Our weekend in a million pictures......

First off this picture is out of order. But I can never move pictures around on my blog. So Nathan went to Lake Powell with the Young Men and camped and boated and all kinds of fun things. This is him getting home wanting a shower and being sore from tubing off the back of a boat. All of our boys were gone on a camp out in Friday night. So Mike and I woke up on Saturday and putzed around. Then we thought, let's go for a drive. So we hopped in the car and drove to Park City. We passed two lakes on the way. This was the second one. We went to walk around it a little bit and the garmin said Mike parked in the lake. I told him I didn't know if I could hold my breath that long!

It was a very pretty overcast breezy cool day, with just a few sprinkles.

Wow, certain people who shall remain nameless are really looking like grandparents now!

I love these trees they were all around the lake and this one was decorated with a bird on top!

This was a lodge you could go stay at. It was very appealing to us, but we had to get home:-)

When we got to park city I was a tad bit chilled and wanted Cafe Rio's chicken tortilla soup. So Mike took me there and got me soup. YUM!

Park City is full of "rich kids" and sometimes they are such dorks. This kid blew my mind. I didn't know anybody dressed like this anymore. I suppose I have been sheltered or he is about 5 years behind the trend. But his shirts he has a red t-shirt on under the white one, they came down to his knees. Then the back pockets on his pants started at the top of his calf. I don't know if he was wearing them around his knees or if the pockets were extra low. And he even had a little "bling" necklace on. We just laughed and thought he was a bit to extreme.

Leaving Park City we drove a loop and drove into Salt Lake. But there was a big storm in Salt Lake. So as we were driving into the canyon the temp. had to be in the 50's and the cloud had come down and were sitting on the mountains. We got into some heavy rain and lightening. We were loving it.

Then on Fathers Day all of the boys were back from their camp outs and Erin and Jon came over. They wanted to go outside for a while, but we started getting a big wind storm that brought cold air in with it. So Issy didn't have a jacket and tried to borrow her uncles. All I could say was "Help me Obiwankanobi your my only hope!" She looked like him, to me, in that jacket.

So my sweet little princess does not know how to smile. Her grandma has taken to many pictures of her and she thinks you close your eyes, and mouth when you get your picture taken. so Erin is working on teaching her to smile for the camera. This is her picture smile. It is a crack up especially beings she still hasn't cut all of her teeth yet.
So her uncles just enjoy her so much they will do anything for her, including watching a dorky movie. The princess loves dogs so the kids brought the movie "Hotel For Dogs" and Uncle Nate sat with her and watched.

The dog movie made Issy have extra loving feelings towards Beatrice. I'm not sure Beatrice appreciated it, but such is life.

The tiny princess was just sweet. She is just a little sweetheart.

I tried to get a shot of Issy holding her sister. Tiny Princess was fussing a little so Issy was telling her "shhhhhh." She had her finger in her mouth to do it, instead of over her lips. It was cute.

We had a very happy weekend.

A quick get away....

So Mike thought he would be home this week, but found out on Thursday that he had to leave on my birthday. We had planned to go off for one or two nights maybe to Salt Lake or Park City. So we were sitting around with the boys on Friday afternoon planning to go a little earlier and trying to figure out where to go. Then the boys said what about Vegas. And I thought why not. So we babysat the little princesses on Friday night while their parent s went to a dinner. When they got home Erin kicked off her shoes. We were talking about their evening out and Mike caught Issy trying on her moms shoes. To cute:-) Then we were up the next morning on our way. It was a 5 hour drive and we didn't stay in a casino. I like it so much better when we are not in a casino, no chinging and no cigarette smoke! the place mike reserved was right next door to a huge outlet mall, that had a clothing store that I love. I actually had a 40% off coupon that they sent me online. So we were at the Hilton Garden in for less than an hour and I was shopping! I saved $90. It was fun. Then I got Mike to go down to the old part of town and go to Fremont street. Mike liked the jazz player guy, and in this picture he was playing his sax at Mike.

It is really cool there, it is millions of lights to make this great big video screen canopy. The funny thing was I went one other time and saw the same song and video.

It was a fun get away really laid back.

We went to Serendipity's again. We had been to a movie earlier and I had had a lot of popcorn. So we shared the hot dog and a frozen hot chocolate. We were smarter this time and shared. They serve the hot dogs in a fun way. There was a more elaborate hot dog with ton's of toppings guacamole and all, but we didn't venture there. We weren't that hungry we didn't eat the fries and I only ate half of my hot dog. That frozen hot chocolate fills you up!

We saw people get this when we were their in April and thought it looked like fun. So I made Mike take a picture with it. He thinks I'm a dork:-)

For any Facebook people out there. This is Mike "farming" behind me, and me goofing around waiting for him to finish!

I always have to go to the Bellagio and see their garden. It's always so pretty. Mike is pretty cute too.

They have the coolest shopping there. this was a window in Tiffany's the bubbles were moving
and I thought it was fun.

I had to use the facilities, and Mike was going to have to wait. So I handed him a couple of bucks and told him to see how long he could keep it going. He did pretty good at one point he was up $2.50. He played a little longer, there was a slightly older couple sitting next to him and they were getting excited, at his little gains. I mean $2 and a half dollars would buy a soda:-)

Then Mike made me sit and take a picture so it looked even, but I didn't put any money in it.
We had a very nice relaxing break, and Mike told me we needed to do it more often, I agree.

The last day and the greatest moment!

Well on Dad and Jared's last day we went and took care of some family business. We went to my dads parents graves. Their headstone has been sinking into the ground. They tried to lift it but it was just to heavy. My Uncle was upset with my dad that he hadn't gone when he was here a few weeks ago. So he went this trip and I brought the camera for proof:-)

They are buried across from a military plot.

There were a lot of cool and interesting tombstones. But this is my favorite. How handy is this? A bench so your family can sit and rest while they visit you.

Then we had to go eat at a Brazilian Barbecue, Jared wanted meat and roasted pineapple.

He got it!

Here we all are, very stuffed and content.

Jared got a slice of dreamsicle cheese cake. I thought it was pretty, and it was very yummy.

Then we ran over to the Harley store. Dad tried out a 3 wheeler.

Jared did a bit of shopping.

Then we came home and Erin brought Steven home from their 10 day trip to LA. We loved on the girls and were so excited to have them home from LA.

Elizabeth was a little sad so dad went up to her and started talking to her. she just started smiling at him and talking to him. He made her very happy.

Speaking of very happy... Issy came home talking up a storm. While she was spending 10 days in California she really started talking. As we were enjoying all of the word she was using. I took Elizabeth from Jared to hold her. Issy was playing and didn't notice. Then she turned around and saw Elizabeth on my lap and said very clearly, "that's my gamma." It was sheer heaven. I have been waiting for her to call me grandma since the day she was born. Then she said it many time last night,"my gamma, my gamma." It was a huge moment for me!

We got up this morning loaded the car. Said, good bye to everybody even the dog.

Then I drove them back to the airport and sent them back to Texas. It was really great to have them here. We all enjoyed our time with each other.

A Sunday drive.....

We all took a drive on Sunday afternoon. We drove through American Fork Canyon and it was gorgeous. This is dad thinking of crossing the tree bridge. It was raining a little and chilly. So we had to grab jackets for the Texas people who were a bit to cold for their taste.

The water was amazing big and loud.

Dad goofing around on the tree bridge.

Mike pointed out this HUGE rock. We all wondered when it fell off of the mountain, we figured it was very long ago.

Again with the water.

The side of the mountain is just covered in Pine trees, it was so pretty.

Looking down into that clearing with the huge house, I think it is a camp ground, makes me want a cabin sooooo bad.

Mike giving me the look, he didn't want his picture taken:-)

We drove up not quite to the top, but as far as we could on one road. It was 48 degrees up at the top, but even further up the mountains still had snow on them. It was a very nice Sunday drive.