Labor Day

Labor Day.

My family went up to Perry/Brigham City, as we have made it a tradition to do in September, and brought home bushels and bushels of peaches. Oh how I love to bite into my first peach of the season; straight from the farmer and fresh from the orchard. I tried my had at making peach jam this year. I made lots of it. For some reason jam tastes better when you make it yourself:)

And of course we stopped by Maddox for some lunch. I had me a delicious peach shake!

Albion Basin + (almost) Cecret Lake

I'm so far behind! Here goes my ongoing effort to catch up little by little.
Back in September, we explored Albion Basin some more. Last year, we made it as far as here, but decided it was getting too late so we didn't make it to the hike. This year, we actually made it to the hike, but it was a little late for a hike, and we wern't able to make it to the late, yet again. Someone/something has to be to blame so I'll blame our late church time:)

I love love love Albion Basin. It's one of the prettiest places I've seen. The mountains are just different here, the mistyness in the evening, the beautiful pine trees, and my most favorite, the plethora of wildflowers. And there were probably even more flowers had we made it up a week or two earlier. I want to spend an entire afternoon just lounging in the flowers. Maybe next year, when we actually make it to the lake.

My mom came along with us this year.

Moose!

He was actually crossed right in front of us on the trail!

Harvest

This year I planted in a very small area in my moms yard, and then just planted in pots at our apartment. Tomatoes, mini, tomatoes, green beans, peas, and a few new plants for this year were black beans, carrots, and strawberries.

My fav were definately the strawberries! They did really well, especially for a first year crop. They were giving off strawberries through September! I'm tempted to fill the whole garden with them next year.

 There was a slight lack of pictures from this years harvest. This is what I got!

Westin loves...

Campfires in grandma's backyard

Elmo balloons from the Farmer's Market

to cuddle with aunt Natalie

And when he gets to wear super awesome hats!

Isn't life great!?

A boy and the summer sun

Continuation of belated summer postings... Here are the last of them...

Westin enjoying the summer sun

Davis County Fair

We went to the Davis County Fair and after grabbing a bite to eat, I was looking forward to putting Westin on some rides for the first time. We started with the little boat ride. He thought it was pretty neat, that was until about the 3rd or 4th time around when he thought the bells were too loud and began crying.

It was pretty sad. The bells were pretty loud and obnoxious. I can see how it was bothering him.

Here he is before when the ride was good!

Aw, Summer sunsets!

 We tried once more with the rides because we had more tickets that needed to be used.

Not so much. I consider this the picture of the night.

We also watched a comedian. I can't remember his name, but he was really funny.

Post-Bath pictures

...are the best of all.

(August 2011)