On Thursday, Aug. 16 we made the 150 minute (thank you Utah-construction-everywhere) drive from the cabin to Brian and Melissa’s in South Jordan to let the cousins play for a day. They had a great time. Carter had recently managed to catch this wild and not-so-ferocious lizard and create a home for him. Lizardee, as […]

We also paid a visit to Strawberry Reservoir. It was one of those summer afternoons when thunderclouds were overhead but no rain was falling. It was actually quite beautiful. The kids took a few minutes to throw rocks into the lake. Some of the folks at the lake were collecting crawdads, and they were big […]

Here are some photos from the day we decided at noon to go out to the place where the loggers left their remains and gather a few logs to line Gordon’s driveway. It was a hot afternoon but we managed without too much trouble to round up three two-foot logs and one long 25 foot […]

One afternoon at the cabin Eliana and Dominic borrowed spoons from the kitchen to round up a few unsuspecting subjects for their ant collection. Here they are collecting. Little did Ellie know that her collection, housed in a used water bottle, would later be filled by Grandpa with drinking water (he didn’t see the ants […]

Other activities at the cabin included playing with Dominic’s train he received for his second birthday. And shucking corn. And dancing. This is Dominic’s famous ‘the point’ move. Grandpa made a new screen door handle for the kiddies, just their size. The kids did some finger painting as well.

While we were at the cabin we opened a package Aunt Rachel sent with presents from her trip to South Africa. There were the coolest tin models included. I guess these things are hand crafted from tin cans. Very cool. And Eliana received a handmade bracelet as well. Thanks, Aunt Rachel!

For our family vacation this year we choose a week at the Snow family cabin at Bryant’s Fork near Strawberry Reservoir, about 30 miles southeast of Heber. It’s a spot near and dear to Grandpa Snow as his father and he used to hang out together in that neck of the woods. Our activities included: […]

On the 10th, and on our way north for our end of the summer family getaway, we stopped at Grandma and Grandpa Codella’s new homestead in New Harmony. It’s off a dirt road, up in the southwestern hills of New Harmony. Grandpa had to guide us there while we were on the mobile phone. Here’s […]

The high chair fastened to the table grew out of fashion for Dominic several weeks ago. He kicked up quite a huge fuss every time we tried putting him in there. He wanted to sit at the table like Eliana—like he imitates just about everything Ellie does, silly kid. With the remaining birthday money Dominic […]

Monday we took a five hour excursion to a prospective client of mine. We drove to Antimony, Utah where we spent the night and several hours Tuesday morning at Rockin’ R Ranch. It was a Wild West experience that the kids can’t stop talking about. Dominic’s new favorite word must be “horse, horse.” It can’t […]