Fall Break Fun

Friday October 4^th 2013

Mom and Dad and the boys came in town today for fall break. They were going to get here late on Friday, but Vivint decided to bring in Imagine Dragons to the Jazz stadium for our corporate party. Each employee got 2 tickets, but they had extra, so Jaci and I managed to get 8 extra tickets. We ended up inviting Finch and Katelyn and Bryce and Megan. Each ticket had a voucher for $8.50 that you could spend at the stadium. I couldn’t believe how much money Vivint put into this event!! The concert was AMAZING!! They did such a good job! I didn’t realize how much I know Imagine Dragons, because I knew like every song they played!

Saturday October 5^th

Today was General Conference. We all went to mom and dad’s hotel to watch it. After, we went on a hike to Battle Creek Falls. It is a short but pretty hike. Last time Josh was up here for EFY, the boys had split the waterfall by putting rocks to guide it.  Now, it was just one big waterfall. Their structure was no longer there! We watched the next session of general conference and while the boys went to the priesthood sessions, Mom, Jaci, and I went and got our nails done. We happened to run into girls that we work with at Vivint! That night we stayed up until about midnight peeling peaches and making a dessert for tomorrow night.

Sunday October 6^th

We went and watched the second session of General Conference at Laura and Gary’s house and ate Hawaiian haystacks. After the session was over, we went up to Snowbird and decided to figure out how to hike to an old mine. There was no trail so we were scaling up the side of this mountain! Dad could not stop taking pictures. He was blown away with how beautiful it was!! We ended up finding a trail that took us up to the mine. There was an old truck tipped over, but that was about it! We went back and had dessert. It was so Yummy! I need the recipe for that! 

I had to text mom and figure it out! Here it is:

Peach Delight

Crust

Keebler Short bread cookies

¼ cup melted butter

Smash cookies in Ziploc bag put half of the cookies in bowl and mix with butter and press into bottom of a 9x13 pan. Save the other half of cookies to sprinkle on top at the end.

Jello mixture

1 cup sugar

2 cups water

1 ½ TB corn starch

3oz peach Jello

Mix all together in sauce pan cook on medium heat 5-7 minutes or until clear. Pour into a separate bowl to cool to room temperature while you prepare all of the other things

Cream cheese mixture

¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

1 can sweet and condensed milk

8oz container of coolwhip

1pk cream cheese (make sure it is at room temperature)

½ cup powder sugar

Mix together first cream cheese powder sugar lemon juice, sweet and condensed milk until is creamed together smoothly. Then mix in cool whip. Once done pour on top of crust.

Peaches

8-10 peaches pealed and chucked up

Put in bowl at ½ cup of sugar on top.

Let sit for 5-10 min then pour on top of cream cheese mixture.

Then pour Jello mixture over the top of the peaches. Make sure it is at room temperature

Add other half of crushed cookies on top.

Put in fridge over night or at least 3 hours to set up.

 Monday October 7th

Tuesday October 8th

Wednesday October 9th

Thursday October 10th

Friday October 11th
Jaci and I had to go to work for a little bit, but after, we all drove up to American Fork to go riding. Dallin was going to stay home and do homework, but last minute he decided how to make it work. Gary let me borrow Corbin's bike. It was so fun, but COLD! By the time we got back to load the bikes, my toes, fingers, and the rest of our bodies were frozen!! We dropped the bikes and other machines off at a random storage place in the middle of nowhere!! It seemed sketchy, but once we found it, we decided it was worth it.

Saturday October 12th
We woke up early to get ready to go riding! We met at the hotel and ate their yummy hot breakfast. We went and picked up the bikes and mom went and got a bunch of food for the ride. Laura and Corbin came and met up with us. We got everything unloaded and were off! We decided to take one of the trails off the path that was narrower and rockier. Dad had a dirt bike, which made it harder to go up the lose rock. He also had a bike that was not fit for the trails we were doing. He had more of a racing bike! As soon as he hopped onto Josh's Rapter, he was off and up a steep mountain in seconds. The fall colors were so gorgeous! We ended up taking our family pictures on our ride! Around lunch time, we decided we would rather ride than eat, so we were off again! We couldn't ride for too long, because we had to have the rented machines back at the place by 3! When we were turned around and heading back home, everybody was in front of Jaci, and apparently while she was turning around, she rolled her quad. Somehow, she was able to jump out of the way and miss it from rolling on her! We were all just so happy she was ok!! We loaded the bikes and headed home to get ready for the BYU Homecoming game! Dallin's parents and Corbin came too. It was a great game and we won :) We went to Macaroni Grill after with Dallin's family, Grandma, Deann, and Kade. It was so fun to see everybody and catch up!