Pine Valley

 

 

The next day we took a ride NW of St. George up Snow Canyon and discovered this place in the mountains, with the help of Bob Thurgood, Pine Valley. The unique thing is this old chapel erected in 1868 and still in use today. You may be able to read about the building on the plaque.

Zion's

 
 
After Mark's conference we packed up, left St. George and drove through Zion's National Park. Here we are on the cold windy day seeing the sights.

Bryce's Canyon

 
 
 
We drove on over to Bryce's Canyon and stayed at Ruby's Inn, a nice western place with a huge lodge. The snow made everything beautiful but a bit cold for viewing. So our looking was quick. We drove over to Esclante and through Boulder the next day and what beautiful country we live in. My camera battery had died so I didn't get any photos of that area. Next time.

New babies

 

 

 

Here are 3 of our newest additions. Anybody have any suggestions with names???

Adam's crazy hair

 

 

 

 

A lot of things seem to keep happening around here, or at least the camera is busy recording history. Here is some photos of Adam's semi-annual hair cutting episode. We attempted to make a mulouck??? Silliness. Today our temps got to 40 degrees. Whooohoo!

Feb. winter wonderland

 

 

 

Living in the icebox

 

 

 

 

What a long winter....here it is Feb. 27, 2010 and we are lucky to hit 32 degrees for the high. As you can see we still have lots of snow. I'm looking forward to the wind blowing to melt this stuff. Here are a few photos of fat pregnant mares in the snow. Last year at this time I planted peas. Not so this year. But I did buy the seed today. Maybe I can plant them by the end of March. Oh well I'll get more indoor projects done for now.

Deer of Winter 2010

 

What a long winter it has been. Several deer have lived right here in our yard for the most part. Mark went out to feed the horses and this is what he found. Quite the sight. They feel right at home. Next we may find them in our house.

Playing in the snow

What a long winter. We decided if it is going to stay winter we just as well do winter things, so we went to the park and slid down the hill. The kids had a lot of fun and the adults did their best not to grumble too much about the cold. Shad's family came for a weekend visit.

Grandpa and Brenden

 

big boys too!

 

Brenden

 

Stacy, Anna & Ainsley

 

Kentucky

 

Then we spent the second week with the kids in Kentucky celebrating more Christmas.

Christmas

 

On the cruise ship.

Belize

 
In Belize we went up a river and seen monkey, iguana, crocidile, manatee, dolphins, bats, birds and jungle. We then bussed to these ruins called Altun Ha.

Christmas Cruise 2009

 
This year we decided to join Lonnie's family for a cruise in the Western Carribean. This is a beautiful waterfall in Guatemala.

windows

 

 

One of our big projects this summer was installing new windows upstairs. My favorite was this one over our stairs. What a difference it has made. I don't have many visitors but this way when I try to describe what it looks like they can view it on the blog.

canning peaches

 
 
On Monday, Labor Day, Mark and I were driving to Neola and Mark mentioned a sign he saw that said, peaches, new grove, pick your own. Well yesterday I drove up the highway to investigate the matter. I was amazed to find this couple with a grove of over 600 peach, apple, plums, apricot trees. The lady said I could go pick some to sample. Well they were good so I called in the troops and found some boxes. Mark, Stacy and kids helped me pick peaches. This was a new experience for us. We had never picked peaches like that. We would find a tree and sample a peach. If we liked it we picked more, if it wasn't to our liking we went on to another tree. But they were very ripe and so tonight, bless Stacy's heart, we canned peaches on my new cook top. Actually Jan & Gary's old one that they gave away. Anyway it took some getting used to using. Tired, but a good tired.