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September 2025!!

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Sophie, me, Sean, Casey and Lindy on a training hike out to the overlook on Grandeur Peak. Lindy at her piano recital at the Marmalade Branch Library on September 6th, 2025. Sophie ran in the Beehive XC Invite at Sugarhouse Park on September 12th. Sophie with friend, Sarah Nichols, after the race at Sugarhouse Park. Mountain Monday hike! Lindy and Sean spent a Volo school week with the Norwegian School of Nature Life learning about "friluftsliv" with Tom Cammermeyer and Elliot Goldman in the Uintas.  Sean. Sean and Lindy with Elliot. The Volo kids being schooled by Tom and Elliot in the Unitas. Lindy and Jonah in the Uintas. Lindy with Jane. This was a magical week for Lindy and Sean. Tom, herding Sean along the trail in the Unitas. Lindy and the neighborhood kids spent a few days crafting blow darts (with glitter paper) and perfecting their shot accuracy in the backyard.  Lindy, crafting on the sewing machine. She is always making something. Sophie and Hallee with Oliver Ska...

NOVEMBER 2023!!

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Lindy, sharing her trundle bed with Bear. Nate was visiting from Florida and we got to hike up Grandeur with him on November 1st. Grandma and Nate on the front of Grandeur. Nate and I on the new Rattlesnake Gulch trail up Millcreek Canyon. On November 2nd, Casey and I drove down to Mesquite, Nevada with Zeke, Lindy and Sean for a 3 day soccer tournament--the Hero's Cup. We all packed into our little Toyota Corolla for the long drive.  We visited this area (known locally as "Little Mount Rushmore") on Lower Flat Top Drive where a Mesquite resident (Pete Karns, an Olympic biathlete in the 1970s) started carving into an exposed road cut. Now it's a thing. Sean and Zeke, visiting the carved castles in the cliffs. The view from our hotel room window at sunset. Even though it was November in the desert, it was looking fairly tropical. Zeke, playing his heart out. His team came in second in his competition bracket. Zeke with his teammates, hitting the bowling alley during so...