Final Provo Adventures

Our finals Provo adventures

This is the Place Heritage Park

The This is the Place Monument in the background. You can see out into Salt Lake Valley just like Brigham Young did. Although I'm sure there were no houses and definitely was not a monument to him.

Goats... among the many things we saw. We also saw a sheep named Sam who was the size of a Great Dane, a barber shop, a tin smith, a blacksmith, a tanner and many more trades people. All of the trades people have experience in their fields so it is awesome to ask them questions and learn lots and lots.

What is that dad?

Goat escort. It was difficult to get back out of the petting zoo area.

I'm on a horse! (like the Old Spice commercial)

Making hand puppets

Kneaders

super cute Ross family

BYU boys

Ok mom, enough pictures

Suprise!

A family photo! (a rare breed)... feel free to use this one if you don't have a family photo of us ;)

Give me your french toast, I see it in your mouth.

This stuff is sooooooo good

What?

Mommies and babies

Everybody look

Jesse's final game of quad volleyball

It is crazy to think that at the end of the summer we won't be going back. I will miss the ward and all of the great people. We will have a new city to explore now and new friends to make, but we won't forget our olds ones. Love you guys!!!!

Ryan Turns One!!!

Here it is the much anticipated birthday post. Complete with cake smashing photos.

The cake pre-legs

Bug or turtle?

Turtle that has met nuclear waste? or has tar balls stuck to him?

Wrong! It's a firefly! The center of his head really looks like that.

These cake eating photos may be out of order

At first Ryan picked at the icing, note the left pincher fingers. Then I fed him a bite of cake and Ryan went to town.

Mmm bug... complete with a little piece of frass (upper left corner of the pan) that cousin Lucas ate.

more cake!

Ashton enjoyed the cake smashing as much as Ryan did.

Overhead view of the damage

Crawling provides a better angle at which to reach the cake.

What is better than cousins to help open present? Thanks Grandma for the toy toolbox.

Mom I really want to be in that floaty thing! Ryan loved to be in the floaty toy in his Aunt's pond. He smiled and smiled and kicked his little feet and drank some pond water.

Crawfish sand sifter and cousin Emma's hair pretties that Ryan adopted.


And just for fun

On the Road Again

Probably the last cross country drive we will make, at least for awhile. Here are our adventures from driving through exciting places, like Nebraska.

We saw an Indiana license plate and Jesse got excited and wanted to take a picture then we saw another and another. Five Indiana license plates total.

Will we make it to the pot of gold?

You may need to enlarge this photo. It says Buford population 1

We are where? (sign from Ogallala Nebraska)

King Ryan about to enjoy some chicken nuggets and fries.

"Ryan's" king sized bed, he eventually got transfered to the crib until some crazy high school kids started yelling and opening and closing their door.

Madison Botanical Gardens

Huh?


What is that?!

Here birdie, birdie, birdie

The "okay you can touch this stuff" area.

Photography practice. There are 20 more not good photos of these fish. Photos into water with glare, not my strong point.

Big red flower

Scene from The Halfing's Gem? Or some other sci-fi book?

A post only an engineer would love

The Composite Bridge

Ken proudly holding the finished bridge... made from other people's scraps. Not due to procrastination, no, but because they worked really hard analyzing instead of copying the last year's winner.

Umm, what is this thing?

Various other bridges

Get it on the crusher, just right.

Here dad, let me help.

Bridge post crushing still holds Ryan up.

I can even stand on it!

What the bridge should look like.

The failure... if you want to know specifics I'm sure Jesse can tell you.

The bridge could not handle friend Kevin stomping on it. Now everyone has a part to take home... or throw out.