Today’s luncheon we went to my favorite! Summerhays Halibut N’ Chips.
I love fry sauce, and a little fries. The halibut is the best!
For dessert we since we were close to downtown, we went to Brownies, Brownies, Brownies.
Mint brownie, chocolate chip brownie, and butterscotch brownie. I shared all three with Eli and Paul, the but butterscotch wasn’t split equally. 🙂 That one was really good.
A short weekend at Smith and Morehouse.
The colors are trying to come out.
This weekend was a school work weekend. Eli needed to gather items for his science project on prairie dogs. He needed to find items and create a habitat for a prairie dog. Can’t think of another excuse to pack up the trailer and head to the mountains.
We had to use the bulldozer to break up the dirt to put it in the box, of course! 🙂
The red leaves are almost here!
We drove up the road to see the salmon run.
Never a dull moment with him 🙂
Showing me the new way of wearing his hat. Mitchell wears it this way, so he said he is going to start wearing it the same way. 🙂 Makes you remember that anyone can be a great example or a horrible warning!
Here they have the Kokanee Salmon.
Tiny little guys! I guess tiny fish for a tiny river?
Several in there, all pointing up stream.
We walked up the river to see how far they have come.
Yup! Trying to catch one.
They came up a long way.
On the way back home, we stopped at Rockport to see how low the lake is.
Pretty low. Pretty scary.
I started out the day with a run in the wind and rain with the ducks.
When I got home we decided to go for a short hike. We packed lunch and off we went. Not sure the name of the trail we went on, if it even has a name. We went on the one to the right and then to the right, ha!
It was a wet day. Utah hasn’t seen rain in a while and we loved every rain drop that fell.
This is the first time I have been on this trail. The overlooks were amazing.
We saw a few wild flowers.
New acorns on the oak trees.
This was a perfect day for a little boy to play in EVERY puddle.
This little boy had fun in the rain as well. 🙂
I didn’t have my GPS with us, but I think we went up about a mile. We came to an uphill stream and decided this was a great place to turn around. Crazy enough we were going down hill the majority of the hike, so we had to go home up hill!
Fall leaves are trying to come out.
The clouds started to clear.
By the end of our little 2 mile hike, the sun was trying to come out. This was a perfect hike for a little six year old. Enough rain to keep it cool, short to keep his attention, and enough rocks to climb on. This was a good one.
My dad had some business on the base so we came with.
On the way in, we saw this huge playground and we had to check it out. Out of all the parks in the valley, this one was the best park. It wasn’t crowded. You can’t get on the base without being military, so we had plenty of park to ourselves.
Another great thing about this park is, it was 100% covered with those triangle canopy covers. Shielded us from the 101′ sun.
They also had these musical instruments to play.
This was the highlight of the park. Something different!
And of course it would’t be an air force base without the fighter jets making their rounds.
Eli LOVED the park. I enjoyed the jets 🙂 He really wants to go back. We will just have to tag along the next time my dad has to go onto the base!
Went for a treat to a fun little shop. Brownies, Brownies, Brownies.
Look at those brownies!
We came home with these two. They were so delicious. We will definitely be back for more!
Today’s lunch is at Buca di Beppo.
We had fun with a lot of laughs as usual.
We split a large platter with a bunch of pastas. Not too impressed. When we left we discussed that the food really wasn’t that good.
Dessert was at Rockwell.
You can’t go wrong with ice cream. This is Eli’s favorite dessert. Give him a choice of anything and ice cream it is.
Skookie with ice cream. Pretty good. Okay, really good.
Time to get our tasty honey that the bees have been diligently making all summer.
Before we can remove the honey super, the top box with all the honey, we need to remove all the bees. The bees need to be pushed down and out of the honey super, and gather into the bottom brood box.
Paul took off the top layer and put on a layer with a maze.
When the bees go into the maze, they can only go one way. Down to the brood box. The maze doesn’t allow them back in to travel back up to the honey super.
The bees eating honey on the queen excluder. Paul took the queen excluder off and replaced it with the maze.
Eli hanging out with the cutest and curious miniature horse! He really wanted to know what Paul was doing and why he couldn’t go any further.
A few days later the maze was removed along with the honey super. The box was heavy and the frames were full. Nice, thick, dark honey. The bees did an excellent job this summer!
A tool is used to scrape off the wax caps.
Fresh honey exposed.
We borrowed our neighbors honey extractor.
Put the frames in the extractor.
Close the lid and give it a spin. The honey spins off the comb and onto the sides of the extractor.
Out comes the fresh honey. The honey goes through a fine strainer to the bottom of the bucket. From the bucket, the honey goes into jars.
Tasty honey!
Today’s lunch is at Woody’s Drive in.
Eli at the jukebox. 🙂
And then dad and Aaron at the jukebox.
Lunch was Okay. We had the halibut and fries. I’m spoiled with Neils halibut and fries, and these were good, but not Neils. So, I shouldn’t compare. So, were they good? Yes, they were good, and I would come back again. But I would choose Neils first 🙂
Hot and ready.
For dessert we stopped at Krispy Kreme. Eli has never experienced hot and ready. Funny, because the first and only time Paul and I have had hot and ready was when we were out of the state picking up Eli. He was a week old the last time I had these. It sure was fun to eat one with him 🙂
We were all here today 🙂
Had to throw this little guy in here. Not everyday you see a walking leaf!
Paul and Eli were out of town this weekend, so I had the house to myself. I had so much I wanted to do and so little time 🙂
I started my weekend by doing a good deed. Going through the key drop delivery, Nicholas dropped off take out containers that we didn’t order. After letting Nicholas know, they told us to just keep it. This is a common tale I have told before 🙂
We don’t have any use for these containers, so we gave both boxes to the Asian place next to us. In return, they gave us a free dinner. Vegetarian sushi. Not sure what the yellow and orange vegetables were, but they were sweet and very tasty. Monday when I get back to work, I’m going to run over there and ask them. This is what I’m going to be eating next Friday for dinner!
Saturday morning, I slept in 🙂 Went for a run for the first time in 3 weeks. It was brutal. I couldn’t make it to my water breaks. I had to walk many times! I need to make time to run in the evenings.
That afternoon I ran errands and went shopping. I went to the library, TJmaxx, Eddie Bauer, Loft, Walmart, and Sam’s club. ALL without hearing about some complaint. When I got out of the car I kept looking back thinking I have left something. When I got into the stores, I looked at my hands knowing I wasn’t holding enough, but nope, I had my cell phone and keys. Then I realized I was missing my little boy’s hand!!
When I got home, I went into my sewing room to clean up a bit, and I spotted this! Little Pea’s cat boy car. I sure love a clean house, but I miss my little boy.
That evening, my parents picked me up and we went to Zander’s real estate open house. They were the ones who helped us purchase our property. They had fun family games, live music, and food. I couldn’t resist free, or food, so we went for dinner.
Since we purchased a property through them, I was a VIP 🙂 What did that mean? That meant we could go to VIP room and enjoy the dessert table. Almond crinkle for dessert.
After dinner we met up with Bryan and Shayna…
Shayna’s parents and Mitchell…
…and went to the demolition derby. We purchased tickets for the last row on the top of the bleachers. At first I thought this was a bad idea being so far away, but it turned out to be perfect! We were able to stand without worrying about anyone behind us. The only thing we need to next year is make sure we are closest to the isle. It was nice to get in and out without crawling over everyone.
Fun night. We have plans to do it again next year!
Sunday I made dinners for the week, and got caught up on work stuff. It was an enjoyable weekend, but I miss my two boys. Can’t wait to have them home again!
Today’s lunch, we started out with dessert first. Provo bakery.
Now that we are not going to Bountiful for donuts at Dicks, we need to find another bakery with an old fashioned donut. Well, this place wasn’t it. It didn’t have any taste and I threw most of it away.
The icing filled croissants were the best!! I will go back for these.
After dessert we went to Tommy’s Burger for lunch. We were a little nervous when we drove up. As we were thinking about leaving, 4 missionaries came up and said this was an excellent place to eat. While they were ordering, two other people showed up. So we ordered.
The missionaries were right. Everything we ordered was really good! I got my fill of fry sauce, so I was happy!
That evening we went to the Real soccer game.
We went with my parents who are Real fans. notice their attire. It was also pouring rain. By the time we left our pants were soaked. We had a good time, and the butterfly did make it across the field- without the referee’s help. 🙂
We loaded up the four wheelers and headed out.
We had to stop to see where where we were 🙂
We turned left onto trail 406 and rove on this trail until the end to the pond.
This was supposed to be a lake, but it was soooo small, we couldn’t call it a lake so we named it the Beaver Pond. I failed to take a picture of the house, but there is an abandoned beaver house to the left.
We set up camp.
Paul and Eli went fishing. No fish in this pond 🙂
This is a beautiful area, but the pine beetles really got to the pine trees this year. A lot of dead around this pond.
That night in the tent we played a few rounds of Spot it! and then we went to bed.
The next morning, we packed up and headed out. Just a short little trip.