Two blissful days in Heber, AZ.

Never, in my memory, have two and one half days gone so fast!Most of the family were able to party with us...school, pregnancy and work rudely interrupted Greg, Treslee and Ryan's party schedule! (A field of wild flowers!)

Swingers-Mindy and Carter!

Wedding cake creation by Ashlyn and Oaklee

Bad mitton and croquet on the court

Boots and lingerie were the fashion for Elle for two days!

Rich and B were a team!

Peaceful cousin play (after explaining to Sam that we don't throw sand!

SUPER JOHNNY!

The kids loved being able to play in the rain!

Fashion designs by Ella, Nina, Oaklee and Elle! All this from just big strips of fabric! Brilliant!

Oh Ande!

Have you been to Walmart lately Adam?

Uh Oh! I see that look in his eye and that loaded marshmallow in his hand! We had a marshmallow war which is like paint ball only cheap and painless! It's done by smothering marshmallows in flour and pelting people with them! The flour stays where it hit!

Looks like a few people got off some good shots on grandpa!

Bastian's ready to let go!

Our marshmallow aftermath!

Medals were awarded for having such a fun time throwing floured marshmallows at each other! What good sports!
 

Nina the beautiful!

Charlee the gorgeous!

Handsome Johnny buillding his fort! 

Sam the incredible zipping through the sky!

Kisses from Carter to mommy Mindy

Seranading Anya...she doesn't look too impressed!

Happy, helper Alli!

Darling Ande...picture taken by Charlee!

i pad party on GoGo's bed! Oaklee brought me breakfast in bed each morning! How sweet is she!?!

Bastian turned five years old on our first day there so he, of course, got to stick his own candles in the cake before taking them out in one breath!

Another fort in the making! The forest makes the best playground! And cousins make the best playmates!

Mr Sam and Miss Ashlyn takin' a drive on a stationary antique tractor!

Brian and Scottee lovin life!

Devin and Sam zipping along!

Darling Oaklee-I'm not sure the little girls got dressed after the first night! Who cares! We're on vacation!

Molly and uncle Brian having a blast!

Scottee and Allison eating AS ALWAYS! (HeHe Scottee!)

And who could this be?!?

Brian taught Charlee and Nina how to boondoggle! (Is that what is't called?)

Mindy lovingly cut each olive separately for our Mexically supper! We had to show our appreciation!

Spooky bug that the kids tried to catch, did and let go back to nature...minus one antenna!

Grandpa and Jaxson built some mighty fine K-nex creations!

Scarey picture taken by Ashlyn!!! (She is three years old!) 

Such pretty girls!!! Brooklynn and Allison

Alli, Bastian and I happy as clams! (How can we know if a clam is happy?)

Molly the dolly! She is so good natured...that rock is her entertainment!

Bastian and his new do are the cutest!

Pizza in Payson!

A cat that greeted as when we drove up never left us. The kids named him/her CoCo or Ringo or Rango depending on who was calling it! Sam kept a good eye on it!

 Playing in the rain in yet another fort, made the day just that much more fun!

The trip was all too short, but hey, we take what we can get! 

(For the family video by Allison, check Devin and Allison's blog!)

A Wonderful Time in Utah

 For 11 near-perfect days Utah's weather, people and events treated us like we were important so something! It began with attending The Spoken Word on Temple Square and feeling the patriotism that  hearing the Tabernacle Choir's July 4th program brought. It was thrilling! President Uchtdorf was there and was almost within handshake distance! In the visitor's center is this diorama of the Salt Lake Temple which shows what each room looks like and the whole layout of the temple!

Hayley Moore was our guest in traveling and for a couple of days while there. 

 Elder Uchtdorf

The 4th of July parade in Provo was even better than ususal because the weather was stormy! No beating sun roasting us like other times!

The Boley family reunion at the Herbert's back yard in Orem was great. I love renewing relationships with family! (Herbie and Gerbie!)

This is the older generation mixed with the newest one! (Aunt Ann, Aunt Carol, Grandma Belle, David Barry's wife, Emily and their new son.)

We spent the evening of the holiday at Connie and Steve Ault's property in Provo Canyon where horses were riden and their newest attractiona, zip line, was enjoyed!

July 5th found us at our traditional trip to Lagoon. The weather could not have been any better! My brother,Wally and his family came too as did Nate Herbert. (Can you see John in the tram behind us!)

 

John and Nate 

 

July 6th is my sister, Peggy's birthday so to celebrate we met for lunch at Applebees and then shopped at our favorite store in Provo called Cherry Lane. (Me, Brooklynn, Payton [Peggy's granddaughter], Tamsen [daughter], Willow [granddaughter], Wendy, [daughter] Peggy and Mom) 

How lucky were we to get to go to the American Idol concert in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night!!! It was such a blast! 
 On July 7th Mom and I visited my friend, Barbara Carroll and my sister Nancy. Nancy has hepatitis so instead of shopping and being on the go we all piled into her bed and watched two movies while eating licorise and chocolate! It doesn't get any better than that!!!

On Friday after going to breakfast with my Red Hot friends, Dad, Mom and I went to Midway and Heber...my favorite places. This house was built by my great-great grandfather, Dr. John Gerber when Brigham Young sent him and his famly to Midway to settle the area way back in the mid 1800's.

We also visited Peggy and Terry at their trailor in Provo Canyon. I LOVE being in the mountains, in nature, with family! We watched the humingbirds and a bluebird eat from their feeders and spied into a mud sparrow's nest to see her three little babies!

Peggy and Terry

This is my favorite house in Midway. It has been in a few films in it's day! 

Saturday was the Gerber family reunion in Sandy, Utah. I haven't seen many of the members of this family for more years than I can remember! It was so good to visit with my cousins, aunts and uncles. I actually participated int he tug of war--by far the oldest one in the game!These are some of my cousin's kids! The two on the left are 15 years old. (I just took this picture for Brooklynn because she was visiting a friend and didn't go to the reunion.)Now if that itsn't love on my mom's face as she looks upon Wally, I don't know what is!!! We got to have several fun times with Wally!It's hard to see, but this a deer that was running beside our truck when we were driving through Park City, Utah. Cool!

Park City has the ski jump, luge, (sp?) Alpine slide and everything else that was used for the 2002 Olympics.

I could have stayed another 11 days easily!!!