September Acres

It's taken over a year but we were finally able to pay back the kindness of strangers yesterday on our way home from Phoenix. You may remember in December of 2012 we had a breakdown in the Virgin River Gorge on the Utah/Arizona border. Yesterday afternoon my husband noticed a truck & U-haul stopped on I10 about an hour out of Phoenix.  He didn't think too much of it until he saw a girl (probably in her twenties) walking along the side of the highway heading towards the next exit (about a mile away).  He pulled over and asked me to get out and meet her to see what she needed.  Luckily, she just ran out of gas so we took her to the gas station to get a can of gas and drove her back to her car. As it turns out, she is a newlywed whose husband was deployed right after their wedding last year and she was headed to their new duty station.  It was sure nice to be able to help her out and even better that we were able to help someone whose spouse is serving our c...

When we went to Utah after Christmas we had a big day planned with my sister in Salt Lake, starting with a trip to the Capital Theatre   to see The Nutcracker.  It was LM's first time to see it and she was pretty excited.  She wasn't super excited to dress up, but that was part of the deal.  We all loved the ballet - The Nutcracker is always a good one in my opinion. We then headed over to the Clark Planetarium  before dinner.  LM loves planetariums as much as I do.  We spent time walking around looking at the exhibits.  The above photo is LM walking on the moon.  She also walked on Mars, which was right across the hallway.   We definitely plan on going again. After dinner we headed over to Temple Square  to see the lights.  Us - and a large portion of the state of Utah.  It was packed - and one of the coldest nights of the year.  No matter how crowded and cold, it's always a beautiful sight....