We made our usual trip to the cabin for Labor Day. We had fun like we always do. We spent Saturday morning deep cleaning the cabin, not my favorite chore, but as the kids get older they are a lot of help. We put them on 20 minutes shifts and by the time we work through 20 kids we are done.
This is our family in front of the old school house in Scofield. This is where we went to church this week. There is a small branch here with a church, but because of the summer traffic at the church the branch will be building a new bigger building. Normally the branch has about 40 regular members, but during the summer they have had as many as 600. Amazing that they are able to accommodate all of us. What a blessing to be able to attend church anywhere.
This is an old jail we came across in Scofield that is just down from the church. It has a lock on it, but when we tried the door it was broken. Look what we found inside!
Yep, some rebel kids. The church clothes make it that much funnier. It was a one room jailhouse that they used to use back when Scofield was a booming town.
A couple of years ago we had a frozen t-shirt contest and this trip we resurrected the frozen t-shirt contest and did it again. Each kid gives us a t-shirt and we freeze them flat and completely solid. Then they have to put on the frozen shirt to win the contest. This is a really bad picture, but Suang won the contest, you can see the frost on the edge of her sleeve. Suang is my sisters foreign exchange student from Thailand, she is lots of fun!
This is one of the kids favorite activities. We have a potato gun that launches potatoes. Well we load the gun and then put glowsticks in the end and when the potatoes launch so do the glowsticks. The kids go pick them up and then we do it again. But after we are all done they get to keep them.
It was a fun weekend. Between the good food, four-wheeler rides, shooting BB guns, shaving rocks, going to the basketball courts we came home exhausted.
This is our family in front of the old school house in Scofield. This is where we went to church this week. There is a small branch here with a church, but because of the summer traffic at the church the branch will be building a new bigger building. Normally the branch has about 40 regular members, but during the summer they have had as many as 600. Amazing that they are able to accommodate all of us. What a blessing to be able to attend church anywhere.
This is an old jail we came across in Scofield that is just down from the church. It has a lock on it, but when we tried the door it was broken. Look what we found inside!
Yep, some rebel kids. The church clothes make it that much funnier. It was a one room jailhouse that they used to use back when Scofield was a booming town.
A couple of years ago we had a frozen t-shirt contest and this trip we resurrected the frozen t-shirt contest and did it again. Each kid gives us a t-shirt and we freeze them flat and completely solid. Then they have to put on the frozen shirt to win the contest. This is a really bad picture, but Suang won the contest, you can see the frost on the edge of her sleeve. Suang is my sisters foreign exchange student from Thailand, she is lots of fun!
This is one of the kids favorite activities. We have a potato gun that launches potatoes. Well we load the gun and then put glowsticks in the end and when the potatoes launch so do the glowsticks. The kids go pick them up and then we do it again. But after we are all done they get to keep them.