Halloween Fun

When your brothers own a craft store (Wood Connection), it is truly a blast to stop by and pick up the latest holiday crafts to create with the grandkids. This year our choices were a green-faced witch with a great cardboard hat, Frankenstein, a mummy, a pumpkin or a witch's boot. Grandma also offered squirt guns and a bucket of water for those for whom painting is not the favorite thing. And Tomiko chose to sit on her blanket and just be adorable.

Autumn in Utah

I know I repeat this every year, but Autumn in Utah is UNBELIEVABLE! I don't care where you live, you should move to Utah in the Fall. We have beautiful sunny weather (70s) and cool nights. You can walk in the morning in 50 degree weather (long sleeve tee shirt) and it still reaches 75 in the afternoon. Our summer flowers are as beautiful as ever (thank you Hugh for your hard work all summer) AND we have amazing fall colors in the mountains. Hiking is stupendous. You get up close and personal with a quaking aspen whose leaves are now bright yellow and dancing on the branches. Top it off with snow capped peaks in the high Uintahs (visible from our front yard.) Fall Break? Why would anyone go anywhere besides Utah?

These yellow roses were flowers displayed as table decorations at Dana and Jon's wedding--still going strong in our backyard.