Mom and everyone else: Just so I can set you straight, but probably break your heart. The peonies in Afton have been missing since before I married Matt. Some descendent who didn't know about New England and peonies crossing the plains dug them up and put in a beautiful new gravestone. No peonies. I'd like to take a start of yours when I get a home so I can tell my grandkids my peopnies came across the plains. As for my kids, they know they do NOT touch the pretty purple flowers.
Also, I thought you would all be interested to know that we have scoped out Heber and the surrounding areas for fun places to play while we are at the reunion. It is really quite the happening place. I even remember eating at "Dairy King" as a kid because dad and mom didn't want to pay Dairy Queen's prices. Well when we passed Dairy King, there is a train for kids to eat in, shakes, etc. I guess someone else wanted Dairy Queen and "Granny's" business. I'll let you all know what I am thinking later concerning the reunion and Heber. Let me just say as we drove to Cascade Springs Sam said without solicitation regarding the views, "Wow! Wow! Wow!"
For those of you who didn't catch what mom wrote in her email, I was feeling adventurous on Friday and took my kids along with me. I would say drug, but we had a fantastic time. I still don't put myself in Karalee's place and feel I am even close to crossing the United States alone, but we did pretty well. As part of our adventure we did relive some memories, if you don't remember some of this, you better ask some questions because it is all IMPORTANT. I'll add updates of the places as I go along...Let me recap: "Grandma's Mountain" in Parley's canyon; Singing; Remembering the days before the new I-40 freeway when you went through the pretty valley and saw the flag on the rock; the cabin (It is part of a subdivision now and you can't see much of it, but the Hunt's place and the other old house as well as the Anderson's properties are there. Timpanogoos and the valley are just as beautiful and the canal still is at the bottom of the road where the gate used to be. We even took a picture of a gopher); the Heber Cemetery (Mom told you about the flowers. My kids actually loved looking at the gravestones - especially the lambs); we added the Heber Valley Railroad (which included Thomas the Tank Engine this weekend); Eating our lunch in the car (We took Peanut Butter and Jam with apples); Memorial Hill; the fish hatchery (which is being refurbished); Cascade Springs; Deer Creek (Remember where that family lived in the cabin and Grandpa would always go there because they were good people and he wanted to help them); Grandpa's old Farm House (mom, I couldn't find it); the Wallsburg turnoff; grandpa's ranch (all-be-it under water - as it always was); Bridal Veil Falls; "Cougar" Lavell Edwards Stadium;the MTC; BYU; Grandma and Grandpa Bentley's House (it looks amazing. They have added a retaining wall in front and taken out the walk to the door as it was, but they have repainted and it really looks great.); the little stream that ran along the top of grandma's street has been filled in - along with all of the fish tank rocks we used to collect; the Ash Avenue house (I'm sorry to say looks awful. Everything about it looks old and unkept); The Provo City Cemetery (Grandma and Grandpa's graves took me forever to find, but after I found the McCoard statue I went right to them. For some reason I was one block too far South originally. Definitiely hard to find if you are in the wrong place). We ended by going home!
My kids were awesome and even ready to get in the car to go to Pelican Lake today with their daddy this time. Pelican Lake is close to Vernal and is considered a "hot" fishing lake for blue gill. We caught a fish on 3 out of 4 casts at least. We had Matt's friend's canoe and all five of us inside. It was very fun. Despite the fact it rained most of the time. At least the kids got over their fear of tipping over in the canoe. We loved the success of our fishing trip, but decided blue gill are very small, painful with their sharp fins, and have tons of bones. We didn't get much meat. Who cares - it was so fun to have a successful fishing trip.
Since I'm writing about memory lanes, I have also passed by Uintah Circle where Grandma and Grandpa Whiting lived. We heard their house had been knocked down, but another is being rebuilt. The frame looked very tasteful and in the same style as the old house. I'll have to drive by again to see what it looks like now.
Hope you all have a great Memorial Day. Happy birthday to Davie Stu and Happy Anniversary to Steve and Dave and their wives, Rachel Brady Bentley Happy Birthday to you too. I messed up on my days.
Mom says I carry a lot of the same traditions in my family that we all did in the Bentley Family. I would love to know which traditions your families have carried on from our Bentley Family. I know some of you hate road trips and yet I just made my kids take two days straight of 7 hour road trips. So...what do you do?
Love you all, Sharon
p.s. I have lots of pictures, but am not very good at sending them. I'll see what I can send or at least have some for people to see at the reunion.
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