Bear Lake/Sarah's tournament

We decided to make a day of it and go to Bear Lake first, then Sarah's games on Friday. Joe's principal needed us to pick up something at a place they had just left so he gave us money for shakes. We picked the wrong place but it was ok. Not great. Then we got to spend an hour playing at the lake before her games. 

We only had an hour between games, the kids had fun playing a game. 

I did Malan's yesterday by myself, it was awesome.

I scared this deer worse than she scared me. She jumped up the mountain off the trail so fast. Sarah played pretty well. She had a blast with cousins! She got home last night. We didn't go yesterday. 

 

Happy Pioneer Day!!

They got a new sister in their trio. Sister Ashland, on the far right. They did not plan these outfits. 

Sister Irion

Lucy and Treva, a recent convert, they got to take her to the temple to do baptisms. 

I got to take Sarah, Marjorie, and Georgia Rice to the temple on Wednesday. It was awesome! 

We got rock!!! It's so nice!

And Joe has the first section ready for cement. Yay! 

Happy Pioneer Day! So glad we get to live in Utah, it is an amazing place. Grateful for all of the pioneers that came before us. 

I started off the day dropping Mary and friends at parade, saving our spots, then dropping Sarah off with Sharell Weston, they took care of her all weekend at her tournament in Montpelier. She got to stay with Bev and Glen Wight. 

Mom and Shan met us there, and Spencer.

Mary did Awesome!

After we saw Mary, Mom, Shan and I left to pick up GMA Great and we headed to Sarah's games. We stopped at Big J's in Preston on our way. It was yummy. 

We had a great time! Sarah played and pitched well. We had fun telling and listening to stories and spending the day together. We missed Haylee. 

 

Yard/Shop update

 This weekend was so busy. We got up Friday morning and got right to work in our back yard. At about 8:30 Joe got a phone call that some drivers were on their way to our property with part of the shop. He went over to Hertz rental or something like that just off of 1800 thankfully, rented a teleloader and drove it to our property. I mowed lawns at my parents until the trucks got there. Then helped tell Joe where to put all the steel. It was awesome seeing it and hopefully the rest of it comes this weekend. 

My Dad's flowers out back of their house.

Saturday we spent at a yard sale Sarah's team put on for a fundraiser. It took a lot of the day yesterday for her and I. 

Heber helped out a lot.

Marjorie got her Christmas present in July. A new vanity. Joe and Heber put it together.

Ready for ROCK! We have secondary water in the pot out front and in all the garden boxes out back. Joe is amazing! So much work.

Yosemite National Park! Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia's/El Capitan/Half Dome

 

Pictures of bear prints on our van. Driving into Yosemite only took about 45 minutes from where we were staying. It was absolutely gorgeous. Our first stop was all the way through the park, it was 3 hours from condo. The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. We parked and rode a shuttle into the grove. Lots of people from all over the world. The weather was warm but nice. 

The pictures do NOT do justice. The trees are SOOOOO BIG! We are standing in front of the roots of one that tipped over below. It was so crazy.

This is another one that tipped over.

This is the Grizzly Giant, the limbs were so big they were about the size of our trees clear up high on this tree. 

This is tunnel tree.

This is called Bridal veil Falls. It was very cool and had a fun stream coming down, just full of people.

 

Looking at Half Dome.

El Capitan

Another print

This was my view from the hot tub. It had 2 hot tubs and a pool and some grills we used both nights. We only spent $25 on fast food the whole trip. I packed a lot of food and it worked great. Gas was 5.50 a gal in CA. We got up and left Thursday morning. We had a smooth drive home. We had a great week and a lot of fun together. Glad we were able to go. We missed Brigham & Madi, and Lucy.