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Yellowstone

Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2014



Prepare yourself for this post.  I am about to dump a bajillion pictures on you from a vacation that happened months ago. But I love these pictures and I loved this trip, so....

This summer we went on a weekend trip to Yellowstone.  It was so much fun! I love Yellowstone! Since we were only there for a few days we spent most of our time driving, and driving, and driving, trying to see as much as possible.  Hudson surprisingly handled this so well! Our main goal was to see a ton of wildlife and we were not disappointed.



We loved that there were bison everywhere, in our campsite on the roads, everywhere.  Note below the guy getting way to close for a selfie.











Old Faithful kind of ended up being one of our least favorite attractions, it was neat, but there were so many people there.  The hot springs were all so neat, poor color blind Jason couldn't see all the cool colors though.  The rainbow smoke from the spring above was awesome!



Guys, we saw a bear! We were so excited because that is the one thing we wanted to see, and it was even a grizzly.  It may look far away in the picture but when an animal is that massive there is no way we would want to be any closer.  There were so many times we saw people getting way to close to wildlife, and this was one of those times.  Nobody was hurt of course, but once we saw the bear running towards a few loud people, we were out of there real fast.









Can I just live in Yellowstone all summer?  It is so gorgeous. We ended our little trip with a picnic by the lake, watching a couple lone boats with Hudson. I hope we can make this trip a yearly thing, because I feel like there is so much more to do and see there!

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Summer Bucket List

Posted on Monday, June 2, 2014

I always have a list of a million things I want to do every summer, and never really remember them.  By the end of summer I am like, "oh yeah I wanted to do that! and that! and that!" And there is no time left to do it all and it is sad. So maybe if I write it all down and come back to update it as we check off each event, more things will get done?  Maybe I will remember to update this little blog a little more often? So here it is...


  • Snow Cones, plenty of them.
  • Camping by Silver Lake
  • Tour the splash pads of Utah County
  • Scera Movie Series, to get out of the heat.
  • Trip to Southern Utah
  • Lake Powell
  • Make Popsicles
  • Let Hudson Play with Sidewalk Chalk
  • Trip to Lava
  • A LOT of Boating
  • Bike Ride up Provo Canyon with Hudson
  • Moonlit Sundance Lift Ride
  • Watch the Ski Jumpers Practice in Park City
  • Picnic up the Canyon
  • Tour Timp Cave
  • Zipline Tour from Tyler up the Canyon
  • Pool Days with Hudson
  • Use Our Thanksgiving Point Passes
  • Trip to Jackson Hole and/or Yellowstone
  • Seven Peaks
  • Search for Topaz at Topaz Mountain
  • Antelope Point
  • Swim in The Great Salt Lake
  • Take Hudson to a Parade
  • Watch fireworks with Hudson

Hopefully  I will be back to add, and cross things off as the summer goes on.

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Cherry Trees & Trash Piles

Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011

We came home from  Lake Powell early Saturday morning and I already miss it...
Here is a little sneak peek photo, but i promised myself i have to write a full post about it!

Jason & I at Rainbow Bridge
I am super sad to be back, it went by way too fast!  At least we came back to two surprises...

Today as I was waiting for Jason in my car, I noticed one of the huge trees in front of our complex is a cherry tree!  I don't know why i haven't noticed this yet, last august when we moved in they must have all been gone.   They are almost ripe, the only problem is 95% of the cherries are only reachable by the birds who seem to really be enjoying them.  I ate 3 :)




 How do you like them freckles?

Surprise #2, it seems that it is some sort of  special trash day and everyone is leaving piles and piles of wood and junk on the side of the road to be picked up.  And that saying one man's trash is another man's treasure is so true!  Jason refused to let me stop and pick up a awesome green chair the first time around, but he eventually creeped around the neighborhood with me and looked at all the piles with me.  The chair was snatched up before I could get back to it, but I did find this cool old green trunk!


I can't decide yet if it is keep-worthy yet or not, even I will admit it is really dirty.  The top has a name, T.S. Bytheway (related to John?), and the address we picked it up from painted on.  The leather is cracked and caked with dirt and rust, but its cool, right?  Kinda almost creepy, but cool?  I will have to work on cleaning it up and see what happens.

There were so many old panels of wood from white-washed picket fences and such, so perfectly antique-y looking... but as badly as I want to I couldn't think of anything to do with it.  Ideas?  Maybe I'm crazy for picking through people's trash piles?