February Festivities

February has been a lot of family time. First Robin, Emily and the kids came for a weekend visit.

At one point Josh decided he wanted to play the organ:





Then this past Thursday it was Gary's birthday. LaRue and I drove out to Provo to help celebrate. Here is Gary opening the present LaRue and I got for him:



It's a Kindle!



Then we were joined by Andy, Laurie and Asher. Gary wanted to go to Sizzler to eat. Here's the birthday boy along with Liz and Asher:



The next day Robin, Emily, Brighton, KD, Chris and Josh came to Provo to get some family pictures before Andy, Laurie and Asher move to Portland, OR, in a week.
We all drove to this really neat place by the Utah State Hospital. In the hills above the hospital is a cool castle-like structure complete with outdoor amphitheater. It's the big structure behind Robin:



Here are Brighton, KD and Christopher climbing on a rock:



Andy and Asher are chasing around on the grounds:



We're all going to go up to the amphitheater to take some pictures:



Here are the rock stairs:



Liz was the photographer:



Here we all are:



All of Robin's family - Joshua, Christopher, Kjerstine, Brighton, Emily and Robin:



Andy, Asher and Laurie:



Me and LaRue:





Gary and Liz:





After taking pictures we all went to Chuck-A-Rama to eat. We had to take up two tables and a booth:



Chris had to join Grandma at the booth:



Then Saturday LaRue and I headed home. It was a rather tense drive. Going up Daniels Canyon it became quite snowpacked. We saw several semi trucks stopped in the middle of the road. It was pretty much a blizzard across the Strawberry Reservoir area and at best I think we drove 25 mph!