More Summer Again...of the Northern Utah Variety

School was cancelled for today and tomorrow due to extreme temperatures, which means that seminary is also cancelled so I am going to use my lesson planning time to post. I may even be able to do some more catching up tomorrow because I am done with my school work for this week. I am a bit nervous about my new classes. My Marriage class doesn't look too scary. One assignment for my Journalism class requires me to spend time following/interviewing someone every week of the semester so that I can write a human interest piece on them. My Advanced Lit class requires three 10 page papers and they are graded based on whether or not the students who are editing the journal that I submit them to publish them. I will also have to edit for one journal and decide the fate of other students and then I will be graded based on which of their papers I publish. I hate when my grade is in the hands of someone else, and I am not too crazy about having to mess with other people's GPA's either. I am glad now that I only took 3 classes this semester because they all look like a lot of work.

Let's get back to summer since it sure doesn't feel like summer right now. I realize that for the amount of time that we were gone, I really didn't take that many pictures and so now there are huge gaps in my mind about what we did. A lot of the time we were just relaxing and hanging out and it seemed weird to bust out a camera, but I actually liked that we were not running around site seeing as much, but rather just enjoying being with people we never get to see.

We did spend a day at The Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point. The outdoor area was fun, but I was not a big fan of the museum part of it. It was probably because everyone in Utah was there that day so it just felt like chaos to me.











 
Alyssa always talks about going to BYU one day so we thought we would take the kids over to see the campus. It overwhelms me! There are more intersections on campus than there were in the whole town of Cedar City when I went to college. We had lunch at The Creamery and thought it was WAY overrated but the Y donuts were good. 

 
We had a mini Girls Weekend overnighter. We swam, which I have pics of on my water proof camera, and now that I think of it I have some other pics of the trip on that camera too. Maybe I will get them loaded one day, but not today. We also painted pottery and just hung out, and had an overnighter at Grandma Ann's and Grandma Grandma's since they are now neighbors. 





 
My dad and my brother, Michael recently moved to Bountiful, Utah so we had even more family to visit than usual. The night before we went to Bountiful we hung out with Mike and Makinzee, and Kevin and Shikay. I did not get any pictures, but Shikay kept talking about the corn dog truck by her house so Seth was itching to find a corn dog truck. Luckily there was one called Dude's Foods in the parking lot of the grocery store by my dad's house. The guy that worked there, Dude I guess, was really funny so we were both fed and entertained. They turned an old bus in to a dining area, so that's where we grubbed. 
 
We also went with my dad and Linda to This is the Place State Park. We had fun, but I think it would be a nicer park if the LDS church owned and operated it. I don't mean that to by snotty at all, but I think they would run it better and the admission would be free. 












 
This old picture of Alex kissing his cousin, Lilly was on my dad's bulletin board and since I don't have a copy of it I took a picture of the board. Isn't that so cute? 
 
Michael's oldest son, William, needs a dog. He spent about 6 hours straight chasing Bernie around.




 
Jeff recently bought a house in Eagle Mountain so one night he cooked us all a delicious dinner and then we roasted marshmallows in his backyard fire pit. 








 
That's all I've got for now from Northern Utah, but now I need to go dig up that waterproof camera and see what is hiding on it.