Family Home Evening Hikes

Flowers (I think Indian Paintbrush) on the trail.

I don't know how I got this picture, but I was happy with how it turned out with the mountains softer in the background and the flowers kind of standing out in front. I want to learn some photography techniques, so if anyone has tips let me know.

Last night, Monday, June 15, 2009; Summer, Whitney and I joined my brother's family and my parents for a family home evening hike up Indian Trail in Ogden. I have ran and hiked a lot of the trails in the Ogden foothills, but I have never been on the Indian Trail. IT IS SO PRETTY! (Have I mentioned before how much I love being in the mountains, they are so pretty!) Indian Trail climbs high above the Ogden Canyon road. Now is the perfect time to go because it is so green from the rain we have been deluged with the last couple of weeks.

We did have a slight detour when we got off of the trail and ended up doing a little more rock climbing than hiking, so we back tracked a little and found where we strayed. My parents and I turned around with Whitney, Summer and my niece Grace, while my brother and the rest of his family finished the hike to get the truck that we shuttled to the end of the trail.

We are going to do this for Family Night for a while, so if anyone has suggestions for trails, I'd love to hear your recommendations.

This is Ogden Canyon looking east from a view on the hike.

These are the troopers: from left my nephews Jacob, Cade, my niece Grace, Summer and Whitney.

This was one of the many breaks we took to chow on some candy that Grandma brought.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

Friday, June 12, 2009 we made reservations and took the girls to the open house. The open house is very well organized and it is beautiful inside. The open house is for members and non-members, and the reservations are free at lds.org if anyone is interested. The detail and the murals are incredible. After the self-guided tour, we went to a tent for cookies and water. I asked the girls what was their favorite part, and Summer said the pretty lights (crystal chandeliers), and Whitney said it was the cookies and water. :)

I've entered a contest

I usually don't enter these kinds of things, but as most everyone knows I have entered a contest on a photo printing web-site, so that I could win some free prints. It is at winkflash.com, there is a link on my page. (winkflash.com makes prints for 6 cents per print plus shipping if you use the coupon code "only6cents"). The contest is for fathers, so I thought I would enter my favorite picture in the contest (it is the picture of John and the girls in their sunglasses in the right column). So anyone out there that can vote, I would appreciate it. You can vote until Fathers Day. I know it is kind of a pain to go through all of the pictures; and to help, the date on my picture is May 31 and the title is Daddy's girls. I used to be on the top 20 page, but it's not there anymore even though I have more votes and more points than some listed on the top 20 page. The votes don't register right away, but they get entered faster if you have a member name and password.
Thanks everyone for helping me and voting so far, 6 more days to vote!!
I'll let you know if I hear anything! If nothing else, it is a cute picture to share!