Our favorite part of going to Lava Hot Springs are the following:  Fun diving boards...

Fun slides....

and great friends.

Kate got to get her ears pierced a little sooner than her 8th birthday.  Her cousin, Marissa, was turning 8 this past month, and she invited Kate to get her ears pierced with her.  Kate saw Marissa get hers pierced first, and got a little nervous when she saw Marissa's face turn red after they pierced her ears.  She even told me at one point she didn't want to do it after all.  After some persuading...

a chance to hold mom's hand...

and doubling up on the piercing (two girls pierced both her ears at the same time)...

 We gotter done. And she's extremely happy we did!!



Porter Rockwell's house

Over memorial day weekend we went to the sand dunes.  We had heard that Porter Rockwell's home was west of where we were camping, so we took a ride to check it out.  Believe it or not, this was the barn....

And this was his house.  We heard many stories about why this was.  He was a short man, he didn't need it any bigger; he dug the ground floor out of the house a foot so when someone came looking for him he could hide under the floorboards, he made it look like a shed so no one would know that's where he lived.  Regardless, it was very interesting.

 Kate found a frog hopping around.

 This was the area he must have kept his horses, it looked like an arena.  See how tall the fence was?