Last Days of Summer!

This was so cool watching this storm come in...then the downpour started, we were soaked!

The girls ended up with about 3 inches of water in their tent by morning!

Day 2 Rain is awesome!

Wynter's poncho?

Before the storm began...great night and fire and roasted marshmellows

Skye's sandwich, yummy

Skye at the Point!

Wynter at Inspiration Point

Skye and Huck at sunset

Mom and Wynter

Checking the Mountain Goats out!

Wynter Anne

This is from a great trip to Inspiration Point, this was a great night hanging out. The weather was great, our dinner was awesome and the sunset was beautiful. These photos are in opposite order just for fun! Every trip we have been on this summer has had some sort of rain or snow or both....we seem to have a theme going on for 2009! The storm blew in over night and scared all of us to death it was so loud....had to get up in the middle of the night to put a rain fly on the girls tent. Heard the dogs howling all night, wind, rain and more wind. It was pretty funny.

Now the kids are back in school.... I am sure we will have many more great times to come!

Old Stuff Makes Me Happy

The end of summer... always is a bit of a bummer..... I LOVE having time to spend with Skye and Wynter and Ryan when he is not working hard.

Skye had a very fun and frustrating summer with soccer/football but she improved a lot and did awesome, she just played for a new team and they struggled to win.

Wynter is always willing to play anything, went to Pineview and played on the swing! Even I got involved, good thing there are not pics for that!

Then, so cute of G-gma and Skye and Wynt, love this so much and so love the time we get to spend with family, speaking of family I thought I would add this pic for my Dad, Victor G. thanks for giving me this table that was G-Gpa Fergusons' when he was a little boy. It was left outside in the rain, but! I think that I did an okay job showing the fact that it was a loved and now is a cherished table/island, thanks Dad. I have cried about three times since it has been in my kitchen and not because I was sad but because I am sooo grateful and happy I get to love this for a long time...

The Garden

Garden Fun! Finished the Blackberry patch fence, the trellis is from the house next door that they removed off an old porch and some picket fence. It was fun and looks really cute! The girls just picked the first batch and we made blackberry cheesecake!

The bird bath is new.... I know.... but I had to have it because it is a Lotus Flower. Very Zen with the random perennial bed, that is doing splendid thanks to some great wild flower seeds and roses from our wedding last Fall. More pics to come of a few projects that are getting their final touches.. hopefully this afternoon if I can stand the heat, pushing 100 degrees plus...ugh
Can't believe it's August..... but look forward to planting a new section of daffodils!

The gravel pit across the street!

Wynter and Ryan rock sledding





Skye and Huck Sledding


Columbine By: Skye

View of Snowbasin

By Wynter

We had so much fun this past few weeks! Skye and Wynter had a photo contest up in Huntsville area while I was working to get ready for the Garden Tour. I think they both ended up with great photos!

The rock sledding.... how do I explain this, Ry and Skye came up with this activity one evening while taking the dogs across the street to run. They first wanted to do it on their snowboards but thought the sled was less valuable so they of course went for it. The dogs loved running up and down the pile with us... did not like the actual sledding so much. We all had a lot of fun trying it along with a lot of our friends on the 4th of July. The rock pile is gone now but the memories will stay with us for a long time. The things we end up doing for fun amaze me!

Rain in the Desert

MY HUSBAND IS SO HOT!

ESCALANTE, UT

First rain in 6 monthes!

Backpacking not an option so we had various adventures anyway! We found some new secret campsites, found a shed.., looked at the desert in the rain, hiked Calf Creek Falls!



Did not set up the tent one time! Slept in Mona the truck and listened to it pour every night...

Oh my Hell!!! A huge wash in the desert.... we even got a little stuck in our truck... but made it out of Hole in the Rock Road before it truely washed out and we would have been in the news story that aired the day after this...we would have been stuck for sure!

Random Plant Thoughts

This photo is from our firepit/hangout in our backyard. I have been working up in the area of Utah that we will call the land of milk and money. I am so sick of people being completely unaware of there surroundings. I am paid to tear up native plants and I hate it. People water every single day and most of them live in some other state... This is a desert and green lush grass for no one to ever use is an excessive irresponsible sin! So my backyard is becoming a save the plants haven with no sprinkler system....what a concept! I have pretty much gotten all of the

stuff in my backyard from discarded plants and materials. Think about what you tear out and throw away plants especially.... not everyone has money to burn! Reduce! ReUSE! Recycle!

Everytime I am in my backyard I am happy that it is slowly becoming the secret garden! I hear birds and am soooo happy to be home!

Loving Sunny Snowbasin

Snowbasin 2009

Wynter loved going snowboarding this year and is a natural, Skye kicked but and did her first hard chute, really steep and she was stoked. I am obviously taking these and loving every moment!