Hiking Pyramid Peak, and a Few Other Things!

One thing that Susan wanted to do while she was home for her break was hike Pyramid Peak.  At first, it was too hot, but the weather broke, and we had a great day for it right before she had to leave to go back to school.

Dang, I'm good lookin'!

We've climbed it three times this year, and I will have to say, that it is getting quite a bit easier.

Groundspeak has sponsired a "Secret Mission," where there were three different puzzles to solve, and thre different sourveniers we could earn for solving them and finding that type of cache.  Chelsea solved the first two puzzles for us, and we got those caches.  I was able to solve this puzzle--to find a mystery cache, but there weren't any mystery caches in Gallup, except for the movie one that the Decker Women had already solved during Girls' Week in July.

Well, Chelsea saved the day.  She found one we could look for at the Arizona/NM state line!  So on the appointed day, we drove out to the state line.  Here Susan spots the other cache that was out there!

This one was at a rest stop not far from all the souvenier shops on the state line.  (Afterwards, we went in to all those sourvenier shops!)

Here's that mystery cache!  We not only earned a souvenier for this one...

...but we earned an extra souvenier for getting all three of the Secret Mission caches!

I searched and searched one day for our copy of "Sing With Me," which is the Primary Songbook we used before the one we have now.  The dad got in the search, as well, because he wanted to use one of the songs in it for his Temple Prep class.  We searched, and searched.  We decided to order not just one, but two used copies of it from amazon.com.  We realized that the second they arrived, we would probably find our original copy.  Well, in this case, we were not disappointed.  No sooner had dad opened the box with the replacement book...

...he had an epiphany.  He looked back on the shelf in the Green Room where we thought it should have been in the first place.  He found it squeezed in between two bigger paperback music books that hid the spine from our view.

There it was, right where it should have been in the first place!

Now we have three of them.

This is a cobble Susan made with peaches from our own tree!

One day, we decided to make stuffed sopapillas just because we could.

So we did.

They were good.

When Leah was in town, she and her husband had their baby blessed at the McMullins house.  Then they had a big feed afterwards.  Here are Lalli Ramadoss and me with Leah's kiddos!

Baby Allison!