The Love of Family

Tradgedy brought family together last week. We have struggled to cope with the unexpected death of our much loved brother-in-law, Art Vikari. The one great thing that comes from funerals is the reunion of family members. We drove to Seattle to share our love and ended up laughing, crying and enjoying one anothers company. There were lots of games...

Hanging out....

We spent a wonderful afternoon at a lake, picniking, floating and swimming.

Crawdad collecting

Ewwww -- they actually ate these things they caught in the lake!

We'll miss you Art!

We love you, Becca, Elise, Heidi, Scott, Valine, and Nick.

Up, Up and Away!

This morning we watched the sun rise over Park City, Utah in a hot air balloon! We had to get up at 4:45 am in order to arrive at the Park City Hotel by 6:30 am.

We watched them unpack and inflate before we climbed in.

Lots of pictures to follow....

It was not really scary at all. I'm not a great "flyer", turbulence makes me nervous, the sudden drops and shakes, terrifying. I expected to be scared but it was so gentle and calm that it was really enjoyable.

The top of our balloon was happy!

Our pilot told us this was one of Tiger Woods homes, it is where he recovered from his knee surgery, he hobbled out on his crutches once to wave at the balloons to say he wished Nike would let him take a ride. Anyway, if you look at the edge of the driveway near the treeline there is a deer, we chased 3 away as we got a little closer.

We passed over a pond and looked down at our reflection.

I feel like it's something I can cross off the 'bucket list'. I don't feel like I can hardly wait to go again, but it was really cool and I'm glad I did, and I wasn't frightened at all!