Scenery changes

Whirlwind business trip with Honey last week. I decided to go with him this time instead of staying home. I was excited that I was going to be able to "see" Steamboat this time around! Last year, we were late to the annual meeting and the town shut down by the time it was over. This year, almost the same thing happened. I am hoping that NEXT YEAR I can actually shop the shops and look around. It is one beautiful valley. Oh well. It was a business trip and Honey gets busy with things like...business...go figure.

I was bored with all the driving so decided to take pics of the scenery that we saw as we traveled. It's all beautiful in its own way.

First stop was Salt Lake, Utah. While Honey was in meetings, I shopped a bit, then drove around the Avenues. I love the architect of all the old houses. Got lost and found the Capital building too.

This is Meeker, Colorado. Honey loves this place. I told him I couldn't live there because they have snakes. He kept telling me that they didn't have any snakes. I told him that we passed one of the highway that was dead. He didn't believe me. Well. The manager had just caught two rattlers while on a job site and killed them. No thanks!

 

Steamboat Springs, CO. Gorgeous, beautiful, spectacular place! Now this is some place I could live (snakes or no snakes)! I picked up a couple of Home magazines that showed what was for sale around there. I don't think we are going to be moving there anytime soon. Lots of homes for $3 or 4 million. Even found one going for $20 million!!! What does someone do for a living to have that kind of cash to live in a home that expensive?! The area reminds me alot of Jackson but I think Steamboat may be a bit more upscale, if you can believe that.

 

Drove back through Meeker and then back over to Vernal, Utah.

 

Then it was time to head home. We have to pass Flaming Gorge. Quite a popular place for boaters and fishermen.

 

It was a quick 3 days, at least I got my book finally read. I hope this next week I can get some sewing in!

New purchase

I have a lil' nook in my front entry that has been empty since we moved in. I'm not much of a decorator so I have been ignoring that space for the past 2 years. Yesterday though I found something that I loved and brought it home with me. I had a gift card from a furniture store in Utah because I have been a "good" customer. I used that to get the clearance price down where it was more reasonable plus did a bit of bargaining with the salesman to lower the price even further. Now here we are in our new home! I'm so excited to have a place to put some of my quilts where I can always see them. (Yes, I know I have to learn to fold them all the same but I was excited to get them in the cabinet before I ran off to Church!)

 

 

Is it already the middle of July?

Yet another business trip for the Honey. But it meant that we got to visit the oldest child with his very cute wife who is having our 2nd grandbaby (girl) at the end of September.

Getting ready to eat at Saltgrass restaurant. Was fun trying to find new places to eat!

 

Had to attend a Rockies game. Too bad they lost. And it rained.

 

Downtown. I love old buildings!

 

In all the times I have been to Denver, I never knew there was a blue bear peering into the window of the Convention Center downtown! I know! Where have I been?!

 

Quilt Show

While at the Oregon Trail Center, we stumbled upon a small quilt show. I always love to look at other people's quilts. Here are a few of the beauties we saw:

My Wonderful 4th of July Weekend!

We rode jet skis

on this beautiful lake

and visited this historical center

watched a small town parade

and visited this beautiful pioneer Tabernacle

Found an ice cave to visit in the afternoon

Then got ready to watch the fireworks going off around the lake.

Had a great time!

You Have Made Me Truly Love

31 years ago I married my best friend.

 

Camp Zebra 2009

Once again I found myself at our Church's Girl Camp this past week. I have never been much of a camper. When I was growing up, our camp consisted of a mess hall, cabins and swimming pool. Now I have to take girls to camp and cook over a fire and pitch tents! Not the easiest thing for me to do but I have to admit that it is getting easier and I do love being with the girls so it really is fun. I didn't want to show pics of the girls but I will show the pic of my daughter in law eating a worm. I actually ate a cricket. We played a game where you got points if you ate a bug. Sort of like Fear Factor. The bigger the bug, the more points you got. Thank goodness the cricket tasted like the crunch of a sunflower seed!

We made banana boats in the fire...recipe is simple...just unpeel a banana and add small marshmellows and chocolate chips to it and then roll up in foil. Place on the fire to melt for about 10 minutes and you have a tasty treat! The girls love them and they are so much better than s'mores!

The theme of camp was, "It's a Jungle Out There". We were the Zebras. Look at the cute sign our camp director made for our camp.

On the last night, we had rain. It rained all night and into the morning. I was glad all the girls had mattresses to put their sleeping bags on or else they could have been soaked like some of the other campers. The picture shows my own tent with a puddle of water in it. The rain did not let up all night so I felt fortunate that this was all the water I had in the tent when I finally got out of bed!