I have been to a lot of donut and dessert places around the valley and this is the BEST glaze donut I have had.
The donut is quite large as well. When I’m down south I will stop by again!
Oh, Hobby Lobby I can’t bring home all the scarecrows.
I decorated a bulletin board for Eli’s school. I wanted something different and came up with the 3-D butterflies. I think they fun!
Since school has started our schedule has been busy and I have been having a hard time keeping track of Eli’s singing and swimming lessons. The next morning I looked at my planner and found a note from him 🙂
Want a delicious cinnamon roll? Here it is!
While we were waiting for our order they gave out free cinnamon rolls. They were delicious. Thinking about them as I type I need to go back and get one. Hmm…are they open at this time of night? 🙂
We started out our ride by stopping at the gas station that makes their own donuts. Paul chose one that was longer than his arm…
Eli chose ice cream 🙂
And I chose the best one 🙂 Blueberry with cream cheese icing.
We took a left to see Lambert Meadow. We drove for several miles and came to a dry river bed. The terrain wasn’t terrible rocky, but a little more than I like. I drove across it and a mile later we decided to turn around.
On the way back Eli wanted to drive and asked to switch. I told him after we cross the riverbed he could drive. He asked again. He said, “Mom, I want to be a good driver, please let me drive.” What? My little boy is right. How is he going to learn unless he drives? So we switched.
On the way back we took the other road to Alexander Lake. Eli drove quite a bit and he did a great job driving. He is becoming a great driver!
Alexander Lake.
We walked to the lake and we found several dragonflies. These dragonflies were HUGE and they were flying around and being very curious about us.
Our crazy boy! 🙂
Beautiful dragonflies with vibrant colors.
This was the only flower we saw on our ride.
Lunch! We freeze dried chicken a few days ago. When we came to the lake, Paul heated water and rehydrated the chicken. Add avocado and Paul had a warm chicken sandwich. He said it was very tasty.
Ready to head back down, but first we explored the area and found a camping site a little further in we are going to use next year.
This was a really fun ride. The roads were nice and easy to ride on.
On the way back down we had to race the weather. We almost made it down and it poured rain. We were soaked. We made it to the truck right in time and it started to hail! This was a fun drive and I’m glad we took time to come up here.
I failed to get a picture of the trailhead, oh well. We started at Ruth Lake Trailhead.
We went with Monte, Brian, Jackie, and Ross.
It was a wet morning.
The rain brought out the flowers lining the trail.
We passed some goats. I’m bringing these next trip!
Made it to Ruth Lake.
Eli gave me many flowers. I love this little boy!
It’s always fun to see water lilies.
Top of Ruth lake looking down.
We passed Liberty lake.
Coming down the boulders into Jewel lake.
2 miles to our camp site.
Just waiting at the bottom.
After we set up camp, the sun came out.
Paul did a little fishing.
Eli did a little fishing.
Monte did a little fishing.
Back at camp I didn’t get Jackie in her hammock, but she looked really comfortable. We need to pick one up for our next trip!
Making dinner. This made us laugh. The men making dinner with a mini kettle and tiny measuring cup. After carefully measuring out water, how much do you put in? Just dump the rest in! Ha!
The next morning we took a different route over the boulders. This way was a little easier than the way we came in, but it was still a tough climb. Look at that blue lake!
Note for next time. When we go into Jewel lake, stay to the left, or the middle trail. The middle trail leads down an easier path through the boulders 🙂
A little pond on the way back.
Saw this guy on the side of the road on the way home.
My first 10 miles back to running. The COVID lung set me back. A lot!
I decided to sew Rin a bag for her baptism. I haven’t embroidered in years. I had to dust my machine off and figure out how to turn it on!
Turned out pretty cute.
The family, minus Seth.
Rin is so pretty in her dress!
Went to the library and look what parking space I was able to park in. Electric car parking. I love it!
We went out to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. The fried cauliflower was pretty good. The sauce was a bit spicy, but I would try them again. Eli sweet talked the waitress into free ice cream. That boy gets free items out of everyone. A few weeks ago at Great Harvest he talked the ladies into giving him 4 cinnamon rolls!
Paul and I finally made it to the temple.
Eli has been begging me to let him ride his bike to Mormor’s house. So today was the day. I grabbed my shoes and ran next to him. My little coxswain encouraged me to go faster 🙂 I can’t keep up with him, he’s too fast! He had a lot of fun. We will have to take another ride to their house before school starts.
Paul wanted to start out our first backpacking trip of the year with an easy, kid friendly hike. He chose Kamas lake.
We started at the Main Fork Weber River trailhead. Note the distance of 1.5 miles.
The trail started out with a lot of dragonflies.
He needed a selfie with one of the dragonflies, ha!
It was a nice hike up.
Which way? Stay to the right.
We saw a few flowers on the way up. Not sure if we were a few weeks too early or a few weeks too late.
We passed this stream and thought this was a good hike for Eli. We were a mile in and thought this was a perfect hike for him until we turned the corner.
That’s when the climb began. The trail went straight up for a mile! Little Pea was NOT happy. We were not happy. It was a hot, steep, long, hike to the lake. We were not expecting a mile straight up, or the extra mile.
Finally! We made it.
2.5 miles to the lake. Not 1.5 miles. This was not a kid friendly hike 🙂
We set up camp.
Paul did some fishing.
Eli did some echoing 🙂
Eli was pretty excited to do some fishing as well. He wanted to use his new fly case.
I stayed back and read in my net bug free.
Eli joined me. What a cute dimple. 🙂
We ate dinner. Pasta Primavera. Paul thought his picture of me eating was funny.
That night I wore my comfy, cozy socks preparing for a cool night. The socks didn’t help. I was SO cold. Miserably cold. Between Eli and his snoring, the cold, and my insomnia, I think I had about 3 hours of sleep.
When daylight finally came Paul got out of his bag saying how hot he was. Turned out I was in Paul’s bag and he was in mine! Apparently my bag is thicker than his. I won’t make this mistake next trip.
The next morning we hiked over the boulders to the other side of the lake and had a snowball fight.
Eli thought this was funny. See his face. Now that is a genuine smile. Do you see his snowball? Yes, it hit us 🙂
Eli found fossil tracks 🙂
Back at camp we ate lunch, cleaned up, and hiked out.
Kamas lake was a beautiful lake to visit and we had a fun two days. With the downhill hike of a mile at the beginning of the trail and the 1.5 mile up hill to the lake, it was a hard hike both ways. I don’t think we will be back any time soon. Too many other lakes to check out.
Today we went to Myung Rang Hotdog. I’m the one who suggested this one and everyone was surprised because of the hotdog!
They have a table of sauce. You can either use their formula or make your own.
Eli’s is on the bottom. A sausage dog.
The tasty one on top is the potato hotdog. This one is mine 🙂
The outside is potato and the center is filled with cheese! All the meat eaters thought this one was the best! I would have to agree 🙂
After lunch we went down the street to Sweet Churros.
Churro with ice cream!
Chocolate and dulce de leche filled churros for this side of the room.
It was nice of Aaron to treat us to the churros. I drive past this place all the time, so it was fun to try. I wouldn’t come back only because churros are not my thing. Eli was begging to come back because he wanted the churro with fruit. For the price they wanted, I told him we will pick up three churros from Sam’s with several cartons of fruit!
The potato filled with cheese? Will be back tomorrow for another one!
We finally made it to the air show! The last time they had a show one of our Quarry Bend employees refused to come to work so I had to work for him and missed the show. Fast forward through the every other year they put on a show, the COVID years, and finally the time has come to see the show and I’m not going to miss it!
We took the front runner to Hill Air Force base and so did the other 500,000 people. We were crammed in there. Paul and I felt like we were back in London on the tube at rush hour! No seating or standing room. No need to hold on to the railing when the train came to a stop because we all held each other up 🙂
Just as we reached the Clearfield station the train conductor told us they were not going to let any more people onto the base because they reached capacity. We we got off the train and walked to the shuttle anyway. We came all this way. I was going to set up my chair and watch the show from afar. Good thing we stayed. After 1/2 hour they opened the base and we headed up there.
This simple trip to the base was an ordeal. We left home at 10:00 am and arrived on the base at 1:00pm! We were pretty tired when we got there.
The wait and craziness with transportation was worth it. We walked onto the base, found some shade, set up our chairs and these two came out!
Dad walked around showing Eli the planes he worked on when he was in the air force.
He talked my dad into purchasing the most expensive airplane.
It was worth it. He loved it!
He followed all the jets in the sky with it.
Finally the Thunderbirds came out!
F-16’s are my favorite planes. I absolutely love them! I remember being on base for family day. Standing next to the tarmac and having that first jet fly over us. It flew so low and so LOUD! I was hooked on these planes.
It was a VERY long day. We left the base at 4:30pm and didn’t get home until 9:00pm, but it was worth it! I sure hope Eli loved it as much as I did 🙂
Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron came and slept on our couch for the last 7 days!
Meet our nurse. Eli kept our cups full of water and brought us blankets when we were cold. For seven days he played legos and watched PJ Masks all day long. All. Day. Long.
I love my mug. I had this full of sprite every morning.
Eli: “Can I have Doritos for breakfast?”
Lrrr: “Sure.”
Yeah, don’t mind the bed in the living room. 🙂 The nights were brutal. The days were full of coughing, fevers, chills, extreme sore throats, laryngitis, and nausea, but the nights! Oh, the nights were the worst. Coughing, heavy and cut lungs, and the crazy dreams. I dreaded going to bed at night.
Eli watched TV non stop with us. When we were taking a nap, Eli was watching PJ Masks. He must have watched 4 seasons, all episodes three times.
When we were awake we watched cooking shows together. When I watch these shows, I have my laptop next to me downloading recipes. Eli wanted to do the same so he started transcribing the recipes. Every night, a new episode and a new recipe he wrote. Eli said we are going to gather our recipes, make a recipe book and sell it on Amazon. I love it.
This is Eli taking a shower! Okay, not quite, because I asked him to grab soap and he didn’t. 🙂 But, he is cleaner than he was yesterday.
Paul and I were reminiscing that we have had one flu/ cold a couple of years ago that cough was worse than this Omicron. But this is lasting 7 days. That other rough cold/ flu was about 4 days. Just waiting for Lrrr to leave.
This was a terrible way to start out our summer, but we are now immune for the rest of the summer. Time to enjoy the next few months!
