THE TREK WAS AWESOME!

I wanted to post some pictures from our Stake Trek. It was such a great experience. We had an "awesome family"! I wore sunglasses the entire time so when we arrived at "Zion" I took them off for a family picture and voila! Racoon eyes! Check out Mike's beard! That went off about 1/2 hour after we got home! It was really hard, but such a neat experience! We pushed our handcart 21 miles in four days in thistle that was as high as our thighs and through dirt six or seven inches deep and as dry as talcom powder. We were able to portray the "Moulton" family thanks to the history given to us by mom. The Moultons were our ancestors on our dad's side. They traveled by handcart with the Willie company. Thomas Moulton was my great-great grandfather. The history tells of some extraordinary hardships they endured. I am really grateful for their sacrifices. It sure made me appreciate my heritage alot more after having this experience! They had seven children and everyone made it to Zion. They had a very fragile baby that rode in a handcart the entire way. Thus, we were noted to have the only "baby" on board. We tried to make it fun taking a baby with us! It was pretty funny carrying "Charles" around. By the time we reached "Zion" the kids had named him "Chucky"! We had a great rap...my favorite line...yo...our cart is our crib, with baby an' bib!" We got some good laughs!
Brandt did an excellent job with all the pictures! He put together a DVD to music for the upcoming Stake Standards Night.