Our 8th Anniversary

On August the 18th we celebrated our 8th anniversary. Since Scott and I are in the market to buy some four wheelers (not in the near future, but some day) Scott decided to surprise me with a romantic weekend up in the Uintas. I LOVE the Uinta mountains.
Friday, when I got home from work Scott, along with the bags he packed, whisked me away to our unknow destination. Of course as we were nearing Kamas I had an idea we were heading up Mirror Lake HWY, but still had no idea of our plans.
We arrived at East fork of the Bear River at a little lodge called Bear River Lodge. The next morning we had a homemade breakfast, and then we were on our way forging through miles and miles of ATV terrain. It was awesome!

It was raining in the morning, but it calmed the dust and made the trip more beautiful.

The Yurt

The Ridge

Lily Lake

Labor Day Weekend

I Know, it's almost been a month since we all celebrated Labor Day. With serving in Young Women's, working full time, and feeding a house full I have limited free time. (although I have been reading Stephanie Meyer books lately) But I've been really anxious to read up on everyones' blogs and then I decided to make time to FINALLY add to my own.

Labor Day weekend was great. First of all, it was an extra day off from medical billing and hair. Second, we had great weather and Kelly and Andrew were with us. (They're living with us and we're loving it)

As part of our Labor Day celebrations, we decided to go up Mirror Lake Hwy (up in the Uintas) and visit one of my favorite places, Provo Falls. We made a day of it. Hiking, picnic, and water fun. Here are a few pictures from our excursion.....This picture doesn't do it justice, it's beautiful, and farther down the falls are steeper.

Here we are being DORKS...Well, really Scott

Andrew decided to scale this steep rock wall. As you can see it was very dangerous

Mom, me, and Kelly

Had to play on the fallen tree

We are getting a glimpse of Mom and Dad fighting over the walking stick



Mom decided to just jump in and do some bum sliding (she didn't tell us that she had been prepared and brought a change of clothes)





Kelly was the next to go...

and if you have Sanderson blood in you, you ARE going to do it!!!

As you can see, the full body entry was rather chilly

too Chilly!

Care takers watching over us!!

Of course, as always, we had a great time.

Hopefully I can make a few entries here on this blog again before October. We'll see.

First Annual Harmon Reunion

It's been almost a month but thanks to Scott and Shawna we had a great turn out for our first annual Harmon reunion. ;) Everyone was there, therefore the goal was met! And despite a few major hang ups we had a great time! Like The Woman put it so well in her blog, sorry to those who missed Saturday night. Friday night was great also and it was so fun having everyone huddled around the lanterns for warmth and comfort.Pensu and G "sword fighting"

So Intense was the fighting that Scott put his "be one with the sword" face on.

Grandma Darlin always comes through with the fun things for the kids!

And of course Devil Child was the "devil" for most of the time. (that's what her parents thought anyway)

Smiss Moose Me (my sisters will get this)......when we were kids that is how we used to say Smith's Food King. Smiss Moose Me. I know, random right? anyway, we saw a moose.

Cute little Jo Jo waiting for his Dutch Oven dinner. Yum Yum

Friday Night by Fireli....I mean Lamplight. We weren't allowed to have fires where we were camping. So we all snuggled around the lanterns.

Breakfast Saturday morning, it was very yummy and everyone pitched in.

Ray Ray and her nose with wings. There was a lot of gas being tossed back and forth in that area, you can image the wish to fly away!




T's gonna shoot and Mikey's a little nervous. I guess he picks his nose when he gets nervous.




The Woman is tough, she just shot a GUN!! The girls kicked butt in our shoot off.




Sam needed a hug, it was quite the stressful camp out for her.



The bathroom in the trailer came in handy, and can you believe it, it was handy for Scott too! No Kidding, he barely fit. Man, you're large.



The rough and dirty pack!
Don't mess with em.


Thanks guys, it was awesome to have you all there! Until next year.

Our annual Oregon trip

Over the past four years we have spent the 4th of July on the Oregon coast. It offers amazing beauty, wonderful weather, and big fireworks in small coastal communities. This year we spent the entire trip it Yachats ( Ya-hots) about 10 miles North of Florence, on the coast. We always stay in a beach house and this year we really relaxed. Lazy days beach combing, shopping, eating clam chowder, swimming, and crabbing. A few of us even got a book in. It was very nice. I wish I could take you all with me. It's an experience you'd never forget. Enya songs come to mind. Here are a few pics from our trip. We spent the first night eating our foil dinners, relaxing by the fire, making smores and taking advantage of the great photo ops. Further down you can see us all doing the "Sunshine pimp kick" as Andrew calls it.

Andrew loves to pose for the camera.

Our pimp kicks

Our romantic moment on the beach

Ryan Blowing fire

Later that night Ryan showed us his amazing fire blowing show. He's done it a million times, and it really is pretty amazing. Unfortunately this night turned out to be his last night blowing fire. It was horrifying to watch his face go up in flames, thanks to Scott's quick thinking we got him down in the sand soon enough to stop severe burning. Ryan and Kristy spent the night in the er, but were able to join us the next morning. Ryan suffered mostly 1st and some 2nd degree burns. Thanks to a priesthood blessing he had little pain.

Doing some beach combing

Attack of the aliens

Yachats on the 4th, if you look closely you can see the parade route

Crabbing

Our matching pj's

Fireworks over the bay

Ryan and Kristy at the Haceta Head lighthouse

The fam

We had a great time and love the Oregon coast! I'm so glad we live in a free country where we can enjoy the beauties that are here!

p.s. Thanks BJ and Kam for watching our dog. We love you and know that we appreciate all that you do for us.

p.s.s Transformers the movie ROCKS!!