Sod! 8-29-2015

 Ready for sod

 First piece of sod in place

 Um...we may have used the park to get the pallets close to the back yard.

 6 pallets for the backyard, and 5 for the front....and we ran out of sod.

 Some guys from the Elder's Quorum showed up to help.  They were awesome!

 Backyard done.  Now on to the front.

 Olivia may have found the bag of donuts.  So busted!

Mesa Falls Marathon 8-22-2015

The Mesa Falls Marathon is held near the city of Ashton, Idaho.

Perfect excuse to go up and visit Dean's sister Marianne and her husband Davis in Rexburg.  (Oh yeah, now she tells us we don't need an excuse, that would have been good to know BEFORE we signed up for the marathon!)

 Marianne is such a trooper!  She went to Ashton to pick up our packets with us, and we drove the marathon course.  

 Marianne has bad knees, so of course, we made her hike a million stairs.  We had so much fun with her!

 This is the side of the camera I like being on!

(Random strangers, but cool hair, right?)

 It's go time!

 We had to catch the bus at 5 a..m.  

The marathon started at 6:30.  

From all the smoke, the sun looked red as it peaked through the trees.

 I found this funny, sometimes when you are running you are so in the "zone" that you forget to look around.  If you looked to the right, you could see the lower falls.  They were awesome!

Um....did someone forget to print a mile marker for mile 11?

This is EJ coming down the chute to the finish line.

 This is how good it feels to QUIT RUNNING after 26.2 miles!

 For finishing the race, this pizzeria gave the runners a free Huckleberry milkshake.

 After every race, we have to pose with our race shirt and finishers medal

We love these people!  Thanks so much for letting us stay with you.  

Deseret Peak 8-17-2015

 We got up early to hike the high point in Tooele County, Deseret Peak in the Stansbury Mountain Range.  Too bad for us, a cop also go up early!  Not quite sure what this was all about.  He gave Dean a ticket for not updating his address on his drivers license when we moved, but the address on the ticket was our new one.  When we went home to change our address, it showed that we had already changed it, so they dismissed the ticket.  Kind of weird.

Anyway....

This was a great hike!  8.1 miles roundtrip from the trailhead.  Took us just under 5 hours.

 2 1/2 hours to get to the peak.  We spent 30 minutes at the top, eating lunch and enjoy the amazing views!

  Found the geological survey markers, for some reason there were two of them up there.

  Many of the peaks we hike have a place to sign your name, and the date that you made the summit.

Had a nice little photo session, then made our way back down.

Notice all the smoke in the background?  That is from the fires in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.  The views were awesome even with the smoke.