Alex has been a little obsessed lately with the Titanic. It is the subject of the last three books he has checked out from the library, and he has built several models of it out of his legos. I finally decided to get a picture of the latest one. He even built little lifeboats for it.
Ryan is often told that he looks like certain celebrities. Here is a sample.
Jim Carrey:
Johnny Knoxville:
Josh Duhamel:
Bob Hope:
Matt Damon:
Timothy Olyphant:
Edited to add: He says a lot of guys tell him he looks like Tom Brady.
And I once told him he had the same nose as Tom Hanks (I think he was a little offended):
If I pick him apart I can see some resemblances. Matt Damon's hair and mouth, Timothy Olyphant's eyes, etc. I don't think he looks like Jim Carrey but he can get goofy like him so I think that's what people see there. What do you think?
And now for my list. I've been told I look like:
Mary Lou Retton:
Rachel Leigh Cook:
A bat:
Ryan's cousins Dave and Matt and their wives were the gang from Scooby Doo. I like Rebecca's glasses:
Ryan's brother Sam was a Chia pet. And in this picture I guess he's a Chia pet pretending to play the saxophone:
Ryan pointed out that it might not be the best idea to base our costumes on an R rated movie for the ward party. A lot of people didn't know who we were supposed to be. Some thought Ryan was Edward Scissor Hands, which isn't too far off. In the past whenever Ryan or I have been in a costume the boys are a little wary of us, but it didn't seem to faze them this time. Not even Charlie. 
Here are the boys with the tree further back in the distance.
One of our objectives on this excursion was to see how well the boys (specifically Charlie) would sleep in a tent in 30 to 40 degrees. Charlie did about as well as we expected, which wasn't great. I tried to keep him in my sleeping bag but that was too crowded and Charlie couldn't get settled. Ryan had to start a fire in the middle of the night and sit with Charlie to get him to sleep, and then when he finally was asleep we kept waking up to make sure he wasn't freezing. He didn't like wearing his hat.
We had smores of course.
The box behind my head in this picture was where we had to put any food/scented items so the bears wouldn't get them. 
I have to admit, I was a little paranoid about the bears since there were signs and warnings about them everywhere we turned. "If you leave something as small as chapstick in your car the bears will break the windows to get it." or "Don't even use toothpaste to brush your teeth or the bears will smell that and come after you!" Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
The other objective was to catch a fish. Ryan has taken the boys fishing a few times and hadn't had any luck. We drove up to Hume lake but didn't have any nibbles, so we headed over to another lake that we thought we could hike to. We found out that we would have to hike three or four miles and we didn't have enough time or energetic enough kids (or moms) to do that. Luckily we found a teeny little stream that had a few teeny little fish in it. 
Success!
Here is a video I took, barely missing the action. My favorite part is when I yell, "Uuuuuh!".
Alex and Benjamin both managed to catch a fish so our work was done.
I almost forgot! We also had a celebrity sighting. We saw these two brothers at our campsite's bathroom. 
Charlie looking for llamas.
Benjamin's pick.
