Tolman Family

For this week’s adventure, we discovered that an evil villain had captured Minnie, Desi, and Joshua. A countdown was set to 999 seconds. Jessica and Cameron had to free Minnie and Desi, then make their way through the a series of 6 challenges to free Joshua before the time ran out. Minnie and Desi have been handcuffed! — And Matthew is very concerned. The “bomb” strapped to Joshua is set to go off in just a few minutes. The first thing the kids had to do was free Minnie and Desi from their handcuffs. But how!? The keys were hidden somewhere near by. As the precious seconds ticked away, they searched and searched.  Finally, they found the keys, but the locks were a puzzle! After some careful maneuvering, they freed the captives. Once Minnie and Desi were free, they all looked around a bit and found a strange box with a key it. Obviously the key was important, but how were they to get it out? Another search uncovered some tools that looked just ri

For our first in a long line of upcoming great adventures, we went on a trip to Strawberry Reservoir (in Utah) to see the salmon run.  We loaded up in Little Boy Blue (our little van) and headed out. We brought a few friends along with us. It was a little chilly out there, but we brought warm cloths. When we got to the National Forest site hosting the salmon watching event, we ran into a blast from our pasts! Smokey the Bear! The forest service put on the event and had lots of cool stuff to see and do. Our first stop was to head down to the stream and catch a glimpse of the bright pink fishies. Minnie’s pretty excited. The kids were very impressed with the fish swimming against the flow of water to get up stream. Desi thought there should have been a lot more fish. The salmon here were artificially introduced, so the forest service has to help them out a bit. They channel all of the fish into a collection point. There, they separ