Breakfast Hike

The youth in our ward have an amazing opportunity every year to do a breakfast hike.  Scott and I went last year and it was awesome - even being 7 months pregnant.  When I was released from serving in the Young Women's program, I told the bishop that was fine, but I really wanted to go on the breakfast hike.  Luckily, it was easy to do, since Scott is the Young Men's president.  Unfortunately, there weren't many youth that were able to go.  But, Scott and I went, and we brought Adam along too.  We had such a great time!  We didn't get to leave home until a little bit later, so we ended up doing most of the hiking in the dark, which wasn't super fun, but we made it and got our tent set up.  Then we had dinner and a devotional with the youth and leaders.  Adam was so tired, he didn't make it too much later...

 The next morning, we enjoyed the view - hiking around and just had fun being together!

 Adam was purifying some water...

 Eating breakfast!

 The ward has been doing this particular hike for close to 15 years.  The first year of the hike, they did a polar bear dip.  Across the lake from where we camped, there are some great rocks to jump off of.  We decided to give it a try this.  We hiked around the lake and watched some of the kids jump in.  Then Scott felt brave and jumped in...

Then Adam decided he wanted to jump in...

Then, I decided to jump in...

Really?

It was COLD!!

After a little swimming in the frigid water (where Adam jumped in, onto my head and we both almost drowned!), we headed back to our camp, packed up and headed out.  I wish more of the youth from our ward would have made it this year - but it was fun to go with some of the new beehives that I was so looking forward to serving before I was released.  It was fun to spend some mommy and daddy time with just Adam.  Scott's decided Adam is ready for his own backpack and to start doing some backpacking trips.  It's was a great way to spend a Friday night and Saturday!