22 Years of Marriage

Yesterday on August 15th, Jeff and I celebrated our 22nd year of marriage.  I can’t even hardly believe it.  We celebrated it in the manner that only old people know.  We walked to Bridal Veil Falls.  Anyone who has been on the trail knows it is half a mile…which is not a lot.  Went to Squaw Peak and saw a few hang gliders who had jumped off the peak.  Squaw Peak was notorious in our college days for being the perfect make-out spot.  Did we make out?  Ridiculous.  Came back.  Decided we didn’t want to eat because neither of us were hungry, nor did we want to spend the money since I was laid off from my job last week.  We went to Smiths and brought Dreyers ice cream since it was on sale $1.99 for a half gallon.  Came back, ate ice cream and watched Failure to Launch. 

We are the last of the romantics. 

But take heart!  Today we are going to the hot springs with the kids.  Makes the heart go pitter patter, doesn’t it?  I’m putting up pictures of Squaw Peak and Bridal Veil Falls.  When we get home I’ll post pics of the hike.

Granites near Bridal Veil Falls

looking north from Bridal Veil Falls

Two upper falls

all three falls

Bridal Veil Falls

Lower Falls area

View north from Falls

View from Squaw Peak

Hang gliders jumping from Peak

View from overlook

View of back side of Timp from Squaw Peak

South views from Squaw Peak

Jeff looking out over the valley

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My life is busy

Have I ever mentioned how busy my life is? How very ironic that it takes a public blog to highlight just how busy my life is. I try not to think about it, but whaddya do.

So let’s rewind a bit to cover the highlights.

August 1 I went to Phoenix for work and had the privilege of meeting up with some old friends, the fabulous Bob and Michele Olsen from Mesa. What a treat. It was only spending time with them for lunch that made up for the horrendous 110 degree temperatures in Phoenix.

A week later and I met Kellie Forbes who owns a fabulous bead store in Sandy. Kayla and I went down there and had the greatest, amateur jewelry-making times of our lives. I made this necklace. I did! All by myself, threading all of these strands of beads. Who knew.

Kayla made a very pretty, delicate blue necklace and bracelet. I will blog about Kellie’s store more when I get the pictures uploaded. Needless to say, we had tons of fun there.

On Aug 12th, I took a group of 28 up to first meadow on Tympooneke at 11:00 pm at night to look at the Perseids meteor shower. The sky was clear all day until about 9 o’clock at night and then the winds blew in some serious clouds which made the shower watching a little prohibitive. Nevertheless, we had lots of glowsticks and snacks and such, so we laid out under the sky until about 1:30 AM before heading home. I saw three meteors during that time. I love doing this every year. Even if you do not see showers its heckuva lot of fun just to be out there in the dark and cold with a bunch of people.

On August 15, Jeff and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary! 21 years imagine that. I am still alive and so is Jeff. Our marriage is a success! 😉 We celebrated by making fun of each other and then heading up to Midway with Kellie and Thayne for a weekend time of relaxation. We got back this afternoon. Last night I was looking at the gold course that our condo overlooks when a white-tailed fox slowly loped onto the golf trail and slowly made its way into the center area with some small brush. Unfortunately, I did not have my camera at the time so I missed it. But so cool! A fox in the wild.

Midway has a house we call the Hobbit house. It is so cute, with its thatched roof and delicate gardens. I finally got a picture of it today.

How cute is that?

We went to Memorial HIll after that. We’ve always been curious about this hill. It overlooks all of the hot spring holes (I prefer to call them spring geodes) that dot the area, especially around Zermatt. Memorial hill has the posted names of all of those people who died while in the service, it had all of the different wars and conflicts. The memorial is quite stunning. And the views from the top of the hill were super.

Tomorrow school starts. Life always gets busier when that happens. Did I mention my life was already busy?

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