Memorial Day

The day started off with the alarm at 5:45am...Yes, I said 5:45am! My husband serves in the Boy Scout program in our church and as part of their fundraising efforts, they put up American flags in the yards around our neighborhood on all the National holidays. I had a little reminder set in my phone to wake us/him up in time to go help. When I tried to wake him up he said "we decided last night the weather was too bad today, so no flags. I told you last night." (He hadn't told me and we finally figured that out today when we were both more coherent.) Of course, I had a hard time falling back to sleep and just as I started to dose off again, Brad got out of bed and said he had to go to flags. I said "What?" Apparently, he had looked outside and told me the sun was out with no clouds in sight, so they better get the flags put up... and off he went! When he returned, we decided it would be fun to go 4 wheeling. We loaded up the 4 wheelers, grabbed some lunch and we were off!


We headed up American Fork canyon near our home. It was a beautiful day and the drive up AF canyon is gorgeous! We unloaded the machines and started our trek up the mountain. After riding up the first couple miles there was a bottle neck and we were unable to go any further. We found out there were about 30-40 trucks, jeeps or ATVs trying to come down as we were heading up. We had to wait until they all passed... it seemed to take forever but really only lasted about 25-30min. Once the bottle neck was resolved, we continued our ride. The sun was shining and the landscape beautiful. It was peaceful and so great to be out enjoying nature.

Some fun pictures from the day...

This white truck wouldn't back down the mountain any further so he forced this poor blue truck to try to pass him while placing the 2 passenger tires on the mountain. They almost hit each other - some people...





We had to wait for all the trucks, jeeps, ATVs, etc... to pass since it was too tight ahead for us to move forward, while they were all coming down. Luckily, by the time everyone passed we didn't run into any back ups like this the rest of our ride... yipee!!

And they keep on coming... In fact, one had a flat tire so my "always prepared" boy scout husband said "I have a compressor, if you want to pull over here I can pump up your tire for you." He is always so willing to help! I am a lucky girl!

View from the top of one of the trails...breathtaking!

I love this time of year! As the snow melts, several random waterfalls appear. This picture doesn't even come close to how beautiful it was.

Several of the trails still had snow at the top.

Yes this is the same truck from before! After trying unsuccessfully to dig him out of the snow, his parents used a tow strap to pull him out with their truck. Come to find out "smart guy" (our new nickname for him) didn't have his truck in 4 wheel drive before hitting the snow. Which in most newer trucks wouldn't make a difference, but his was older and had locking hubs which of course were not locked! (For those unfamiliar with such terms... older trucks didn't have the 4 wheel drive "button" inside the cab. You had to get out and turn the center of the hub on the front two wheels. Then when you got back inside the cab, you had a 2nd shifter that had to be put into 4 wheel drive...did I loose anyone?)

At least while waiting, I took this great picture!!

And this one on our way back down...

Closer to the end of our ride. The water coming out of the canyon is really

high and moving very fast. It is incredible to watch!


Overall, a very enjoyable day. We ended up at a neighbor's home for a BBQ after we returned home and watched the Lakers get schooled by the Nuggets... good times! Oh and one of my cute laurels was on KSL news as well, 92 students in her class of 105 graduated with an Associates Degree from UVU before they received their diploma's for high school graduation. It was also her birthday today and she came over to watch the news with us since her family doesn't have TV. Happy Birthday Janneka!