Happy For Visits

We are happy to know that great-grandchild #8 arrived safely born to Brittney and Matt Ure.  Little Katie will share a square on our family birthday calendar with her Aunt Shannon (Brittney's sister) and with Mason.

Daddy Matt with newborn

Kathryn Emmaline Ure 

born May 31, 2018.

Katie is welcomed by her three brothers,

Joe, Robert, and Monty 

with their dad, Matt.

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We love to have family and friends come for visits and were pleased to have  

Greg and Chris Shepard 

stop by to have lunch with us at Zupas on June 2nd 

on their way home to Cedar City 

after visiting their daughter's family in the Salt Lake area.

Also on June 2nd, I enjoyed watching 

Anna (great-granddaughter) perform at her dance recital. 

Anna with her mom (Sarah) after 

Anna's dance recital.

On Saturday, June 9th, family came and had some pool time:

Trevor and Megan with Sadie

and Haley and Tyler brought Paul and Anna, whom they were babysitting.  

  Haley, Sadie, Trevor and Megan

 Sadie, Trevor, and Megan

Sadie as the center of attention

 Anna and Paul getting a gentle push from Haley.

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How fun to have Zack and Jamon here 

even if it was only for an evening and the next morning before they left to register for
  EFY (Especially For Youth) at BYU, 

which they will enjoy for a week before leaving next Saturday with

an uncle to have a visit in Nevada with their Abbott relatives. 

Zack, Gramma, Jamon, and Grampa

The Pabst family from Arkansas,

friends of Jeff and Rochelle's family.

Their two older boys and Zack and Jamon

are here for EFY starting on June 11th.

Our neighborhood in Spanish Fork has really been growing since we moved here less than six years ago (end of October 2012).  Instead of seeing a field of alfalfa when we look out our front door, we now see homes newly built, some under construction, and ground being prepared for homes.  Fortunately, the back view remains the same with our property and our neighbor's property still separating us from the road in the distance; but beyond the road there are now houses where there were none when we moved here.  Because of this growth and the need for maintaining membership in the church buildings from becoming too large, we have been involved in five different congregation divisions, the most recent one having been announced on Sunday.  Thus, starting in July our ward will move out of our current building to one we met in before, but we will now be in the Palmyra Stake instead of the Mapleton Utah West Stake.

 Houses being built across from us where there was an alfalfa field.

Interesting Visit to Nine Mile Canyon

June 1 - Posting some of the pictures we took on a road trip in Utah of interesting scenery and ancient petroglyphs in an area referred to as Nine Mile Canyon northeast of Price.

"Discover prehistoric artwork, structures and artifacts

spanning 8,000 years along the 70-mile back country byway." 

- USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum & Carbon County of Tourism

 

We were fortunate to have a nice day 

with blue skies and pleasant temperatures.

 (Sam and Narene)

Sam, Hal and Christy Smith

The red rock canyon itself is actually about 45-miles long, 

and the road through the canyon is a 78-mile-long Back Country Byway. 

 Our chosen route took us past Price, Utah

to a turnoff by Wellington.

John Wesley Powell led an expedition through this remote section of Utah to map and explore, and they camped at the mouth of the canyon in 1871.  His cartographer mapped the area and used a “nine-mile triangulation” to map the mouth of the canyon and the surrounding area. 

On maps of the area, 

this was first referred to as Nine Mile Creek.

Much of the canyon was created by American Indian ancestors

who lived throughout the Southwest more than 700 years ago.  

 This was an antique oven

at the Cottonwood Glen Picnic Area

where we had our lunch.

Also on this picnic site was an old cabin that was built

as part of a ranching homestead (the south side built in the latter 1880s).

The north side of the cabin was added sometime in the early 1900s.

The County now owns and manages the property.   

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The following are some of the photos of the 
scenery and petroglyphs we enjoyed seeing.

(Not necessarily in the order we saw them.)

To date there have been 63 rock art sites in the canyon that have

officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

 This 45-mile-long canyon is full of 

Archaic, Fremont and Ute rock art. 

Balanced Rock

Sam had me stand beneath the overhanging structure

to provide a comparison in size.

A little bit of color in the cactus bloom.

A closeup of one of the petroglyph areas.

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The best petroglyph was the Great Hunt Panel.

Sam reading about the Great Hunt Panel.

A closeup of the Great Hunt Panel.

It is one of the most recognizable petroglyph panels

and is an example of Fremont rock art.

Scholars believe it might represent an actual bighorn sheep hunt,

and wildlife biologists believe it depicts a scene in late November or early December

when herds meet for the fall mating season.

It is the only time of year when the rams, ewes, 

and lambs are all together in the same place.

Christy and Hal with the 

Great Hunt Panel in the background.

Returning to our car for our ride back to Spanish Fork

by way of Myton, Duchesne, and Castle Rock.