Family Fun Day

As incentive to help our family be better at studying the "Come Follow Me" manual this year, we came up with some rewards. We didn't think there was any way that we would be able to accomplish daily scripture study with our kids. All attempts in the past had failed. So we told them that after a week, we would reward them with a family outing to get a treat. And if we could do it every day for a month, we promised them a fun family outing. We accomplished the week pretty easily and were amazed when we had studied the manual and scriptures every day for a month. After some thought, Danny and I decided that it would be fun to try something new. I suggested snow tubing up in Midway. I have wanted to take the kids there for a few years now and felt like they were at the perfect ages to try it out this year. Doesn't it look fun?

We picked a Friday when the younger kids were off of school. We had planned to pick Alyssa up from school at lunch time, go out to eat together and then head up the canyon for a 2-4 pm reservation. Unfortunately, 2 days after we reserved the time we wanted, we got an email from the tubing place telling us that their lift had broken and they hoped to fix it as soon as possible, but that it wouldn't be fixed by that Friday reservation. We were so sad. Postponing the outing wasn't really an option with Danny's bone marrow donation approaching and then spring weather to shortly follow. So we came up with a list of other fun things we could do. We decided that Provo Beach Resort would be equally as fun for all of us. We even told the girls that they could try out the flowrider.

I wanted to post the videos of them doing this, but they were too big. You can boogie board or Surf on the strong flow of water. Ashley tried surfing one time, but fell right away and didn't want to try it again. They did have fun on those boogie boards, though. The boys had fun in the giant play place while the girls were doing this.

After the flow rider, we did a game of bowling. We all had fun with that, but 1 game was enough.

Next, we tried out the ropes course. Danny and I each took a boy with us and the girls were on their own. I thought, for sure, that Camden would be scared of the ropes course, but he actually did really well with it. We were probably on there for about 30 minutes before he was done. Tyler, surprised us all by climbing across the first stretch of rope and then refusing to move from the platform that he and Danny had gotten to. Danny could not get him to move for 40 minutes. Finally after all of the bribing and coaxing that he could think of, he picked Tyler up and carried him back across the ropes so that he could leave the course. Then I entertained the boys while Danny went back on with the girls to actually do some of the rope obstacles. I got these pictures of them from above.

 We also played croquet(there is a croquet course similar to miniature golf), but we didn't get any pictures of that. We finished off with arcade games and the carousel and then headed home. It wasn't quite what we expected the day to be originally, but we all had a lot of fun and stayed there way longer than we had expected.