C&C Wedding

Clint and Cassie made for a concentrated week of wedding activities. Early in the week we went with Cassie to the Draper Temple for her first time in. It was beautiful. There was a bridal shower and a bachelor party later on Wednesday. I found that I was invited to neither. I guess Cole wasn't either so he came and we watched a movie and messed around together. I came up with few pictures on Friday, the wedding day. And what I came up with was not great. I was busy with family and the all day affair. I hope the professional picture guy comes up with some good stuff. It was a great day brought to us by Clint, Cassie, the Wayt's, Shauna, and many helpers who truely must love C&C.
These were very cute kids. Cole actually had a pair of black pants and suspenders, but he simply could not stand them. I guess they were not comfortable and could not be accomodated. Even Luke had black pants and suspenders though.

Melon tours Red Budd

Red Budd, Maryland, home of AMA Pro Motocross near Ben's place and some work at Dulles Intl Airport This motocross race fan and motorcycle rider and my brother Ben fiddling with a small electronic device

jpg" border=0>The Wal-mart smiley face umbrellas saved us from becoming drenched during the second 250 moto -- local Rupert Idahoan Jake Weimer won that mudfest in front of Aussie Metcalf and Frenchie Pourcel. Aussie Chad Reed won the 450 championship. This is him in a blurr.

Ben and I stayed in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia and did the walking tour of this civil war town...


While doing time at Dulles I visited the new Udvar-Hazy sponsored Air & Space Museum. There were lots of cool planes -- such notables as the Concord, the USS Enterprise (space shuttle, not Starship), the Enola Gay B-29 flying fortress along with these 2 space craft, can you name them?

If you get these two right, you will get a prize!

Touring Bear lake!

Touring in the back of a pickup is the ultimate in freedom. Cole was not allowed so much freedom...

but, as you can see, he enjoyed his car seat.

He was also confined to this sand car you see him driving courtesy of uncles and aunts (to be too)

The "surreys" provided a little respite from 3 squares a day.

I loved how most of the boats were launched with vintage International, Chalmers, and Deere tractors all over the lake.

Canyon braved the frigid waters and skiied for us

What? Not everyone was happy? We now have Hayley living downstairs, lucky us!

Touring Northern Utah!

My pretty little wife and I went to "The Spoken Word" today before attending Church in the Joseph Smith Building along with new Elders Sitaki and Gibbons (from Kenya and Texas respectively).We were keeping a keen eye out for my cousin Aaron Dalton but think that he must have taken this Sunday off. In the middle of the MoTabs was "The National Youth Choir of Great Britain." It was very nice.

At the drive in theatre with Cole and mom. Cole's way to watch a movie is to stay very busy rearranging pillows, sleeping bags, cars, treats, and such -- with the ocassional glance at the picture screen if something interesting is happening.

I'm trying to transition from riding in the desert to riding in the Wasatch Mountains. And, it is not easy! The Uintah National Forest was very kind to set aside some trails specifically for motorcycles (no four-wheelers). I am thinking it was just a trick to keep some of these trails from disappearing altogether. They are either straight up or down and are plenty over grown so that big rocks hide in wait to kick you off your bike and throw you on to your head 20 feet down a hill. The views are spectacular, but don't look!

Maybe I shouldn't try to get used to Northern Utah as our town house has still not closed. It seems that the lending agencies don't really want to lend money. They have found less risky sources of revenue -- grants from the federal government.

"Canyon Prusso and his Group" at BYU

Canyon, Jeremy, and Derek doing their thing at BYU's acoustic explosion.

Here they are in pre-concert rituals

Here's the lead singer with one of his favorite nephews.

Other favorite nephew found some kids to play with

Groupies

A Dalton Party

Yes, there were girls at the party! (Including Aven)

WOW!
STELLA!

Drake draining his water proof cast after a long swimming session

Atkin 4th Images

Getting out of the St. George heat to nearby Pine Valley for the 4th of July was the right thing to do for the Sid and Mary Ann Atkin get together. The Atkin yard offers a great local for cool relaxing, eating, playing cards, playing volleyball, and chatting.

In Enterprise Cole participated in the competition for candy race.

At Beryl, we toured Mary Ann's burned childhood home. Inside resided some 20 70's and 80's vintage motorcycles. The antithesis of "Zen and art of motorcycle Maintenance" is stated on this sticker mounted on the number plate of this 80 something YZ Yamaha -- "The only mark you'll ever make in life is the skid marks you'll make in your shorts." Inspiring.

A couple of my favorite 24 year-olds.

We just about lost Canyon!

Mary Ann's very attentive disciples.

My spouse and her sibling philosopher/computer guy/churchman

Hello Clint and Cass!

My spouse's brother-in-law/runner/dentist guy.

My favorite red-heads.

Car or dogs? Car

Twin sons and daugters of different mothers?

Grandpa, Grandma, hey.

Cute people in the backyard of Atkin's Trails End.