Ancestors and Summer Fun

Sunday evening I was invited, along with my parents and other siblings, to join my uncle's family reunion tour of the historical museum in Pleasant Grove featuring some pictures and items from my ancestors. My Great Great Grandma and Grandpa Foutz came across the plains with the pioneers and settled in the Pleasant Grove area. It was really neat to see these items and hear how great these men and women were who preceded me. Andrew really got into it as well and thought is was so cool to see things from his ancestors.

This is an ox yolk that my ancestor August Warnick made and used.


Margaret Mann Foutz was my Great Great Grandmother.


Margaret was one of the many women who survived the Hauns Mill massacre. Her husband was shot in the hip, but Margaret was able to dress his wounds and hide him in the garden under leaves and at the spinning wheel dressed as a woman until the danger had subsided and they were able to move on to a safer place.


Here is an iron that Margaret had used.



Today I took the boys to the Olympic Fountain downtown at the Gateway. It was so hot the cool water felt really nice. Well here are the crazy guys running around having so much fun.


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UTAH LAKE

Friday we took our annual trek down to Utah Lake for the Liddell office lake party. It was a perfect day and we had so much fun. We enjoyed time on the boat, playing on the beach and the Dr's took us out to lunch at a local mexican resturant. So here is a record of all that was experienced at Utah Lake.


Here is the private property, El Nautica, where Dr. Liddell owns a couple spots to place his trailer and launch his boat. Notice how beautiful it looks when the sun is gleaming on the water.


Dr. Liddell's dog Hobbs gets lots of attention and love when we visit each year.




Nicholas and I waisted no time being the first to jump on the seat tube.


I was having a blast but Nicholas started getting really nervous that the tube would flip over so the ride didn't last so long.


Here are the three of us hangin' out on the boat.


Andrew catching the wind and enjoying the feeling of freedom.


It's me just chillin'.


And here's Nicholas.


The boys with a couple of the other kids.


The boys hangin' out with the girls.


The float seat got turned upside down and many of the gang piled on to see if it would hold them all.


Here they all are and the float seat made it through the abuse.


Here are the boys playing on the upside down float seat.


After playing around on the float seat, we all jumped in and enjoyed playing in the water.

Here's Nicholas!


Here's Andrew!


Nicholas took a turn steering the boat with Dr. Liddell.


Now it is Andrew's turn. Watch out so we don't crash!


The boys and I taking our turn on the water weenie.


The kids have much more fun when it is only them on this contraption. I think my weight off sets the balance and we crash a little more easily.


I'm a little rosey around the edges but this time I did remember to reapply the sunscreen so not too bad for being in the sun all day. A wonderful time was had by all. Thank you Dr's Liddell!

VISIT WITH MY SISTER AND HER FAMILY

I recently took a real vacation, meaning I left the boys at home with grandma and grandpa and headed out east to visit my sister Raenie and her family in Winchester,VA. I had a fabulous time and was thrilled to be back out east as I haven't been since moving to Utah in 2000. It was so nice to see the unique architecture, green landscape, small hidden towns and the fireflies. I could have done without the humidity but we did have a reprieve the last couple of days I was there. Along with visiting Virginia I also was able to tour Washington,DC as well as Baltimore, MD. To start off I posted the pictures that you all truly want to see, Dallin and Kenzie. They are both active and doing well and as you can see from the pictures are so dang cute.































The first full day I was in Winchester Raenie was very gracious and extremely accommodating to drive me around the city and see all of the neat sites. These first few pictures are of some of the homes I thought were so cute and of which we don't see out here in the west.










Here is the reason that Raenie and her family are out east in the first place. Shenandoah University is where Charlie has been spending quite a lot of time over the past three years studying to be a Pharmacist.


Winchester is located in the Shenandoah valley famous for their apple blossoms. Throughout the city are these apple statues painted in different unique ways. Here are the four that Raenie and I could find on our drive around town.








This is the Handley High School in Winchester. Very charming looking for a high school. The Handley Judges play all of their home football games on saturday mornings as there is no stadium lighting to take away from the beauty of the grounds.




Here is a street in Old Winchester.


Here is Handley Library in Downtown Winchester.


This is the City Hall.














This is the WWII Memorial.










This is the Washington Monument.


Here is the White House.


This is a Smithsonian Building.


These are some flowers in front of the Smithsonian Building.


Here is our Nations Capital.


This is the Lincoln Memorial.










This is the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.






This is the Jefferson Memorial.






This is the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD.


Bridge crossing the harbor.


Dragon or Nessie paddle boats.




Old ships docked in the harbor.






Street homes in Little Italy.






Cute pics. in Little Italy.






Cafe Gia where Raenie and I ate an early dinner. It was such a cute little resturant. The atmosphere was so warm and friendly and the food was good especially the tortilini that Raenie ordered, extremely delicious.






This is the bakery where Raenie introduced me to the Italian dessert Canoli. The shell is kind of like a waffle cone rolled in a cylindar shape and filled with a sweet ricotta cheese mix with mini chocolate chips. It had a very unique taste and was very yummy. They do have a website and will deliver.


All in all my vacation was so good. It was nice to get away from the usual routiene but also good to be back home where I was truly missed.