News Alert! It Finally Happened!!

We bought a new dishwasher.

Dad and Alisha were out there watching for those Labor Day bargins and sure enough, they found it!

We bought it early morning, Labor Day and it was installed a day later. 

Now we really have clean dishes and glasses.

So nice!!



A Weekend with Jace and Annie

Spending a weekend with Jace and Annie is as fun as going to the zoo.  Actually, it was even funner than that.

I went to their new place in Midvale, Utah and spent some time with them a week after Brooklyn was born.  Mark was going on a biking trip with some friends and Laura was at home with the kids.  I took Thursday, September 20th  and  Friday, September 21st off of work and headed south. Thursday afternoon.  

 

Jace and Annie took me to their new "playground" right outside their apartment.  We played ship on the slides and then went for a short walk to look at the flowers near their new house. 

Friday morning we loaded up and headed to Salt Lake.  Laura drove her car there and got us into The Children's Museum.  They have a family pass but she had to be there to get us in.  Soon afterwards she took baby Brooklyn home and the three of us stayed to play for hours and hours.  We ate a lunch that Laura had packed for us and then we went to get my tire fixed. 

I had a slow leak and needed it fixed.  Jace, Annie and I ate pizza at the tire store and waited for the car to get done. 

After that we went out to the Kennecot Mines in Magna.  It was a fun ride out there.  The kids had been there before with Mark and Laura but it was all new to me.  I soaked it up like a little kid myself.  We spent a little bit of time walking around and seeing all the videos, and sites that we could.  It started to get a little cold so we got back in the car and headed home.  What a fun Friday!
We got up Saturday and decided to make it a day at the Zoo.  My Olympus camera had broken so we tried to pick up a new camera at a Walmart on the way.  No go!  We didn't find the camera I was looking for so we just went on.  I took a few pictures with my camera.  They aren't the best but at least I have some. 

We rented a double stroller and bought some hats and then we hit the cages.

 We ate another yummy lunch that Laura had put together and then we ended with rides on the carousel

 

 

Now, that was one fun day!!

From the Garden

                    It's so fun to gather the goodies from the garden and it's even more fun to eat them.

Here's just a little of what we had for Sunday dinner.





 

 

 

Ummm, ummmm  new peas and potatoes! 

Thank goodness for gardens.

 

The Day the Sun was Red

The area was ablaze with fires and the sky was cloudy red with a big ball of red.  You could actually look right at the sun and it didn't hurt your eyes.  It took over a month for the fires to all be extinquished.  Alisha and I had to have a picture since we could look right at it.