A good weekend with family..

This weekend, we planned a trip to go to my brother-in-laws property in Duchesne. The property is about 10 minutes from Starvation Reservoir, so we took the Jetski with us.

The best part of it all is that I finally got to pick up my 2 sons for a visitation. Because of some fighting over custody, their mom hasn't let me see them in over a month. It was really nice to spend the weekend with them and the rest of the family, they really missed us, and all of us missed them. We had some really good laughs around the camp.

The days at the beach were really fun, the weather was nice and the water was a good temperature. The first day that we were at the beach, we saw some kids jumping off a cliff just across the lake from us. So on the second day, me and Jamie decided that we would love to do the same. We hiked around the lake to the spot where you can jump. It ended up being a pretty good climb to get to where you need to jump, but we got there and jumped off a couple of times while Sabien watched us.

When we got back from jumping the cliffs we had lunch and then me and Jamie walked up to the bathrooms on the beach. While we were up there, Jamie found some little pots that someone had made out of clay. She brought them back to the beach to show everyone, and this of course inspired us all to make our own pots. We started digging in the sand to find the clay and we all made different things. There were round pots, square pots, heart shaped pots, I even made a guitar out of clay.. We brought them back to camp, and I decided that I wanted to try and cure the clay in the fire. I tried it out with one of my pots. After about 2 minutes in the fire, the pot exploded.. Apparently you cant just throw clay in a fire, so the rest of the pots are just sun dried and will stay that way. We brought them all home with us, hopefully they don't get ruined any time soon.

Monday morning we got everything loaded up and headed back. We got just a few miles out of Duchesne and the van overheated. I had to pull over and check things out. The fluid overflow was boiling and spilling onto the road. I filled it back up and started to try and drive again. We kept having to stop and let it cool until I remembered something that I learned in Drivers Ed when I was a teenager. When a car is overheating, turn on the heat. I tried that, and it worked!!! It lowered the engine temperature enough to keep driving. It was pretty miserable driving in a hot car in the middle of the day with the heater on, but we made it home safe!!