Happy General Conference

After Conference, Jon and I took a scenic drive to the south end of Cache Valley. We started up the road to Liberty, but the road was still closed for the winter.
There was a nice view of the Nome King's Mountain (AKA Gunsight Peak) which is just north of Fielding and also Oxford Peak in the Portneuf Range.
Then we drove to Porcupine Reservoir. If you look closely at this photo, you can see the water coming out of the bottom of the dam at high velocity.
Porcupine Reservoir was still frozen. There was a teenager there throwing rocks at the ice. I wanted to throw rocks at the ice too.

Grandma Martineau's Candied Easter Eggs

Mandy suggested that I post this Easter recipe for all to enjoy. It is the real recipe.

Grandma Martineau's Candied Easter Eggs
2 Cups coconut
2 Cups powdered sugar
1/2 stick margerin, melted
3 Cups chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 can Eagle Brand Milk
Maraschino cherries drained and diced

Mix all together. Chill at least 3 hours. Form into egg shapes. Dip in:
1 large pkg chocolate chips
1 large Hershey bar
1 cake paraffin wax

One of my favorite memories was that every time we visited Grandma and Grandpa Martineau, my mom would sneak down to the freezer in the basement and eat some of these.

Jonathan's adventures

Something I did not know about Jonathan before we were married was that he likes to climb things... (He says "What? you know I like to climb mountains!)




Between snow storms Jonathan and I had a picnic at the pumpkin walk park (next to a climbing wall) and Jonathan pruned the apple tree in the backyard. We played basketball outside yesterday. Today it snowed a ton.

Supporting American car companies that didn't get a bail out

Monday after work Jon and I drove our cars down to American Fork where we traded them in for a new Ford car. Jon's parents met us there and we all went to test drive the new car to the Timpanogos Temple. We had cherry cordial fat boys in the parking lot (not in the car). We drove the new car home and got to Logan at midnight tire but very happy.

News from Logan

Jon and I enjoyed going to see Alysa and Ray's sealing in the Monticello Temple at the end of February. We are so happy for them. On the way there we got to see Kloe, Jessica and Micah's 2 hour old baby. Then we drove through Arches National Park from the hidden back road. I highly recommend it. There is a wonderful view of the LaSal mountains all the way down the road. The way isn't marked so be sure to ask Jonathan which dirt road to take.
The next weekend we went to Idaho Falls to celebrate Colin's thesis defense/birthday. We saw 3 moose on a drive along the Snake River.
This week we bought our plane tickets to Seattle for Amanda and Brenden's wedding in April. Happily, my ticket was free because I had so many sky miles from flying for work.

Picture of the day

I've decided that Logan will probably have this much snow left and be this cold on resurrection morning. So I've decided to pass out hot chocolate at the cemetery if I live to see that day.

Our Logan Canyon Adventure and Other Random Thoughts

While cleaning out the freezer I found some beautiful ice crystals growing inside a container of raspberry sherbet. I thought everyone would appreciate seeing them. lol

Logan and Cache Valley switched to "digital signal only" last fall so that they wouldn't have to drive up to the top of the mountain to change the repeater in the middle of winter when the rest of the country made the switch. What that means for us non-cable subscribing people is that it's all or nothing- no fuzzy stations- all there or no signal at all. That is except when it is almost good enough. Then you get cool little digital blips on the screen. Until we put an antenna on the roof we can only get KJZZ.
Mandy and Jonathan and I drove up Logan Canyon on President's day and had pre-cooked foil dinners and hot chocolate at the turn off to Tony Grove. We hiked through some really deep snow to find a spot for our lunch. It was quite the adventure.