played in.

Lincoln collected feathers that were all over the beach.

The boys were excited to make a sandcastle, but there wasn't any sand. So they made a rock castle that was glued together with clay they found in the lake.

Everyone, especially my MIL, were great to help out with McKay. It was fun to actually get to play with the boys and Josh for a little while.

The finished castle.

We had fun on our last little adventure of the summer. We were ready for school to start after this.