A perfect night

This last Monday night we had a perfect night together up the canyon. When I was growing up, my parents were great to take our family on little adventures up the canyon. I learned from my mom that anything can be a "picnic" per say. I've had full on feasts up the mountain. Just make your food, pack it up, and enjoy it in the beauties of nature. :-) We hadn't made it up the canyon yet with all the leaves changing colors, and I was afraid we would miss it all together if we didn't go soon, so on Monday night, I made some homemade bread bowls and potato soup, and we headed up the canyon. We went to our favorite spot up Payson canyon, to this little turn-off where they have a bunch of tables. "Our" table is over to the side in the middle of a bunch of trees, so it's fairly secluded. There we enjoyed our dinner, and let me tell you, warm potato soup tastes SOOO much better when you are in the canyon and it's fairly chili outside, and you have the smells of fall in the air. Man, it doesn't get much better than that for me. I have learned more and more that I am SOOOO not a city girl. Give me the mountains over a big city any day!!!

 

Here's Matt and Eliza enjoying their soup. She got pretty messy since we forgot to bring a bib, but it was so fun, I didn't even care.

After dinner we went for a little walk/hike and looked at all the beautiful leaves. I just can't get enough of fall. Then we went back to our table, enjoyed some peanut butter bars for FHE treat, then loaded up and headed home. Can't wait to do it again next year. :-)