Pumpkins

We are pretty busy this week, so we decided to go a little simpler with our pumpkin this Halloween. It's not as elaborate as last year, but I still think it turned out pretty great!





One of my all-time favorite movies!

Table Rock

My siblings, Tyler, and I had big plans to go to Lagoon on the last Friday before BYU-Idaho started. We wanted to be down there when all of the younger kids were in school. Unfortunately, we didn't know that they had just started closing it during the day for the school year. Luckily Joni had the brilliant idea to hike Table Rock (although I'm sure she regretted suggesting it as soon as she did!) We had all hiked it before except Tyler, and I think he was a bit nervous. He's used to only roaming around the mountains on a horse. He ended up being the best hiker, though, and had a great time. All in all, we had a fun adventure. Someone got vertigo, someone decided to climb straight up an enormous rock face just because it was faster, someone got sic and didn't quite make it to the top, someone didn't bring any water and mooched off of everyone else, and someone was the slowest hiker even though she works out every day (Can you guess who was who?) We were sad that David and Emily didn't come, so they'll have to join us next year.

Sorry there are so many pictures! There are some family members who haven't seen these.

Oops

I guess I left out a picture from the previous post. This is supposed to go above the caption "Tyler's in training". I had to fix my mistake because I love this picture!

Pittsburgh/Kirtland/Plymouth- Catching Up

Tyler and I went back East for the first two weeks of August. I primarily went there for some Suzuki training in Pittsburgh, but since Tyler served his mission there it was a great opportunity for us to see the sights and for him to reconnect with some old friends. The Suzuki Institute there was an incredible experience. My trainer was one of the original Suzuki students in the United States, and had many lessons and masterclasses with Dr. Suzuki himself. She was incredible, and I know I am a much better teacher now because of her.

While we were in Pittsburgh we found Tyler's mission office where he worked, the mission home, took in a baseball game, and saw some amazing architecture in the city.

The Cathedral of Learning (where they filmed Ghostbusters)

This was taken almost on the top floor of the cathedral (the top floor was locked). The building was completely empty, and kind of creepy.

After the institute was over, we drove up to Kirtland for the day. We toured Historic Kirtland, went to the Jacob Morley farm, and the Kirtland temple. It was a wonderful experience.

I love those bonnets!

After Kirtland we headed over to northern Indiana to visit our good friends Matt and Julie. We had a great time staying with them and their three little girls. We really appreciate them letting us relax at their house for a few days! While we were there we went to the park.

Tyler's in training

We took a train down to Chicago for our flight home. If you've never been on a train, we recommend it. We had a great time!





Because of the flight vouchers we were using, we had to take separate flights home, and even flew out of different airports, so we had to part ways at the train station in Chicago. We met up again in Salt Lake and drove home. It was a great trip!

New instrument?

Maybe I should switch to the accordian. Seems to be easier to play Tchaikovsky, anyway.