Taft Family Campout - Palisade State Park

 Wyatt, Jace, Mason, Carson, Mack, Halle, Avaree

We had a fabulous time camping down by Manti last month!  The campground was perfect and I'm confident we will return.  It had clean bathrooms with showers, lots of shade, a fun little lake for the kids to swim around in, and even a golf course on-site.  Perfect for the Tafts!

 Uncle Bret, the Bumbo King!

 Ruby and Howdy...will they ever be friends?

 The kids loved climbing on the "Arch Tree".  

Every kid should climb a few trees in their lifetime!

 Lake Monster!

 Charlotte & Abigail...soon to be best friends!

Thanks, Mom and Dad, for a great weekend 

and lots of wonderful new memories!

"Long-time-no-see! So, how's mortality treatin' ya?"

I always wonder when two little babies meet, who are fresh on this earth, do they communicate silently with one another?  Do they remember each other from the premortal realm and if so, do they say, "Oh, hey!  You made it!  How's mortality treatin' ya?  That birth canal...what a ride, right?"

Well these two little girls arrived into mortality not too far apart from one another.  Just shy of two months difference in age, these cousins finally got to meet for the first time (in mortality, at least :).  Sweet Abigail LaRee and Charlotte Maree don't know it yet but they are going to be the best of friends (or DO they already know???)

 Charli - 5 months, Abigail - 3 months

 And here are the first girl-cousins born into the Taft family - only 8 years between them!  But Halle is so sweet with Avaree and genuinely loves being with her.  Right now they'll have a cute "big sister/little sister"-type relationship but when they're adults, they'll be the best of friends, too!  I'm very proud of Halle for the kind way she takes Avaree under her wing and loves on her.  Halle's been fortunate to have some girl cousins on the Kremin side that are older than her who have never ignored her, but made her feel special.  I hope she can be that to her younger girl cousins.  She's already proven to me that she's going to be a young lady many people look up to - including her own mother!