Recent Highlights..............

Here are some of the highlights of the last few days...............

We had a fun girls night out eating pizza and playing games........

McKenzie competed in the Bountiful Sprint Triathlon (3.3 mile run, 11 mile bike & 350 yd. swim). She finished 4th overall in the women's division and took 1st in her age group. Hooray!!

Cole just completed his first week of fall camp with the BYU football team. He is loving every minute and is exhausted by the end of the day. They start at 7 am and end around 8 pm. The day is full of position meetings, lifting, practice & team building activities. He is living the dream of playing for BYU. He has loved them from the time he was a little boy and still can't wrap his head around that he is wearing a BYU uniform. YAY for #65!!!

Trip to Jackson Hole

The Jones family, Elaine and Lexie recently took a qick trip to Jackson Hole and the Teton National Forest. We stayed in the Teton Village, cruised around Jackson, had dinner and were entertained at the Bar J, canoed on Jenny Lake, saw deer, antelope and moose (but no bears). The highlight of the trip was horseback riding through the Tetons. It was awesome! This was not some "dude" ranch riding on "plugs". The horses we rode were well trained mountain horses and mules. Our guide, Heidi, took us on a 4 hour ride that was similar to riding up North Fork and on the backside of Ben Lomond. The weather was perfect with bule skies and the mountains were green with wild flowers growing everywhere. We sat and had lunch (not exaclty "cowboy" sandwiches) with a perfect view of the valley below. This ride was not for beginners and even though McKenzie, Cole, Brock & Lexie are experienced riders they did great? Did I mention it was AWESOME?!

The gang in Jackson Hole.

Brock & McKenzie

Brock encounters Big Foot.

Elaine on Bunny

Brock riding Steel.

McKenzie on Buster.

Elaine & Lexie

Elaine on Bunny & Anne on Clyde.

Cole on big Waylen.

Raymond riding Winchester.

Moose in Teton National Forest.

Raymond, Brock & McKenzie canoeing on Jenny Lake.

Elaine, Lexie & Anne on Jenny Lake.

Ode to a Beloved Tree

Some two weeks ago we had to say goodbye to our beloved 130 year old tree.  He was a white oak and was being eaten from the inside out by nasty carpenter ants.  Couldn't they just go and destroy somebody else's tree?  Oh dear.  After a huge limb broke and fell into the street, we had to contact a tree "take it down" company; the next day they were here "bingo bango" with chainsaw in hand.  It was interesting to see and made me sad to have our big tree gone.