After Gary and Kathy caught their plane back to Alaska, we packed up and went on a quick camping trip. We decided to head down to the Meadow hot springs, recreating a memory from nearly five years ago. Claire got to bring along her friend Andie and Ellie invited Izzy, so our car was full …
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Gary & Kathy’s Spring Break Visit
During our spring break, we had the chance to have Gary & Kathy stop by with Ripley (their dog, and Finley’s half-brother). On their drive up from Arizona and St. George, Gary was going a little too fast and got pulled over. Gary and the officer had a pleasant exchange about why Gary was in …
Drew’s First Scout Campout
Drew was pretty excited to attend his first scout campout. He even skipped a soccer game to attend, so that should tell you something. We drove out to Lone Rock out west of Grantsville. I’ve never been to that site before, but it was a pretty good spot in the early spring. The drive out …
SoCal 2019 – San Diego
After our great time at Disneyland, we decided to extend our vacation a few more days and go visit our favorite missionaries. Elder Mike Johnson and Sister Jan Johnson are serving a military-relations mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Diego. They’ve only serving for about a month, but we …
SoCal 2019 – Disneyland
Doing an unexpectedly big hike the day before tackling Disneyland with a 3-day park hopper pass might not be the best strategy. Nevertheless, we were up and ready early Monday morning. We drove our car and did the $25 all-day valet parking at Tony Romas right by the park entrance. It was very convenient, and …
SoCal 2019 – Hollywood
Our big Christmas gift to our kids this year was tickets to Disneyland. We had the opportunity to head down a little early to spend some extra time in Southern California before the main attraction. To break up the drive, we decided to stay a night in St. George. We were looking for a hotel …
Deer Valley Date 2019
Ancestry allows employees to check-out a pair of Ski Utah Gold passes once a year for some skiing. These are awesome passes which are pretty much good at any ski resort in the state. We missed last year, due to some unfortunate timing on my part, but got the opportunity to return to Deer Valley …
Pine Hollow 2019
We’ve done a winter Pine Hollow hike for several years, and even though it was a super cold New Year’s Day (5° F!) we decided to go for it. We bundled up and hit the trail after lunch and made really good time heading up the hill. We completed the 1.4 miles to the meadow …
Sharing Christmas 2018
This has quickly become one of our favorite traditions. You can read reports of what we did in previous years. (2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014) Here is the accounting for what we did with our favorite gift of the year. Feeding the homeless ($60) Most of our money this year went to feeding the homeless. …
Manina’s Birthday 2018
Manina has gotten pretty good at telling us exactly what she wants to do for her birthday. The day started off with a quick gym workout and then a brunch with the Denney’s who just arrived in town from San Diego. Then Megan, Katelyn, Manina and I all went up to the Fashion Place mall …
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