Timpanogos Cave Field Trip by McKay

On Wednesday during the last week of school we hiked to Timp Cave. Timp Cave is actually three separate caves. They are, in order, Hansen Cave, Middle Cave, and Timp Cave, they are connected by man made tunnels. By the way this is McKay White blogging again and I was very deeply disappointing that my science and social studies teacher, Mr.Larson was sick. My excuse for my bad smile is that there was a super, ultra, mega smelly porta-poddy.


This is a picture of the mountain on the other side. We were about 7/8 of the way done at this point.


At some points on the trail there were spots were it was sure death if you fell. So I recommend that kids 5 and under shouldn't do the hike because they would either die or complain to much.


This is me in front of a, what I think, is a awesome land scape. You can see American Fork in the back ground.


This is my group at the entrance to the cave. They are Cami, Adley, Jayden, Josh, Kimberlee, Abby, Abby's dad, me of course, Wyatt, Cheyenne, Terrel, Sam, Brady, Mr. Germaine, Olivia, Myalin, Sabrina, Hannah, and Savannah. My mom is taking the picture.


Finally we enter the cave. This is one of the Carmel falls.


I don't know if you can see it or not, but there is a fossil in the lime stone in this picture.


This is a picture of Middle Cave Lake. It was either a boring photo or this window photo that was cooler. It has spikes coming down.


This is a photo of me before they turned off the lights. Your eyes would never adjust because it is pure darkness.


These are "curly fries" formations. No one knows how they formed, except the part that they used to be "soda straws" formations. There are only 2 caves in the entire U.S.A that have thousands of "curly fries". One is Timp Cave and the other cave is owned by a farmer in Texas.


This is the heart of Timpanogos Cave. Our tour guide did a stupendous job on the tour. He even told us the legend of the heart! It went something like this: a Indian women fell in love with a man from a separate tribe that she was not supposed to be in love with. So they went in to the mountains. After a while the man was attacked by a bear. The women realized that she had been cursed by the gods, and that she had brought the curse upon her loved one, so she threw her self off a cliff. Her loved one was so sad that he did the same. The gods took the woman's heart and man's heart that were melted into one and placed as one in this cave. They say that her body still lay there were she made contact with the ground. You can still see her silhouette on the top of Mount Timpanogos.


This is the second Carmel Falls. At the Bottom is Chocolate Falls.


This is what I think, again, is a neat cave formation.


If you were to look at this in real life it would look similar to one of the halves of the Titanic.


I was looking around trying to find out how to spell Timpanogos and I found this:
P.S. I found out how to spell it.

Karate Advacement

Jaxon recently received a new belt in his Karate class. It is a big deal with every belt advancement. We are super proud of him!

Here he is at the belt test performing his form in front of all the instructors. The instructors gave him a lot of praise and told him to have confidence in himself.

Jaxon receiving his purple belt. They recently changed things at the studio he attends. So instead of receiving a green belt, he received a purple belt.

At the end of the belt ceremony, the instructors place his old belt on his head. Way to go Jaxon! You are one talented Karate Kid!

Dear Tooth Fairy....

Jaxon had his tooth extracted at the dentist a couple of weeks ago. (See tooth in upper right corner in picture.) He so wanted to show his tooth to his class so he left the following note under his pillow with his tooth:



He is one cute kid. We sure love him, even when he has whipping cream under his nose. He has such a great personality! (FYI, the Tooth Fairy granted him his wish and he took that disgusting tooth to school with him the next day. Oh, and he got $5 from the tooth fairy because of the trauma he underwent to get the tooth out.)

Happy Birthday, Jeremy (A Month Late)

My dear husband, who is wonderful by the way, had his 37th birthday in April. He went to scouts that night (being the dedicated leader that he is) so I surprised him with cupcakes for everyone. The cupcakes in the picture below were all that was left. I promise, he didn't get jipped-- On Sunday (in conjunction with his birthday week) I made him a turkey dinner with homemade rolls and all the fixings, and he also had an ice cream cake. Trust me, he was well taken care of.

The boys in my life.

Kayden likes to blow out the candles, regardless of who's birthday it is.

The traditional "Bump on the head" from Josh.

Happy birthday, Jeremy even if it is a month late. We love you!

I do it!

Those are the words I hear most often from my two year old, I do it! One night he did do it. He did his own hair. We thought he had gotten into the bottle of gel, but later that night while giving him a bath, we realized it was shampoo. He had the stuff all smeared in his hair and some running down his forehead. He gave himself a nice spiky do. He gave me a nice cheesy grin to go with it:

Spring Break 2010

We had a great spring break this year, despite the weather. We found ourselves trying new things and going on new adventures. We went to the movies on the first day of spring break and saw "How To Train Your Dragon". Jeremy was even able to extend his lunch hour and come with us. Grandma and Grandpa also came along and enjoyed the movie. On Tuesday, we went to Kangaroo Zoo. The kids went crazy and ran from bounce house to bounce house and from slide to slide. We were there for a good two hours. The kids were great and they had a lot of fun. Even Kayden learned to climb the ladders and go down the big slides by the time we were through. On Wednesday, we went to Chuck E Cheese after lunch. Yes, that is right, after lunch. We used a coupon for just tokens and avoided bad pizza for the day. Plus, McKay and Jaxon took their report cards and received an extra 15 tokens each for their good grades. After Chuck E Cheese, we went to Krispy Kreme and used their good report cards. They each received a half dozen doughnuts for good grades. Tasty! On Thursday we went to the zoo. (Sadly I forgot my camera for all these events.) We went with a good friend of ours and Grandma too! We enjoyed saying hello to all the animals and having a picnic lunch. On Friday, Jeremy and I took the boys to another movie "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" or as Josh would say "Diarrhea of a Wimpy Kid". It was a fun movie and the boys enjoyed it. Afterward we took off to a hotel near West Valley that had a water slide in it. We all had a great time. And this time, I remembered my camera!

Kayden loved the water slides that were just for him. This kid is a fish. He couldn't get enough of the pool. He was very upset that we wasn't allowed to go down the big slide with his brothers. He wasn't tall enough.

My little fish.

Josh had a great time at the pool as well. He was tall enough to go down the big slide and after much convincing and some extra help from mom (who also went down the slide), he loved it!

Jaxon taking a dip in the hot tub.

Josh taking a turn down the small slides.

McKay taking a break, being cool.

This is either McKay or Jaxon going down the slide. I have two pictures just like this. I barely missed them coming out of the slide.

After Josh went down the slide.

On Saturday morning we we woke up, we drove straight down to LaVell Edwards Stadium to watch our BYU cougars in their spring Blue and White scrimmage. Before the scrimmage, the boys get to go down on the field and participate in drills with members of the team. They had a great time.

Josh and Kayden playing catch with the football down on the field. Check out some future BYU players doing some drills below. What a great way to wrap up a fun filled spring break!

Easter Did Happen

I feel like a Blog Slacker. My life has been in a whirlwind and my time has been occupied by many other things instead of blogging. At least I have pictures to prove it as I will be updating my blog over the next several days.

We had a wonderful Easter weekend. The Easter Bunny came and brought lots of candy. We also enjoyed the peace that Conference weekend brings. How great that the two events got to share the same day.

Here are the boys Easter morning waiting to go and see what the Easter Bunny had brought. They were all prepared with their Easter Baskets and Bunny Ears. (Behind Josh's head Jaxon is providing some.)

The Easter Bunny likes to leave eggs with the letters of the kid's names. Apparently it took Jaxon a little too long to find the "x" this year.

McKay was pleased with all of his loot.

Josh had no problem finding all the letters in his name.

Kayden loved everything about Easter. Especially the candy. He couldn't find enough eggs or enough candy. He loved Easter. We hope the Easter Bunny was equally as good to you!