Hidden Valley Park

We had stake conference early on Sunday so after we took Blue to the park to check out the Autumn leaves.

She loves to walk. I'm very happy about that.

New Plan

I always try to do these huge blogs with a lot of pictures and I can't get things where I want them and I get frustrated and it takes forever and I don't do it very often, so I decided the new plan is to do one picture and comment on it or not, and do it every day. Maybe if it only takes 5 minutes I can fit it into my life and you will actually get to see into Grandma's world a little more. The only hard part is choosing 1 picture if I have 300 to choose from. But I guess that's only a years worth of posts. Wish me luck!

Andrew and Rory at the Treehouse Childrens Museum

Andrew wanted to name his horse, so I asked him if it was a boy or girl, (girl) then I mentioned several names and he decided on Frances, then for the rest of the day he asked me. "What is her name?" We named Rory's boy horse Frank.

Mirror Lake

Dad and I went on a little outing up in the Uinta's to Mirror Lake and on the way discovered Upper Provo River Falls. This was in mid July and there was still quite a bit of snow, and lots of water.

Jordanelle Reservoir from the east side (we usually see it from the west side on the way to Heber.)

Upper Provo River falls looking at it from the top of the second cascade.

There are several cascades that make up the falls. This is the first,

and this is the second. There are more,

I think this is third.

When we got to Mirror Lake it wasn't very "mirrorlike", and while we were eating our picnic it was very cold(about 50 degrees) so we didn't know if we would stay long, but when we started walking around the lake it was pretty nice and beautiful. We ran into some people who asked if we were planning on walking around the lake and told us there were 3 major streams that ran into it that we would have to cross, so we decided to go as far as we could. It wasn' t too bad, there was just 1 place that was a little scary to cross but we didn't get too wet, so we went all the way around. I wished I had a pedometer, I'm guessing it was about 3 miles around the lake.

Have you ever known me not to take lots of flower pictures?

At the top of the summit. That's snow.

Pictures for Julianne's Blog

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RORY!

This is just the marking.

This cute play area is based on the show "Go Diego"

Birthday Party time.

Rory's favorite dinner, Costco chicken, noodles, (Pasta salad) and Zucchini.

I made aprons for everybody. Mommy and Rory match and Daddy and Andrew match. Happy cooking!

Another Girls Night Out

This month Kristina decided what we should do and she thought it would be fun to play miniature golf at Boondocks, and it was. We started with Subway Sandwiches and Slurpees which we ate at Big Bear park while we chatted. Then went to Boondocks. It had been years since most of us played but we didn't do as badly as we thought we would, or at least we were all equally bad. We had fun anyway. After that we drove around Draper Temple and the mansions in that neighborhood. Kristina told us about a frozen yogurt place she had been to so we went looking for something similar and ended up at Frogurt where you choose your flavor and top it how ever you want and pay 35 cents an ounce. Ours were between 2 and 6 dollars. It is easy to get carried away with the toppings. The funniest part was watching Julianne eat hers with jellybellys in it. Of course none of us remembered to bring a camera so when we saw one of those photo booths, we decided to see if 5 grown women could fit... well sort of.

Girls Night Out

We decided last summer to have girls night out once a month, and we have done many things from dinner at someone's house to cooking at Heritage Gardens, going to the State Fair and this month we went to the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival. It gives us a chance to get away from kids and husbands and get to know the girls better.