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Silver Lake
For our celebration of Pioneer Day (July 24th) we finally decided (the kids were indifferent on most suggested activities) to hike to Silver Lake up American Fork Canyon. Our early morning departure...
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Family Photos
Photos from June 2015 in Hobble Creek Canyon, 15 minutes from out home. Two years ago, Joel, Sarah and I came here for a church youth activity where we used PVC blow guns to fire marshmallows at each...
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Ode to Grandma and Grandpa's House, by Sarah
Tomorrow marks the final clean out of 395 E 600 N in Logan, which for over 50 years has been the home of John and Norda Emmett. Over the past few months the Emmett clan has slowly cleaned out the large...
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Paraganglioma Part 5
Last November Sarah and I went to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to have our blood drawn for genetic testing. She for the SDHB gene (something I learned about on two different Facebook groups associated...
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Flying High
Yesterday Sarah turned 17. For a family celebration we headed up to the Zip Line at Sundance Ski Resort (thanks Diane and Lant). The zip line opened just this year. It is the 3rd longest zip line tour...
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Hope in the Townships
For our final day in Cape Town we participated in a SAS Impact Field Program. Our family, plus three students (there should have been lots more given how good of an experience this was) and seven Life...
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Etosha National Park
Marabou StorkKori Bustard. The largest flying bird native to Africa.Lilac-breasted RollerJoel's report:Last week the MV Explorer stopped in Walvis Bay, Namibia for five days. To reduce the amount of...
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Namibia
Our original itinerary included stops in Ghana and Senegal, but last fall during the height of the Ebola crisis, SAS decided to not risk stops in West Africa because at the time it was unknown how far...
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Walvis Bay to Casablanca
 Moon rise as we depart Walvis BayMoonrise and dunesIt was a long 12 day sail from Walvis Bay to Casablanca. At some point we crossed back into the northern hemisphere. I kept busy helping Marie...
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Morocco, part 1
Visiting with Ali from Yemen--a student in my class, a soccer player with Joel and a friend of the whole family.We arrived in Casablanca on Sunday morning. We were one of the first to disembark (about...
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Morocco, part 2
Thanks to the French influence we enjoyed a nice variety of pastries and breads for breakfast at the hotel along with delicious fresh orange juice and hot chocolate. After gassing up we headed out for...
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End of Voyage
Sailing up the winding Saigon River I pulled out my map of the Mekong Delta to show some of the kids where we were going.It was a windy day. Thanks to life long learner Kristin Rush (traveling with her...
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Southampton to Manchester
Once off the ship in Southampton we caught a SAS shuttle to Heathrow. On the way, from our front row, second deck bus seats, we could see acres and acres of bright yellow plants. We wondered what they...
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Pilgrimage to Manchester
Joel in 2008I grew up in a soccerless America. Logan city sponsored little league baseball (I played, but not very well) and basketball (I didn’t play because it was on winter Saturdays when I would...
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Liverpool to the River Ribble
Sunday morning May 2nd we decided to get a head start on our day by driving the 45 minutes to Liverpool for a 10:00 sacrament meeting rather than to attend one of the several 10:00 sacrament meetings...
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Scotland part 1
From Downham we headed northward winding along lots of rural roads, pastures and sheep. We zagged northwestward skirting the hills of the Lake District to the western end of Hadrians Wall, then zigged...
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First Day
 Senior at Springville High Sarah is the first to leave.Ninth grader at Springville Jr. High Joel is next. My ninth grade converse all-stars were not high tops. They weren't cool back then.  Fifth...
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Banned
Two weeks ago I was informed by the powers that be at BYU that I was not permitted to teach an all ready scheduled, two week, one credit course on the Israel/Palestine conflict to the 55 Middle East...
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Worshipping through sacred music. by Sarah
 10 minutes to start time. Eventually all of the chapel and cultural hall will fill up with people.Today Sarah was one of the seven people assigned to give a talk (sermon) in Stake Conference (over...
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Paraganglioma Part 6: Brothers
After a round of appeals to our insurance company, we were finally approved for Marie, Joel and Will to have genetic testing of their SDHB gene to see if they have the same mutation as Sarah. We got a...
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