Parentheticals

Last Sunday we had a game day at Caitlin and Sal's house. We played a game that Jay brought (which we enjoyed, but whose name we can't seem to recall), as well as multiple games of Resistance. It ended very late in the evening, but it was very fun. Since Sunday night it was really cold, we decided on Monday that we would pick the grapes that are at the park near our house. When we went over to pick the grapes on Monday, then we discovered that the grapevines were all dried out. It looked as if the previous owners of the grapevines decided that they were done taking care of the grape vines. Sad. On Tuesday Allison and the kids went to the natural history museum because Timmy wanted to go really really really really bad. Rea did some research into the Native tribes of this area and now wants to learn beading as her next handicraft. Timmy liked looking at dinosaur bones and digging in the play quarry. We managed to leave on time to get to nature group, which was extra fun beca

This last week we went on our first "working vacation". We drove down to Zion's national park with Alison and the kid's nature group. We stayed at Zion's Most Wanted, which was a hotel built in the house where a prominent polygamist was living before he was arrested. We went to zion's, to water canyon, and coral pink sand dunes, glitter mountain, and also to the cabin of the lady that runs the nature group. We had a fun time hiking around, seeing nature, interacting with the nature group, and exploring that part of the state. During the mornings, Mike would work, and so it didn't cost us any vacation. We will likely continue to do small trips like this until we are ready to do large working vacation trips. The culmination of this will probably be a few months working from another country (perhaps in South America?), but Mike has to make sure that that is kosher first. We plan on visiting Grandpa Mike and Grandma Sheila next, however, given

Apparently, we are horrible at writing blog posts right now. I guess that we need to find a new time to write them as we keep having things after church on Sunday, and so they always fail to get written. Now - to try and remember the last few weeks: On the 27th we saw Macbeth at the historic draper theater - it was pretty fun. They used a post-apocalyptic setting so that everyone could dress in steampunk styles. They also abridged the original play slightly, and they did an awesome job; we could only recognize a few spots where they'd cut things. It was a great performance. On the 29th we opened up our winter clothes and started putting away our summer clothes. The kids have enough warm clothes for a few days now, which was good because it suddenly got cold. We don't normally have to turn on the heater in September! On the 3rd Mike went to BGDG. On the 5th we drove to Reno to visit the Poulsons while Mike went on a business trip. We had a fun trip and did a lot of