This is sweet Julie and Kylie when we went to lunch one day. Chris was a scout camp.
Another day while Chris was out surviving a 50 mile hike, I took Kylie and Janie to the Discovery Museum. This first picture captures Janie's enthrallment while she clutches her cute "Pinkey".
Kylie's cool magnetic creation!
Janelle and I and Kylie (on a day without Janie & Chris still gone) went to Kennecott Copper Mine. What a spectacular man-made creation! I love the two cute creations in front the best.
With Julie working for Bangerter Homes, we got tickets to go see the Parade of Homes.... all over the valley. We took a night here and there to go see most of them, from the Avenues, to Herriman to Draper. It became quite the treasure hunt as we looked to find them. Janelle went with me to see the one up high on the hills of Salt Lake. Wow, what a view, and what a house!
This is one of the cutest things I saw in the Parade of Homes. I loved this cute playhouse beside a gorgeous hand-painted mural!
One day as Julie left for work, I got a cute shot of her kids hugging her kids good-bye. It's tricky to get photos like these.
On a 2$ Tuesday, Chris, Kylie and I went to the Dinosaur Museum. Pretty awesome! We saw all kinds of fun things, and some pretty freaky things too! These kids make it so fun.
Also down at Thanksgiving Point, we went to the glass blowing factory and saw where they made stained glass windows. They were working on some for the temples. This one was for a restaurant.
On a beautiful Tuesday evening, Jon and I met down at the Brigham Young Park and went to see the Wasatch Pipes. The sound and songs thrilled me! I love that Scottish feeling!
I love this huge pink hibiscus outside the RSB. Magnificent!
On one of my trips downtown to take pictures of the shifts, cute little Janie went with me. She got a little restless so I gave her a jelly belly. Big mistake... she kept saying: "more, more, more, more" while signing for more. Such a cutie!
For four days in the middle of August, Jon and I went to Education Week. BYU is our old dating grounds and brought back many memories for us. We love this campus and the feel of everyone's intensity in getting to class and learning all they can. I loved being able to see my cousin Bev, and her daughter Jamie. It was also fun seeing my sisters there, and two of my children. We love Ed Week! The speakers are great, the spirit is wonderful! A true uplifting, bucket-filling time. Thanks to Alayne & Jeff for letting me stay a couple nights since Jon bunked with Brian at the dorms.
One Saturday evening, the Thomas family gathered up at a park in the canyons of Bountiful. We roasted whatever we brought...hot dogs, marshmallows or corn on the cob. Fun evening kicking back and seeing everyone again.
Jon had a work party up to the This is the Place or Heritage Park. What a fun and spectacular day. We could take our grandchildren. Unfortunately, Brian's kids couldn't make it because of another party they were invited to, but Chris & Kylie had a super time. We learned so much of what our pioneer ancestors went through. We are glad we have air conditioning, nice homes, flushing toilets, NO flies, etc. It was a great day with lots of crafts, pony rides, free food and great fun. Super fun day! I learned so much!
This first picture was of a big mural... Kylie wanted her picture in front of the horses.
At this home they had all kinds of fun things kids did back then... here Chris & Kylie are walking on stilts. It's not as easy as it looks. There were also fun & different games to try. No video games here. We even were taught in an old school house for about 20 minutes. Very enlightening.
Kylie enjoying a horse ride... she got the biggest horse!
While we were waiting to catch the train, a man showed Kylie and Chris how to do the stick pull. Chris tried it first with another boy about his height and age. Chris beat him two times. He also beat Kylie. He's strong!
Riding the train!
This picture was taken at 5:45 on the morning of August 31st! Hail woke us up from a dead sleep! It was about the size of a dime or nickel and seemed to come out of a dry sky. We couldn't see any clouds to the north. There was lots of lightning... quite a storm for hot August.
Janie with a good gut laugh while Grandma ticked her. We were waiting at Balmforth's for Katee's mission call.
After doing this post, I realize what a busy August it was! I should do these more often than once a month. I sure enjoyed this wonderful summer. But I LOVE fall!
