May Greetings

May is always busy busy busy so I was glad to start the month off on May 1st (May Day) with a quick jaunt to Bridal Veil Falls before tackling my To Do list.

If I'm being honest, I did have visit Bridal Veil Falls on my To Do list for that day. Check. 

Bridal Veil Falls Is Open!

You know one of my traditions I look forward to for six months. Bridal Veil Falls is closed from November 1-May 1. No stopping at the overlook. No driving on the road by the falls.

There's a good reason for that. Avalanche danger... as we see from last year when there actually was an avalanche and that area was closed much longer than May 1. See July 21, 2023 blog post.

When it does open up like normal, I like to go as close as I can to the beginning of May. I did this year.

Jet and I went on May Day, May 1st, and stopped at the overlook. I told Jet we were going to take a picture of the waterfall and he called out, "Smile, waterfatl," because "Smile" is what you say to someone when you're going to take their picture. 

Have I mentioned he's adorable?

And wiggly?

Another day, we drove the road and stopped down there to say Hi to the waterfatl from a different angle.

One of these times we will walk to the waterfall on the trail.

I love Bridal Veil Falls!

May Day 2021

May 1 was when Bridal Veil Falls area officially opened back up. Woohoo. I'd been waiting six months for that. Jet, Nichole, and I went up the canyon that morning to visit the falls. 

We had to cut our trip short because there was a half marathon going through the area. It started out with a few people jogging by then all of a sudden... explosion of people. We finally managed to get back to the van, maneuvering the stroller through all those people. Phew. How appropriate that they were having that race on National Fitness Day.

Nichole took the time while we were waiting for runners to pass to sketch another leaf. I love it.

 

We had so much fun making pretzels for National Pretzel Day that we wanted to do it again. Lucky requested that we make the pretzels into letter shapes to spell out the words "May Day." 

This time, however, the kids weren't as enthusiastic about helping. They were distracted by a TV show. So it took a lot longer with me doing everything but in the end we got soft pretzels. Yumm.

It's May

May Day.  May Day.  It's May.  School is coming to a close which means some fun days for the kids.
Today was Pioneer Day for Nichole and Mustache Day for Jr.

The little boys and I also had some fun today.  We got out, played at a playground, enjoyed the sound of a stream and birds in the bushes.  It was lovely.

Since it's May it also means that this Summer is coming up.  Big plans this Summer.
Let me tell it in Jeremy's words.
"Starting June 1st and going through September 5th we will be building the Wonders of the World at Thanksgiving Point! We will be building one a week for 14 weeks- 6 ancient wonders and 7 modern (the Pyramids at Giza are on both lists- no need to build the same twice.) Also in July when we are switching from ancient to modern wonders Jeremy Telford will be making an attempt for a world record: Largest Balloon Sculpture by an individual (using modeling balloons). The picture is to give you an idea of the scale of these massive undertakings. It is a detail from the first build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and it is the size it will actually be on the finished sculpture. Most finished sculptures will be around 16' tall- that's about 3 times as tall as most people! You won't want to miss them!"

It's exciting.  In the meantime and since it is May Day and May Day always makes me think of flowers, here's a little something Jeremy did for the Tulip Festival for this weekend's theme, "A Celebration of Art."

Yeah, I love what my husband does.

May Day

When I was younger, on May 1, I used to pick flowers on my way home from school to give to my mom. "Happy May Day," I would say. Since today is May Day and since it has been too long since the kids and I have done a craft together, I thought it would be really good if we did some sort of flower craft together. The kids liked that idea, too. So I went to familyfun.com and found a Mother's Day flower craft (I figured it would work for May Day, and we can keep it around for a week for me to enjoy on Mother's Day as well), and we did it together. And it was an easy one. The flowers were printable, Nichole colored the vase (Jr. colored one, too, but we haven't turned it into a vase yet), and both kids helped put the straws through the flowers.

And that is our other project in the background. Jr. and I made no bake cookies this afternoon.

So I hope you are all having a wonderful May Day, enjoying whatever flowers are around your area (even if they are made of paper).