So the past few weeks have been incredibly busy, and it's been hard to stay caught up on the blog side of things. Because of that I thought I'd just touch on the wedding briefly and do a slide show since I've had some real difficulties lately adding pictures etc. Due to some crazy circumstances they decided to get married one day and then have the reception the next. Being in the beginning of August, in Utah, one would think that they would be pretty safe on expecting good weather. Unfortunately it didn't quite pan out that way (according to Melissa there is some family curse when it comes to wedding day weather). Anyway, the day of the wedding dawned as a hot and blustery one...ok it was just blustery, sometimes the gusts were so strong they blew us over a few steps. Since there is so much construction going on in downtown SLC there was just dirt flying. Sounds horrible huh? Well it wasn't the most pleasant experience, but overall it was a great day and I think the pictures turned out great despite the chaos in the weather. Flash forward to the next day, the day of the reception. It dawns absolutely beautiful, looks like the cold front has blown in and we'll be safe for the night. Guess again, just as we start driving un to Salt Lake big black clouds start oozing in from the west and here comes that dastardly wind. Waiting for disaster to strick we walk into the back yard and helped move a few things around so that they wouldn't blow away and waited. By the time the reception started the wind had stopped and although the sky had it's black spots no rain fell. It turned out absolutely gorgeous! Only one vase of flowers turned suicidal in the wind and took a dive bomb off their pedestal. Here are just a few of the pictures:
So what can you build with a little styrofoam, some dried moss, spray paint, and a bunch of glue? Well watch and see..
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add some glue, moss, and stone
with a big enough work area
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Haunted Village!
So with winter's first storm rapidly approaching our mountains here (now they're saying it won't even get into the 50's on Wednesday) it was the last chance to get out a view the foliage...at least in the higher altitudes. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to stroll around the grounds at the Sundance ski resort? Well apparently a lot of people felt the same way as it was utter chaos in the parking lot, but it was still absolutely gorgeous!!! Despite all the people that is :-) Amazingly, with a little patience, I managed to avoid photographing any of them and managed some enjoyable pics...well at least to me they are enjoyable but hopefully you feel the same way. And if these pictures don't open big I don't know what to say...sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. When I published a minute ago only the one at the top of the page would open, although they were all input the same way. Who understands how the world of blogging actually works???
So a week or so ago we participated in a family tradition that was new to us, but apparently has been around for over 100 years. On my mom's side of the family, the Dowdle's, it has been a tradition to go and pick huckleberries every year for generations. When my Great Uncle Bob mentioned that they were heading up to Idaho for some berry picking my mom told him we were interested in coming along. He was so excited to have others who were interested in coming along. While we were picking he told us how the tradition had been around for so long, which was news to us, and it was fun to be a part of it. It was a beautiful, if chilly day, and it was so nice to be outside. For those who don't know (because I had no idea) a huckleberry looks like a blue berry but is about a third the size. Needless to say it takes a lot of picking to get enough berries to do anything with (but it's worth it because they are tasty!). We were pretty proud of our berries....
m Jason's wedding was that my dad came into town. The question always is what to do with him wants he's here, I'm no good at entertaining people. Because of that I impose on Greg and Leigh and we go up and stay at their house, aren't you guys lucky? We thought we may be doomed again with bad weather (it poured the whole time he was here last fall) as Saturday was rather yucky, but finally the weather pulled through for us on Sunday. It called for a nice leisurly drive through Logan canyon and a stop for a burger and raspberry shake at Bear Lake....
