We're all a little Nutty

We celebrated our 16th anniversary this past week! Sam babysat everyone while we went to SLC over the weekend to attend the temple, enjoy a sunset dinner on the roof at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and climb in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The temple was awesome...we hadn't attended a session there since my first time 16 years ago! What a beautiful place and how blessed we are to be taught the things that matter most in life to keep us focussed! Unfortunately, we didn't bring our camera with us to dinner, so we couldn't capture the awesome views of the sunset and the temple as the lights came on at dark. We did have our camera for the climbing trip, however, and that's where everything wonderful got forgotten for a few moments... ...let me back up. I have been on one other multi-pitch climb with Lee, at Storm Mountain in Big Cottonwood Canyon. I remember being totally embarrassed because I was screaming in frustration for a good portion of the climb (there we...

For Pioneer Day, we celebrated by eating Pizza pies (which we BBQ'd on the grill!) and ears of corn, then we had "handcart" races afterward. Here's a sampling of the handcart races I went out to give Copper some water and found this lovely serpent practically guarding the cage. Needless to say, I shrieked, quickly backed away, and attached the water bottle elsewhere. Can you imagine how freaky it would have been to step on it if I hadn't seen it?? My mom says she's never coming in our backyard again...should I tell her we have snakes in the house, too? We enjoyed riding the tram and hiking at Solitude with my mom and dad. I think this captures everyone's personalities very well. Later on in the week, the kids decided that Ian made a good hospital patient, so they bandaged him up and he enjoyed every minute. Dillon, Mckay, Lizzie, & Sam at Lagoon It is 9pm, this is Ian's third time on the Carousel, and he is VERY tired...