Resurrection Day

I'm attending the family history Sunday School class in church. Because of this I have made some goals. One of these is to resurrect the blog. It is a good way for me to journal and keep track of and share pictures and events going on in my family. I won't try to recap the whole last year+ that I've missed, but I hope to hit some high points.

 Andrew got pushed at school and hurt his shoulder. Boys will be boys!

 We went to the Native American Festival here in Springville. The kids made arts and crafts, we watched dancers, and ate fry bread. Kaylee and Kara aren't in the pictures because they were off doing crafts.

 

 Kara's hair got really long. I curled it and it looked AMAZING!

 But she struggles to take care of it so we cut it off. She saved it to give to Kelly. ( That's her hair in the bag) On the way home from St. George we stopped at Cove Fort and saw some hair art. The girls would save their hair and make flowers and vines with it to decorate their homes.

Speaking of St. George...

The kids and I went to St. George to watch Dad run his first marathon. He did great and we had a fun trip.

 The kids and I went to the zoo. It was pleasantly cool. We need to remember never to go in the summer. This is them with a grizzly bear. This was the first time we'd been since they opened the new Rocky Shores exhibit with the bears and seals and sea lion and polar bear. It was pretty cool. We need to go again soon because they are almost done with the African exhibit.

 After the zoo we went to Wendy's for lunch. This is what Kara got in her kids meal. Lovely right? She couldn't eat with it on so she asked me to hold it. I put it on my head backwards. Since I also had a hat on I forgot about it. A few minutes later I went to go get spoons for frosty's. Since it was lunch time there were a ton of construction workers in line. They all looked at me funny as I walked by. It made me kind of uncomfortable. Like 10 minutes later I realized I still had Fiona on my head!

 This is at Jakers, a pumpkin patch. They set up a great area for kids with mazes made of giant hay bales, a cornbox (think sandbox with corn), a couple of slides made from huge corrugated tubes, and a petting zoo. This pig was HUGE! I love that it's late October and still warm enough to go without a coat.

 In November Wes and I went to Las Vegas for a medical conference. We stayed at Planet Hollywood on the strip for a few days because the conference was in that hotel. I hung out and relaxed while Wes went to classes. On Friday night we went to a hotel off the strip. It was much more low key. We enjoyed the warm weather.

 Unfortunately, it was right by the airport. Planes were taking off every 5 minutes or so. Thank goodness we only noticed it during the day.