Nebo Loop

The next weekend after 5-mile, we took a trip down to the Nebo Loop.  We stayed at the south end of it near Nephi.  What a perfect time to go and see some Fall leaves.  They were amazing.  We were very glad we got there when we did.  Each day we could see that the leaves were changing and they were beginning to lose their brilliant colors.

 

 

 

We drove the Nebo loop a couple of different times.  Elevation was about 9000 feet.  My parents had stopped by about a week before we went camping to 5-mile and brought us a movie, The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.  This movie was quite comical.  We thought about it a lot while driving this loop.  However, in them movie, they only climbed to 8000 feet.  But they were pulling their long trailer.  We left ours at the bottom and just took a drive.

Along the loop we stopped at many of the different lookouts.

Devil's Kitchen also referred to as a mini Bryce Canyon.

 

 

 

On another occasion through the loop, we stopped at the Payson Lakes and had lunch.

Beaver Dam overlook.

 

Utah Lake Overlook

Mt. Nebo Overlook

When we were hanging out at the campsite, the kids entertained themselves with the many leaves that had already fallen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a great way to end the camping season!

5-mile pass

Bryan finished up with Fall ball and so we were finally about to take the new trailer out.  We only had one night that we could go, so we found a place close by.  We went along the five mile pass and found a nice place to camp for the night.  It was a perfect place for Bryan and Daniel to enjoy some shooting.  We took it pretty easy on the trip.  We didn't worry about a fire.  We just cooked our food inside.  However, due to the fact that we have an oven, I made an apple pie while the boys did some shooting right outside the trailer.  YUMMY!

 

 

Self-Serving Elitism

I have long thought that the high barriers to entry in the legal profession were really only serving the attorneys themselves.  But I couldn't have articulated the thought as well as this article from the New York Times.

The basic idea here is that an open law profession would lower prices, increase consumer awareness of dishonest/incompetent practitioners and allow many who cannot overcome the barriers to enter the practice of law to do so...after all, Abraham Linclon and Clarence Darrow, both recognized as some of the finest lawyers and civil rights advocates this country has produced, did not graduate from an ABA accredited law school nor pass a bar exam.

Real Things

Elder Bednar recently talked about things as they really are and the church put it into a nice video presentation that illustrates his points in a very straightforward way.  It's worth the 4 minutes to watch this video.

A Toothless Grin

After a full week of letting this loose tooth hang in her mouth, she finally allowed Bryan to pull it out.  Last week she was in tears because she realized she had a loose tooth.  Because of this tooth, she then decided she wasn't going to eat anything.  So I babied her for the day with the food and she was excited because she was able to eat pudding and popsicles.  The next day she was sick of eating those things and decided to eat her regular bowl of cereal.  She would still play with the tooth and keep telling us how loose it was and that it hurt, but she refused to let anyone help her with it.  So we just let it sit in there.  I figured she would bump it hard enough or she would play with it enough and it would come out.  Each night Bryan would beg and try to convince her to allow him to pull it out, but she would be very scared at this thought and would say no.  Even Daniel was working on convincing her by telling her it only hurt for a second. 

Finally last night, it happened. With Bryan giving her an ultimatum.......bribe......Megan let him pull it out.  There was a show on TV last night that Bryan was really interested in watching.  Megan really wanted to play a game with dad.  So Bryan proposed that after the show he would pull her tooth and then play the game.  Or, he could pull the tooth now and then play the game and he wouldn't watch the show.  Bryan got to watch about a minute and a half of the show before Megan became bored and said he could pull the tooth so that they could play a game.  I heard no screaming or crying.  It just popped right out.  She was pretty excited.

 

 

She was so proud this morning at breakfast to be able to chew right where her tooth was and not have it hurt.