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We had a great time at the K-basin this year. The weather was WINDY but warm. My sissy, Cyd, and her family came too. Good times!

Noah's birthday present from his cousins. He even caught himself a moth. 

 Cheryl always gets us a nice spot next to the potties and the grass.  

We played some baseball this year which the kids really enjoyed.

Megan had a great time camping this year and I had a great time taking her. 

 There is a big difference when taking a crawler vs. a walker camping!

This was my one and only camping trip of the year.

About 27 weeks along.

We never left Kodachrome this year. There are just so many trails already inside the park.

 This is one of the great trails. 

Angels Palace.

 Taylor was really sweet with Megan. And Megan in turn loves hanging out with her big girl cousins.

Not sure what's happening here. 

Noah is so cool..er..geeky...cool...geeky...

The kids knew where to go for hot chocolate. Cheryl and Ellsworth's camp. :)

Marshmallow roasting on the last night.

Kodachrome by Kyle

The hike was really high up and we had to go really far down. 

We went in a big, dark tunnel.

We saw a pirate cave but no treasure.

I was laying on a log because my legs and feet hurt. And I was tired. This was my favorite part.

I was the first one to get up the mountain. 

Megan liked hiking. But she was crying some times on the way to Kodachrome.

We were standing on a huge rock and it had a pirate cave on it.

We saw frozen dinos but I couldn't really see them but then daddy told me it was a rock that looked like long necks; then I saw them.

Tommy liked this hike. Megan liked the little

 rocks. She would pick them up throw them.

Tommy in the weeds because we didn't want him to eat our food. (at a rest stop)

Lets see, we went hiking and saw the last bowling pin. Remember when we saw the bowling pin by our campground. Daddy told us in a story about giants playing bowling and they didn't knock over the last bowling pin. There were two giants; one got all bowling pins and the other got all of them except one.

We also saw the giants bowling ball.

Grandma and Grandpa were at the same campground. We went inside the tent that they slept in and played Uno. We played with the giant frisbee's that Grandma brought. We went on a hike to see Thorn's (Thor's) Hammer but I didn't see it because we had to go a different way because the trail was blocked.

We earned Junior Ranger badges. First we had to do an activity and guess the animals in a picture and I had to get some garbage and put it in a bag. Then we got our badges and it was really fun and we got some other stuff. We got a pin, some maps. Thats all I got from Kodachrome. And I got my hat.

Same old, same old.

Went to the same old beautiful Kodachrome campground over Memorial weekend....ate the same old delicious fare... hiked the same old hikes.... enjoyed the same old old ;) company and just had the same old good time... I like same old.

Top of Angel's Palace hike and view of campground.

Can't resist the slick rock.

Noah's faithful tag-a-longs.

What a chore trying to keep this girl shaded. Despite all our efforts she still ended up getting burnt. Poor baby.

Noah dubbed this the "pirate's cave".

LOVE him.

Angel's Palace trail. Kyle's favorite hike. This kid can HIKE!

Ellsworth and his look-alike rock.

After two years of crappy weather, this year it was glorious!

These boys are such sweet brothers...most of time. :)

Mini biker chick.

I will look forward to more same old, same old next year.

Kick'n it in Kodachrome

Picture provided by Erin (ain't it pretty).


Our pilgrimage to Kodachrome has been the official start to the summer for me (Adam) for 17 years now. This one started out wet. We had 2 inches of rain dump on us the first night. It was after a drenching first night that I started getting thoughts of packing up all our wet stuff and driving home. Luckily the sun did come out and the weekend ended up beautiful.


The first morning of the trip we went into Tropic to get some breakfast (cooking in the down pour didn't sound all that fun). We sat down and started looking at the menu when we noticed that Erin's Great Grandfather George Myron Bybee's picture was on the back of the menu. Erin's grandma grew up in Tropic. The Bybee name is well known. George was a cowboy that worked in Bryce Canyon as a horse back tour guide.

Tommy in his natural habitat (sort of). Our dog enjoyed every moment of the trip and tried his best to rip our arms off. Here he can be seen ripping off Erin's.

Stopping to smell the... trees??? That's right, the trees in Bryce Canyon have sap that smells like vanilla. This is also a great way to get people on the trail to give you weird looks as they pass.

We found out this trip that Kyle has a new found passion for hiking. We went on the Navajo Loop trail (1.5 miles with 1000 ft verticals) and he ran much of it.

Kyle makes a new friend at the bottom of the Navajo Loop. This one is named Dale. Chip never made an appearance. Kyle was ALL about the wild life. He spent much of his time hunting down jack rabbits and cotton-tails.

Us on Wall Street.

Noah tries his best to do a George Byron Bybee impression.

Our little hiker/poser.

All funned out. Noah falls asleep mid-chew.