THE STAPLETON FAMILY

First Day of School

What handsome second graders. Their Spanish teacher speaks Spanish 100% of the time this year, so half of their day will be Spanish.

Brad

Seth

Miss Claire

August

Last hike of the summer

Stapleton Family vacation to Bear Lake

The boys loved boat rides, swimming, paddle board, and building sand castles, they did not like tube rides

Claire liked the sand

Fun with cousins

Enjoying a nap

I purchased a Visit Salt Lake Pass that had lots of tourist things to do in the Salt Lake area and one of the ropes courses at the Olympic Training Center in Park City was one of them. It was certainly more safe and supervised than the Klettervalt in Germany, but still a cool challenge for the boys. It took some convincing, but they did the entire course.

After the course we watched the USA vs Belgium World Cup game at the Salt Palace. The game was intense and so were the boys.

Beautiful Fourth of July Princess

Our daughter looks like a cabbage patch doll. Dan was not a fan of this hat.

Church History Museum

The boys did a week long climbing camp at The Quarry. After lunch they did a bigger challenge, either rappelling or the King Swing. The instructors couldn't get them do to it so I asked if I could come. I had to talk them into doing it for nearly 45 minutes and then I literally threw them over the edge. After his initial screaming Seth called out "This is actually kind of fun!"

They were much more confident at the rappelling. I did come help for that as well. Luckily I didn't have to throw them over.

We had a second Park City fun day and did the Alpine Slide and Roller Coaster. It was more crowded than in the past, but still a fun time.

I ventured out by myself to Albion Basin up Little Cottonwood Canyon because I really wanted to see the flowers in bloom. It was a Saturday so there were a ton of people, but we made it up to Secret Lake. Claire even seemed to enjoy it.

I think she felt a little squished, but she was able to take a nap in this position.

More June

Claire trying rice cereal for the first time.

We went to Red Butte Gardens. I wish I'd taken better pictures of their Children's Garden; it was fabulously whimsical. They are walking through the tail of a giant snake in this shot.