Honeybee Canyon

Honeybee Canyon is one of our favorite places to visit. It's a short hike for little legs, plus there are rocks and sand EVERYWHERE. It's a kids' dream come true!

Elise scaled this mountain (mostly) by herself

Two big(gish) kids on a rock

One little Aaron on a rock

Seth scales the cliff face

...which meant Catherine and Adleigh HAD to scale it as well...

...which meant ALL the kids needed to scale it.

Bryan and Stephen did a great job preventing any kids from dying.

The parade of climbers: Catherine, Adleigh, Aaron, Russell...

...followed by Breydon and Elise.

Short legs are the worst. 

Not pictured: the part where Catherine was scaling another rock wall and accidentally knocked down some decent-sized rocks onto Breydon and Adleigh who were climbing behind her. There were many tears. 

Elise passed out on the walk back to the cars. 

Jon was thrilled to be participating in a family activity instead of working on seminary. 

That evening we had opened our first Christmas gifts: matching family pajamas! 

Some of the sizings were a bit...off: 

The grandpa look is always a good choice.

See? Grandpa Russell agrees! 

All of us in our Moose Pajama glory:

Seth is the worst...

This was the best picture of the grandkids. 

Too bad Russell's giant head is covering Breydon: 

Second best, this time with Breydon: 

Super attractive children.

No wonder Catherine wouldn't join them: 

The most adorable little lady bug ever: 

Then it was time for sister pictures.

We decided to replace Kenna with Elise.

No one seemed to care: 

Oh. There's Kenna: 

I don't know why they keep trying to take decent pictures of us: 

Seriously, Dad should just give up: 

Oh, look! One normal shot! 

Wouldn't want to start a trend, though: 

Aren't we just so precious? 

I think it may be just as hard to get a decent picture of us as it is the kids...