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Fun Things to do in Salt Lake City

July 5, 2015 by shelley

And then we enjoyed a  week of fun activities in Salt Lake City after the wedding:

Hogle Zoo

Hogle Zoo

Hogle Zoo

Everyone at Hogle Zoo

Everyone at Hogle Zoo

Henry, Becca and Jack

Henry, Becca and Jack

Jack and Caroline

Jack and Caroline

B.J. and Jack

B.J. and Jack

Becca and Henry

Becca and Henry

Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City

Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City

Collins and Becca

Collins and Becca

Becca, Caroline, Jack and Henry

Becca, Caroline, Jack and Henry

Collins

Collins

 

And the Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Becca

Becca

Henry

Henry

Collins and Becca

Collins and Becca

Collins and Henry

Collins and Henry

Collins and Becca

Collins and Becca

Henry and Caroline

Henry and Caroline

Caroline

Caroline

Caroline and Becca

Caroline and Becca

Emily and Jennifer

Emily and Jennifer

Jack

Jack

Emily at Museum of Natural Curiosity in Salt Lake City

Emily at Museum of Natural Curiosity in Salt Lake City

Fishing at Cold Springs Trout Farm

Our catch of the day

Our catch of the day

Collins

Collins

Collins

Collins

Collins and Becca

Collins and Becca

Caroline, Becca and Henry

Caroline, Becca and Henry

Grandpa, BJ, Jack and Jenn

Grandpa, BJ, Jack and Jenn

Henry, Jenn and Jack

Henry, Jenn and Jack

Becca, Jen, Emily and Caroline

Becca, Jen, Emily and Caroline

Caroline, Emily, Jen, Jack, Henry, B.J. and grandpa

Caroline, Emily, Jen, Jack, Henry, B.J. and grandpa

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Becca, Jen, Caroline, Grandpa, Henry, Jack and BJ

Becca, Jen, Caroline, Grandpa, Henry, Jack and BJ

Becca

Becca

Jennifer

Jennifer

Caroline and Henry

Caroline and Henry

Jack

Jack

Cold Springs Trout Farm

Cold Springs Trout Farm

This is the Place Heritage Park

Caroline and Jack

Caroline and Jack

Caroline, Becca, Grandpa and Henry

Caroline, Becca, Grandpa and Henry

Emily

Emily

Becca

Becca

Henry

Henry

Grandpa and BJ

Grandpa and BJ

Caroline, BJ, Jack, Becca and Henry

Caroline, BJ, Jack, Becca and Henry

Becca

Becca

Caroline

Caroline

Jack, Becca and Caroline

Jack, Becca and Caroline

Becca and Caroline

Becca and Caroline

Prospector Pit

Prospector Pit

Caroline and Jack

Caroline and Jack

Becca

Becca

Becca

Becca

Jack and Caroline

Jack and Caroline

Henry

Henry

Jack, Becca and Henry

Jack, Becca and Henry

Caroline and Becca

Caroline and Becca

BJ and Jenn

BJ and Jenn

Jack and Henry eating Brigham doughnuts

Jack and Henry eating Brigham doughnuts

This is the Place Heritage Park

This is the Place Heritage Park

 UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

The Utah Museum Fine Arts has a special program for children every third Saturday which is a phenomenal program!  It is free and this month had Mayan art for its inspiration.  Every child got to decorative clay pot after being inspired with the Mayan pottery collection searching for specific objects like the rectangular polychrome vase

Rectangular Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Rectangular Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

or the polychrome vase.

Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

 

Example of the clay plate Mayan inspired project for children at Utah Museum of Fine Art’s third Saturday for children (free admission!);

Example art clay plate art project Mayan inspired third Saturday activity for children Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Example art clay plate art project Mayan inspired third Saturday activity for children Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Becca and Caroline working on their clay plate Mayan art project

Becca and Caroline working on their clay plate Mayan art project

Henry working on his Mayan clay plate art project Utah Museum of Fine arts third Saturday activity for children

Henry working on his Mayan clay plate art project Utah Museum of Fine arts third Saturday activity for children

Henry with clay plate art project

Henry with clay plate art project

Caroline with clay plate art project

Caroline with clay plate art project

Becca with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Becca with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Becca (helped Grandma) with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Becca (helped Grandma) with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Emily

Emily

Grandma and Grandpa working on their projects

Grandma and Grandpa working on their projects

Working on clay art project at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Working on clay art project at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Caroline cleaning up after project

Caroline cleaning up after project

 

The Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City

We had to visit the Leonardo Museum to see Becca’s award winning Reflections project on display.  It was park of the SPARK exhibit.

Spark ignite your imagination

Spark ignite your imagination

SPARK!

What is “spark?” Is it that feeling you get when you know you’re on to something big? Is it that irresistible flow of an idea that’s just about to burst into reality? What happens when your creativity is ignited?  What becomes possible?

They get it– the Leonardo created this brand new (and really big) exhibition.

Imagine, explore and interact with over 700 pieces of original 2D and 3D art, live performances, original writings, and more.  And many of the featured works were created by artists who are just like YOU!  (Becca was one of the artists with her award winning project!)

Everyone at the Leonardo Museum with Becca's project

Everyone at the Leonardo Museum with Becca’s project

Caroline and green screen

Caroline and green screen

Becca and Henry and green screen

Becca and Henry and green screen

Fun with green screen

Fun with green screen

Henry, Caroline and Becca

Henry, Caroline and Becca

Henry the drummer

Henry the drummer

Caroline and Becca

Caroline and Becca

Henry

Henry

Projects at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City

Projects at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City

Becca's award winning project for Reflections-state award winner

Becca’s award winning project for Reflections-state award winner

Making the World a Better Place with a Mean Word Chomper

Making the World a Better Place with a Mean Word Chomper

Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City

Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City

Filed Under: Art, Events, Family, Travel Tagged With: Cold Springs Trout Farm, Curiosity Museum, Fun things to do in Salt Lake City, Heritage Park, Hogle Zoo, Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City, Museum of Natural Curiosity, Thanksgiving Point, This is the Place Heritage Park, this is the Place Monument, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Women’s Conference at Brigham Young University

June 19, 2013 by shelley

I attended BYU Women’s Conference again this year with my good friend Ellen Riley from  Boston.

2013 BYU Women's Conference

2013 BYU Women’s Conference

We joined about 17,000 other women for two days of guest speakers, great entertainment, service projects, and great companionship.

Session in Marriott Center

Session in Marriott Center

Thousands of Women in the Marriott Center for Women’s Conference.

Session in Marriott Center

Women’s Conference is a happening and this car seemed to say it all:

Car in parking lot of Women's Conference.

Car in parking lot of Women’s Conference.

Women's Conference is a yearly happening for many women.

Women’s Conference is a yearly happening for many women.

Program from Women’s Conference:

It seemed this year I connected with lots of people; i.e. a general session speaker Kevin Worthen (friend of my brother growing up) from Price, Utah- we grabbed good seats for this session and went up after to say “hello”;

Best Seats in the house for this session.

Best Seats in the house for this session.

Or a presenter in one class Carol Mikita, mother of my daughter Becca’s good friend Jen Bennion:

Class: “It Is for You . . . to Lead the World and toLead Especially the Women of the World”(President Joseph F. Smith)

President Joseph F. Smith encouraged sisters in Relief Society to lead the “women of the world, in everything thatis praise-worthy, everything that is God-like, everythingthat is uplifting and that is purifying to the children of men.” As women of God, we can lead by lifting in our spheres of infuence in our homes, the Church, ourcommunities, and work. What qualities and attributeshelp us to be effective leaders? How can we maintain ourdivinely given female natures, be distinct and different inhappy ways, and also be infuential and effective?

  • Carole Mikita —Wife, mother; senior reporter for religionand the arts, KSL-TV; writes and produces documentariesthat air between general conference sessions

The weather was beautiful this year and the campus was beautiful as usual and of course the mountains-the glorious mountains.

Spring blooms.

Spring blooms.

Trees in bloom on BYU campus.

Trees in bloom on BYU campus.

A later spring this year created beautiful color on the BYU campus.

A later spring this year created beautiful color on the BYU campus.

The clean beautiful BYU campus.

The clean beautiful BYU campus.

Scenic view  of BYU campus.

Scenic view of BYU campus.

 

A view of my favorite mountain, Mount Timpanogos.

A view of my favorite mountain, Mount Timpanogos.

The mountains, the glorious mountains of Utah.

The mountains, the glorious mountains of Utah.

This year we stayed late to catch the evening entertainment:

Evening entertainment in the Marriott Center.

Evening entertainment in the Marriott Center.

 

This year in addition to Women’s Conference we also visited

This is the Place Heritage Park

This is the Place Heritage Park

This is the Place Heritage Park

Step back in time and see the West as it was in the early settlement of Utah. Ride one of three trains, the Jupiter, Blackhawk or the 119, as they tour around the Park. Or enjoy a ride around the pond on the mini train. City kids will love riding ponies, meeting and petting farm animals and don’t forget to try your skill at milking Clara Bell the Cow.

Guests love panning for gold. There is no excitement quite like finding a shiny nugget hiding amongst the silt and sand. “Set sail” on the Ship Brooklyn, a one-sixth replica of the original that tells the story of the expedition of pioneers who sailed from New York Harbor over 24,000 miles in search of a new home in the West.

Visit the Native American Village, which celebrates Utah’s heritage before the arrival of the settlers. Authentic Navajo Hogan’s and Shoshone teepees stand in a quiet circle on the hillside. Grind corn and make arrowhead necklaces.

Interact with a blacksmith, tinsmith, and saddle maker and don’t forget to purchase some snake oil from Dr. Quackenbush! Try your hand at some old-fashioned pioneer chores, or at spinning and carding wool. And there’s endless old-fashioned fun from the bucket brigade to the Candy Cannon that shoots salt-water taffy during special events. The streets are alive with a variety of musical performers, and be on the lookout for a train robbery!

Brand new Summer 2013 is Irrigation Station splash pad! Cool off and learn why the Salt Lake Valley “blossomed as a rose!”

The Gift Shop at the Visitor Center is one of the premier destination shopping experiences in Salt Lake City. And theZCMI Mercantile is filled with sweets from yesteryear and loads of goodies. Huntsman Hotel is home to Hires Big H products, there’s an old fashioned ice cream shop with soft serve and flavor burst cones, and Brigham’s Donuts are cooked fresh everyday! A little bit of sugary heaven!

Visit the Mormon Battalion Museum, The Stoddard Gallery and see the iconic Monument that was erected under the supervision of a committee composed of Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, Jewish and Latter-day Saint representatives. Visit the Walk of Pioneer Faiths honoring early religious groups and leaders who contributed to the religious diversity of our great community.

I think we visited just about every building in the park:

Heading into the park
Ellen Riley in the John Gardiner Cabin
Info on the John Gardiner Cabin

Jewkes/Draper Home
Jewkes/Draper Home
Bobbin Lace demonstration.

Weaving.
I liked the comfort of this home.
Fossil imprint in rock.

Dugout home.
Dugout home.
Primitive conditions inside dugout home.

Pioneer Cemetery
Pioneer Cemetery
Pioneer Cemetery.

Handcarts lined up in Heritage Park.
Handcarts:Pioneer Children…
Handcarts:…sang as they…

Handcarts:…walked…
Handcarts:…and walked…
Handcarts:…walked…

Handcarts:…Pioneer children…
Handcarts:…sang….
Manti Fort Grist Mill

Manti Fort Grist Mill
Baby goslings.

William Atkin home
ZCMI
Cedar City Tithing Office

Cedar City Tithing Office
Loved this fence
Anderson Home-Scandinavian style

Scandinavian pioneer home.
Scandinavian style
Scandinavian style

Scandinavian style
Scandinavian style
Tinsmith

Cabinet shop-note chair on roof
Drug store
Drug store

Pioneer Medicines
Pioneer Medicines
Sundry store

Sundry and drug store
Ellen
Huntsman hotel

Huntsman Hotel
Saloon
Deseret News Print Shop

Heber C. Kimball Home
Mary Goble Pay Home
Mary Goble Pay Home

Emery County Home
Riter Home 1847
Riter Home 1847

Blacksmith Shop
School
School

Relief Society Hall

 

Filed Under: Church, Friends, Salt Lake Temple, Travel Tagged With: Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University Campus, BYU, Living History Museum, pioneers, Salt Lake City, This is the Place Heritage Park, this is the Place Monument, Utah, Women's Conference

Visit to Heritage Park (This is The Place Monument) Salt Lake City, Utah! (Mormon)

August 23, 2012 by shelley

This is the Place Monument, Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

The West…just as it was! Step back in time with a visit to This Is The Place Heritage Park. The non-profit This Is The Place Foundation manages Utah’s premier living history attraction, a historic 450-acre Utah state Park. The mission is to preserve and promote the heritage and history of Utah. You’ll find it alive in storied accounts of the settlement of the West, told by knowledgeable interpreters in a setting of original and replica historic homes. You’ll also see artisans and interpreters demonstrate 19th Century frontier life in a working environment. While you look on, the blacksmith explains his trade while he creates items used elsewhere in the Village and the furniture-maker turns ordinary wood into a masterpiece!

A lively variety of domestic skills are demonstrated in Village homes. You can watch wool being carded and spun into yarn that will be colored with a kaleidoscope of dyes made from native plants, many grown right here at the Park. At another historic building, candles are being dipped layer-by-layer over a small open fire in the back yard and quilting demonstrations are sure to leave you warm at heart!A visit to the Park is not a tour of historic artifacts behind velvet ropes and glass, but a true experience of life as it was in the early days of the West. The Native American Village offers a window to a world long since gone, where members of Utah’s indigenous tribes interpret the history of their native people. You can also enjoy the Park from the comfort of one of three replica trains and see and hear the history of the settlement, or simply spend the day walking the quiet streets on your own.

One of the highlights of our visit, or at least Henry and Becca thought, was to the Brigham’s Doughnut shop.

Brigham’s Doughnut Shop

I found a recipe for Brigham’s Doughnut in the Friend Magazine, July 1975:
Pioneer Recipes

Buttermilk Doughnuts
2 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
flour
Combine ingredients, kneading in enough flour to make a soft dough that’s not too sticky. Roll out and cut into doughnuts. Fry in deep, hot lard. President Brigham Young enjoyed this pastry.

We also enjoyed the pony rides and train rides!!

Brigham’s Doughnut Shop










This is the Place Monument, Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

Filed Under: Church, Family, Travel Tagged With: Brigham Young, Brigham's doughnuts, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, doughnuts, Heritage Park, Mormon, pony rides, Salt Lake City, This is the Place M, this is the Place Monument, train rides, Utah

Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah! Ode to the Pioneers!!!

August 2, 2011 by shelley

Becca and Henry.

Adam and Henry.

Becca and Jen on the ship.

Jen and Becca on the tiny train.

The scaled down replica of the ship some of the pioneers came on around the tip of South America.

Hennie on the train heading to the next stop.

Filed Under: Family, Holidays, Travel Tagged With: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Family, Heritage Park, LDS, Mormon, petting zoo, pioneer, pioneer day, Salt Lake City, this is the Place Monument, Utah

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