Simply September Stuff

At the beginning of September, I lost Taylor's wedding ring in the grass outside the church while at Scouts! He gave it to me to hold while he showed the boys some things they needed to do for their Faster, Higher, Stronger badge, and I just dropped it right into the grass!

We looked for an hour and half and couldn't find it because the grass is really long and the ground is not flat but bumpy. The next day I had to take him to the airport for an interview so he used a permanent maker to make his own wedding ring:

Luckily, we did end up finding it, even though we spent another hour with Taylor's dad on the following Saturday! Grandma Shepherd has a metal detector, and Bill found it in 8 seconds! (Even after the grass had been mowed!)

 There's been some beautiful sunsets we've been able to go outside our house and enjoy.

Any while Taylor has been busy with lots of interviews, I've been trying to catch up on scrapbooking.

And we've been trying to do all things Fall. So we went to Wheeler Farm (which we do every Fall since we've been dating.)

And all these ducks like to swarm!

We've also finally put some pictures up besides wedding pictures! It just took 3 and a half years! Haha!

And the mountains are changing, so we went up one Saturday to drive the Alpine Loop.

We stopped at Coldstone in Park City to get some ice-cream!

Even Tannin has been enjoying being outside before winter hits!

And in other Fall news, we got our flu shots!

And this last week we had fun going to the Utah State Fair!

The human circus was really cool!

It was like watching America's Got Talent!

And even though most people get fried food at fairs, I wanted acorn squash for dinner.

But I did get some fresh, frozen pink lemonade.

Taylor has a hard time turning down an opportunity to bring home a pet.

Come here fishy!

Taylor made some yummy home-made from scratch chicken pot pies!

The crust tasted just like the Red Lobster rolls! Except these were healthy...
YUM!

This weekend, Taylor helped me move the Infusion Clinic to our new location upstairs.

Helpful husband award!

Arizona

Taylor had two interviews in AZ , one on Friday, one on Monday, so I flew down to spend Saturday and Sunday with him.

On Saturday I got to show him my old home in Chandler AZ

This neighborhood pool was right next door to my home and I use to go swimming 3-4 times a day here and I'd have my birthday parties here too!

 My childhood home:

Can you tell its 100 degrees?

Good memories.

It was also a blast to take Taylor to a couple parks I use to frequent as a child.

This park had a bunch of big rocks and all the neighborhood kids would make pathways and rooms with the rocks.

The were still doing it! So Taylor and I had fun exploring the rock hallways and rooms!

One of the pathways cleared of rocks.

One of the rooms even had a fire pit! #kitchen!

Then I took Taylor to Desert Breeze Park and showed him all the stuff I loved to do there.

This creek with the statues was so cool, and because I was a cool kid, I'd always act like a statue too!

Can't forget my favorite swing.. the tire swing!

And these two photos are throwbacks to winter 2009 when I was last in my hometown!

This splash pad is still just as popular as I remember it!

Unfortunately, the Desert Breeze train is closed during summer time so we couldn't ride it together!

But I still had fun showing Taylor the tracks.

Taylor walking on the train tracks.

Then Taylor and I drove north to Montezuma's Castle.

It was fun to see all the seguaro cacti as we drove.

While at the national park we got cactus candy to try!

Going to take the first bite!

It's...interesting.

It was a little too sweet for me because they added sugar on the outside. But it still tasted how I remember cacti tasting.

Montezuma's Castle

Which has nothing to do with Montezuma FYI.

Here's an area that use to be a home built into the cliff side as well but has since eroded.

On our way back we got to see Tannin's cousin.

On our way back to the hotel we stopped at Rock Springs and got a delicious berry pie and BBQ dinner.

We decided to go on a Sunset walk around the desert.

And we found this fun little toad.

We put him in a cup and brought him back to the creek. He was cute.

Then on Sunday we went to the Butterfly Museum in Glendale

The butterflies loved Taylor and liked landing on him!