Memorial Day Weekend

This past weekend we enjoyed the company of family. Jason's mom was in town and on Saturday we took them on a hike to Doughnut Falls, which Sydney thinks is a hilarious name! It was a nice little hike up Big Cottonwood Canyon. On Monday we took mom and dad up the same canyon looking for a different hike, a nice jaunt to Hidden Falls, but the river was high and we missed the trail so we started up a different one, much different difficulty level than Hidden Falls, but Sydney did great and mom only nearly fell off the cliff once. It was fun! Sydney found the largest lady bug I've ever seen, picked it up and was ready to bring it home. When I told her that it would be better to leave it there where she'd have food and where it was her home, Sydney got very sad. She loves all those little bugs and wants them all to live with her as her pet. I told her we'd get a jar and collect bugs when we got home. I'll have to post pictures later since they are still on Jason's camera and he has it in San Fransico right now.


A fun thing that happened to us over the weekend as well, was bird hatchlings! We have some chickadees in the birdhouses that replaced their tree we had to remove so that was exciting. And then we had a visit from some robin twins. One of them knocked on the door so we could come look. They sat in the rose bushes on the front porch and their dad came and fed them worms. It was so cute! I ran out and took a bunch of pictures and at one point the one baby got nervous and tried to fly. He flew right onto Jason behind! It was hilarious! Here are a few of the pictures I took of the robins, and one of one of the bird houses we have with a pretty clematis.