Welcome Home!

This is my cute niece Jessica Patterson.  She just returned from serving a mission in Chile.  We missed her smiling face and enjoyed reading her inspiring letters while she was gone.  Welcome home Jessica - we love you!

We Got Some "Autumn" for "Fall Break"

Last week was Fall Break.  Andy and Suzette were kind enough to let us use their condo in Park City, so we decided to drive up on Wednesday and come back Sunday.  Alex had already been invited to go with Taft's family to Rocky Point so we reluctantly went without him.  We were excited to see Emily and spend some time in some cooler temperatures.  

The first thing we did was pick up Emily and go to eat at the Brick Oven.  Brad and I hadn't been there since our early married days.  Then we went to the Bean Museum at BYU.  We had a fun time looking at all the animals.  

When we got back from our trip, I plugged my camera in and all my pictures were erased.  I don't know what in the heck happened, but I was just absolutely sick about it.  My good husband stepped in to save the day.  We bought a computer program that was able to save all these wonderful pics and more.  Thank you so much honey!  You are a lifesaver!

We dropped Taylor off at BYU with Emily to spend some time and on the way back to Park City we stopped at Thanksgiving Point at a Fall festival called Cornbelly's.  Danny and Ryan had such a great time.  We stayed for a long time.  We went through a corn maze that was in the shape of David Archuleta and then the boys played on the other stuff til they were good and tired.

We decided to play for awhile at Sugarhouse Park in Salt Lake while we waited for Emily and Taylor to meet up with us.  Taylor spent a night with Emily and went to school with her.

There was duck poop everywhere by the pond, so Ryan is scraping out Danny's shoes.

On Saturday, our last day, we decided to drive through the Fall landscape.  We were a little late in the year, but it was still beautiful.  We ate at Dairy Keene in Heber for the 2nd time - the fam loves it!  Then we drove up to Cascade Springs.  It has a special place in our heart because that is where Brad tried to propose to me, but it was closed up for the Winter.  It is beautiful there and it was a perfect day.

Isn't this a great picture?

We were sure missing Alex.  It always feels better 

when the whole family is together

What a great end to a great trip!