Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Weekend Getaways - Yes, Plural


John and I enjoyed a getaway weekend recently - no kids - just us - it was absolutely delightful!
We went hiking, biking, out to eat...just lovely. 

I also just got home from a getaway weekend to Phoenix where I got to visit with my sister and mom. 


 We checked out downtown Phoenix, which included the Japanese Friendship Gardens and some delicious donuts...


We also went to the Renaissance Festival. 

It was really fun watching various performances and musicians, eating yummy food...


...and mom wanted a picture of us in these lovely outfits - 


In other news, we went as a family to see the test launch of ATK's rocket booster. 


We had to get up before the crack of dawn to make it up to the launching in time. 
It was worth it though...



Monday, March 9, 2015

Biology Lesson and other news

What do you get when you put a male and a female molly fish into your tank? Baby mollies...


 You can see one here. We had two, but we lost one. They were itty-bitty at first. This is after a couple weeks. In a few more weeks, the baby will be big enough to move from the baby tank into the big tank with the other fish. 

Watching the two mollies, I am certain we will have more babies...
(Megan just thinks they are playing tag. We'll let her keep thinking that)


 Kimberly turned 15. She got a nice bike for her birthday and is thrilled. 
Maybe she'll go out exercising more...one can only hope. 

Interesting thing about the above photo, I took several pictures of her with the cake, but this was the only one that turned out good - except that it was really, really dark. I pulled it into Photoshop, and wa-la! You can actually see her face! I have got to play around with that more.


To get Kim's bike, we drove all the way up to Logan - we got a killer deal - and while we were there, we took Kevin out to lunch and then of course we went out for Aggie ice cream. We asked the gal to give Megan a kiddie cone, but she got a full-size adult cone instead. She did her best to eat it up, but  she only made it halfway. 


Kimberly caught this beautiful sunset in front of our house on the camera. I love sunsets in Utah. 


It's been so lovely that we've spent a lot of time outside, including painting fingernails. 



Kimberly and Alicia competed with our ward young women's basketball team. 
They all had a lot of fun. 

and I saved the best for last... 

My sister-in-law, Delores, gave me this awesome recipe for sugarless brownies using dates, walnuts, almonds, coconut oil, cacao powder, and honey...they are DELICIOUS!!! I am so excited to have found something that is sugar free and yummy. So far I'm the only one in the house that likes it though. Fine by me - all the more for mah.