Sunday, August 30, 2009

Tram


We took the tram up to the top of the mountain. We could see the town of Heber. What a view! We went on a hike down to the Paruvian chair lift and took that down to the bottom. It was beautiful scenary. I think that was my favorite part of the day!

Bull Riding


Maddi is haning on for dear life!

Snowbird


Grandpa found us a great activity of visitting Snowbird Ski Resort in the summer. The Alpine slide was one of the favorites!

Snowbird


Aiden doing bungy cords on the trampoline. He did back flips like there was no tomorrow.

Bridal Veil Falls


On the return ride down the canyon we stopped off at Bridal Veil falls. The kids took their shoes off and had a great time climbing on the rocks. It was a beautiful day!

picnic at the canyon


The cousins, look closely and you can see Aiden and Maddi, Sky is looking at Austin

Bike trip


Raquel let Aiden take some rides on the tandom. He absolutely loved it and never wanted to stop.

Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon


This was our bike trip through Provo Canyon. It took a lot of planning but with the help of Raquel, Wendy, and Grandpa it all went quite smoothly. I think we should make it a family tradition.

Tracy's House


We were able to visit Tracy's house. He's doing some remodeling to the kitchen. We were also able to visit his new dog "Sugar". Lets just say no one will be bothering their house or yard for a very long time

Church History Museum


Tracy took us to the Church History Museum. This is Ty standing at the podium giving us a talk. You can see Aiden in the background is one of his counselors.

Grandma Grace's Birthday


We were able to celebrate Grandma's birthday! Her friend made her a delicious chocolate cake. Mmm it was so good.

Maddi's cannon ball!

Sugarhouse Park, Salt Lake


We were able to visit Tracy and he took us for a picnic lunch at Sugarhouse Park. We played some frisbee, and baseball.

Visit to Utah, Aug 09

Our trip to Utah is always packed with tons of fun. This is one of the swim days at Grandma's house!

Monday, August 3, 2009

San Francisco


Last weekend Rob, Courtney, Brandon and I were able to go to our long awaited trip to San Francisco to see the play Wicked. I've been wanting to see this play ever since I heard about it. I was fortunate to find out one of Jason's friends is in the cast and she was able to get us awesome seats. So....the trip started with us taking BART into the city. That in itself was an adventure. There was a homeless guy in the train with us. He would randomly yell out "I thought we were going to Mexico!" He did it so regularly that I would look over at Brandon and he didn't even have a surprised look on his face. At the end of the train ride we were all standing up and this other guy came walking down the isle and as he was passing by Rob he yells out "Happy Saturday Everybody!". As we got off of BART, and are now officially in the busy City, we needed to find where the theatre was located. We were running short on time. There happened to be a huge rally just down the street having to do with the middle east, naturally we walked towards the rally. We walked about a block from the BART station and were now getting a bit desparate. I gently nudged Rob to ask one of the cops for directions. He then points to the building that we had just walked away from and we see this huge poster on the wall. We then go running back to where we were with some kids asking their dad why everyone is running. We were so glad to make it to our seats. The show was definitely worth it.

The Orpheum Theatre


Rob, Courtney, and Brandon standing outside the Orpheum Theatre.

Autographs


Brandon was brave and asked for the first autograph. This was the actor who played Galinda's boyfriend. Yes, he was cute!

Autographs


This is Courtney getting an autograph from the actress who played Elpheba's crippled sister. She has a beautiful voice.

Famous Memoroblelia

In one of the stores at Pier 39 we were able to see a lot of cool memorobelia that is signed by the actual stars. I took this picture for Ty. He watches the Rocky series on a regular basis. He must be related to his Aunt Wendy :).

Pier 39


After a long, interesting bus drive which consisted of what Courtney describes as a "homeless weirdo" talking to me non-stop. We finally arrived at Pier 39. It was windy and cold on the pier.