Summer Wrap Up

   I know summer isn't technically over and I'd like to hang onto it as much as possible, but back to school and work again are like the unofficial end to summer.  So here is a fun little summer re-cap of our adventures!

 To start off in July we celebrated our 1 year anniversary! It really has gone by so fast, but has been the best year ever.  For our anniversary we came home to Salt Lake, spent some time with family, and then stayed at a lodge by Jordanelle res. and spent time in Park City and Heber.

This was out anniversary cake. We also had the top tier of our wedding cake

that had been frozen and was actually still really yummy!

Before heading off to Heber we had a fun picnic in the park with the Powells!

The grand-kids of course are the cutest at any family event! 

Look at that manly strut

Hadley and Piper were showing us how they play Marriage

 Cute little miles!

Haegen showing the cute sports cupcakes that 

Laura made for Chip's birthday

Watching grandma open her present.  

It was a fun picnic, we played croquet and bocci before we had to head off to our hotel.

The view of the lake from our room. The sunset was beautiful. The lodge was neat. We played in the hot tub and the pool and it was very quiet and relaxing.

Steven making friends

  Main street Park City! A bunch of overpriced shops and galleries that are fun to look at.  Those stairs led to up to the neighborhoods and they looked cool so we had to run up them :) We also went to the outlet malls and found some good deals for work and school clothes.  We ate lunch at the yummy Dairy Keen in Heber and got really good shakes at Granny's that we ate in the park.

We drove to the top of the war memorial in Heber/Midway and this was the view.  We love this area, it's so pretty! We also drove around and up the mountain a bit.  We went and looked at the Homestead and the crater. On our way home we drove through Provo canyon and up through Timpanogos; a nice scenic drive.

    

For the 24th Of July we came up to Salt Lake again! That morning we went to the parade downtown with Steven's family.  It was a fun parade with a lot of neat floats. Very crowded as usual, but we got a good spot.  

 That was President Utchdorf in the car, but I think that is Chip's hand that is in the way

Gotta love the oreos! 
After the parade we went to the Zoo with Jameson and Katie (Katie had never ever been to a zoo before!)

We make awesome gorillas don't we? I love the monkeys, they are so funny! 
That night we spent time with Katie Simon's who just came home from her mission.  It was so good to see her and we are really glad she is home.  She gave an awesome homecoming talk. We had some yummy dinners with families and eventually had to come home again, but it was a good holiday weekend.  
We went up to Salt Lake a lot this summer and got to spend some great family time.  There were several good trips to St. George, Zion NP, and Cedar Breaks and other surrounding areas.  We did some cool hikes and took some scenic drives.  We were also able to enjoy two plays at the Shakespeare Festival.  We have really loved living this past year in the heart of Southern Utah surrounded by all this beauty and so many fun things to do!