A Little Rain and some Birthday Pictures

So nearly everyone around my house, including me, picked up a cold last Sunday afternoon. YUCK. I can only think of two things to be happy about a cold: one, you get to lay around and have an excuse to read a good book and two, you remember how thankful you are that your usually healthy.

On to the rain. (This probably wasn't good for the cold factor, but it sure was fun.) Mark had to stay home from school yesterday and today so he wouldn't infect anyone there. Home he decided, is really boring (and it was since I wasn't really feeling up to doing anything) so when it started raining yesterday he was all ready for fun. He and Abbie and Spencer had a lovely time soaking themselves in the water pouring off the edges of the carport.

Today we were all feeling much better, but Mark's cough was really something so he stayed home with us again. Since it was nice day and cloudy, so the kids wouldn't squint in the sun, I decided we'd go take Abbie and Spencer's birthday pictures.

I found my new favorite picture place -- up at BYU at the waterfall by the bell tower. It was simply beautiful there! And while I was taking pictures the other kids played with the ducks there.

Here are my favorites from today. The funny part was that we stopped at Flow Serve in Springville first and then headed up to BYU. After parking and getting all the way over to the waterfall my camera battery died after 2 pictures. I knew it was close, but didn't realize it was that close. So we packed everything back up and headed over to the CougarEat for lunch and to plug in the battery recharger. It took us almost an hour to find a place to eat, order food and eat and clean the kids back up, so the battery had plenty of time to charge back up.

Then off we headed again. It was fun. The kids were so surprised when I let them take off their sandals and put their feet in the water. Abbie didn't know it was going to be so cold. Mark collected 6 duck feathers, one for each of us, but his favorite blew away on the way back to the car.



Spencer loves pictures, but he won't look at the camera for anything. I was so worried I didn't get a single good one of him, but when I got home and downloaded them to the computer I was pleasantly surprised with the following and they are so Spencer. I had to focus the camera on him and then try and hold it still while I peeked around the side and made funny faces at him. There were a couple of other great shots, but I moved the camera and cut half his face off. Silly guy.