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Sunday, May 31, 2009

McCall for Memorial Day

Finally, a Memorial Weekend that Brady wasn't traveling! I've spent the last 2 Memorial Day's doing laundry and cleaning with Brady traveling for work. Since Brady has been gone a lot this year, we decided to get away to one of the condos in our timeshare to McCall, ID. We pass through McCall everytime we go to Utah. So we are familiar with this beautiful town with a mountain lake. Here we are relaxing at the condo. We BBQ-ed on the little deck, watched my favorite summer movie, "Summer Magic", and swam in the pool and hot tub.
This is outside the condo.

Here we are at Ponderosa State Park. It is a penisula that comes out onto Payette Lake. We followed the trail up to the cliff lookout.



Other trails we followed, led us to a marsh. The ranger told us we might see beavers, a bear, or a fox. But, all we saw were bees and misquitos! I took pictures of the beautiful pink, yellow, white and purple wild flowers that adorned the path.

Walking along the shores of Payette Lake.





Thursday, May 14, 2009

Back to Blogging

Oh man, how time flies! This blog has been nagging at me to get caught up and I confess, I haven't wanted too! Brady has been gone traveling 1 1/2 to 2 weeks out of every month this Spring! Not to mention his Ward duties and activities he needs to do when he gets home. So any spare moment I have, I use to relax with a book. I guess I need to escape! Not really though. The kids have been great! The real reason is that I am probably the last one on the planet that hasn't read Harry Potter. I'm a little embarassed to confess this, but the series has reeled me in! I wanted to finish the sixth book before the movie comes out. I just finished it last night and cried at Dumbledoor's funeral! (okay, so I am a little lonely this week with Brady in New Jersey!)
Here is a short list of the other happenings:
1. I hired a Stylist to work in my home salon on booth rent.
2. Jace and Jairden played soccer.
3. The IWCC (community choir I'm in) had our Spring concerts.
4. Josh had his Orchestra concert and Piano Recital.
5. Brady basically has been gone!