Alta

I'm really hoping that we have a few more good weekends, but in case we don't, we went for a little hike with the kids to Albion Basin. It was so beautiful! I love Utah! Where else in the world can you drive 15 min and be in such amazing mountains?It started to get dark so the pics are very grainy. Apparently, my camera doesn't do very well in poor light.

Montana

This last weekend, Josh and I took the kids up to Montana, to see Bannack ghost town and Lewis and Clark Caverns! We had a lot of fun, seeing something different.

The kids had a fun time looking in all the old buildings and imagining they heard ghosts in the walls of the houses and learning a little bit of history. (Hey, anything I can do to help the kids learn without them knowing it)Coming down from the graveyard. View of Bannack town.



It was a lot of fun, and the weather was incredible and the scenery was spectacular!


The Lewis and Clark Caverns were also a lot of fun. I don't know if the kids were more excited to go in the caves and see stalactites or to see the bats? We did get to see one tiny bat, it was right above our heads, we could have touched it.
We only had 3 other couples in our tour which made the whole experience even more fun, having the place to ourselves.

and in the end, a good time was had by all......

Swiss Days

I have been around the Ashtons for 13 years now and last year was my first year going to Midway during Swiss Days. (They have owned property up there for 50+ years i think) Well we went again this year, and since my Father-in law is running for city council, they wanted us all to be in the parade. The kids were great, had fun, ran out of candy and got rained on! But I do love Swiss Days! What is not to love? Lots of food, beautiful scenery and tons and tons of shops. Oh ya and tons and tons and tons of people. And the traffic was insane!!! I also discovered some really fun new ideas for crafts I want to make.

On our way home we decided to go over the mountain instead of around.....

Our brakes went out on us at the top of the pass. Not a fun place to not have brakes. We obviously made it down okay with Josh's sore leg from pushing with all his strength on the pedal (they worked if you put some strength into it and the grinding noise was a little scary) and my white knuckles from gripping the arm rests. sorry no pics of that incident....he he he


This is for my sis-in law Sammy who does vinyl lettering......she wanted to see it.