Beauty Is...

The reflections theme this year was Beauty Is... and Lydia won a trophy for her beautiful chalk drawing. It is a picture of mountains and with them a cupcake and an upside ice cream cone. I asked her why it was beautiful and she said, "because mountains and desserts make people smile." So beauty is finding that which makes you smile. She was so excited to win a trophy! I love you Lydia, you make me smile.:)

Snowbird

Last weekend were customer appreciation days at Snowbird ski resort. That meant that for one can of food per person we could take a tram up the mountain. This little trip is usually $12 per person, so I jumped on the chance to have this fun experience for practically FREE. It was SO BEAUTIFUL!

We bundled everyone well, it was chilly!

Bryant liked the tram ride...

but not the cold winds at the top.

We went up to 11,000 feet...

and the views were breathtaking!!

We got to see the sun set from up there. We had a wonderful time, and we even got to go out to dinner at the Market Street Grill afterward with a gift card. The day cost us $8.50 and we had a wonderful time! I'm thankful we live in such a beautiful world.

Halloween '09

I'm warning you now, I need to post a lot of pictures this time. We did a lot in the weeks before Halloween, and I'm going to put it all together in one post. Otherwise, I won't get to Halloween pictures until Thanksgiving. So here we go! These first pictures are the fam at South Ridge Farms in Santaquin. We went on a hay ride and picked out the biggest pumpkin we could find! Then we went back to the barn and had ice cream. Yummm.




Tim and I went to a 80's murder mystery party. Tim found this great mullet wig, and I'm Debbie Gribson.

This is Lydia in her school parade. My friend took the picture. Isn't she a cute little cowgirl?! She decided to be Tinker Bell on Halloween which is too bad, because her cowgirl looked so cute with Ali's horse costume.

Ali's preschool did a cute program and then they got to play. She actually sang all of the songs!


Halloween night we went to a friend's house for a spooky dinner before we headed out to trick or treat. I brought this great veggie tray.

Here we are trick or treating!





We had a great Halloween and we are excited to be heading into the holiday season! We hope all of you had a Happy Halloween!!

Little Saraha

For Fall Break our family decided to take a little trip out to the sand dunes. We went two years ago, and Lydia still talks about it, so it must have been really memorable. The weather was beautiful and we all had a wonderful time. I kept reminding myself that it was okay that the girls were literally swimming in the sand. Here are some highlights!





Even after removing clothes and shaking them out and hanging the girls upside down to get sand out of their hair, the bath still had a layer of sand at the bottom that night. So worth it though, those are some great memories we made.