(August 2008 - As always, click on photos to enlarge)

The Hansen group all met up at some condos in Solitude. We ended up with a lot of space for just the 6 of us. We did some hiking...

Now, all I was trying to do here was show how much smaller cousin Maddie is than Jeffrey - Maddie is one month younger. So I laid them side by side, but Jeffrey just then decided he was extremely hungry. So my mild, mostly quiet baby started screaming his head off...

...And then look what happened.

Seems he told Maddie about being hungry and she either felt sorry for him or remembered that she, too, was hungry.

We spent a day at Snowbird, and there's a whole lot to do there. We were there last year as well and the kids (K & T) had a blast then too. There was the alpine slide, a zip line, climbing wall, electric bull, bungee trampolines, and some moonbounces for younger kids.

One thing I thought was fabulous was that when EV and Kayleigh got in line for the trampolines (and unfortunately it was long just then and they waited over an hour), EV was just going to jump, but the nice lady working there helped her and taught her how to do a back flip. And she got where she could do it all by herself. Yahoo. Kayleigh already knew how to do the back flips from last year, and was flipping all over by herself.

2 things about this next photo. First, Grandpa Hansen had fallen out of bed the night before and really whacked his face on the table there. Seems he was dreaming and sorta lunged out of bed, something about saving the US Olympic swim team, as I remember. So in some of these pictures he's sporting a pretty nasty black cheek. But also in this one, Melanie has fallen asleep on his lap while riding the chair lift down the mountain.

We definitely had a great time hiking around and just getting completely worn out.