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On top of that
Some days just don't go so well. Yesterday afternoon I got a few texts from Joel telling me about Sarah's first fender-bender and with two photos of the dented passenger side of our 97 Subaru that...
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Paraganglioma Part 7: "It's Huge"
Early Monday morning Sarah (accompanied by Marie) had a PET scan at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Today we returned for another 7:30 AM appointment to meet with Dr. Wright for the results. First on the...
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Nine Mile Canyon (with Petroglyphs)
Thursday and Friday was Fall Break for the kids and Marie, but unfortunately not for me. Thursday I did play hooky so I could go see the movie Pan with the kids. Then Friday after my two morning...
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Sterling Scholar
On Tuesday, Sarah found out that she has been selected as Springville High School's Sterling Scholar for Social Studies. Way to go Sarah. It is a well deserved honor. Here is a list of the other...
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Halloween 2015
We grew all of these pumpkins except the one on the right--Harward Farms (of corn fame) donates a pumpkin to every student at Will's elementary school. Will did three variations of his signature smiley...
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Dress up
Friday Will and all the other fifth graders at his school participated in a "wax museum." Each student selected a famous person to research and then portray. During the day students and then parents...
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The Pajama Game
In an ideal world, the Springville High School musical this year would have been Annie (with short, red-headed Sarah Emmett as Annie) or Fiddle on the Roof (with Sarah as daughter number three--Chava)...
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In Syria
In 1995 I visited Syria for my first and only time. I had traveled overland through Greece, Bulgaria (with my friend Marie and a study abroad group from De Paul University) and Turkey (with my friend...
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Spiral Jetty and Bear River Bird Refuge
On Friday November 27th we headed out, not to Black Friday shop, but to explore around the Great Salt Lake. It was a clear, brisk, windy, wonderful day. First stop was at a supply shop in Salt Lake...
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Famous for Christmas
Last Wednesday at work I was happily surprised to find a large envelope from Indonesia in my mailbox. At first glance I was delighted that the sender had done what this former stamp collector always...
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Yeti One: Alta
In an effort to "hook" more Utahans on the joys of skiing, years ago Ski Utah developed a passport program that allowed all fifth graders in the state to ski three times for free at each ski resort in...
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Yeti Two: Solitude
For our second ski resort we chose Solitude. The mountains of Utah has been dumped on with feet of snow over the past few days (mostly rain in the valleys) and I thought that we would better know where...
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Yeti Three: Powder Mountain
Powder Mountain delivered. Best powder day in years and the day that Sarah, Joel and Will came to discover that powder is the creme de la creme of skiing and that they can actually ski it.Setting full...
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Yeti Four: Eagle Point
Bright and early (8:15) we headed south along 1-15 to Beaver Utah--a two hour drive. From there is was a 30 minute drive up beautiful Beaver Canyon (with amazing ice formations in the stream) to Eagle...
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Yeti Five: Brian Head
Brain Head was always that far down south resort that was on a different storm path than the northern Wasatch Front resorts. In particular, El Nino years often brought more blessed snow to southern...
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Yeti Six: Nordic Valley
 Today we skied Nordic Valley in Eden Utah (east of Ogden). We opted for this resort because we knew it was smaller than most resorts and had considerably fewer lifts and runs to explore thus it would...
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Soccer Days
This was Joel's fourth soccer tournament in the warmer winter climes of St. George Utah (Ice Breaker) or Mesquite Nevada (Presidents Cup). Marie drove the boys down on Thursday after school so they...
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Yeti Seven: Park City
BIG, that is the one word I would use to describe the new Park City. Biggest ski mountain in the USA (41 lifts, 315 runs, 7300 acres) with its merger this year with The Canyons (formerly know as Park...
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Yeti: The Best Laid Plans
The plan was for January to be a big skiing month. It started out fine, but the last two Saturdays were a bust.Last November I had my annual skin cancer screening. A biopsy on a slightly suspicious...
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Yeti Eight: Snowbasin
We set out this morning with high hopes. High hopes that Joel was recovered enough from his concussion to ski for the day (doctors gave their approval Thursday at a checkup). He was. High hopes that...
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