Mother's Day Weekend

This Mother's Day weekend was terrific! Friday evening we finally had the time, and the weather was good enough to take our hike up Ensign Peak. Ammon loved seeing all the "pants" (plants), and the birds and dogs. It was a great first hike, short and not hard, with a very rewarding view at the end. I'm really glad we were finally able to do that. I think our next hike might be Timpanogos Cave(Matt has never been there, and I think Ammon would like the caves.) We'll have to read about more of the hikes to decide, but I'm really excited.




After the hike, we spent the night at Matt's parents while they were away for the night to watch their dogs. Sue's Mother's day gift from us was a few hours' weeding in her backyard, so we got up on beautiful Saturday morning to work out in the yard. It made me really look forward to having a yard of our own. Ammon of course helped pull "weeds" and thoroughly enjoyed himself playing the dirt all morning. Matt worked for several hours trying to get a tree stump out that he will need to work on some more this week and I made a yummy ice cream cake for the BBQ at my parent's house that evening. Here is the recipe. Way easy, and WAY yummy. Thanks Meg for introducing it to us! We enjoyed hamburgers, guacamole, raspberry and preztel jello stuff, and sweet potatoes with my family and my grandma. After dinner, we walked to the park and played some good old tornado and a 3 on 1 game of basketball(me, Celeste, and Rachel against Matt) and we won! Although I shouldn't be too proud because I apparently don't know the rules of basketball very well because I guess screens aren't supposed to move, and I learned a little more about what consistutes a foul. It was a lot of fun anyway! Celeste was really nice and agreed to watch Ammon so a few of us could go see Wolverine last minute. That was a lot of fun, and overall it was an excellent Mother's Day. Sunday was nice as well, and we enjoyed a great dinner at Dave and Sue's and visited for a bit before going to my grandma's for a quick visit. Yay for fun weekends!