Nashville Tribute Band

Way back on March 20th we went to see the Nashville Tribute Band at Tuachan with Mark's parents, Doug, and Kami. The kids had a blast with the baby sitters and their cousins. If you have never heard this band you should look them up. So far they have two CD's. A truibute to the Prophet Joseph, and a tribute to the Trek. It was a lot of fun!

Zion With Laura

Way back on March 19th I went to Zion with my sister Laura. We had a lot of fun and got a few hikes in. Dayler always talks about going hiking with Laura.

This trail is the overlook, the one just after the looong tunnel.

I'm So Tired.

Bowen is so hard to get to sleep, so when he zonks out on his own it is so nice. This is him taking advantage of a cushion sticking out. I would have expected this from Dayler or Mark, but not Bowen.

Obsidian Hunting

Last Wednesday Mark had the day off, and for those of you who know Mark you won't be surprised that he wanted to go look for obsidian. He found a website that showed the locations of places you could collect obsidian, and one of the best in the Western U.S. just so happens to be 2 hours from our house. This is a picture of the ground there. Every black rock you see in this picture is obsidian. CRAZY!!!

We left because it started to get too windy. Then we almost got lost in the sand storm. Thank goodness for the markers on the side of the road. We could only go 5 mph, or we would loose the road.
Looking back at what we had just driven through.

I think there is now a sand dune on top of the obsidian.

For the Short time that we were there we had some pretty good luck. I have never seen such big pieces of obsidian. It should take Mark a while to chip all this.

New Church Clothes

Dayler was outgrowing his old church clothes, so I pulled this out of the closet. I found them on sale just after Christmas, I thought that it would take a little longer for him to fit into them. He loves his snazy clothes so much we had to take a picture after church.

Snow Day

Dayler doesn't like his waterproof Mittens.
Bowen and Dayler

AWE!

We found out that there was only a few inches of snow under the trees compared to 7-10 inches everywhere else.

So we get told all the time you are so lucky you live by St. George. You don't have to worry about the snow. Just because we go grocery shopping in St. George doesn't mean we don't have to worry about the snow. It snowed all but one day last week, and this week it is melting. I have never seen so much mud.

Fort Deseret

I don't know how many times we have driven by Fort Deseret on our way to or from Tooele, but this last trip we decided to stop. I thought that it was pretty cool that the mud and straw wall is still standing from over 100 years ago.

By the time Bowen and I caught up to Mark and Dayler inside the fort, Dayler was an expert on the fort. "Mommy the cowboys built this fort to keep the Indians out. They would look out those holes and say Oh my gosh there's Indians out there."
Mark and the Boys inside the fort walking toward one of the bastions.

Practicing. Shooting Coyotes of course. What were you thinking?

Yep, people were shorter then.