Reed and Joan go on some trips

April was a very fun month for
Dad and I. We first visited with Cari and played games with Cari and visited with Jess.

The best thing we did was play with Kade and Lucas. We went to the zoo while Reed was with us. The boys had there first tailgate lunch.

nother fun thing we did was go to Wild Wood lake.

Eating lunch was cold. We went to the other side of the lake and found a small beach. We had our own private beach. The boys made sand castles, and they got buried in the sand. Lucas and Kade would play in the water and then get out and wrap up in there towel.




Dad and I loved seeing Cari, Jess Lucas and Kade. Kades favorite game is Mario Cart. Boy, is Kade good at that game. He would place very high and I would stay consistantly in 12th place. It was fun to see everyone llaughing and being together.

We had a great time and want to see Kade, Lucas, Jess and Cari again soon. I love you all!!!!!

Our Puerto Rico Trip

We flew home, fixed a good dinner for Scott ,washed some clothes and headed off to Puerto Rico.

We were there for 5 days. We went sight seeing our first day, learning about why we have Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

We drove to the west side of the island and went through the Camuy Cave. We also ate a common food to Puerto Rico, Mofongo. It is made with Plantain. it wasnt't to bad. It was very filling. We also went on a high adventure hike throught the Tanama Forest. The drive to the forest was a fun adventure. Reed thought he was jeeping in Moab again.

We went on 8 zip lines and repelled about 65 feet off a cliff.

We cannoed through a cave with bats.

While Reed was off we ran and ran. While Reed was working Joan relaxed by the beach
and read a Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. We had a great time.

Dad and Moms' trips

Battle Creek Hike

Cari is visiting!!! we all went on a hike up battle creek and it was awesome, Lucas and Kaden had a blast and so did the rest of us.

IBex Trip

My friends and i went on a trip down a little south to a little place called IBex near delta to do a little rock climbing mom told me to put up a few pics from down there so here they are...

BJ's HOME!!!

BJ got home from his mission a week or 2 ago so here's the blog update even though you probably already know cus it's all over town. He went to the Texas San Antonio mission. Mom tried to hold back her emotions but in the attempt to hide she only showed more. I don't really know what else to say other than he has unlimited texting now so text him up eh. I can't put his number here but just ask mom or something and you can spam him all you want haha jk. Here are some pics of the airport scene. The poster was curtisy of Gavin

It may seem like the security man was enjoying being in this picture, but at the time he was having a hard time getting everyone to get out of the isle where people could walk through especially since that isle kept moving from one place to another depending on where the mass of mothers were charging (due to the 11 missionaries coming home).

Hansen's Mountaineering "Campus Challenge"

This is a route put up at a local climbing area called Hansen's Mountaineering. The route is called the campus challenge because it is called a campus when you don't use your legs, it is also a type of traverse, because in stead of going up you go across, or in this case, around. In the video it changes lighting before the last couple moves, yes, I did do the whole route, but not in the video. The camera only takes 16 seconds and I couldn't do it that fast so I had to splice them together. hopefully this will inspire the climber within' because climbing is awesome!! (really I just put this on here because mom told me to.)

Havasupii Trip

Almost anyone who was related in any way to a Tadje was in on this trip only a few chose to stay home and hold down the fort. It was a blast the hike down was pretty good (remembering that everything is relative, and this is definitely true when related to the hike out). Some of us chose to make it a bit more interesting by climbing a random boulder by the side of the trail, specifically Alex and I (Scott).





We got there, got our packs, set up base camp and were ready for water. We headed to havasu falls (the main falls) and quickly learned how cold the water was but we were strong and overcame it (or maybe we went numb... who knows). We jumped off boulders, swung from rope swings, and waded into the water. We didn't find the 30 ft cliff to jump off of till near the end of the trip due to the fact that it was directly behind the falls, but when we found it we made the most of it. We had to drag ourselves behind the falls with the wall because of the heavy current but just behind the fall there was a ledge to stand on then a ladder to climb up. It was at this point that we discovered that you could spit 'up' because of the insane wind current being generated by the falls crushing down just inches from us. We climbed the ladder (a very tall ladder whose actual height is only known by those who climbed it, but I'll stick with 30 ft), and at the top there is a little alcove to jump from. At first we (Darren and I) just jumped off but then we were shown up by an old geezer AKA my Dad whose insanity drove him to dive off. Whether insanity is contagious or we just couldn't stand to be shown up by someone 50+ years old we soon were diving as well. It was awesome.

We also made it down to Moony falls which is a bit more difficult to do. In order to descend you have to scale the canyon side placing Huge amounts of trust in rusty chains and old wood ladders, but in the end we got multiple 50+ year individuals down including mom, yeah! Here to our demise we found the rope swing that had such a rep, had been hacked off the tree and replaced with a lame makeshift one. There were rumors of another good one farther down the canyon but the only one that had enough energy to get down there was of course the insane Reed, my dad. Some of us tried to find it but didn't get down far enough.

We also made it to Navajo falls which is not as big as the others but was much wider. We explored the little cavern that was was part of it but no one got up enough courage/insanity to copy what a few others were doing which was climbing up a rope found on the right side and working there way up to a ledge just below the very top and throwing themselves off... maybe next time.

Just before we crossed the river to get to Navajo falls a scout told us about a little cave up a bit from there. Turns out it was full of stalactites, plus just before crossing the river to get there was a pretty good little ledge to jump off.

We also explored the abandoned quartzite cave (I think it was quartzite anyway) we found a large youth group there and went in with them. We went a couple of levels down using some rope but largely hands and knees.

The hike out was a grueling one but we all made it out safe and sound.