A Walk in the Arboretum

Sunday we took a walk in the arboretum. This is one of Elli's favorite places and she could hardly waid to show me. It was rather chilly, thus the sweater. But we still had a great time. We chased some rabbits and say ducks and a river rat. Even Ali made the whole walk. We were hoping it would put her into labor, but it didn't work.

Elli calls this tree the Monkey Tree. When I asked her if it was called that because monkeys lived there, Brandon said the only time the tree had monkeys in it was when Elli was climbing it!

And she loves to climb. They are really pretty cool trees.

We are still waiting for baby sister to arrive. It looks like Ali will be available for her dr. appointment tomorrow afternoon. We are now just hoping the baby is not as late as her mommy was.

Pool fish

Leap of trust

Grandpa and the grand girls

Doing her Dad proud

Drivers Ed

Grandma chillin with Ethan

Here we are at the Westgate in Park City

25 ft

Here we are at the Spanish Fork Pond. This is a playground with a view.

LaNice looking out the window of a cabin

A river view on our hike

whie water rafting on the Pigon river

July 5th Hike up Y Mountain

We decided to climb up to the Y for our July 5th celebration. The balloons from the Balloon Fest were just starting up and it was a pretty cool thing. We counted about 20 balloons.

This is evidence that we really made it to the top of the Y. It was a pretty spectacular view of the valley. It was fun to try to pick out valley locations.

We really did make it to the top. The first few switchbacks seemed pretty tough, but after that it got better. We made it up in 55 minutes and down in 30 minutes. Alan could have gone round trip in about half that time if I hadn't been so slow.

This is the map of all the switchbacks. Knowing how many there were and how many we had yet to go was really helpful. It was a beautiful and cool morning for being July. We were up and back before the sun hit the face of the mountain. There was an older gentlement up there, probably in late 60s or early 70s who climbed the trail 3 times that morning. He was almost running down. I think the down part is almost worse than the climb up because if the stress on the knees.

July At Gramies

While Gramy was feeding Ethan I surprised her by washing her car

3 bugs in a rug