Walton Watch

We are really excited for spring around here and it just doesn't want to come. But we've kept busy anyway. Last weekend, my friend Sara and I took Sarah and Maren, along with her two youngest, to Red Butte Gardens for Arbor Day. We made it just in time to get the very last parking place in the lot before having to park forever away and ride the shuttle. I wasn't just being entitled and parking by the front door- this is honestly where they put us!

We had a really great time even though it persisted in being windy and cold the entire outing. Sarah and Alayna shared a fruit-by-the-foot, sat on a moose, and posed as often as we would get out the camera. Sarah got tired at the end, but I wouldn't let her ride in the stroller, because she's too big (and we were going uphill when she asked. Had I known that later that night she'd present with a 102degree fever, I might have caved. She probably was a little tired.) Anyway, Maren

loved the freedom to walk around a little and explore. She loves to walk on grass, and says "rass" (actually she doesn't say the 'r', but this is a family blog) when she's on it.

Saturday night, Ryan and I went to a Dierks Bentley concert, and Bucky Covington opened for him. I am not an American Idol fan, so I wasn't familiar with ol' Bucky, but he was awesome. He bounced around the stage the whole time like a kangaroo. And, of course, Dierks was even better. Aside from the fact that we no longer are conditioned to staying out that late, we had a great time. Ryan's brother, Jeff, and his wife, Frankie, went with us, so to quote the trite and overused yearbook caption, "a great time was had by all." So check out some of their songs on the blog playlist.