Alpine Loop

Utah is one of the most beautiful places- I love the pretty color of the trees and the gorgeous mountains everywhere. For this reason, I'm obsessed with the Alpine loop drive. You get such pretty views of Utah, and the entrance is conveniently right by our house in Highland.

We first drove by a really great view of Timp. For some reason, I have no desire to hike to the top of this mountain though it's a popular hike. Even though I love hiking, every single one of my friends that has hiked to the top gets lost somewheres along the way and says it takes like 10 hours. I'll take the view I get from right here :)

Then, we drove by this really pretty grove of bright yellow and green trees. The colors were crazy!

Man, I love these trees and they are everywhere along this drive.

I can't wait to do this drive again soon when the colors will change even more during fall:)

Sunday Thought

Happy Sunday! I came across this little thought below on Instagram today and I loved the message...

It made me think that throughout our lifetime, we will all achieve many different goals, however, I believe that our greatest accomplishments and our greatest happiness will come from the service we've given to others. No amount of earthly success will mean anything unless we've lived a life of use to others. We are here on earth to make other lives better and to improve the world around us. Our continuous goal should be to make every person that we come in contact with a little bit better.

It's easy to get caught up in our own lives and become pretty self-centered. In fact, I'm reading How to Win Friends and Influence people and Dale Carnegie said: "When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves". It's so true! It's easy to be self-obsessed, but to find true joy, we must focus on things outside of ourselves. No one finds true happiness until they surrender their ego to the service of their fellow man. "If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better." -Will Smith

Just a little Sunday thought :)

Other things we do on Sunday are bake cookies with these cute kids...

and hang out with our precious nieces and nephews! :)

Oh, how I love them all! Especially adorable little baby Dean :)

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia was one of our favorite places!! The highlight here was definitely Sugar Bay beach. It's a little, beautiful beach tucked right in between the two famous pitons on a luxury resort. Even though it's on a nice hotel, the beach is public beach so anyone can go.

There were water hammocks in the ocean that you could lay in. I love these things! We could have just stayed out there all day.

How cute are these little tiki umbrellas on the beach:)

With a view like this it's hard to leave. On one side, we saw the Grand Piton...

and on the other side of us was the Petit Piton...

and behind us was this is the amazing resort! We felt like we were in a little piece of heaven (we looked up this resort online after and found that it's like $2,500 a night to stay here in their private villas. So crazy!)