Glendale Apple Festival

This year I was in charge of organizing the Apple Festival in my town. I asked at a Town Council meeting what was happening with the Apple Festival this year, and was asked to form a committee and find someone to be the...

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Moqui Cave

The kids have been asking for months to stop at Moqui Cave (a little museum on the way to Kanab), so we finally decided to take them on Labor Day since Chris got the day off work. Oliver calls it Monkey Cave. Elora spent the...

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Oktoberfest at Brianhead

We read about an Oktoberfest celebration in Brianhead in September, so we dressed the kids in their Austrian clothing and took them up there. As soon as they got out of the car, they ran out into the meadow to play with the...

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Wire Pass

A few months ago our friend Peter from Vienna came to visit. We wanted to hike out to “The Wave”, but they only give out a few permits, and alas, I did not get one. So I asked the ranger where to go and he recommended...

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Brianhead Ski Trip

I have never taken this long between blog posts! Sorry about that… here is one that has been in the works for a couple months. We figure instead of ten skiing posts, here is one with pics from a few different...

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Sledding!

Since we got snow, we decided to take the kids and Tom out sledding! We went to our favorite hill on Cedar Mountain. There was not tons of snow, but we scooped some extra snow over the tallest weeds and Chris dug out the biggest...

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Bryce Canyon

So we are back-blogging from earlier in November. Our friend Tom who works with Chris came out to visit us a few weeks ago just before Chris and Tom headed off to a trade show. We were enjoying a nice sunny Saturday, so we...

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Circus!

Chris got some cheap tickets to a circus up in Orem on groupon.com. Our kids loved the circus in Vienna, so we took a little road trip up north so the kids could see another circus. Marion loved seeing the animals. There was a...

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Manti Temple Trip

We really liked when we lived in Austria going to the temple in Germany. It took a long time to get there, but we stayed a week with our whole family there (as opposed to just going a few hours in a single day). It was a much...

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