Graveyards - What fun!

While in Vermont, we toured Ben & Jerry's. It was so much fun especially the Flavor Graveyard. Garrett thinks I'm weird for liking graveyards, but he liked this one too. :) These are some of out favorite headstones...

Vermont - Joseph Smith's Birthplace

On our way home from Vermont, we stopped by Joseph Smith's birthplace. I didn't realize that he was born in Vermont and then the family moved to New York. We arrived in time to watch the movie about his life.

It is so moving to remember what an amazing man he was and how the Lord blesses and loves us through so many great trials. I know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet and has restored the loving gospel so that we can live with our Heavenly Father and our family for eternity.

More Vermont

At the Cabot Cheese store they had this fun cow. I think it's made for children, but we're children at heart!

I'm mooing!

Happy cows are in VT.
This is why I thought it was made more for children or those under 4 ft.

The High Line

The High Line is a former railroad track in New York that was changed into a walking path recently. It's located in New York's Meat Packing District (more of a night club & cool restaurant area now) and fairly close to our church. Garrett & I took a Sunday stroll along it between General Conference Sessions, and it's beautiful!

Here's more cool info from their website (http://www.thehighline.org/):

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.

The project gained the City's support in 2002. The High Line south of 30th Street was donated to the City by CSX Transportation Inc. in 2005. The design team of landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, created the High Line's public landscape with guidance from a diverse community of High Line supporters. Construction on the park began in 2006. The first section, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, is projected to open in June 2009.

Vermont in the Fall

Garrett and I decided to take Mama & Papa Rose's advice and visit beautiful Vermont for the changing of the leaves.

We stayed at a lovely B&B (Mad River Inn). They are one of the 2 (or only) places in America where you can ride Icelandic horses. Why is that so cool? Because they have a unique gate that makes it like they are gliding. We didn't know that when we went, so we didn't take advantage of that. Next time...

It's been a strange fall (cold really fast), so it was difficult to tell when the peak would come. Fortunately, Vermont is gorgeous no matter what the leaves are doing and they were very pretty this weekend. In fact, Vermont will make me think of 4 things (well maybe 5).

1 - Covered Bridges (2-and a cute guy!)

3- Open spaces - most towns are a third of the size of Mapleton, UT (don't you love the leaves! This was taken at 9:30AM so there is still frost on the ground)

4 - Good people (this was a great farmers market in the middle of Wakesfield. I almost found a bracelet that I've been dying to have)

5- And of course....Ben & Jerry's factory! We had so much ice cream that we are on a diet. :)

October 7, 2009

It's our 2-month anniversary!

I love seeing the Manti Temple in the background. It reminds me how important the covenants are that we made to each other and how we can be together for eternity. I love you Garrett! You are stuck with me. :)

PS This does not mean that the pictures are ready, but just that Jon sent us a couple like this one.