Salt Lake City Trip to Temple Square The Trian Ride to SLC

So we got onto the Front Runner Train in Provo and headed for SLC.

 Ben's Family joined us at American Fork.

When we got there we went over to see the Macy's candy display first.

Then across the street to Temple Square.

This is the entire group minus me  behind the camera.

They got me in a later picture.

I had Alex on my lap on the way home on the train and my camera as well. So I pointed the camera from my lap toward the others and he just kept pushing the button. A couple that was sitting across from Marie and I must have been thinking how crazy I was to just let my grandsons push the button like that. They didn't say anything but I was really wondering what they were thinking.

These first few have a dark section at the bottom due to Alex adjusting the dials and me not realizing which ones he had moved.

 It didn't take long to figure out he had it set at 1/600th of a second with the flash so the dark at the bottom was the camera shutter curtain moving back into place. (It syncs to the flash at 1/250th.)

Later Kade thought that it was fun and got on my lap so he could do it too.

Brooklyn thought it more fun to get in front of the camera .

RIGHT in FRONT.

We had a great evening and really enjoyed ourselves. 

A Little Texan ordered SNOW and we got it.

Brooklyn was wanting a snowman when she came up for Christmas this year just like last year. The day I picked them up all of our snow from the storm a couple weeks earlier was gone. Then on the 15th it started to snow but really confused her since she could see the white snow falling but nothing white on the ground as it melted as soon as it hit the ground.

Well the following week we started to get the snow and it kept coming and on Thursday I got off work early so I could build a snowman with her. It didn't work too well but I did get a little one made while she took a nap.

The next three days produced more snow but it couldn't be made into a snowman since it was too dry, cold and flaky.

Then Sunday came and after church we were able to finally make some snowmen, and this was the first one.

Then I went crazy since the snow packed so well and I made a few more. I moved the one I had made over between the two larger , Grandma and Grandpa, snowmen. Then Gabe and Sam came down to visit so we had to make one for each of them. 

Then I decided that since 5 of the grandchildren were here and 5 were not that I would make five total small snowmen to represent the five here OR the five that I was missing so much that were still in Colorado and California. (The latter at Disneyland from Arizona.)

It warmed up a little more the next day and several of the pine cones, pieces of rocks and other things used to make them complete fell off, so I took more pictures over the next few days so I could show how the new snow storms were adorning the snowmen.

This was after the last big storm and the snowmen looked a lot different now.

I didn't get a picture when I should have of this princess snowman and after the following wind and storms this is how she looks now. (Tia and Scott made this one.)

This is a panorama of part of the yard I did to show our piles of snow in just two weeks.