MISC. CABIN MEMORIES FOR 2010

We finally got to have an Austin Siblings reunion at the cabin.  Elaine, and husband Jim, Deming flew to Vegas from Oregon and Pat Farrar came from Reno (via a reunion in Los Angeles).  We got to catch a quick trek up to the cabin.  Jim was in heaven because he was riding through memory lane.  He grew up in Cedar City, has roots to Overton, NV and hadn't seen some of this country for many years.   The temperatures cooperated and we got a little fall color, some good ATV days and lots of memory and R & R time.

Here are Elaine, Jim and Pat at Cedar Breaks overlook.  Don't Elaine and Victor look like they are poured from the same mold???

Elaine and Jim Deming at Cedar Breaks

Pretty good activity for a couple of septagenarians!



Victor showing them how its done.

A view of the lava flow showing the first touches of fall color

Becky & the kids got to be with us up there too.  Here is Victor and Aunt Pat teaching Audrey to play Go Fish.  She thought that was pretty cool!

And Ethan did what Ethan does best:  follows you around and grins!

And this is Uncle Jim what HE does best:  sits at his computer and creates words of wisdom for the rest of us - (marvelling all the time that by using the "GoToMyPC" program everything that he did in our cabin was actually being done on his computer a thousand miles away in Oregon.)

Up on the Cedar Breaks meadow the colors were changing already.  We were glad to get a few pictures since Victor and I will not be up on the traditional October Conference weekend.  (We'll be in Boston enjoying the colors of the Eastern Seaboard this year)

 

MORE COUSINS

Over Labor Day weekend we got to have my niece Emily Miller and her family again, along with my sister Elaine and her son Alex and my nephew David Morgan (Emily's brother). 

Emily, Morgan, Ryan & Brooklyn Miller and David Morgan

We had a lot of fun spreading peanut butter all over some pine cones and covering them with bird seed (Aunt Jill's left-over project from Cousin Camp).  The birds didn't seem very interested but the chipmunks all boogied over and were having a grand old party!

Morgan and Alex - more peanut butter on fingers than on pinecones!

Elaine helped Brooklyn get hers just right

Next you hang 'em around the yard and then.....

....watch the feasting begin!

Four of them swinging on the pinecones while they eat.

And as always, we ate well too.  This is David cooking the authentic Chinese Dumplings we all helped form.

We had another Shrimp and Scallop Boil Dinner...and our usual Philly Beef and Swiss ...and great breakfasts.  We missed Victor on this trip, but he stayed in Vegas to begin his first meetings as the new Bishop.