I have a TON of things to blog, but I’ll get to those later I guess. But I wanted to stick up these cute pics while I was playing with them.
After FHE last night we went up to the Poppy Field in Mantua and played around and snapped a few family pics. I did a shoot there on Saturday and thought it was so fun we just had to go up! (You can see those pics on the photoblog at www.endlessimagesutah.com/photoblog) It’s so hard to take pics of my own family because we have to use a tripod and then run to get in the picture before the timer runs out. Then we get to try and get everyone looking decent and at the camera without anyone behind it. It’s a challenge to say the least! It’s SO MUCH EASIER to take other people’s pictures!! But here are a couple of cute ones. I’m trying to decide which of these family pictures to frame….. let me know what you think!!
We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house on Saturday and I couldn’t help but think WOW! We’ve had two temples open up “right in our backyard” within a few months of each other! And the opening of this temple makes South Jordan the only city in the world with 2 temples within their borders! WOW! How blessed we are to have so many temples close! It was wonderful!
My sister just discovered Bountiful Baskets – a food co-op here in Northern Utah. So we tried it out this Saturday, and we were way excited with how it all went! Here’s how it works….
They have it every other Saturday (which seems about right with the amount of produce we got), but you have to get online (www.bountifulbaskets.org) the Tuesday or Wednesday before and sign up and pay for your “basket.” There is a limited number of people that can go to each site so you have to sign up kind of quickly. The worst part of the whole thing was their website – it was kind of confusing – Liz had to guide me through it. So if you decide to do it and need help – let me know! Then you just go pick it up Saturday morning!
SO… on to the exciting stuff. Each basket is $15.00. It’s always 50% fruit and 50% veggie, but you don’t get to pick what kinds of fruit and veggies. So, as I tell my kids all the time, “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit! ” :> But all of it was really good stuff! Here’s what was in my basket this Saturday:
7 apples, 7 oranges, 6 plums, 9 apricots, 12 bananas, 2 cantalope,
3 squash, 6 cucumbers, 2 broccoli, romaine lettuce, 1 celery, 2 bags of carrots
ALL FOR $15.00!!! WOW!
Then they have other things you can “add on.” I added 5 loaves of yummy bread for $10.00, 16 lbs of cherries for $14.50 (pic at the bottom), and this italian pack (the stuff in the bag is fresh herbs: parsley, rosemary, oregano, and basil I think) for $7.50 I think:
So that’s it! I thought it was great! Now we just get to eat it all before the next one!!
For our cousin adventure this week we took the kids up to Promontory Point (you know – the “Golden Spike” place where the trains met… just for clarification). I’ve lived in Utah my whole life, and I’ve never even been there – so it was adventure for me as well. We had so mcuh fun, and I have to say that when I was driving there I couldn’t believe it was SO FAR WEST!! It’s one of those drives where you can look around and know exactly what the valleys looked like when the pioneers got here because it still looks exactly the same way. Sage brush, sage brush, and more sage brush. You go until you feel like you are on the edge of the earth and then you go 10 more miles. :> Ok, I guess it isn’t really that bad of a drive, but Kyle is teething and screamed the whole way there so it felt very, very long! But, onto more exciting stuff…
The boys had a great time watching the trains come together and meet. Kyle was quite scared by their whistles, but other than that the boys loved it. They thought it was funny that the trains passed each other and then had to backup to meet. Here are a couple fun pics from the day:
They were all so excited about their smashed pennies! Thanks Aunt Liz!
Kyle was concerned with one thing; collecting every rock he could possibly hold.
He was completely focused on his “job!”
On the way back we stopped at a Rocket Display out at Thiokol – which was actually really cool. What a perfect boy day – trains and rockets. What could be better??
This summer Liz and I have decided to get the boys together once a week for a “counsin adventure day.” So far we’ve had 2 and they’ve been a lot of fun! I don’t have pictures of either one on my computer, so I’m going to have to steal a couple of Liz’s pics for now…
For the first one we took the boys (minus Tyler and Matt) to the zoo. My zoo membership expired at the end of May, so we figured we’d better use it soon! The boys had a great time!!
And for the one last week we took the boys to kind of like a preview for the air show. They got to look at some of the planes, and they even got to go in one! I think that was the highlight of the day.
They also met a couple of the pilots and one of them gave each boy an autographed poster. The kids thought that was SO COOL!
Then we went back to Liz’s to watch wipeout and play outside in the water.
The boys love to show their “fire power”
