Beautiful Beaver Canyon

It was a beautiful fall day in Southern Utah. The sisters wanted to head up to Beaver Canyon just minutes from town like they used to do all the time growing up. They said everything looked the same including the log structures we were all sitting on in the group shot. I could have spent hours there listening to the babbling brook (which might actually be the Beaver River.) and inhaling all the wonderful outdoor smells. I think if I lived in Utah I would drive up into the canyons all the time.

Beaver Cemetary

Here is the lovely Beaver Cemetary. Notice the big B on the mountain in the background. Also, in the picture is Bruce's BMW and my mom with flowers for the headstones of our ancestors.
Pleasant Childers Anderson is my Great Great Grandfather. He was in the Civil War but the headstone doesn't mention that he deserted. Who could blame him. Leticia was his daughter so Leticia and Andrew Gade Anderson were my Great Grandparents on my mom's side.

Beaver, Utah

On the Monday after conference I drove with my dad down to Beaver, Utah where my mom grew up. She and her 2 sisters rode with Bruce in his car. It took about 2.5 hours from Provo which is where we met up with everyone. Emily and I had taken a rented car early that morning down to BYU for a look see. Anyway, the first thing we came to in Beaver was the home where all the sisters grew up. It was sadly run down with no occupants and a "for rent" sign in the window. The sisters talked about all the raspberry bushes that used to be in their backyard and how their grandmother, Leticia, lived in the little house behind the big one. They even said the front door had been moved. They peeked through the kitchen window and said that even though the cabinets had been changed in the past 70 years they still recognized it. I think they were a little sad to see their childhood home in its current dilapidated state. Keep watching for more posts about Beaver.

A week in Utah

I can't believe time has flown by so fast recently. Yep, I had a great week in Utah but came home with a cold and so have been slow to post about it. I arrived on Thursday. After a nice dinner with Joe's family, my folks and the Aunts at Olive Garden we went to the conference center to hear the MoTabs rehearse. Emily arrived the next day and we all went to the Joseph Smith movie, walked around temple square among other things. Emily spent that evening with her r Fort Wayne friends who now live in the SLC area. We stayed at a new Hampton a few minutes from Joe's house. More later.