A Bittersweet Goodbye

Last weekend we spent time in our favorite summer family get-away - Aunt LouAnn's cabin. We have been going there as a family since 1984 and this year was probably the last time. This cabin is located up Big Cottonwood Canyon, right next to Solitude. It is in a beautiful setting and has provided us with years of fun and relaxation. It is a place dear to our hearts. Here are a few pictures of this heaven on earth:

What do we do at the cabin, you may ask. 

We eat - lots of junk!

We roast marshmallows and . . .

this year we also had a skit, written by Max!

We make Harry Potter wands

We read

We play games, like:

Mormon Bridge

Spoons

Heads Up

& Mad Gab

We play in the river: 

We play (or sleep) in the Hammock!:

We celebrate August birthdays:

[we were trying to Facetime Jonny who is also an August birthday]

We play croquet:

We go on hikes:

We play ping pong:

We do actually sleep some:

And of course, we take pictures of each other:

 

Thank you, Lou Ann, for your generous heart. You have provided us with a beautiful place to make lots of happy memories. We all cried when we left. It is hard when good things end, but how grateful we are for these many years of family fun and love!!!

Next year -- a new adventure!

Great Visiting Teaching outing

Yesterday my visiting teachers [well actually only Penny Bird was able to go] took me and Georgia Wilkerson to the Springville Art Museum to see the quilt display! We had to wear the plastic glove so we could touch the quilts if we wanted to.

Wow - I am so amazed at the talent and the work that went into these beautiful quilts. Below are some of my favorites:

This one was made for a grandma from the clothes of a grand daughter who died at the age of 16 months:

Notice the lamps and tables between the chairs and some of the chairs have something on them. So clever and beautiful:

I took a picture of this one for my brother/sister-in-law, who served a mission in South Africa:

I think this was my favorite. There are wild animals all around the outside, then a "fence" that protects the homes from the animals!! It is amazing.

After the quilts we went into another area where some friends of Penny's, Lance Larsen and his wife, had a display. He writes poetry and his wife does photography and paintings. They had a joint display. Here is a poem he wrote that I really liked:

Of course after a lovely time at the museum we HAD to go to the Creamery and get ice cream - yum, yum. It was roasted almond fudge. I'm salivating just remembering!

Thanks Penny - we had a grand time. We missed Celeste and Mary who weren't able to join us!!