Happy 32nd Anniversary

to my parents!

Hopefully you’ll get to celebrate this weekend!

(Picture taken in August of last year.)

Lake Powell 2011

We ended our summer vacation with a trip to Lake Powell.

The first night there a storm came through. There was thunder and lightning and lots of rain. It was really pretty to see the lightning above the lake. After the storm had passed we saw 2 rainbows.

The rest of the days the weather was beautiful. Not too hot, lots of sun, and a little breeze.

We made boat trips to Forgotten Canyon, Cathedral Of The Desert, Defiance House, Annie’s Canyon and Iceberg Canyon.

We had fun boating, playing in the water, swimming, jumping of cliffs, hiking, knee-boarding and just relaxing!

Will got stay an extra day with Dean, Kris, Keelie and Wes.

It was a great end to our summer vacation!

Our 5th Grader!

Will started 5th grade last Tuesday.

So far he’s liking it.

On to a great year!

The Boys Digging Trenches

Like Father, Like Son!

Bountiful Baskets

Thanks to our neighbor Kolene we’re hooked to this great way of getting our veggies and fruits.

Bountiful Baskets is a co-op run by volunteers that tries to bring local fruit and veggies at a reasonably low price. (More information on bountifulbaskets.org)

I love that you won’t know for sure what will be in your basket each week, but it is in season. The basket in the picture had bananas, peaches, plums, 3 mangoes, strawberries, a cantaloupe, lettuce, green beans, a cucumber, sweet potatoes, celery and cherry tomatoes. Total cost: $19.50 (incl. a $1.50 fee and $3 First time fee)

We had added the bread, 5 loaves of 9 grain whole wheat bread, for $10.)

They are all over Utah (and 15 other states).

But best of all: everything from the basket was so tasty!!!!

I just thought I had to share.

Date Night At InstaCare

Tuesday nights are our date nights.

Granny watches the kids and Trevor and I get to hang out together.

Last night we had someone come with us though.

Will jumped down the stairs last week and while doing so hit his left big toe on the stairs. It hurt a little and we put some ice on it. It bothered him the past few days, but it was nothing serious. So yesterday he went to karate as normal. Things got a bit worse there.

While warming up his foot started to hurt more. He sat out most of the class with an ice pack on it. After class his foot was really swollen and hurt so much that we decided to take him to InstaCare.

They did their checks and took some X-rays and according to the doc it is just a sprained foot, right below the big toe. No karate or running around for 10 days, but otherwise the boy should be fine.

These pictures are from this morning and the swelling has gone down a lot already.

Of course it took a total of 2 hours before we were out the door. Oh well.

Will is doing fine now and is totally milking it!