First Snow

I thought I would pop in here for a quick hello. We had our first snow of the season last week. Just a tiny little bit but enough to freak everyone out. Ha ha It's funny to see people having a heart attack. We all know that the first snow happens and then disappears. In fact, we're back close to 70 this week. Autumn is alive and well folks. No, winter didn't start last week. But I did get some really cool pictures.

On Saturday, we went to the local farmer's market. I love shopping there! I couldn't believe they didn't have good markets in the Houston area. We tried--we really did. We went searching for fresh produce and hardly found any. Granted, the supermarkets had great variety, but we wanted to buy directly from the farmers. We have a wonderful market in Murray. We came home with a bounty of fruits and veggies:

And made this amazing apples and dulce de leche pie which is to die for:

It's sinful.

Then Saturday, Emi was invited to my brother's house for his youngest son's 16th birthday. Dain said we can't call it sweet 16, so I'm calling it "cool 16". We got him his first date:

Marcos and his first dates

Alyssa doesn't think it's funny, but he cracked up and ran around showing everyone. It was a great weekend!

Biting Gecko ... really!

Dain saw this gecko by our back door. He picked him up to put him outside and he bit him!On a different note, I love fall and can't wait to make these: YUM.

Dain went back to Utah last weekend to see his dad who had eye surgery and to get his ski pass for the season. Here are a couple of cool pictures he took. This first one is the Brighton parking lot.
I love fall colors .... Can't wait for January when we finally see a bit of color around here!

Snowbird Oktoberfest

The morning of my parent's anniversary party, I went to Snowbird to see the fall colors. I went with Alyssa, my brother Andy, and my nephew Allen (he is Paul's oldest). We also caught a bit of Oktoberfest. It was BEAUTIFUL! I love fall in Utah.


Alyssa and Allen


Me, Alyssa, Allen, Andy. We took that short traverse hike to the overview.


Andy told me what these leaves were but I can't remember ... so pretty!


We had planned to go up on the tram but just missed it ... and we couldn't take the next one as we had a short time before having to go get ready for the party.