We took an hour today and drove to the copper mine. It’s the world’s largest excavation and open-pit copper mine.
This is the outside.
This is the inside.
How big are those trucks driving down there?
Here is a tire from one of the trucks.
The bed of the truck. The truck is the size of a two story townhouse.
The dirt slide was part of the landslide that happened in 2013.
This equipment detected slope deformation and the crews were evacuated. No one was injured in this slide. I wish they could start using this for earthquake detection.
Two: This little guy was in the green and school without any card moves! For only 1 day, but FINALLY, he did it!
Three: Made my first candle out of beeswax from our hives. The cutest little thing. It’s only 2 inches!
Four: We catered the missionaries lunch. My phone number gets passed down to the new missionaries that come into the stake. Always happy to bring them lunch!
Five: Service. I’m grateful I had the opportunity to serve others. Their payment to me was a picture 🙂
Always nice to remember the good and the positive that happens throughout the week!
We started the day with a family reunion at a splash pad.
I caught up with one of my cousins. She is running her first 1/2 marathon this month and gave me her ideas on how she stays hydrated during her runs. I’m running a 1/2 marathon Saturday and will be trying her ideas. I’m excited to see if helps me stay hydrated and fueled.
That evening we went to dinner at Siragusa’s.
They have excellent sweet potato gnocchi in their house cream sauce. Really tasty.
I couldn’t help it. I purchased more pumpkins. You can’t have too many, right 🙂
Good thing for holidays. We needed a day to take off and enjoy being a family.
My little pea is in kindergarten! I’m so excited for him.
I’m going to miss him during the day, but he is going to a fantastic school and I know he is in loving hands. The teachers are great and they see what each child needs. They ordered 1st grade curriculum for him and will continue to work with him at the level he needs.
Went for a run. Worked on speed today and really pushed myself. It sure was different to just…run. No little coxswain to tell me, “run faster, mommy.” “It’s boring when you run slow.” 🙂
It’s Monday, so we went to the prison for lunch.
They all asked where my son was. I guess we go here a lot 🙂
See that empty chair. That is little pea’s chair. We tried to take a sad picture, but it looked terrible, so smiles it is. But we were really sad he wasn’t there!
I had to eat my egg and cheese bagel by myself.
After lunch we went to schmidt’s bakery for a treat. They have the best chocolate mint filled cookies.
My laptop died this morning so that evening my computer guys tried to fix it. So far it’s not looking good.
Thank you for fixing my video on my blog! 🙂 Even though blog work isn’t very fun for him, I appreciate all he does. I really love his guy.
Albert from Eco Bee Box gave us a frame with three layers of wax. A normal honeycomb that is built by bees only have 1 layer.
Albert wanted to know if the bees would dismantle this frame of “broken” wax and rebuild the wax elsewhere in the hive on other frames.
We decided this would be a great experiment for the large beehive.
The purpose of this experiment is to give bees wax so they don’t have to waste their time and energy on making wax. This will be good for a smaller hive to build up quicker by letting the bees concentrate on making honey and taking care of their brood, instead of making wax.
This is a close up of the three broken layers.
This is how I dress 🙂 I’m so going to get stung one of these days.
What does a 4 year old do to keep busy?
Soaking himself!
I am getting brave. I touched a few bees!
Putting the experimental frame in the hive.
We will give if a few days and see what the bees do!
We love visiting Colorado. The temperature is 10′ cooler and it’s so green.
We stopped off at the Colorado Temple.
Eli had so much fun with Rin.
Gage taught him how to play video games. Again, I guess I have deprived my son….
We played with their cute puppy. Eli now wants another dog.
Too old for pictures.
They have a park across the street from their house. Eli thought it was the coolest thing to open the front door to a park!
He loved these springy things.
One day we ate lunch at Garbanzo. If you want a great tasting falafel, come here. I enjoyed my wrap. Next time I will skip the hummus. I like hummus, but it over powered the falafel. Excellent lunch.
I thought I had a picture of Court and the whole family hanging out on the couch. I can’t seem to find it. But it was enjoyable to be with Ferelyn and her family.
We always have to stop here for donuts.
These long john donuts are to Colorado as a warm croissant is to Paris. If you pass through you must experience one.
They are filled with white fluff, or we call it, icing. 🙂 So tasty. This is why I ran 13.1 miles! So I can eat one of these for breakfast EVERY morning.
Our last day we at breakfast at Snooze. I thought it was going to be another breakfast/ Ihop place…
This was most delicious breakfast I have had. They don’t have cooks in the back, they have chefs. Everything had great flavor. Even Eli’s pancake.
I ordered the Smashed Avocado Benny. When I run the race next year, we are coming back to this restaurant!
We always enjoy coming out for a visit. Thank you for letting us stay with you for a few days!
Since we drove all this way for the marathon, we decided to stay for a few days.
But first, I need to document our drive up. We drove the Wyoming route and stopped in Little America for clean bathrooms.
I’m always impressed when we pass through here. The door handle of the individual stalls in the bathroom.
Ceiling light in our bathroom stall 🙂 With crown molding. You don’t get this at a gas station bathroom.
Eli was so wonderful during this trip!
We saw a double rainbow.
We stopped off for ice cream.
We stopped off at the park.
Eli experienced his first kids meal. I know, I’m an awful parent to not let him experience this earlier. He has experienced “Kids” meals at our stores, be he said it’s not the same. 🙂
