Dave and Jan enjoyed the mid-June visit in Cedar City from daughter Alissa and Andrew and their four boys.  The family’s only trip out of town during their visit took them to beautiful Cedar Breaks, twenty five miles up Cedar Mountain at an elevation of around ten thousand feet.

  But there were plenty of things to enjoy without ever leaving town.   The family only needed to walk a block and a half to the east from the house to ascend an impressive ridge which divides town from Rainbow Canyon.

The canyon beyond the ridge is already a beautiful place to explore and a great place to get some serious exercise – for those who like to climb.

A few blocks from the house Frontier Homestead State Park provided a look at living conditions for those who lived in Utah in years past.

A major attraction for the boys, in particular, was the city’s park system. The evening the Crandalls arrived they enjoyed the zip line in a nearby ball park’s playground.

Ephraim, Silas and Elijah had fun loading their water guns from the small stream diverted from Coal Creek in Canyon Park, and they enjoyed one of the park’s play sets as well.

Park Discovery is a city park designed for kids by kids which the kids found very much to their liking.

And the Crandalls’ visit wrapped up with a celebration of Ephraim’s fourth birthday – the night before the actual birthday when the family planned to leave for home in Huron, South Dakota (via Pioneer Camp near Rapid City).

Dave and Jan are grateful for the blessings of children and grandchildren – the latter described by Solomon as “the crown of old men” (Proverbs 17:6), and Dave definitely fits the bill!