A Day With Heather

Last week my friend Heather came out to Utah from Nebraska. We spent a day going back to Whitesides Elementary visiting old friends and to see how much our kids had grown in the past year. It was so fun to see everyone again.After we left the school, we decided to take a drive up to Causey Reservoir. It is one of her favorite places and we wanted to see how much water there was because we have had such a wet year. It was absolutely beautiful up there. This top picture was taken from the dam looking downriver.

We drove a little further up around the lake to look out point. From up there you could look up several fingers of the lake. The lake was completely full but just to the spill line..not quite enough water to tumble down the spillway.

It was an enjoyable day. Hope to get back up here with the family soon.

Thanks Heather!

The Weed Garden?

So we got so busy working with our park strip that the garden area got away from us. By the time I was able to get to it...it was hip high...Lol!

Walter had a pile of metal stacked in the garden that all the weeds had grown up through.

After getting it all moved out onto the trailer to be hauled off to the recyclers, Walter pullled out the weed whacker and cut all the weeds down to ground level....then I followed with the tiller. What a difference. School gets out this week.....and then I plan on planting.

Tearing Out the Park Strip

We live on a corner lot, so there is a lot of park strip at our house. We got tired of mowing and watering this part of the yard, so last fall we tore out all the grass.

This spring we planted 8 Lollipop Crabapple trees and filled the area in with nine tons rose quartz. It was exhausting work....

...but I am quite happy with the result!

He's A Star!

Brandon earned his Star tonight in Scouts. I am so proud of him. Way to go B!

I Hesitate to Post This

Ok, I feel a little bit silly about posting this...but I can't help it. I was so excited when I logged into one of my favorite photo websites and found one of my photos featured on it. So I took a picture - of my picture - on the website. Mine is the third one over of the goose in the pond.

Happy Spring!

I have been enjoying getting out now that we have had some warmer weather. These are some of the photos I have taken while being out in the spring sun.

Bird Watching

I spent the day with my sister, Melissa and her two daughters, London, and Lizzie. We went to the Shoreline Preserve in West Layton hoping to see some interesting birds.

Unfortunately, all we really saw at the Bird Refuge was this snake!

Later that evening, I went to Jenson Nature Park and found what I had been looking for all along.