Antelope Island

Antelope Island is in the Great Salt Lake, Gordon and Helen (the Marbles son) has been wanting to take us for ages, but it has been snowing, raining and just not working out... But today we made it!!!

So it's just near Layton and you can drive all the way out there and you make your way around the island at your own pace... Plenty of places to stop and take photo's.

The Island reminded us of Tasmania, even though you were on an island in the middle of Utah it felt like you were near the ocean...

We stopped at one of the lookouts, where the bugs attacked us.. At the entrance they said the "bugs were bad"... They were more than bad.. They were worst than flies....

These painted buffalo reminded us of the Cows at Ashgrove....

They had this old farm on the island which still had the households with the furniture in them... I just walked around and took photo's....

Where's ALL the Antelope... you say.... Well I just found out that I did take some pics (not good one's) of some Antelope, but they were more like small deer.....

First KFC

A couple of days ago we visited the first franichise of KFC in Murray just near Salt Lake..Gaz was excited to stand next to a statue of The Colonel and the franchise owner Pete Harman... Opening the first franchise for him as Pete Harman today owns 289 stores....

Inside they had all the history and even the famous white suit!!!

But the best thing that was inside was the "ALL YOU CAN EAT KFC BUFFET"........

Chicken ,mashed potato and gravy, salad's and heaps more sides......... even some jello....

Phebe and Eden enjoying the buffet.....

A bit too much I think.........

Mother's Day..

This I didn't get any homemade cards or breakfast in bed......
But I did get.... A framed quote from ELIZA.... a very nice "homemade" purse from GAZ and EDEN and a cute little ring from PHEBE.......
I had a lovely day, well it's still 4;38pm so it's almost over..
But Gaz has fallen alseep and so I guess it's already over.....

After many attempts MY MOTHER deciced to pick up her phone......
Next year I will have to do someting special with her.......

Thanksgiving Point...

Today we went to Thanksgiving Point at Lehi... Thanksgiving Point is a HUGE Private Park, all year around they have a number of events held there. Today was Tulip Festival, just before Mother's Day so everyone was there with their families...

And it was such a nice day..

They had lots of lawn area's where you could sit and relax..

And lots of different pathways..

And plenty of hills to roll down......

Anna came along for the ride..

And plenty of Tulip's...

And plenty of photo opportunities....

Take me out to the ball game..

Tonight we went to our first BYU Baseball game, yes I know... "what kind of Cougar Fan are you".... Well not loyal when it comes to baseball....

Robby scored a loose ball....

It was a nice night and we enjoyed watching the Cougars making some massive hits..

And some fast breaks.......

And we made some new friends...

And saw some Very weird looking Cougar fans... ( look closely and you might recognise him!!)

Eden was excited to be a Cougar fan again....

And so was Phebe.....

And when you go to baseball, this is the only way to eat popcorn........

Oh yes and they did win, just can't remember the scores as they won by 10....

BYU Women Conference...

Thursday and Friday last week, I was able to go the the BYU Women's Conference. Sister's all around the States (even the world, last post!!) came with their knitting needles and tote bag for the event...
It was HUGE... First thing Thursday morning everyone made their way to the Marriott Center to listen to Sis Virginia H. Pearce on the theme 'By Small and Simple things are Great Things Brought to Pass' Alma 37:6-7

On Friday my buddy was Susan P Lloyd, she cracks me up alot...They had mini vans to drive us around if we didn't want to walk around campus....

Besides having lots of fun , we did get to listen to some great inspiring women...

Every morning and afternoon session was packed.....

And what do you do when your waiting for Sis and Elder Bednar... Take pics of yourself!!

Elaine and I were also waiting for Susan.. She was in the bookstore...

Thank you ladies for coming with me and thank you to Gaz for looking after Eden.....

gaz turns 38..

Last week Gaz had his 38th birthday. He had the day off school so he was going to have a great day.... Well actually he spent the whole day looking after Eden so I could attend BYU women's Conference.... To make up for this he had a trio of chocolate cake!!!
In 2 years time... BIG G will be called OLD G !!!!!!!!!