navel gazing at its finest

(Fair warning, dear friends, this blog post plagiarizes from various Facebook statuses and comments I’ve posted over the last year or so....

So in the spirit of teaching my kids stuff ( #111 - 116 )  (and also in the spirit of Our Cupboards They are Barren), yesterday we went to...

On our way down to Vegas we stopped at Cove Fort, a historic pioneer fort about half-way between Fillmore and Beaver (for parents, it'...

I really love Bridal Veil Falls.  This is another really simple, easy (quarter of a mile) waterfall hike (more like a stroll).  You can pl...

Oh man.  YOU GUYS. The airshow was a total parental FAIL. The sun was shining in Bountiful on Saturday morning when we left, so despi...

On Monday we went out to the Camp Floyd state park in Fairfield, a little town about 10 minutes west of Eagle Mountain. Camp Floyd is ...

I don't think it's legal to live in Utah with children without coming to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum at least once...

We love the pool. Looooooooooove the pool.  I know people think of Utah as a snowy place but it gets freaking HOT in the summertime.  All of...

On Mother's Day afternoon we decided to try hiking to Lisa Falls in Little Cottonwood Canyon. (We picked this one because it was fa...

Well. I mean, it's not TECHNICALLY five million.  But still.  It's a bunch. 300+.   Probably plenty for you, because let's be ...

In mid-summer we love going to Pineview Reservoir in Huntsville.  There are camping spots, but we usually just go for the day.  Lots of pe...

This Kaysville/Fruit Heights park is a lot like the Veteran's Memorial playground in South Jordan (seriously, there's a freaking c...

It's a park!  It's a hike!  It's a park and a hike! Seriously you guys, rich people have all the luck.  Tucked away inside...

We stumbled on this fun trail completely by accident after we attempted to go to the Canyon View Park in Spanish Fork Canyon and found it ...

Sometimes we like to get wet, but sometimes I'm not up to the whole and-now-I-must-keep-four-kids-from-drowning deal, so instead of he...

Have you been here yet?  It's a freshwater lake with a beach about 50 miles north of SLC.   There are free cabanas, picnic areas, and ...

Oh you guys.  The wildflowers!  This is such an easy, gorgeous hike.  Technically the hike goes to a (rather underwhelming) (greenish) lak...

What else would be located right smack in the middle of Ogden but a 152 acre non-profit nature preserve with trails, picnic areas, treehou...

Another gorgeous lake - the Silver Flat Lake Reservoir.  This is a few miles up American Fork Canyon.  The drive is a little rough/scary (...

We loved Kelly's Grove, a park just a tad into Hobble Creek Canyon (near Springville).  A shallow river to wade in, wilder places to e...

Yeah.  Good luck getting there, but man, it was fun. (I'm a brat, I know.)

That has nothing to do with anything. My visiting teacher said that to me the other day and I've been repeating it ever since, mostly in...

It galls me how much time is wasted in an office. People stand around and talk about video games or television. They surf the internet a...

(Part One is here and Part Two is here ) I've been debating this post in my mind over the last couple of weeks, torn between two opti...

There is this story in the Book of Mormon. Lehi announces that he's had a vision that Jerusalem is going to be destroyed.  He tells hi...