Happy Birthday, Jill!

We love and miss you all! Here is a little something that we thought would be fun to do... ;)



But I messed up since I ended the video too soon and they were not able to deliver their entire message... so I tried to make up for it...



We were hanging out at the Riverwoods Mall and thought it would be fun to take a video of us singing "Happy Birthday to you" , Jill, in front of the burning waterfall.

Wild Turkeys!

Dad and I are taking a drive up the canyon to look at the fall colors and so he can take some pix. We got a surprise on our way.



Wild turkeys!!

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Adventuring September 2011

Dad and I decided to have a little getaway this week. We thought it would be fun to go up through Kamas and take The Mirror Lake Scenic Byway. We figured there should be lots of beautiful scenery and some good photography opportunities for Dad.

Lately the nights have been pretty chilly, as you can see by this "weather report" from this morning. :)




We were pleasantly surprised to see that the beautiful Fall colors were already making their appearance.


And we saw that there are some pretty swift cows in this area, ...



at least 35 mph seems pretty speedy for a cow to me.

More pictures coming...

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Location:N Uinta Dr,Kamas,United States

Jared's 25th Birthday! Warning - you may just want to watch the video ;-)

 

Well, another of our "babies" has passed the quarter century mark!! ;-) This video is actually from February 6th. Bekah, Glenn, and Bryson were visiting and leaving the next morning so we celebrated Sunday evening before Jared's birthday... "Birthday Eve?". This video has preserved a family tradition of honoring the birthday "child" with our "as-bad-as-you-can-get" rendition of singing happy birthday. Honest... we don't usually sound that bad. :-D

Unfortunately I stopped recording too early, because Jared was just about to take a nice big bite out of his cake. ...my family... awwww...

Here is the still after the big bite.

 

♪♫ Happy Birthday, Jared!! ♪♫

We love you!! :)

Oh, and I have to say this cake tastes a lot better than it looks. This lemon cake has been Jared's requested birthday cake for four years now. The first time I made it we lived in SoCal and it turned out amazing (if I do say so myself), but there is something about living at this high altitude in Utah that does not like cakes. I have tried adjusting it for altitude and it still does not turn out quite right, but we will keep trying. At least it is still very yummy. :)

Shoes and Shadows

This morning "Simba" did something all little ones like to do... try on an adult's shoes. Glad I had my camera close by to capture his cute stances. [Again these are posted extra large so you need to "click" on them to see the entire picture.]  Did I say I have the most adorable grandchildren?

Mind if I try your shoes on, Grandma?

His "Home Alone" pose...

His "Superman" pose...

Can you see me?

While "Orange" was playing with his bubble machine today I was fascinated by the colorful shadows that the bubbles cast... They are shadows aren't they?

Blessed Grandma

What a blessed grandma I am--I will be staying with Matt and Jill for three weeks to play with my adorable grandson. We all took a walk this evening and he played on the slide and with his new "bubble machine."  I posted these pictures as extra large so if you need to "click" on them to see the whole picture. Enjoy! :)

Wheeeeee!

Mom and Dad joyfully watch.

A big smile for his admiring audience (Mom, Dad, and grandma)

What child doesn't enjoy bubbles?

Plenty of bubbles to enjoy.

Immersed in the bubbles. ;-)

More Snow! - Again

I have been a bit disappointed that since we moved to Utah there really hadn't been very much snow. :( In fact, in February we received .19 inches of "precipitation" and the average is 1.91. Thursday Kim and I had our "Friday Night Date" and he took me to Tucanos for lunch. (lucky me) When we arrived it had just started to rain a little then as we sat eating it started raining harder and finally turned to snow. It continued to snow for quite awhile. It was snowing pretty hard, but it had stopped by the time we went to bed. I was so excited this morning to see that it was still snowing!! Before when it had snowed I tried to take "falling snow" pictures with no luck, but this time It was snowing hard enough and the flakes were big enough that the snow showed up in the pictures. Here is what I was blessed to see. :) First a short video, then some pictures.



Kim measured the snow on the table we always photograph in the snow. He recorded almost 9 inches in spite of the fact that the weather channel shows we had about .5 inches over the two days.

The "Table" ;-)

You can see some snow falling in the table picture, but I really like this picture. The snow shows up really well with this house as a background

This was a late winter snow so it will be completely melted in a few days, but it was fun to see. :)