4th of July weekend continued...

I never mentioned that before Mom and Dad picked us up from Salt Lake, Anthon and I went to Temple Square to try to find my cousin S. Daniela Günter again.Or should I say AP Günter ;-)
 It is always good to see her. I feel that us both serving/having served there and having seen each other now a couple of times has brought us closer. When we grew up, we only saw each other at special occasions. Kind of sad... I really like Daniela.

After that, we wasted some time on the square and at the Church History Museum. Many people don't know about this museum. It's right west of Temple Square next to the Family History Center. If you ever go to Temple Square, take some time to go to that museum, too. It has tons of artifacts and a little exhibition about every prophet. They also have a replica of the Angel Moroni statue and the pulpit in the Conference Center.

 I think Temple Square is a great place to take pictures at. There are beautiful flowers everywhere, it's always clean, you got some fountains there, the beautiful temple, beautiful walls.... of course I'm a little bit biased...

After Mom and Dad picked us up, we went to Uncle John's for the night. The next day, we drove up to Brigham City for Grandma's birthday, drove down to Sandy to John's again.. and the next day we were headed South to the cabin.
On our way there, we stopped by Cove Fort.

Cove Fort was built in 1867 to be a way station for people traveling the Mormon Corridor. Here they could sleep and have some good food for little money.

 You can find out more about Cove Fort on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cove_Fort

 The entrance

A senior sister was so nice and took us on a tour...

 The telegraph office

 The kitchen

My first time ever seeing something like this.. I think you call it an iridescence.

After that we drove to the cabin- my first time ever going to the cabin. For some reason Anthon and I never made it there although we were always wanting to go there. What a neat cabin!

 Experimenting with marbles...

 You can't imagine how difficult it is to take pictures of marbles in the cabin... we tried out sooo many different settings.... we were so proud that we at least got some.. :-)

Driving around the area... 

 Somebody got hungry...

Cedar Breaks- beautiful!

The rest of the day we spend driving down to Las Vegas, where Mom and Dad spent two nights at the Paris.

It was so much fun spending time with them and going swimming, eating out and shopping at Ross- I LOVE Ross! :-) Thank you so much for visiting us!

Grandma Petty's Birthday Weekend

Hey everybody!

I finally found some time again to post...

My summer class (cultural anthropology) here at UNLV is over! Yay!
I think this class deserves its own post...it was sooo interesting! Maybe next post.. we'll see.

I also passed my driver's test- FREEDOOOOM!!!!!

Anyways, our 4th of July weekend was great. It's hard to believe that we were in DC just a year ago, watching the fireworks at the Washington monument.

This 4th of July weekend, we went up to the Salt Lake area to go to Grandma's 80th birthday party in Brigham City. When Anthon and I first drove to Brigham City to visit her, I told Anthon that I really wanted to practice driving there before taking my driver's test. The roads are sooo broad that you really have to try hard to hit another car or tree. :-)
Anyways, the birthday party was great and we really enjoyed getting to know the extended family a little bit better. There was just not enough time for that at our wedding.

It was also great to see Mom and Dad again- we hadn't seen them for a while. I'm glad that we got to spend several days with each other- we had so much fun!! I love them and I'm really glad that I have such great, lovely, fun, and young in-laws.

The first thing we did on Grandma's birthday party was having lunch at Maddox. We had been there before with Grandma and really liked it. I think the best thing there are the rolls- soooo delicious! I could have just eaten the warm rolls with the raspberry butter... who cares about the main dish?!? :-) ...yumm! If you ever visit Grandma in Brigham, go there! ;-)

And here are some pictures of the party:

My first time meeting Uncle Jim- what a nice guy!

 Doesn't she look cute?

 After Maddox, we all went to Joe and Jenny's house and had some cake and home made ice-cream.
It was great having some time to get to know everybody a little bit better in their lovely garden.

Everybody could write a page about/for Grandma and were put into a book- such a neat idea.

 The birthday girl!

 When Grandma saw this night gown, she said: " Uhh...sleveless!"  haha.. that was sooo funny!

 Anthon's getting some love... look how much he's enjoying it...haha.. he just loves getting kisses!

I LOVE this picture... this picture could be from an ensign.. :-)

Cute couple, heh?