Tales of a Shoebox Princess

Payson temple on a Saturday afternoon Here they come! Yay! They look happy smooches! Fun posing He knows where the camera is I wish he lived closer! He's such a pleasant-tempered wee boy! gorgeous reception decor CAKE! they were nice to each other with the cake cutting I don't have much to add. I'm so happy they are married. We love Bethany, she is a fun, well-mannered young lady. I hope she and Paul have a long happy time together. Eventually I'll post pictures from the photographer but those pictures haven't been edited yet.

I have no pictures of the quilt store Jim, Hayley, Anne, and Art and I visited, but it was fabulous! I bought several oceany fabrics to use in an eventual quilt for our bed. I also bought napkin fabric for certain children. Then we went to lunch. Hayley and I wait somewhat patiently for lunch playing "electric paperclip on the stove top with the electric donut" Wii game. At least that's what I think the game is called. Well, that's what we called it when we first got a Wii.  Hi Katie. Jackson kept pointing the Wii remote (the goat?) away from the TV.  Hayley's face, and Jackson's too, actually. He has a cute profile. This was the highlight of the afternoon: Jackson discovered Hayley's battery operated Pikachu bank and the two of them put coins in it for nearly half an hour. Then they would laugh.  Finally got to see this boy not in a NICU crib!  Much holding! He was so pleasant and attentive! He only spit up on people a couple of...

Both times we traveled for Paul. First time was for graduation, this time, for Paul's wedding. Big milestones in a young man's life. We flew with Katie, Christian and the kids and it was a SUPER early flight. It was barely light when we left. And it was raining. Jackson sat between Jim and me and Katie, Christian and Emma sat right behind us.  His face wouldn't sit still for a picture. He was a super good traveler though. He sometimes watched How to Train Your Dragon, and sometimes colored. When we got to SLC, Katie and family went their way to visit Christian's family. Jim and I decided to cross off a bucket list item. I've been to Utah many times, but I've never set foot near the Great Salt Lake. It was minutes from the airport so we headed over. This part was fairly unstinky and bug level was low OK, if you're going to balance rocks, you're CHEATING if you use flat ones!  Finally. I am at the Great Salt Lake and now I'm ...

I hiked to the Y again, nearly a year after I hiked it the first time. That time, I went to the bottom. This time, I made it to the top of the Y. Much pleased with myself. It was difficult, but NOT AS difficult as it was last time. This time, I could rest for shorter periods of time at the switchbacks and I wasn't wondering if I was going to make it. I knew I was going to. Art and Karen and Paul came along with Jim and me and we had a great time. Paul made it look super easy, and when we got to the top, he was eyeing the off-shoot trails that went even further up the mountain. Going down was more difficult than going up, because my quads turned to jelly about halfway down, I felt a shooting pain, and then my knee started swelling up. For a while, I had to face backwards, which helped a lot. I was still going down, but the physics of the knee movement were different and did not irritate the current issue. In fact, there was very little pain going down backwards. I put my hand on J...

We had some time on Friday to spend seeing whatever we wanted to see. At first we were going to go to Timp caves, but they were closed for the season. So we went to Bridal Veil Falls. Hayley and Paul, while maybe not KEEN, were at least amenable to the trip. They talked about Avengers: Endgame the whole walk over to the scenic viewing point and I had to plug my ears and say "lalalalalala" and encourage them to walk ahead of me because I didn't want any spoilers. This far ahead so I didn't hear anything I love pretty nature scenes Proof I was there. Proof that Jim was there too the contemplative Hay zoom there was a steep part that Hayley and I climbed up on all fours and me hanging on to roots and branches, but it turned out that we didn't really need to go that way, we just didn't see the regular path. At least we didn't have to go down the super steep part. Helpful guide I do like the falls  I would...