Shop Hop

I dragged Karen and Katie to the Holiday shop hop this year. Katie was lucky enough to spend all day Friday with me going to Utah county and Salt lake county stores. It was fun to see all the Rag quilts, Patch work quilts, Scrap quilts. How popular Yo-Yo's are what you make with them. Also what you can do with Ribbon and Ric Rac. Some of my favorite shops were Gracie's Lou, The Quilting Cottage, and Material girls.

Thanks for going with me Katie sorry you didn't win anything.

Birthday

For my birthday Jason surprised me with new ear phones for running, and running clothes. He also remembered to get me the secret garden movie. To celebrate my birthday we went to Rodizio Grill then we attempted to hike up Bell Canyon. After we went to dinner with friends to a great Mexican restaurant. My mom bought me a cold stone cake, I recommend the mint oreo. It was soooo good. Thanks Mom!

Aunt Mar is the "my favorite aunt on my mom side" family joke. She always makes me feel special on my birthday she took me clothes shopping and well she basically bought me a running wardrobe which is what I was hoping for. Thanks Aunt Mar!

I joked around with my mom about wanting to get canning products to be able to can. Eventually I hope to be more domesticated in the home. Thought this was a good start. Aunt Key gave me an awesome book and some cute little bottles. I can't wait to go bottle with her now.

Jason's parents know how much I have started to loving sewing so they bought me a cute new sewing box. I have yet to pack up and start using it. Thanks for letting me always borrow all your sewing supplies. I promise one day I will give you back all the bobbins I have borrowed.


I work with an individual who knows where Richfield is loves to joke about it. I think he lived in Marysville for a while so that makes us neighbors. For my birthday he brought me in this crazy cake.

Gardens

We were able to go Thanksgiving point gardens. I never knew you could grow black flowers, or two toned flowers. I love the waterfalls, even though they are man made. I think that is why during the summer I always looked for hikes including waterfalls.

Were we went into the Secret Garden room and it brought back my memories of reading the book and watching the movie countless times. I had to ask for it for my birthday. I'm a nerd what can I say.

This week in Richfield

Before


After

We had a couple of days in Richfield this week. We were there for a funeral and to spend time with Shell's brother who was here from Michigan. We spent all Thursday from about 10 in the morning to 9 at night working on Shell's parents front yard. When we didn't finish on Thursday we had to work another half a day on Friday. Here are the before and after picture of how the project turned out. It was a lot of work, especially because it was just Shell and me doing all the work.

Boating

On Friday we decided all the hard work was done and we needed to go boating. We got to the lake the boat ran for a few minutes and died. My brother was the only one in the boat so Jason swam out to help him get the boat back to shore. After getting premium gas and starter fluid it would start and stop. They finally flipped a switch and we were off. We were both able to knee board Jason wake boarded. I love being on the lake especially when no one else is on the lake. We were even able to teach Kimmie how to knee board she did awesome. I can't wait for next summer so we can get out on the lake and play some more.

Ghost Falls

Ghost Falls Hike located behind the Draper Temple was a pretty easy hike more like a walk. We walked into the corner canyon for about an hour and to see ghost falls. As we were finishing the hike we were able to get some great views of the Draper Temple.

Parade of Homes

It has been a tradition of ours to go to the parade of homes. However, due to the economy the parade of homes was a major let down. We only went to one night and decided not to go to any others. Most of the homes were model homes and were not decorated. In the past I've looked forward to the cute decorative ideas in each house.