*field trips

Families from Vera's preschool have been taking a little field trip every Wednesday. I've really enjoyed it - sometimes without a scheduled or purposeful outing I end up wasting the day around the house. I also really like all the other moms and love just getting out and talking to people. ALSO we live in an absolutely amazing place with so many things to do.

The first one was to the Snowbird ski resort where we rode the tram up and then walked around on top of the mountain. It was so incredibly beautiful!! I really love these mountains.

Another one we went to This is the Place heritage park. Basically where "Brother Brigham" saw the Salt Lake valley and decided they'd found the promised land. Or something like that. It would have been fun to have Ben along to add more historical knowledge - there's some interesting and fascinating things he's learned that you don't necessarily learn on your tour at Temple Square! Anyway, it was really a neat place - they got to see how they lived in the old times, got to pan for gold, see a working blacksmith shop, ride a pony and pet some animals.

Vera plowing:

washing and ironing the linens:

holy cow this bunny was so cute. teeny teeny tiny!

unfortunately it was behind wire mesh and I couldn't hold it.

The schoolhouse was really neat. I wished Vera had worn her sweet little yellow Little House on the Prairie dress.

This week was up at Silver Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon. We've done this little walk several times - it was fun to reminisce: the first time when I was pregnant with Vera, once when she was a month or two old and we saw a big bull moose just off the path [along with crazy tourists approaching it to take pictures!!], the time we went with the Hunts and our cute little toddlers had such a good time together... It was raining and storming in the valley, but I decided to go anyway. I figured at least we'd see the Fall colors before the snowstorm later this week wipes it away. It rained the whole way up, was clear for our walk, and then rained the drive down - perfect!