Puppies and Flags and Llamas, oh my!

 A few fun things from last week:

(#1) Joseph and Lindsey surprised us by bringing over their new, tiny puppy named Pippin.  We all fell in love.

(#2) Ben had been out of town for a few days so we decided to meet up in Sandy when he was driving south from the airport Sunday afternoon.  We spent some time walking around the Utah Healing Field in the green space in front of Sandy City Hall.  The display of 1500 flags was set up in commemoration of Patriot Day.  It was beautiful.

(#3) A few days later we took the opportunity to pick unwanted peaches from a neighbor's two trees.  We picked 28 pounds of peaches in less than half an hour, then Luke wanted to help Ben and me with the peeling, slicing, and freezing.

(#4) On Friday evening Ben took the younger kids to a scaled-down version of the Utah State Fair, mostly so they could see the livestock in the barns.  They enjoyed the variety of animals and started thinking about having our chickens compete next year, haha.  Each of the kids also rode a few of the rides at the fair.

(#5) On Saturday morning the kids took care of each other so that Ben and I could finally summit Timpanogos.  It was an amazing (and also very scary, and tiring, and difficult) experience!  We got home in the mid-afternoon and found out that the kids had been watching TV for several hours because they'd gotten their Saturday work finished in record time.  Ben and I showered and took care of a couple of things before heading out again.  We went to Sandy to support my cousin at his local desserts fest, One Sweet Festival.  We got some yummy treats - the freeze-dried Skittles were  a hit - and chatted with Carson and his family a bit, then headed home for dinner.