Judicial Conference

The Judicial Conference was in Sun Valley, Idaho this year.  It is extremely beautiful there, so after being at the conference for a couple of days, we decided to take a break and ride the ski lift to the top of a nearby mountain.  

So cute!

It was a little cold up there.

Dinosaur or Sarah?!?!

Wynn Cabin

First Annual Wynn Family Reunion.  

Exploring the mountain on ATV's!

Trying out his new gun!

Cleaning up around the cabin to make it fire safe.  Mucho importante!

Dangerous Woman!

Economy Roaster!

Lake Powell

Lake Powell with the Campbell's and Loren :)  Even with a scary  boat accident the first day, we managed to have an amazing time!

Sarah, Loren, and Me.  

We discovered that Matt and Rob were part monkey.  They can climb some pretty crazy rocks.

Yes.  They are up there.

Exploring Cathedral Canyon.

Beautiful Lake Powell.

Hike to Rainbow Bridge.

Hole in the Rock.

It took us about thirty minutes to get to the top and about the same to get down.  I came away with some cuts and bruises.  It is incredible that pioneers could make it down this with wagons.  WOW!

And of Course, lots and lots of wakeboarding!

See us jumping the wake!!

Happy 4th of July!

We had a mini Independence Day celebration with Steffanie and Byron.  It was quite fun.  We went up Hobble Creek Canyon and roasted brawts and hot dogs over the fire.  Then we went back to the Martz's and watched fireworks and had yummy homemade ice cream from a faulty ice cream maker that we gave them...oops!

Hobble Creek Canyon.  If you look really closely in the back of the photograph towards the left by the trees, you can see a dead and rotting cow carcass complete with maggots and bullet holes.  It stunk pretty bad, but by the time we figured out what it was we were already set up..oh well.   

Waiting for the fireworks.

We tried to make a giant four (for July 4th!  Get it??) on the grass with sparklers, but we were not too successful.  Byron and Matt have burn marks to prove it.

Attempting to watch fireworks on the roof.  Silly idea because roof tiles were coming loose, and when the fireworks finally started, a giant tree was blocking them so we had to climb back down anyways. 

Buckskin Gulch

We hiked 21 miles through the longest slot canyon in the world this weekend.  It was completely amazing.  I felt like we were walking into a cave half of the time.  The hike wasn't too bad.  About 80% of it was through sand giving my calves the best workout they've ever had!  I also showed the boys how to rope climb down a steep part (they were having trouble), and I got to climb up some little foot holes the size of a tennis ball on the side of the canyon (with Rob's help of course)!  It was awesome.  The canyon was an interesting place.  Must be rough for any animals living around because as Dave said, "it looks like there's a carnage going on down here."  We ran into some pretty nasty stuff including dead and rotting crow carcasses, rabbit feet spread across hundreds of feet, dead mice, animal skulls, and full skeletons...it was sick.  Besides all of this, I would seriously recommend it to anyone.  It was incredibly beautiful and the view never got old.  Pictures to come.