I was able to spend a few days in Utah right after Christmas with family. I love it out there. It’s so peaceful, especially in winter when there is snow on the ground. Everything looks and smells so clean and fresh. Unfortunately the day after we arrived I hurt my leg and couldn’t walk much, so I spent a lot of hours putting together jigsaw puzzles and watching Arrested Development on dvd (if you have to sit around watching TV I highly recommend this show). I definitely did not get to take as many pictures as I would have liked, but it was a good trip nonetheless. It is always great to see family and sometimes I need to be forced to sit down and do nothing once in a while.

I hope you all have a wonderful new year and that you live life to the fullest at every moment…

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

~ Cecil Beaton

This has been a very long and busy week, but I wanted to get a few photos up from Utah. It was such a good trip. I couldn’t believe it had been two years since I had been there. I am determined now that I have a reliable car to get out there more often.

The first morning I got up early to get photos of the sun coming up over the hills. I love sunrises in Utah.

We drove about an hour north to visit my sister and her two boys. They are growing up so fast, but they are still so cute.

They had a blast playing with their two favorite cousins.

Sunrises at my sister’s are pretty gorgeous too.