Sacramento Thanksgiving

We enjoyed Thanksgiving in Sacramento.  Mike flew from Kentucky to Salt Lake and rode over to Sacramento with us.  Dan and Jonna drove over also.  The bike is a new decoration in Rick's family room.  The dinner was at Rick and Alicia's house and Alicia had made special table decorations.  We all enjoyed "hanging out" in Rick's family room.  On Sat. we all met to pick out a Christmas tree at the Christmas tree farm.  Tanner did the honors of cutting down the tree.  On Sunday Bridger was ordained a deacon.  We stayed at Jim and Kathryn's house part of the time and then rotated with Dan and Jonna so we could stay at Rick and Alicia's also.  Lots of fun and the weather was good for driving. 

November hiking in Utah

In November had a great trip to Capitol Reef National Park in the top picture.  The next stop was Goblin Valley in the 2nd picture.  We were able to get a place in the lottery to hike TheWave.  The drawing was in Kanab.  It was a 3 mile hike in and 3 miles out on an unmarked trail on the rocks.  Very Beautiful!  We had tried about 5 or 6 times to get a place.  Only 20 people can do the hike each day and 10 are from a drawing the day before the hike.  The day we were in the drawing there were 67 people trying for 10 spots.

Gohar's visit Oct. 16-22, 2013

We had a great visit with Gohar.  We visited Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce National Park, and the grandmother and relatives of a sister who served in Armenia.  We had wonderful Armenian food when Pres. &Sr. Carter came for lunch.  She loved the deer on our lawn.  We saw a 3D IMAX movie with Ashley and Aaron who served with all of us.  Great time!

Kentucky Oct. 10th-Oct. 15

We flew in on Thurs., Oct. 17th.  Mike's scheduling was a challenge with the government shut down of parks, etc.  We visited Cumberland Falls, Eagle Falls, Natural Bridge, Diamond Caverns, Churchill Downs and Mike's favorite places around his house and Louisville.  Great trip.  We came home on Oct. 15th.

Minnesota Sep. 26th-Oct 1st

Had a fun trip to Minnesota to see family.  We did the kids favorite activities which were the water park in Wisconsin and the Mirror Maze at Mall of America.  The top picture is the wave pool and the lazy river is next.  Loved the new black kitten, Shadow.

Sep. 2nd, 2013 Mom's birthday

On Mom's birthday we drove to Burley to have lunch with Mom.  She opened presents and blew out the candle on the cupcake.  We had lunch at Jack in the Box with Ralph.  We got into Salt Lake to visit the new Trader Joes!

Sun., Sep. 8th, 2013 Denver Trip in August

Carl's class reunion was in Arvada the last of Aug.  We drove over through Wyoming and drove back through the Colorado mountains.  The snow fence was in Wyoming.  The reunion was Fri. and Sat. nights and on Sun. we had dinner with Carl's brothers and their families and their 3 dogs.  Lots of fun to see everyone!