Backyard Honeycomb

We finally made it to the train museum.

Switch board.

What did the passengers do back in the day without watches?  When did they know when the trains came?  Good question.  The passengers only knew the train was going to be there either in the morning, noon, or evening.  So they would just come to the platform around these times and wait.

Time zones didn’t matter either.  Because it took days to travel from state to state.

Learning how to skip 🙂

After the trains, we went to one of my favorite restaurants.

They are known for their homemade pita’s.  I always get a sandwich on pita bread.  Everything here is excellent.  Including dessert!

Need a close up!

On the way home we passed Devil’s slide.

What is Devil’s slide?  “Devil’s Slide is an unusual geological formation.  The slide consists of two parallel limestone strata that have been tilted to lie vertical, protruding 40 feet out of the mountainside.  Intervening layers have eroded more quickly, forming a channel some 25 fee wide running hundreds of feet down the mountain.”

Another fun day!

When you pick up leaves, it’s officially fall!

I love to see that smile.

I am so grateful Eli came to our family!  I’m so blessed to hold the coveted, exhausting, glorious position of being a mother.

We didn’t know if Eli was going to dress up or go trick or treating due to  his surgery yesterday.  We gave him some Tylenol and he was ready to go.

Mormor came to his school dressed as a witch.  Everyone loved her glasses.  They had skulls on them that moved.  They were pretty fun.

Eli didn’t go to school today, we only came for the Halloween parade.  Which we missed.

Wait, what?  Another batman?

Mormor and morfar 🙂

Eli wanted me to be a butterfly and Paul a lion.  I found fairly wings at the dollar store for me and a pirate hat for Paul.  Sorry, no lion outfits for $1.00.

For some reason we don’t have any pictures of Eli Trick or Treating.  The only picture we have of the night is going to Paul’s parents house.  I document EVERYTHING and take hundred pictures.  I guess this night is an exception.

Paul and I enjoyed every minute of Eli’s first trick or treating.  Going to each was so much fun!   We took the wagon so he could ride to the door step and not have to walk very far.  After a couple of houses doing this, he didn’t want anything to do with the wagon.  He started running to houses with groups of other kids.  After 2.5 hours we had to call it a night.

Eli went into surgery today to fix his hernia.  Primary Children’s hospital is seriously the best hospital.

All the doctors and nurses were the best!

Waiting for him to go in the was worst.  Just the waiting and anticipation.  We were also SO hungry.  To keep Eli occupied they had oodles of toys to play with and cars to ride in.

His surgery was pushed back.  So we kept  walking to keep him busy.

And walking!

And then his surgery was pushed back again.  He was supposed to go in at 10:30 am.  It’s now 1:30pm.  Eli took the waiting very well, even without food!

Walking and walking!  Good thing I wore the most comfortable shoes!

Then it was time.  They picked him up in a wagon and off they went.

His surgery was an easy fix and we weren’t expecting any complications.  That was the only thing keeping us calm.

45 minutes later we were able to see him.

His surgery went well without any issues like we hoping and expecting.

They asked him if he wanted a Popsicle.  And of Course he wanted the red one.  This boy was starving!  He ate 4 Popsicles.

This was his ride out of the hospital.

Onto the couch.  He was only down for about a half hour and he was up running around.  Literally running around.  I would love to have that kind of resilience after my surgeries!

We had a fun Saturday watching the Bison Roundup at Antelope Island.

Volunteers ( that pay to round up the bison 🙂 ) Come with their horses.  They ride throughout the island and round up the bison.

They round up all bison except for the bulls.  They are too strong and they break the holding pens.

They round up the bison to a large pen.  They let a few come down at a time.

Waiting for the bison to come down.

They used a large front loader to push the bison down.

The veterinarian tags the bison.

They were so loud in the shoot.

holding the bison so the veterinarian can check him out.  Then they release the bison and off they go back to to roam the island.

It was a long fun day.  Eli was getting tired.

But not tired enough to play in the sand.  Lots of sand.

We ended the day at the Burger Bar.  Paul likes their burgers because they have specialty meats like Elk burger, buffalo burger, ostrich burger, alligator burger, and wild boar burger.  The burger of the day was alligator.  Paul didn’t see it until after we ordered.  Too bad, I would have tried a bite of that.

Elk hunting this year was freezing!!!

Lunch!

Eli and I stayed back while Paul hunted.  We went on walks every day, played in the snow, the mud, and turned over every rock in camp.

See the little toes relaxing on the chair?

When Paul came back from hunting, the three of us went out again.

Cute little tracks.

We didn’t see any elk, but we saw plenty of moose!  Everyday on our walks we either saw a bull moose, cow moose, or baby moose.  Sometimes all three together!

During the hunt they didn’t see any Elk either.  Only Elk tracks and moose.

I Love Monte’s hat.  I have never seen him in a warm hat.  He must have ears of steel.

The mountains sure are beautiful.

Back at camp looking for Elk.  Well, not really looking for Elk, we were looking for rock and sticks.  🙂

This moose wandered into camp.

Hunting was fun as always.  We have been hunting the same mountain the last three years.  Maybe next year we can go somewhere new??