Labor Day Arches Trip

Timon's picture

Duncan, Grandpa Brubaker, & Timon

Michael takes the hard road

Timon, Kristi & Duncan at Tunnel Arch

Michael at pinetree arch

Michael & Duncan

Timon, Duncan & Kristi at PineTree Arch

Timon attacks the trail

What you don't see is that there are steep cliffs on either side. 

We're on teh primitive trail in Devil's Garden.  Good thing my boys are rock climbers.

Even further up!

Duncan at the Swimming hole in North Mill Creek Canyon

Timon at the swimming hole

Kristi contemplates cliff jumping

Timon climbs the waterfall

What kind of lizard is this?

Are they pectoglyphs or pictographs?  They are native american rock art!

Mitch Smoot, Jonathan Brubaker, Caroline & Maren Dunford, & Timon

Seriously love this picture of Duncan and Timon on the cliffs

Backside of Skyline Arch from our campground

Sunset from the campground

Is Duncan really helping Grandpa Dutch Oven?

Duncan, Michael & Timon (at the arch before Delicate???)

Michael trys to make sure Duncan looks at the person taking the picture!

1st day of Kindergarten

Big Brother Timon shows the way!

Hurry up mom - it's bright out here

This is where I wait every day to go in my class! I'm #2!

Duncan Burns and Nate Guinness!

Mandatory 1st day of K picture

at the green table

Ms. Huntington welcomes Duncan to Kindergarten

9th anniversary of Sept. 11th

This is a day where I wax philosophical.  Due to a nasty cold - I actually forgot!  My darling husband did not.  I have been pinning for a deep freezer.  Only people who coupon like I do and have food storage as an obsession can understand the signifigance of this.  I have been trying to figure out where in our 1300 square feet this deeply needed deep freeze would go.  Finally our neighbors Karla and Ben showed us how moving one shelf could make the space available.  I feel like I'm in NYC again just thinking in these ways.  So this tells you how amazing my husband is - he was in a fender bender while navigating the Jordan Landing parking lot (a virtual nightmare).  Due to construction cones he and another lady get in a fender bender - still can't figure out who is a fault - maybe the cones?  Even after this event manages to buy me my deep freeze and put a card in it for me to discover.  Good thing I didn't plug it in before opening it.

My main intention of journaling was not to write about my freezer - although it is obviously important to me!  But more one of reflection.  9 years seems like a long time ago and so much has happened.  I am so happy to say that in the seeking for a false sense of stability that I now own or am pretending to own by paying the bank a mortgage - the home we live in.  My children are both turning into wonderful people.  Timon who I am proud of and Duncan who I adore.  The images of people falling from the buildings will never fully leave my mind, but they don't haunt me and I don't sink into melancholy over thinking of how I have experienced more Drama and life in my 30's than most in their 60's.  Instead I have a small moment of wise today.  I think wisedom stems from gratitude.  And I have so much to be grateful for - not the very least of which is a new freezer.