Friday, August 26, 2011

August 2011 Grant and Julie's wedding and other stuff.

       Eliza and Olivia were the most beautiful "bridesmaids"ever.
  Blaine and Michelle arrived in Utah on Friday night
                                                      just in time for Sat's wedding.

   Gary and Beth came all the way from Arizona.
   Howard and Ken seem excited to have matching ties.














       It was a beautiful wedding but I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures
 from the professional photographer.
   Mine are not that great.
But I would like to say how happy, excited, grateful, lucky, thrilled, and just plain amazed we are at the blessing of having Julie, Eliza and Olivia in our family.  We really hit the jackpot.  Not to mention, Grant is happy. 



    Is Ollie Michael Jackson or Elton John? 
      What a funny kid.
     On Monday, Evie had her 1st birthday.
         She had help eating her cake.
         She's so dainty.  I've seen 1 year olds just rip into their cake.


                                               Ollie loves his baby sister.
                                                Big sister, little sister.  So cute.




Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Our trip to Canada!!

Okay, now I'm a bit upset.  I took great care to load the photos in backwards so they would show up on the blog in the correct order.  But, look at this!!  They've changed stuff and now by loading them in backward they actually come up backward.  Soooooooo, here's our trip in reverse order.  I've tried to figure out how to reverse them but short of moving them each individually I can't figure it out.
On the way home we spent the night in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
We ate dinner on Saturday night at this wonderful Lodge.  This was the view while we ate.
                           Before we left for Jackson,  we took a boat ride on Yellowstone Lake.

                                            The animals in Yellowstone Park were very tame. 
                                                This bison was just standing by the road.
                                           This is called Artist Point.  Everyone has their picture taken here.



                                        These hot pools are amazing.  They are the color of the Carribbean.


                                            Silly Ken.  I told him to smile and this is what I got.
                                          After leaving Banff we headed home via Cardsden so we got to see the temple.
                                           Just resting on our last day in Banff.

                                         In Banff they had the most beautiful  garden.

In the mountains near Banff this elk was just eating wild flowers and ignoring all of the people taking his picture.
                                         

                                      We took a gondola ride up the mountain and had a beautiful view of Banff below.



                                          A picnic lunch.
We hiked up a path with bridges over this deep crevice  in the rock carved by a river.
Wild flowers by the path.









                                           My friend John who is from Canada wanted us to have Beaver Tails while we were in Epcot, so we had to try them while in Banff.

                                         This is a famous and very old hotel in Banff.



                                             A waterfall near the hotel.
                                          Emerald Lake.

                                Lunch al fresco at Emerald Lake.



Before we went to Emerald Lake we went to Lake Louise....the high light of the trip.  Here is the beautiful hotel at Lake Louise.


We rented canoes and paddled around the lake.  It was so much fun.  The water is the most amazing color of aqua.  It is the color of sea glass.



                  The Malones take our picture while I take their picture.


                                                   Our first night in Banff.
                                          The beautiful Canadian Rockies.
                                           Wild sheep or goats just hanging out on the highway.
                                             Our first meal in Canada was a picnic of KFC.
                                          We enter Canada..
                                           The international border.
In Glacier National Park Kevin was obsessed with getting a drink from the water that just poured from the rocks.  The water tasted really good.  The best I've ever had.

A great view in Glacier National Park.





We had a wonderful trip.  I just wish I could have gotten this blog post all straightened out. Even writing the captions has been difficult.  I'll have to get used to this new blog program.