Happy Pioneer Day Utahns

Well I am missing Pioneer day as the fam is getting together in Utah at Melissa's place. But I guess we are stuck in NY, and I guess Luke will be happy that there are not any fireworks here tonight.
So in honor of Pioneer day here is a pioneer story that is cool and we have been to the place...
Hole In the Rock....This is Allie and I enjoying the view... can you believe how little she was?The marker for the site, that is now covered with Lake Powell...
The "hole" in the rock that the wagons came down, pretty scary if you ask me!

Here is the story from Mormon Times

SLC with the Pecks/Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

We met up with our friends Adam and Maria Peck at the Garden restaurant at the top of the Joseph Smith building. They had the roof open it was pretty cool, I haven't ever been up there before. Then we walked around temple square and the kids played in the reflecting pool and I mean In...

around and around...

Adam and Adam....

Phoebe's first time at the temple!

Lucas, Hayden and Allie checking out the view...

aren't the clouds so pretty!

We also went to the Oquirrh temple open house earlier in the day...

once again the kids ran around and around....

It was beautiful and it was so cool to see the Salt Lake Valley from the other direction, Allie loved it to go in the temple she kept telling me how no one had gotten married there yet, and then at the SLC temple she told me Lots of people got married there. It was pretty cute... Luke was his usual reverent self, kicking screaming, bumming tic tacs off the temple ushers...Crazy kid couldn't wait to get outside, and then to his delight they gave out cookies and kiddie sized water bottles. Oh joy!

Pictures.... Utah

I love how Phoebe has her hand on Allie's leg so cute!

Utah Cousins...Adrianna holding P. Katie, Allie, Luke & Tess

Baby Bee

All piled in my van below Allie and Katie, best cousins...

Hannah...
Isaac...
Lucas...
Allie...
Tess...
Katie...
Adrianna...

The Motley Crew...

Memorial Day in Aurora, UT (ps I am hiding behind holding P...)

The cutest baby Ever!

The Neighborhood

I know this picture is crooked, but I just LOVE the field. it is so pretty. I have totally understood the words to the song America the beautiful... O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties ....since I lived in Utah, when the sun sets sometimes it makes the mountains look purple and pink even sometimes too! It is beautiful!

This is the same field from before, except it was sunset. Then as I was walking back to the house I saw the moon rising between the mountains... it was so pretty! And Huge, it rose so fast!