Logan and a Birthday

This past weekend we took our Christmas-gift-trip with Mother and Daddy to Logan. It was so much fun! We went to the temple and tabernacle, we went to the zoo, we hiked, we swam at the hotel pool (the kids favorite part), we ate at yummy restaurants, we played fun games in the car, we threw up (Fay and Carter did, that is), and all had a wonderful time and made lots of wonderful memories with grandparents and grandkids! Both Carter and Fay have told me they want to go back to Logan!

I think my favorite part was the hike we took up Tony Grove. It was a similar experience to going around Silver Lake. It, along with the hike Josh and I took on my birthday, reminds me how much I love the mountains! I just want to go hiking all the time! The flowers and lake were so beautiful, the air was clean and cool! It was even exercise! Man! I just want to go out on another hike…

These are, unfortunately, the only pictures we have of the Logan event:

You can’t tell from the picture how many different colors and types of flowers were on the hill, but there were approximately 3 gajillion! It was magical!

At the zoo, we were all looking at the geese and ducks and such on this pond then decided to move on, when Josh said “Hey, there’s like a giant elk thing in the pond.” We ran back and were all embarrassed by how we had missed such a huge animal. It turned out to be a caribou!

Daddy had his great big, fancy camera, and I thought I would just let him take all the pictures. I didn’t think about the fact that that would leave us with no pictures.

Also of note this past week is the fact that I had a birthday. I’m now 27! I love getting older! I find it interesting that because of one choice I made–to start having kids right after I got married at 21–I will be young for the rest of my whole life. But it is good, because I will never dread a birthday! I will always look forward to being one year closer to being taken seriously! 🙂

I celebrated 27 years of life with lemon bars, a hike, a trip to an art museum, a nap, and talking with family members! Plus, Josh did everything in his power to make the day as easy and enjoyable for me as possible. He is the best part of my 27 years!