Chapter 4- Kennicott Copper Mine

On Friday July 30, we spent the morning with my family and the afternoon with Pete's mom. We went to the Cheesecake factory for National cheesecake day (YUM!), went to Deseret Book, and hung out at both Grandma's houses. It was just a relaxing, easy day after our crazy wedding day.




My niece Whitney wanted me to do her
hair every morning. And she always
wanted it to be just like Shaylee's. Here
they even have the same bow in their hair.



Jaron loves Grandma P.'s doggy, Lizzy


On Saturday, we decided to go to Bingham Canyon's Kennicott Copper Mine. In all my years of visiting and living in Utah I had never gone to the mine. It was really fascinating and I was so glad that we took the time to go. They have a really good video that explains how they mine the copper. You can look down the canyon and see the huge trucks that look like little match box cars (that's how high up you are). It was really fun. Then Grandma and Grandpa let each child pick a souvenir from the the gift shop. The kids thought that was the best thing ever! Some of the kids picked out the souvenir right away and others agonized so long we had to give them a time limit! It was such a fun time for the kids.


The sun was so bright, we had such a hard time getting a good picture of the kids with this tire! Here is the worse picture (it makes me laugh!)



Here is the best picture!



See those teeny tiny trucks? Those are the trucks
that the big tire goes on!





This is a picture of the copper mine from the road.


After the copper mine, we headed to Bountiful park to have a picnic lunch. The playground was swamped with people, so we set up blankets a ways away on the grass and ate. After lunch, Grandma got the kids all set up in a game of Red Rover, Red Rover. I used to play this game all the time as a kid, but I don't think any of my kids have ever played it. They had so much fun. They thought it was especially funny when dad decided to play and he broke through by Tyler at full speed and continued running until he had tackled Tyler. Tyler is the oldest grandchild of my parents. After the game we headed home to get ready for family pictures... (to be continued in Chapter 4)


Tyler, Shaylee, Evan, Kenyon and Jaron



Kenyon, Brandon, Jacob, Matthew, Grandma, Lauren and Shaylee



Annika, Tyler, Brent, Shannon and Evan (Pete on the side)



The moms enjoyed watching from the sidelines
with Jillian and Whitney