Cousins raft through dinosaur land!

This last week I took a bunch of cousins over to Vernal, UT.  We saw dinosaur bones - huge, real ones still partially buried in the mountain dirt.  The next day we took a rafting trip down the Green River.  Great fun.  Cousins who went with Aunt Marcelle - Maraika, Meg, Whitney, Sydney, Mary, Sophia, Sibley and Emmett.  Here are some pix!

Elder Nyfeler

Peter Flew!!

Saturday had an exceptionally thrilling 20 minutes for Peter and Bill and I.   Pete's first words were "I want to be a jet fighter pilot" and almost every day for the last 2 years we have passed the glider field thinking "someday soon".  Finally, on Saturday, he had his first glider flying lesson and piloted the whole flight--with a little help from the instructor.  Awesome, awesome, blessed day.

 

 

That's his cute little head in the cockpit.

Place Your Bets

Jacob's mission application was submitted a week ago.  So focus, look into your crystal balls or get in the shower and then place your bets. May the best jolly good fellow win!  (isn't there a google-charts-better-way-to-enter-your-vote kind of thing? if you remind me where, I'll set it up).<br>My guess is Salt Lake City -- Hearing Impaired.

Girls at science fair at BYU with Mary

The month of May for the BROWNS - not much but here's a quick run down -  I already put up the pix of the Baby G shower and Whitney's 17th birthday (see posts below).   We are on count down to end of school next week and I CAN'T WAIT.   Memorial Day visit to the cemetery's below.

Putting geraniums on Dad and Todd's grave

Bu and Marcelle at cemetery

Grandma and Grandpa Schipper

Memorial Day Bike Ride

Amid the many things happening when summer starts (bike rides, camping trips, etc) I found that I had too many things to write about on my own blog, so since the Memorial Day bike ride has been a Clawson -family-in-provo tradition, I will blog about it here, :-D

We started our bike ride at that wonderful park just south west of the Riverwoods

Last  year it hailed durring our ride.  This year it had snowed the night before, but only high in the mountains.   It made for some very pretty snow-capped mountains

WE MADE IT!!

Alex, Erin, Steph, me, Mary, Kacy, Micha, Micha's Dad

Mary rode her low rider trike down the canyon for a few miles, then we continued down to the Riverwoods and done!

Alex is #1

Steph

KC

EKMH

Micha

Also, we had a barbecue at the end of the day, thanks to Bjorn's insistance that we could have memorial day without a barbecue.  YUMM!