The Rest Of The Story ....

The fun continued after Lee Lee and I dropped Kelly off at her new life. We drove to St. George to see our father.

This is what awaited us there. He asked us what kind of pie we would like to have when we arrived so we chose German Chocolate. He is always so organized and loves to serve pie. If you visit him I guarantee he will have a slice of pie for you too!

The next morning Lee Lee and I went for a run and this is the view we had. The weather was perfect and the scenery was too! The St. George temple.

The next day we drove a short distance to Santa Clara and visited the Jacob Hamblin home. I just realized that in this picture you can't even see the home! Oh, well....that's where we were.

We then drove down the road to this monument for Fort Santa Clara. Jacob Hamblin along with my 3rd Great Uncle Ira Hatch were part of the 5 original missionaries who colonized the Santa Clara area. Kind of exciting isn't it?

This is a picture of Lee Lee and I when were about 3 years old. It was sitting on the book shelf face down in a pile of things so when I spotted it, I immediately put it on the mantel where is belongs. Right Daddy?

And here is a close up in case you wanted to see it. One of us has David's (our brother) raccoon hat on.

Now this is a great picture. Why you ask? Because daddy is holding the 2 original branding irons that he used to brand our cattle with back in the day. The brand is the letters MY (stands for Myron) with a bar (stands for Barbara) underneath the letters. We were able to bring those back up to Canada with us and we are very excited to have that bit of history with us.

This picture was taken on our way back to Provo where we stayed at Lee Lee's daughters place for 2 days before heading back to Salt Lake City. The scenery in southern Utah is so pretty. Just look at the colors!

While in Provo Lee Lee decided at the last minute to run a 5K. Her third one I might add. She rocks!

Here I am sitting in front of the new City Creek mall with the Salt Lake temple behind me.

While in Salt Lake we all met at the Blue Lemon for dinner. It's to the left of the picture above and right across from Desseret Books. In the picture you see Jordan (Michelle's fiance'), Michelle, Alyssa (Brad's gf), Brad, Clark, Kelly, me and Lee Lee. What a fun bunch.

Brad and Kelly. They are like bff's cousin style.

After dinner  4 of us walked around temple square. Kelly is so lucky to be living only 2 blocks away. She can enjoy it whenever she wants!

This is the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum. I have been wanting to go here for years so it was on my list of things to do this trip. This is also fairly close to Kelly's new place. Lucky girl.

Here is a picture of the Mormon Battalion Encampment. My 3rd Great Grandfather Orin Hatch is the middle standing gentleman on the right. You can see his name in the picture below. Kind of cool eh?

This is Porter Rockwell. You don't hear too much about this man in Mormon history but read the little story below. What a nice man!

Isn't that a neat little tid bit of information about who Porter Rockwell was?

This was taken on our last morning of fun in Great Falls, Montana on our way home. Look how messy her bed is! lol!

And look how neat and tidy my bed is! lol! We had such a good time on our trip. We did so many fun things, went to fun places and got to hang our with our father and our kids. Our trip lasted longer than planned which was super fine with Lee Lee and I. We ran into some storms on the way home so we had to stop and shop our way home. It was kind of fun ;).