Portland Documented

This is her trip to Portland, almost entirely shot by AKP herself. Fun perspective of the things that matter most along the way...sorry many of them are a little blurry.

Endless celebration

There's no end to the celebrations - a week or more of birthday festivities and there's been fireworks going off here for the last few hours...its Pioneer Day after all. Big celebrations. We went across the street while I neighbors lit off a bunch. Kind of fun. AKP was excited about the poppers she got to throw.

Below are some pictures from AKP's visit to Portland - Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Bobby (aka you-know-what) did an excellent job - spoiling her to perfection :-)

Here's AKP with Grandma Kathy, riding Spiffy, and Uncle Eric.

Ka-Boom!

She loves ALL her birthday presents but the only one I have a picture of thus far is the Stomp Rocket (thank you Alyssa!) Below are two sequences...not bad!

Sequence 1

Sequence 2

For me??

Lots of people wanted a piece of the action

How to make the coolest city

Draw it with sidewalk chalk, then drive your cars up and down the sidewalk chalk streets, past the fire station, TV antennas, and school. So creative!

Saying "Thanks!" unprompted

Hanging at Regan and Kippy's

Cookies anyone?

Like a fish

Millcreek Hiking

Who can Toucan?

We hit the Aviary with Grandpa B and Oliver

Just in time for the Tour

This is how you eat a popsicle

As demonstrated by Ruby...

Our recycling truck drivers just got a whole lot younger

Watch out!

Tiger Mania

Tiger Program

The Tigers entertained us all with a 'program' this evening. Here's our performer excited as she's marching in, and I'll send a sample of the songs shortly. Enjoy!

The San Rafael Swell was, well, swell

Petroglyphs and pictographs from a long time ago

Amara setting up the tent for us

Waking up at our lovely campsite

Hiking Utah's "Little Grand Canyon"...did I say hiking? I meant 'riding'..

A view back down on where we'd just hiked

A large dinosaur track is preserved in the stone. It's not signed but if you follow your guide book and look carefully, it can be found up on a wide ledge above the road. Very cool. Justin's foot looks small!

Meet Fred

How to make food fun

Howdy!

We had a nice Memorial Day weekend despite a couple days of rainy cool weather here. Today made up for it with sunny skies, high of 70. The weekend consisted mostly of seeing some friends (Sat day, Sun day, and Monday night), checking out a couple new restaurants, and doing a few errands with a couple hikes and a bike ride thrown in. All in all, very nice.