It was a good summer

We all had a great summer, including an awesome if short jaunt to Palo Duro Canyon, above. While I know I never write on our blog anymore, feel free to check out the family photo album, as that is updated more often than anything.

Hike to Highest Point in Texas

From Guadalupe Peak

Again, hope to add to this post soon, but here are photos of the trip Cory and I took to Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas.

Camp Cris Dobbins in Colorado

From Colorado

I hope to update this post soon with more detail, but here are photos from our Boy Scout summer camp trip to Cris Dobbins near Colorado Springs.

And here is video of Brian riding, and wiping out, on a mountain board.

Family Trip to Utah

We took a driving trip to see Cory's family in Utah, stopping in Escalante to see Beth, Summit to see Peter and Salt Lake City to see Lee. We saw some great scenery and had some good times visiting with everyone.

Now Cory has flown home and the boys and I are heading up Pike's Peak this morning, then on the Camp Cris Dobbins for a week of Boy Scout Summer Camp.

Looking forward to summer

The soccer season is closing, the boys are in the midst of TAKS tests, and we are getting warm spells in between the divine spring weather of Austin, which all means the school year is winding down and we are getting excited about summer.

We haven't taken a summer traveling vacation in a while, so we are pumped that we are combining the boys Boy Scout summer camp in Colorado with a pre-trip to see Cory's western flank of the family in Utah.

We will all drive together to Escalante and Salt Lake City, leaving June 13 or so. We are not sure our itinerary traveling or when we get there, but we know we'll leave Cory somewhere in Utah on the 20th when the boys and I head to Camp Cris Dobbins at the Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch near Colorado Springs. Cory will end up flying straight home for some quiet time while Sean, Brian and I frolic in the Rockies.

Our outings lately have been centered around Scouts:

District Adventure Weekend:



Camping 101 was Sean's first campout as a Troop 448 Boy Scout, but it was District Adventure weekend where he really showed his mettle. His Storm Patrol did well in the patrol games and he also was a part of the Troop team that took third place in the troop games competition. Dad also won the Dutch oven cookoff with two types of lasagna: meat and vegetarian. Brian was trying his best to juggle soccer and scouts, trying to make two games that were both eventually canceled over wet weather and fields.

Well, that catches us up. ... we'll update in a couple of weeks after the soccer season ends and Sean competes in the UIL Music Memory and Math Pentathalon events.

Spring Break Tour, Reprise

In need to write a long post about our Spring Break trip, but I don't have time now, and I want to point out all to the photos:

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Spring Break trip

We did this fantastic trip to West Texas over Spring Break with four other families. We have tons of photos and lots to write about, but I haven't gotten to it.

Fortunately, one of our fellow trippers wrote about it in the Den 13 Blog.