St. George

We hit sunny, beautiful St. George this weekend to spend time as a family at the ballpark for 10+ hours!  Jacob had a baseball tournament so we took advantage of a great vacation spot.  We got to attend his first band concert Thursday night (go trumpets!)

So we left late and arrived much later.  I woke up Friday morning to go on a little jog.  So glad I did.  It was beautiful.  This was my first view:

And it stayed beautiful the whole run!!  Even my lousy knee couldn't get me down!!

 

 

That is why I run. What a great way to see a city!!

 

After I got back, we got ready and checked out Pioneer park with a teammate and friends of ours.

Love the red rock and blue sky!!

 

The rest of the weekend involved a lot of baseball and baseball buddies.  The Bandidos, for a first year team, did a great job.  They got off to a bit of a rocky start with a new field and tournament play etc, but by Saturday had settled down and played very well. 

 Saturday we got to do my favorite thing, watch Jacob pitch in a beautiful environment!  Nice back drop and he did a fantastic job!

 

 Way to go Bandidos!!



Soccer, leaves and pigs...

the key ingredients for a perfect fall Saturday.  We got up early and Phil and the older two went to help with our neighborhood cleanup.  I love the opportunity they have to help at a young age.  After finding a leak in our sink (oh yeah) we headed to Micah's soccer game.

Our orange #5 is become quite the little ball handler and scored 2 goals (one in the picture above).

My parents and nieces and nephew showed up to watch the game and we had a lovely picnic after wards.  It was such a beautiful fall day...we couldn't resist the leaves...or the buffalo.

 

 After Jacob went to baseball practice, we set out on another adventure.

 

This year the theme for Reflections "Believe, Dream, Inspire." When I asked Micah what inspires him, he answered, "Pigs." And he was serious!  Apparently Micah would like to be a pig farmer someday, so we set off to find pigs for Micah to photograph for Reflections.

 

We settled on trying out Wheeler Historic Farm in Salt Lake.  At first glance we weren't too inspired, but as we explored more, we finally found our pigs...fast asleep.

 Here's your pigs Micah. Well, would you believe that after a couple of minutes, our two pigs jumped up and put on a half hour photo shoot for Micah.  They frolicked, they ate, the posed.  It was amazing!

 I swear this one is smiling.

 I love that this one has Micah's cute little shadow in it.

 And a few of Micah with Phil's camera.  What a sweetheart!

The story gets better. As soon as Phil said, "Time to go," the little piggies ran into their little house and stayed inside to sleep.  It was an amazing turn of events and a tender mercy that left us all inspired!  Thank you Micah!

 

We ended the day with a Halloween party at Phil's sisters and watching MLB baseball together as a family.  Days don't get any better than that if you ask me.  The perfect Saturday!!

 

Some pictures of Fall (by Phil)

Several consecutive years of intense Fall sports have made it hard to get away to enjoy the Fall colors.  This year, with a brief pause in the baseball action, we slipped away for a few hours.  Jacob was away at a campout, but we managed without him.

 

 

 

 

 

 brotherly love...

 

Just try and imagine Jacob in there somewhere

I liked it so much, I came back the next morning with my parents



Thanks for joining us!!!