Snow Canyon With My Hubby!

Last week was Mitch's spring break so he got to take a break finally! He caught up on some much needed sleep, and we were able to go do some fun stuff with his time away from homework haha. One day after I got off work, we decided to drive up to Snow Canyon Park because I'd never been there before. It was a really pretty drive, but way shorter than I thought it'd be. So we decided to get out an go on one of the hikes. Welp.... let's just say that it wasn't too successful haha. There was a short path that led to huge sandstone hills...... and after that, we had NO clue where to go! So we wandered around for a while... not even sure what we were looking for. Eventually we just turned around and walked back to the truck. Mitch has decided that whoever made up the hikes up there is a "Dumb-A" haha. Anyways, it was still lots of fun. I LOVE going on little adventures with Mitch. He is such a good husband and honestly the best person I ever could have found to be with! I could write a whole blog about how much I love him.... but I'll spare everyone from that right now and just post some pictures from our hike :)

For some reason, Mitch thought this big sandstone rock was way cool :)

Petroglyphs

Mitch and I both really like to go on hikes and do things outdoors, so a couple days ago Mitch suggested that we take some of my nieces and nephews to see some petroglyphs. We drove about 15 minutes out to Little Black Mountain where there used to be Indian ceremonies and stuff.... so needless to say there were lots of petroglyphs. We ended up taking all 4 of my brother Casey's kids and 2 of my brother Tyler's kids. Of course we couldn't leave our dogs (yes dogS.... we have another puppy that I'll write about later!) We had quite the load with us, but it was tons of fun. The kids had a blast climbing and hiking all over. I took my camera, so this blog is gonna be mostly a ton of pictures :) There may be 2 mothers who are gonna be scared when they see some of these pics with their kids on top of huge boulders!!! haha But rest assured that everyone made it home in 1 piece!

All 6 of the kids and both dogs as our adventure began...

It's kinda hard to tell, but the top of this rock has lots of petroglyphs

Kenzee, Kylee, Payton, Blake, Dillon, and Mariah

All the kids

Dillon crawled in EVERY hole we saw!!! haha

A rock wall covered in petroglyphs

Kenzee and Andy

This huge rock was covered in petroglyphs!

I love the sun drawing!

So I'm guessing this is supposed to be a man?

The Boys

The girls

Dillon found himself a seat :)

Mitch convinced the kids that this was an "indian bath" so Ky and Payton tried it out!

So we're still not sure how Andy got up on this rock cuz it was really high!

Some sort of animal...

Mariah, Kylee, and Kenzee.... and obviously someone was climbing above me so it was raining dirt

Ky thought this looked like a McDonald's window haha

Blake and Andy

They not only climbed up, but DOWN into every interesting spot they saw!

Kenzee and Kylee hangin over the edge!

Dillon and Blake chillen out...

So I'll be writing a blog later about our newest puppy :)

Isn't Kenzee so cute?!

Blake found a bed :)

Scorpion Update

I know I've already written about how we have scorpions in our basement, but I thought I'd give a little update. There for a little while, we weren't seeing as many as we had previously. Then all of a sudden we started getting about 2 a day! Luckily the majority didn't make it into the house, they just got caught on our nifty sticky traps! We killed one on our wall in the kitchen the other day though, and I walked into the bathroom barefoot the other night and there was one running around in there! It just reminded me why I should ALWAYS wear shoes in our house! Anyways, I took some pictures of our traps. We have them lining a door that goes into a storage room..... we're pretty sure that's where the majority of them come from. But yeah... here they are!

So this is a view of all of them....

This is a closer view of part of the traps that has the most scorpions on it... they're kinda hard to see, but there's about 7 on them!

And here are about 3 more on another part of the traps!

I'm glad that we're catching a lot of them before they get it, but it just scares me to think about how many probably do get in here that I don't know about! YIKES!!

Weekend Update

So since getting married, Mitch and I have realized that we both really like working on the yard. Even though we're just in his grandma's basement, we do have our own little backyard. For the last couple weeks, we've been working on weeding the yard and we decided to make a flower bed. We already had a small one under the kitchen window, but we made another one to go along one side of the lawn. Amazingly, my work gave me a Saturday off, so last weekend Mitch and I bought some flowers and got to work! I took some "before" and "after" pictures for everyone to enjoy :)

So this is obviously the "before" picture... though this is better than what it looked like before we weeded it!


These are the flowers and we bought :)

And here is our "after" picture. I put some old gas cans in the garden that I had found out in the family junkyard they have on Mitch's family's hill. I think they're way cute



I also took an old stove that was just sitting in our dog pen and planted flowers in it. Come to find out, it used to be the stove in the Schmutz family farmhouse and so Grandma Schmutz was happy that it was getting used somehow :)

And here is a view of the back of our house.... we also planted a pot next to our door and put flowers under the kitchen window. I yet again put "junk" in the backyard by putting an old metal heardboard up against the wall that I had found out in the junkyard. Mitch thought he was very clever when he said it was for our "flower BED" haha