Sunday, July 26, 2009

Impromtu trip to Payson aka beating the heat

Richard and I decided on the spur of the moment to visit Rod and Sharla for Rod's birthday. We knew it would be cooler up north but had no idea how wonderful it would be. A strong monsoon storm had come through the area and cooled things off. When we left the valley it was 110 degrees. Within 1 hour we were to Mt. Ord and in a fierce rainstorm which dropped the temperature to about 65 degrees. Once we were through the scary part of the storm it was pure heaven. Here we are with Rod and Sharla after dinner at our hotel.
We took a little drive before we returned to the heat into the forest. Parking at the side of the road we hiked a little way to get a good vista picture of the rim area.
Here is one of the pictures Richard took. Breathtaking.
This is what my man did to get the picture.....risking his life over barbed wire. Thanks for the great shots honey.
Here he is trying to pull up a manzanita bush. My mom had one of these that she hung ornaments on. I wanted to do the same....only we didn't really have anything to dig it up with. Oh well, maybe next time.
Mistletoe growing in one of the trees. Yes...this warranted quite a little bit of smoochin.....
He was so sweet to sit on wet ground and let me try out my camera a little on him. Hmmm.....what a hunka hunka burnin love. Oh man!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Park City

Here are some pictures that we had done by Three Winks Studio out of Salt Lake City. We met in a park by our Resort in Park City and I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful setting for our latest family portrait. Above is Peter and you can take a guess what is dripping from his hand! The kids had just busted a pinata and he must have had 3 pieces of candy in his mouth. Needless to say....it didn't all fit and had to come out somehow. Priceless.
Sweet Bianca with her July 4th pin wheel
Anna getting her candy. How precious.

Anna and Lindy
Richard facilitating the pinata play. Cute lining up.
How sweet, Michael helping Peter with his turn with Levi on the right.
Kyle
Aaron
OOH La La!
Richard and I with our kids.
Richard and I with our kids and their spouses.
Tyler and Becky
Richard and I with the grandkids and their July 4th sunglasses!
Carter, Dana, Michael, Anna and Ryan.
Jimmy, Kaila and Jordan
Peter, Adam, Levi, Natalie, Reanna, Ben, Caprina and Sam.
Bianca, Abish, Dustin and Lindy.
Here are all 26 of us!(until Dana's new baby comes in November...it is hard to keep a current family picture with everyone in it!) I love the way Stacy, our photographer put it all together. We took these at 8 AM and it was chilly, the grass was wet and more than a few balked at not wearing shoes. I love the way these all turned out. We had a wonderful vacation, stayed at a fabulous place, and best of all enjoyed just spending time together.