The last day of our min vacation.
Breakfast: Eggs, hashbrowns, fruit, and strawberries with clotted cream. Mmmm..very tasty!
We didn’t do anything today except eat 🙂 and watch movies.
That evening we went to the rodeo. We sat on the front row. So much fun!
See how close we were!
Eli had a LOT of fun!
Eli had a lot of fun at the rodeo. We will definitely be back next year.
We continue our mini vacation to Rockport.
We stayed in Riverside campgound. And we will never stay here again. Why??
We thought we were staying in the campground across the lake. Nope.
Further to the dam.
Further…
Yup. That is where we stayed. In the dust bowl. Windy, dusty, windy, and windy.
Oh, and the name and description of the campground, riverside? Yeah, that was code for spillway that leads to a river.
Why not go fishing? We are camped here.
While Paul and Eli did a little fishing…
I enjoyed my lunch.
I sure love my little boy.
Strawberry reservoir is one of our favorite places to fish. I think it’s because last year, Paul fished out a kokanee salmon and we cooked it up that evening. The best salmon we have ever had.
Enjoying the blue water and clear skies. The last time we were here the Dollar Ridge fire started. The campgroun was only a few miles away from the blaze.
This was last year. We watched the helicopters come and go dipping their buckets in the lake and pouring water over the fire.
The fire department stayed in the same campground with us. Made us feel a little safer 🙂
We enjoyed a relaxing trip on the boat.
We did a little fishing.
We did a little hiking.
We did a LOT of eating 🙂 We are really enjoying our few days off and being together as a family.
Ferelyn and Court arrived at the campground to pick me ut at 4:00am so we could get to the buses by 4:30.
We made it to the starting line at 5:00am. It was VERY cold. I wore my running jacket and long-sleeved shirt. Ferelyn and Court dropped their jacket before the run, and I will do the same if I run this race again. I will also run in a short-sleeved shirt. It was VERY hot for the last 7 miles in the valley.
We were standing in front of the fire trying to keep warm.
No pictures during this race. Court ran ahead of us and Ferelyn said she would run with me and wouldn’t leave me behind.
They advertise this as a fast marathon, and it was fast! Two miles into the race, Ferelyn said, “see you at the bottom.” 🙂 And ran ahead to finish the race with her personal record of an hour and a half, something crazy like that. They are both great runners!
At the finish line.
I finished 2:15. Not bad for having a food injury and only being able to run for a month before this race. The 7 miles down hill didn’t hurt my time either. 🙂
We moved out of the Lodgepole campground and drove further up the canyon to Strawberry Reservoir and stayed in Soldier Creek campground. This is our favorite campground to stay in. Trees, shade, and close to the water.
Back at the trailer, my muscles were getting VERY tight and stiff. This blue roller was the only thing I brought with me. Every hour I rolled every hurty muscle. 🙂
That’s my boy!
I was starving after my run. Grilled tuna sandwich, grapes, chips, and avocado with everything bagel seasoning. Lots of protein to help with my achy muscles.
Mountains and trees are for little boys.
Lots of playing and riding the scooter.
That night for dinner: Salmon, squash, and corn on the cob in foil packets.
After dinner we had smores. This is how I like smores. Chocolate, marshmallow, and another piece of chocolate. Who needs graham crackers?
My first marathon of the year came quick. I am NOT ready for it. With my foot injury I was only able to train for a month.
Ferelyn and Court said they would run the race with me. I told them it won’t be a good race, but they wanted to come anyway. I’m so glad they wanted to run because I am so nervous to run with my foot.
I picked up all our bibs.
Since the race was up in Heber, we decided to pull the trailer and get away for a few days and do some camping, hiking, and boating.
We pulled into our camping spot. We stayed in Lodgepole campground. This campground was about 10 miles from the starting line. It was nice to be so close so we didn’t have too far to drive to get to the race tomorrow. We have to be at the buses by 4:30am so they can bus us up to the top of the mountain.
Ferelyn and Court are staying at moms house. They have an hour drive tomorrow and then they have to get me! It was so nice of them to let Paul and Eli sleep.
We had fun walking around the campground.
I love my little boy.
This campground was very pretty. Very green and VERY buggy.
Very nervous for tomorrow! Hopefully I can get a few hours sleep!
This is a bitter sweet day. I really liked this store. It was cute and easy to run. The employees were great and I will really miss them.
This will be the last time I get work done in this store. I had to have my celebratory cookie and complimentary milk out of the bottle case 🙂
I am sad. Eli had fun helping employees prep. He also LOVED doing the dishes. He loved to spray the sprayer in the 3 compartment sink.
This will be Eli’s last time making a sandwich for himself. Well, at this store. We do still have our large store…
As part of the celebration, we went out to dinner. Cucumber and avocado Sushi with some white creamy sauce and eel sauce.
I went to my favorite bakery. Mrs. Bakers and picked up a tasty cake to celebrate.
With all the good and bad that came with running 5 stores, it feels pretty good to sell. It’s time to be a full time stay at home mom.
It took forever to warm up and now it’s 100′ The bees are getting hot.
We went to the big hive to set up a watering system for them.
The horses always come over to say hello.
Eli called himself farmer Eli.
For the water jar, Paul poked holes in a mason jar lid.
This is boardman feeder. The jar is placed upside down in the feeder.
When the jar is filled with water and tipped upside down, water doesn’t come out. The bees walk up through the feeder and drinks from the jar.
Paul also put in a queen excluder. This screen keeps the queen bee down below and allows all the other bees to move up to the upper boxes.
Why?? To keep the brood out of the honey we collect.
The first two boxes will be brood and honey for the bees to eat. Above the queen excluder will be honey for us.
The queen excluder on top of box two.
Paul slid in the feeder so the bees can access the water from inside the hive.
Pretty cute!
Before we left, we had to feed the horses their treats.
He is so cute!
Love you little pea!
The little hive is looking pretty good.
This is where the queen bee came out.
There she is. The queen bee. Paul successfully raised a queen for this hive.
You can tell the difference between the queen and the worker bees because of her size and stripes. She is longer than the other bees and doesn’t have stripes.
That bee made me laugh. She was busy doing something in that cell.
See the bee with the giant yellow pouches on her legs? That is pollen.
So far so good. The hive has a queen and they are making honey. This is becoming a cute little hive.
Started out the day with a 6 mile run. I need to make room for some calories. It’s Monday so that means lunch and a treat.
Today we are pretty excited for lunch. The prison brought back breakfast! We haven’t been here for several months due to not having breakfast.
I know it’s crazy, but we like coming here. The food is good and reasonably priced….ok, it’s cheap. 🙂 But it’s really good.
See how thick those pancakes are?
Aaron is so tired of my pictures. I don’t care. One day he will thank me for documenting all our trips to the prison for lunch.
Mmm….
We can’t forget about tater tots and fry sauce.
Eli loved them.
After lunch we went to Pleasant Grove and stopped in at Sweetopia to pick up a little dessert.
They were good, but nothing special.
Another fun Monday lunch with Aaron and Mormor!
Finally, we received the bees for our little hive. We had to wait a while because of the weather. It has been in the 50’sand it needs to be in the 60’s to open the hive or else the bees would get cold. If they get cold, the new brood will get chilled.
Paul purchased his beehives from Eco Bee Box. This is a picture inside the shop. It’s a cute little place.
The owner, Albert, has a lot of everything in his store 🙂 Lots of wax, candles, and lots of flavors of honey. Just ask, he will let you have a taste 🙂
Instead of purchasing 10,000 bees and a queen bee, Paul wanted to raise his own queen bee.
Wood to block the bees from coming out of the hive while we drive home 🙂
On the pole. Their new home!
Paul purchased brood (bee eggs) and bees. The bees in the hive detect there isn’t a queen bee so they turn one of the eggs into a queen.
How? By feeding the larvae royal jelly. The bee’s body can create royal jelly, wax, and honey.
We removed the wood and let them explore their new home!