Colorado Parks

Sculpture Park in Loveland, CO

This is an amazing park with lots of talent

Harrell's New Pad in CO

Our famous Frosh QB...go Mikal

Becki & Sam kept the little ones busy so we could all enjoy the game. Grandma Harrell came to join in on the fun...Steven really likes glasses.

Longmont Stake Fair

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Matt thought it very nice of his Stake to plan such a big birthday party for him....and planned months before they even moved to Longmont.

Annika loved blowing big bubbles. Jenna and the girls participated in face painting by the YW. Dave, Matt, Christa and Nate in Pie Eating Contest. They had lots of games, food, and fun for the entire family at a neighborhood park.

Hwy 70 towards Colorado

The scenery was beautiful as we drove through Grand Junction. Glenwood Hot Springs, Georgetown and we could even see snow on the tips of the CO mountains.
We spent four nights with Dave & Heather in their new home










And four nights with Matt's family.
These two bro's just live 5 miles apart.










Marylyn, Annika & Andy flew in
from WA to come play with us in CO.

Utah Friends & Family

Had a nice visit with the Bybee family.

Connie Hull with Karen and Royce and grand- children.

Joe's family are settled in their new Utah home. Lots of room inside and outside. Alyssa did recently brake her ankel while jumping on their trampoline. Daniel did his fast offering collections in a golf cart. Meg is excited to be enrolled in early morning seminary which gives her more electives at school. Miranda still loves school work best. Ben-jamin is having fun checking out his new home.

Heritage Park - Wednesday

This is the Place Monument commemorating the Mormons' entrance into Salt Lake Valley.





















Heritage Park is a living-history village with more than 40 structures typical of an 1847-69 Utah community. This home was about the size of Dave's moving pod and housed a family with several children. Marv's pioneer ancestors experienced the handcarts and wagons. As we walked through the village we could feel the faith and strength of our pioneer ancestors.

Cove Fort

After attending the St. George Temple Tuesday morning, we drove on to Cove Fort, which was built in a 7 month period in 1867 to serve as a way station for people traveling between the central Utah communities of Fillmore and Beaver...a 60 mile journey that usually took 2 days. The fort provided safety, shelter, fresh stream water and plentiful livestock feed.

At the top of each bed there is a rolling pin which was used to roll out the leaves or straw in the matress and kill the bed bugs. This is the kitchen where meals were prepared and served.

During the huge Utah forest fire in August, it completely encircled this fort and also the trailers that house the missionaries....the only thing burnt was a large trash can. We were amazed as we looked around at all the burnt land and yet the building and trailers were safe.

We drove on to Payson where we met Joseph's family for a barbeque at Gerri's home. As the sun started setting we drove on to Lehi to spend the night.

Leaving California for Utah

We left CA very early Monday morning and decided to take a stretch in Las Vegas walking around this amazing hotel...they even have a large beach area with waves, sand, lounge chairs. After lunch we hit the road again heading for St. George.

After getting our hotel we went to the St. George Visitor's Center where we learned that this temple was dedicated in 1877 and the only temple available to the pioneers for several years.



Monday night for "family night" we got tickets to the Tuacohn Amphetheatre where Donny Osmond was performing. He put on a great show...very personable, entertaining, and fun music. The second half he showed video's of past performances when he was a kid and then sang the same songs with today's beat.