Our Backyard..... A work in progress

In December we will have been in our house for 20 years. We have been working on our yard trying to get it just the way we want it all that time. 20 years later we are almost there. As you can see there are a few spots that we haven't done anything with. I have been begging for planter boxes for YEARS and when Jarom and Holly moved in with us he made us just do it. So he and Craig got to work and built two boxes that are 6 x 12 and then we ordered some clean dirt to fill them. The guy on the phone figured out how much we needed for our two boxes and so we had it delivered and dumped in our driveway. Anybody need some dirt. We now have two more boxes that are 6 x 7 and we still have a pile of dirt. We are going to make one more box but we will still have more dirt. I guess we will find something to do with it.

Fruit Pizza

This was a very yummy treat that we made on a sunday evening...... and it was really easy.

1 18 oz. package refrigerated cookie dough
1 8 oz. package cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Fresh strawberries, bannanas, mandarin oranges, seedless grapes, kiwi, pineapple, etc.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line an ungreased 14-inch pizza pan with cookie dough cut in 1/8-inch slices, overlapping slightly. Bake 12 minutes or until light brown; remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.

In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla; spread over cookie crust. Arrange fruit over cream cheese in any design you want. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Zion Trip

Our plan was to hike "The Narrows" but as you can see the water was a little too high (and COLD) to attempt it..... plus, we had the babies and that would have been a little too dangerous.
















This picture was taken at "Weeping Rock". You can't see it but the rock was weeping on us. The picture of the falls is a hike that we took called "Emerald Pools". I think that we walked a total of about 6 or 7 miles.