Lazy Saturday discovery drive and mini golf fun

Paul, Bean and I spent the day revisiting some old places we hadn't seen for a long time as well as enjoying some new spots we hadn't seen before - Lion's Mouth Petroglyphs.  We drove out the Pinto Springs road, saw the springs/campground and walked around there - very pretty.  Then drove on and found the petroglyphs - it was a cool spot with great rocks and a neat place where the glyphs were, but they were really in bad shape and had what looked like modern additions and graphiti unfortunately.  We stopped at an old pioneer house that's really cool and then we drove on over the back roads to New Harmony and then up to Kolob Fingers where we had a snack at the picnic tables at the top.  It was so pretty and cool.  Then we headed home.  

Also a couple of weeks ago we got a new Starving Student Card and used the BOGO to go mini golfing one evening.  It was a beautiful, sprinkly night and it was a lot of fun!!!

September birthday girls!

It was a big weekend with Brynnli and Braden's wedding and since lots of folks were in town for it we decided to add family dinner to the line up on Sunday.  It turned out it was Juge's actual birthday and she was willing to host and provide cake for the event.  Jay and Brynn were the food hosts and the rest of us added our part.  It was a beautiful, fun dinner with perfect Cedar City weather to make it even better.  We ate and blew out the candles and did presents.  It was nice to continue the visiting we started the day before.  Lou and Juge were the birthday girls!  Both wonderful women that we love, admire and appreciate and hope for good things for in the coming year.   Happy Birthday to both of you!!!

Brynnli and Braden...to infinity and beyond!!!

What a great day it was seeing our oldest granddaughter, Brynnli "Bucket" Borrowman, marry her sweetheart, Braden Robert Figgins, in the St. George Temple.  It happened on Saturday, September 7th, 2019 at 10:40 am.  We were so happy that her younger brother and best buddy, Tavin, was able to attend because he was able take out his endowments the Thursday before because of his mission call.  I call this a best day ever-shout for joy event!   Besides doing the right thing for them, Brynnli and Braden set a great example for all of the younger grand kids in our family.  It's kind of sad thinking of her away up north and leaving our St. George nest, but that's life...and we are only going to see more of it happening all of the time as the family grows and grows!!!  Braden is just right and his family seems really great too.  Feeling very blessed and hoping for wonderful things for these two as they start their life together.  

Tavin and Torin - #18 and #5

Big birthdays for both of these guys.  Tavin became old enough to go on his mission and Torin is old enough to start school.  We got to celebrate with both of them!  Good times with good peeps!  Love them both so much!  In some ways it's hard to see both of them growing up. 

Lou and Bean - oldest and youngest b-days!

As soon as we saw that the Scarlet Pimpernel was going to be part of our season play tickets to the St. George Musical Theater, we knew we wanted to take Lou to see it for a birthday present.  It just worked out that the day we could do it we would also be celebrating Bean's birthday, so we took him too.  It was really fun!  It was early for Lou, but this way they got to have a yummy birthday dinner together - our oldest and youngest!  After the play we had birthday dessert at DQ!  What a fun evening.  We actually had birthday dinners most of the week for Bean so he could have the many different things he wanted to for his birthday dinner!  Happy #31 for him and #44 for her.  

Last Camp Out before school starts!

It was the last camp out before school started!  At first we were afraid we would not find a camp spot because it was the beginning of the bow hunt, but we ended up in one of our favorite former Family Camp spots. It was lovely and cool, no bugs, great weather and tasty food by Paul.  When Paul and I got up in the night we saw the stars and heard the coyotes howling nearby.  A little bit creepy...made me want to zip up in the tent!  But it was cool too.  The tops of the mountains still had snow and the lakes were full to the brim.  The flowers and green were still  going full blast.  It was a great get away from the heat of St. George.  

Last Rock Trip of the Summer

It was the last weekend before school starts and we were trying to think how to get that last little bit of fun.  Then our suppliers called and said they both had loads of stone ready for us.  It turned out to be a fun, relaxing trip.  We left early Friday morning and got home Saturday afternoon.  We got our loads picked up on Friday just before closing and then had time to get our motel, eat dinner at Wendy's and then went to see a really good movie before heading to bed.  Oh, we stopped in at Walmart and picked up some goodies for dessert on the way back to the motel.  Saturday was good other than having a pallet come apart and having to stop and unload it into the trailer.  Luckily we saw it before it became a real problem.  And we did get our share of tasty cookies at Jacob Lake going and coming home!  We finished a good audio book we have been working on for quite a while and saw lots of amazing scenery.  We didn't camp because it looked like rainy weather and we didn't want to drive on the rough roads after we picked up our load.  So now it's back to school and the regular life.  

Brynnli - Bridal Shower

It was a fun night to gather and celebrate with Brynnli.  We were very outnumbered on our side of the family with just me, Kaebri, Tasia, Juge, Beacher and Ferf there for our side of the family.  Lou was out of town for a wedding and Christie wasn't able to attend for whatever reason.  The Borrowman womenfolk were there in mass.  I was very happy that Braden's mom and grandmother were able to come down for it. (Braden was able to join us later in the evening.) They are very nice people.  I have his melancholy about letting Brynnli go...and to live up north.  I just feel like we won't see her hardly at all with her being so busy with husband, work, school and family up there.  This letting people go is hard.  I do feel like she is marrying into a wonderful family and I'm so grateful for that.  But still...it is hard.  I suppose I'll get used to it as it keeps happening.  

Tavin gets his mission call!

The big day arrived!  Tavin received his mission call to the Philippines Cavite Mission where he will be speaking Tagalog.  He will report there to the MTC on December 5th.  Wow!!!  He had a fun gathering at his house on Tuesday, August 6th to open it/celebrate.  Unfortunately we were not able to attend as we had tickets to a play at Tuacahn already purchased before it was planned.  We were able to watch via Facebook Live while we waited for the play to start!  Lots of wonderful things happening at the Borrowman house lately with Tavin's big news and Brynnli's upcoming wedding things going on too!  At this point I don't have any pictures - just the video.  I will add some later.  

And here's the official picture...I guess!

Pine Valley - get away to the green!

We had a spare Saturday afternoon and had been wondering what the wet winter/big snow had done to the trail up to our favorite waterfall so we took the hike to see.  The trail was rearranged, but we could still get there and enjoy this beautiful place!