1000 Pockets Hike with Daron and friends

Thousand Pockets is a really awesome area. It has "wave" like structures (the actual wave hike requires a permit and is in Utah), it has cool pockets or pools and an area with huge moqui marbles. Its about a 45 minute drive on the highway from our house but the off road portion is another 45 minutes or so. Our 14 year old Ford Escape did great thanks to the big tires we have but we had to hitch a ride with friends for the last 1/2 mile. It was way too sandy and deep. We parked and walked an hour to the rock formations. We spent an hour exploring the pockets and were happy that some of them still had water in them. Some people call the area 1000 pools. We found triops in the pools of water. Triops is a genus of small crustaceans in the order Notostraca (tadpole shrimp). Some species are considered living fossils, with a fossil record that reaches back to the late Carboniferous, 300 million years ago. They look like mini horseshoe crabs. Half of Daron's sole came off his boots and luckily Justin had vet tape in his bag that worked great.  It would have taken an extra 2 or 3 hours to visit the place with moqui marbles so we decided to to visit those next time!

one of the pockets or pools

Daron and pool to right

fixing Daron's sole

Kat and Justin by elephant head rock

our truck is by those two orange mounds in the distance.

Kat checking out the pools

cool highway like rock formations

break time

cool peachy pink lizard

Triops living fossils

Opal Luna

My spirit dog! She is such an amazing soul.  We increased her insulin and added some pain meds for her arthritis and she seems a bit happier!  I love when she rolls on her back and smiles.  Daron got these great photos! What a wonderful husband he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Halloween cookies & Fall & Rain

Addy and Sam first week of school

Addy Cedar Halloween Cookies

I've tried the Tavern and Teriyaki both are great1

Yes it is almost fall. Our favorite time of year! Bring on the cooler mornings, boots and orange leaves!  Addy wanted to do a Halloween craft so I made sugar cookies and she and her friend Cedar used witches hat, pumpkin, ghost and bat cookie cutters to create Halloween treats. Wow that was a run on sentence.  Anyway, I also found these slow cooker flavor pouches that I really like.  I added a photo of the Teriyaki Beef I made in the slow cooker and also added a photo of the packaging for you Mom!!!!! Just pour the flavor sauce in and add meat. 5 - 8 hours later you have dinner.

We love Rain!

La Madeline's basil tomato soup

 I made this with our garden tomatoes and garden basil.  It is to die for!






• 4 cups fresh tomatoes, cored, peeled, and chopped (8-10) or 4 cups canned whole tomatoes, crushed
• 4 cups tomato juice (or part vegetable or part chicken stock)
• 12 -14 basil leaves, washed fresh
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1⁄4 lb sweet unsalted butter
• salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
• lemon juice (optional)
Directions
1. Combine tomatoes, juice/and or stock in saucepan.
2. Simmer 30 minutes.
3. Puree, along with the basil leaves, in small batches, in blender, food processor (or better yet, one of those handy hand-held food blenders, right in the cooking pan). Return to saucepan and add cream and butter, while stirring, over low heat. Garnish with basil leaves and serve with your favorite bread.
4. Excerpted from an article by Beverly Bundy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram around May 20. 1994.

We love and Miss Jon & Laura

Jon and Laura Wheeler hike Zion's Angels Landing and stop over for a visit!

My old boss moved to NJ and found a live cannonball in their back yard!

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Energy Healing Conference!

So happy to have gone to this energy healing conference in St. George. One of Addyson's best friends mom is an energy healer and foot zone specialist. So we went plus two other girls.  My favorite speakers were  a lady that talked about Aura's, a massage therapist that explain how your muscles and trapped emotions cause pain and Dr. Bradley Nelson that talked about his book The Emotion Code.  My energy healer in Kanab is moving TODAY to Idaho so I am glad to have gotten some tools to help with headaches and other pains.  Many of which are trapped emotions.  Sounds crazy and woo woo but hey whatever works! It has also been researched a lot but most people prefer a pill.  In fact I woke up with a headache this a.m. and did some energy work and took a pill.  Baby steps.  Wish they would have had a Faster EFT and NLP practioner there but maybe next time!

Summer Hikes

 The Maze

Kanneraville hike with my canyoneering shoes

me and katrin

katrin coming down the ladder at kanneraville

squeezing through at the maze

orderville slot

wedging

the maze

help from justin it was this or jump

From Preschool (3 yrs) to 2nd grade (7 yrs)

Preschool Orientation

First Day of Preschool - not wanting a photo taken --

Mrs Stephanie Bundy

First Day of 2nd year of Preschool - 4 yrs old

First Day Kindergarten - 5 yrs - Mrs. Demille

First Day of 1st Grade - 6 yr-Mr.Willardson

First Day of 2nd Grade - 7 yrs-Mrs. Jones

Tomato Caterpillar Study

 Addy and I found three tomato worms in our garden.  yikes.  We decided to keep them in a jar and observe their metamorphosis.  After a few days they were digging in the dirt to start the pupa phase.