Cascade Springs part deux

Saturday, July 12th we took the family to Cascade Springs. Lexi said, "this is the best place I have ever been!!"



Some interesting facts about Cascade Springs. 7.5 milllion gallons a day of water flows thru Cascade Springs a day, that is 1800 glasses of drinking water per second. The water comes right out of the ground, seriously, we walked around the entire springs and there was no river or anything flowing into it. Ok enough learning... enjoy the pics. :)

PAIGE, SYDNEY & ALEXIS

GRANDPA MERRILL (TOM), GRANDMA MERRILL (VAUNDA),

PAIGE, SYDNEY & ALEXIS

Goodbye RE/MAX...I will miss you!

July 10th was my last day at RE/MAX Results. I am going to miss all the fun we had together. Please keep in touch, I will miss you all terribly. Thank you for everything, it was an awesome 12 years... WOW!!! Augest :)

Our New Passion

Sunday, July 6th we took a ride with Augest's mom, Sherrie and her step-dad, Lee. Some other friends joined us as well. We started the ride heading up American Fork canyon, went around the Alpine Loop and down to Cascade Springs, it was so beautiful. It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life and there are still so many things you have not seen. We will definately take the kids back there for hiking and a picnic.

After we walked around Cascade Springs we headed down to Provo Canyon, where we stopped off at Wingers for lunch. We decided then that we hadn't had enough riding so we jumped back on the freeway and headed down to Santaquin and drove around Utah Lake to get home. We just can't get enough.

4th of July weekend

This year we spent our 4th of July weekend with our friends Robert and Brittney in Logan. Every year in Logan they have the "Cruise-In" which means a car show. You all know how much Jess is into cars and motorcycles so we headed up there.

The kids were so excited on the drive up. Every 5 minutes, are we there yet. :)

When we arrived on Thursday Robert and Brittney had the picnic basket full of goodies and we headed out to the park for a picnic and a dip in the "river".






It was very hot at the park so we decided to go back to their house and turn on the sprinklers for the kids, they had a blast with the water under the trampoline.





We have always wanted to see if the "mentos in diet coke" really works. Eat your heart out Mythbusters.

Later that night we went to a different park to watch the fireworks. OOOOHHH....AWWWWW




On the 4th the boys, Jess and Robert, went to the cars show while the girls, Brittney and Augest took the kids to the swimming pool. They had so much fun we couldn't get them to leave. Everyone was very water logged, Brittney and Augest were fried. Put sunscreen on the kids but not yourself, not so smart.

Robert and Brittney were wonderful hosts, they fed us VERY TASTY food and are so fun to be with. Thanks guys, we miss you!

Picnic

June 29th we decided to head up to the mountains and have a little picnic. It was very hot in the valley so we thought it would be much relief to be up there. Unfortunately it was still very hot and the bugs were attacking. But we made the best of it and had a great time.

Our First Ride

On June 21st we took our first road trip on the Harley.

We went thru East Canyon, over to Kamas, up Mirror Lake Highway, back down and over to Heber. We had dinner in Heber at the Claim Jumper, if you ever have the chance go there, it was amazing. (I think there is one in Park City too) After dinner we headed down Provo Canyon up to Sundance and then finally headed home. It was an all day trip, needless to say our bottoms were pretty sore by the end of the day. It is amazing how much more beautiful the scenery is from a motorcycle, you can smell all the flowers, it was so much fun.

Happy Father's Day!

Jess received his Father's Day present a little early. Well he picked it out himself and did good...the color is awesome! Happy Father's Day!!