Moab trip, November 12 - day 2

Our second day in southern Utah was spent in Canyonlands National Park. One really cool thing - we actually saw a bobcat. No pics though.

 

LUNCH!!

 

 One spot of bright color

 

 Beauty of a different kind. I loved this tree.

 

On our way out of Canyonlands, we took the Schaefer trail. I was okay going down the thing. It was what came at the bottom that stressed me out!

Here are some views of the trip down

 

 This is getting close to the bottom. See the moon?

 

 There it is!

 

 Going along this at the bottom was no problem:

 

 However, THIS really freaked me out. It is hard to tell but that is actually a big hole in front of us that we had to figure out the safest way to get over/across. There were several of these. More than one would have been too many. :)

 

 PAVED ROAD AT LAST!!!! I've never been so relieved to be on "solid" ground again. :)

 

This was a wonderful day, but boy I was ready to relax at the end of it.

Moab trip November 11 - day 1

 

In November, Kent and I took a road trip to southern Utah. The first day was spent mostly driving to Moab.

 

 

 We did actually make one unscheduled stop - to get a speeding ticket :).

 

 We arrived at Arches in time to hit a couple of overlooks before it got too dark.

 

 Then we went to our very nice hotel [thank you off-season prices!]:

 

Grandkid goblins

 

A few days before Halloween we had a fun costume party. Dressed up, played games, got prizes, ate food. :) Spook-tacular!

 

This is my 7-year old Skylar

My 8-year old twins Lexi and Crash

The Robins kidlets: Ethan [10], Aspen [12], Max [6], Haley [9]

 

 All but Jackson, who is too old for this sort of thing. He was my assistant.

 

 Here they are enjoying soup and especially the "foggy" drink. Jackson is the one in the back corner [14].

 

 I tried gluten-free corn bread for Max. Wasn't very successful :(

 

How I love these marvelous little people!!!

Boy am I behind!

Well, way back in September Kent and I did one of our favorite things. We drove for 25 minutes and were up in our beautiful mountains. Especially beautiful in the fall! Look at these colors. This is one of the things I missed the most while living in Jerusalem. There is no fall. LOVE IT!!!!

 

 

My favorite scene of all:

Camp Halloween

Many years ago I was asked to be one of the Stake Girls' Camp cooks. It was 3 really wonderful years with some women who have had such an impact in my life. A few of us still get together every few months. This time we had a Halloween reunion dinner. It was great fun!!

Here we are, all together

Marilyn Barlow, 5th year leader

Diana Zemp, Head Cook

Claudia Johnson, 2nd Cook

Cheryl Johnson, Stake YW presidency

 Glenna Padfield, Camp Director

 Terry Wilkinson, Stake YW presidency

Thanks ladies for blessing my life!! [And for making me laugh so much. :) ]

BYU football!

Kent and I went to the BYU/Boise State game with our grandson Jackson. It was perfect weather - you can see it was a bit chilly, but beautiful!

 We had great seats - with backs on them, thank goodness!

 In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, the team wore pink shoes

 To make it even better - we WON!!!

Go Blue!

Making Strides for Breast Cancer

Today has been a wonderful day! Today was the American Cancer Society's "Making Strides for Breast Cancer" walk. All of my daughters were able to join me. We even had our own team, complete with T-shirts. Thank you to Becky and her friend for those!!!

Of course, after getting up early to do the walk, we had to nourish ourselves with a delicious breakfast and then we got to visit Becky's almost-home!

Here we are just before the walk. We all had pink ribbons in our hair - thank you Becky. We also wore signs on our backs giving the name of the person we were walking in honor of - that would be me! As a survivor I also got the lovely pink banner. :)

Here is my beautiful daughter, Becky.

These are our adorable shirts!!!

This is shortly after the beginning of the walk.

At breakfast with Ashley & Sarah, 

,

 & Jenny & Becky

Perfect day! How I love being alive. How I love the Fall. How I love my girls!!!! :)