SSF the end (summer so far)

Summer has come to an end but

on this blog it is still alive and happening!

On August 8th we celebrated

Courtney with a

Birthday Surpriseaganza!

We were in St. George.

The Birthday Girl

First stop: The Neon Sign Boneyard

in Las Vegas.

 The fam with our tour guide.

 They had old neon signs

that they display.

This one was for a dry cleaners.

This one was appropriate for the desert.

 They had iconic Vegas casino signs that 

 they restore and put back up in Vegas

to be enjoyed once again

 We went in the early morning

but it was still swelteringly hot.

 snapchat

 Then 3 of us took pictures with our initials.

 P and C

and A - but the M was too enthralled and busy to be bothered with a silly picture

until the end where we got our reflection in the Frontier sign

 The second surprise was shopping for birthday gifts for this girl.

 

 Our last and biggest surprise was

Love which we loved!

 Becky got married

so we got to visit the Provo Utah Temple.

 We celebrated Mark and Courtney. 

 We went to the Ogden Utah Temple open house.

 It is so beautiful.

 The windows!

 And of course - while in Ogden - we ate at 

The Sonora Grill.

We went to Swiss Days wearing stripes.

 

 And bought this lovely objet d'art

for our yard. As I look at it now I am not certain

it goes with our milk can very well.

But I love them both.

 
On Labor Day my family participated in a sprint triathlon!
Paige swimming.

Mark biking.

Courtney running.

Courtney's cute friends came to support her!

BTW they all did all three legs but I don't have pictures of 

each of them doing each thing. 

This is Paige right when she finished!

All the family that participated:

Tony, Courtney, Kenzie, Paige, Mark, Davis, and Madison

My three

Then we spent some time with family.

Courtney and James

Cyndi showing off her very large sunflowers!

We have also spent some wonderful Saturday mornings at

the Salt Lake Farmer's Market.

On one of those Saturdays we discovered

Spitz and these fries.

Also Jenny came from South Africa for a stay.

And she made trifle!

Football season started.

We took some selfies.

And some more.

What a wonderful life!