Enjoying the Shoulder Season

I stole the name "Shoulder Season" from Cloudveil's blog.
This is how we spend our shoulder season.

New Camera Help

Our camera appears to be on it's last leg, and it's time for a new one.
Any suggestions? We want one that's good quality, takes good pictures (duh), and is nice and compact.

2 vacations 1 post

The first weekend in August we decided to go backpacking to Red Castle Lakes in the Uintas. It was so fun and beautiful. We took our little dog Maddy and she had so much fun. The hike was about 22 miles round trip and Maddy probably did 72 miles with all her running around. She was so tired every night she would walk right to the tent and lay down... she's so funny. The hike to the lower lake took 5 hours, it was a butt kicker considering we were carrying about 50 lbs on our backs( that's not entirely accurate, we didn't weigh our packs, but it sure felt like 50 freaking pounds). This was our base camp, then the next day we hiked to the upper lakes, backpack free, it was nice. We brought our fishing stuff too and fished the lower and middle lakes, it was pretty good fishing but too windy, and Ryan was catching all the fish anyway, what's up with that??



Camp...Home Sweet Home


Upper Red Castle Lake, mission accomplished after 1 hour of uphill boulder climbing.


Middle Red Castle Lake

So Ryan and I got home exhausted Sunday night and headed back to work our 3 twelves saving lives. Then thursday we left for the cabin to rock out at the Blue Grass Festival at Grand Targhee. I'm definitely a fan of blue grass now. They set the stage up and the bottom of the bunny hill and everyone sits on the ski hill with their blankets, chairs, hula hoops and beer. It's quite the experience, and the food there was awesome!! They had the best green curry and mexican food booth ever.



Me and Husband


Like Father Like Son


And Last but not least, Troy Dog and Ame, our favorite blue grass partners!

I Love July

Ryan and I decided to go mountain biking at Snowbasin for the 24th. We had never actually been biking at the resort before, we had always gone on some trails off old snowbasin road. But due to some bad experiences on that trail a few weeks ago, we decided to hit up the actual resort for some wicked riding!!! And for those of you who are dying to know what the bad experience was.... Ryan hit a ditch going downhill and went head first over his handle bars, of course the tough guy wasn't hurt, so we pressed on, then Ryan's bike decides to break, so he had to carry his bike on his back all the way back to the car, luckily we weren't too far. We took it to the closest bike shop, and they said it was because REI had assesmbled the bike wrong (or something like that) but they fixed it for free. SHAME ON REI!!!



This is me taking a breather after trying to keep up with Ryan... he's an animal!!



We came around the corner to our surprise the see a mama moose just eating in the trees, but due to having a crappy camera we could not get a good close up, but she was cute!



One of the luxuries of riding at the resort was a bike wash at the end, so Ryan hung up our bikes and gave them a good scrub down.

And for those of you didn't know, the 23rd of July was our 5 year anniversary. Like usual we did not get any pics, we forgot the camera. We went up to Snowbird for the day, hit the pool for some sun and later that night we went to dinner at Famous Daves BBQ, I had been craving some ribs and brisket. Then were gonna do some real celebrating in 2 weeks at the Blue Grass Festival at Grand Targhee!!!! I would love to give you a bunch of cheesy lines about how much I love my freakin' cute husband, but he would kill me so I won't. So HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABE, I LOVE YOU!!!!!

As a side note, I saw this clip and it made me think of Maddy.

I wonder why?

Lake Blanche

Amy and I decided to do a little bit of exploring today, so we headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon and hiked to Lake Blanche.
We should've planned the day a little better, though, because before we left, I did a 13 mile ride, and Amy did a 5 mile run. Needless to say, we were pretty gassed when we began the uphill slog.


We only stayed at the lake long enough for me to finish a Clif Bar, because Amy had to get to work.


Next time, we'll stay a little longer.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

Recently, Amy and I did the impossible; We went to Disneyland and didn't take one picture.
Did we forget to pack the camera?
Nope, we carried that thing the whole trip.
Maybe we were having too much fun to stop and take pictures.

My First Post

As you can see Ryan (the family blogger) has been slacking and I've been getting complaints from a lot of people, so I am now going to attempt to Blog. Anyways, we have been living the life of being done with school and just working, so we have been going out of town every month. It's a great life, I get sick to my stomach of the thought of going back to school but for some odd reason I'm still thinking about it. Anyways we spent a week in Hawaii last month on Waikiki Beach and I'm still depressed that I'm home. I've never been any good at taking pictures (Amber will vouch for that) but due to the popular demand here they are!



This is our hotel right on the beach and the best part was that there was a Cold Stone Creamery in the hotel!! For those of you who don't know me well, this is my addiction. Hmmm that must be why I booked this hotel.



PUKA DOG!!!!! If you've never had a Puka Dog I suggest you go to Hawaii just to have one. We ate there twice, we couldn't resist. And about that hot orange bandana, my hairline and forehead was fried!!!



This was the prettiest beach of all and hardly any one was there. We were laying out and next thing I know it someone is getting married literally right next to us, I had to cover my face with my book so I didn't end up in their wedding album. So we pretty much were just beach bums for the week and ate a lot of good food, that's my kind of vacation!!



So we had another weekend to take off, so we loaded up the camping gear and the dog and went to the San Rafael Swell. It was so beautiful and warm. Maddy loves to go camping, her favorite part is sleeping in the tent with us and of course the hiking, I think she ate a few lizzards!! Seriously our sleeping bags went straight to the laundromat full of dog hair.



Me and my baby girl hiking!!!