Monday, July 19, 2010

Hiking Adventures

This morning I dragged mom and Christian with me up to the Y. After living in Provo for 7 1/2 years, mom had never been up there.

They made it!



Last Saturday Chris went on a hiking adventure with Kenny and Nicole. They left at 5 am to hike Cascade mountain. A hiking website described Cascade as: "a difficult mountain compared with most others in the Wasatch and only a few diehard peak-baggers seem to even pursue this peak." It's highest point is 10,908 feet.

Chris' pictures from the trip are on his new phone and he is still trying to figure out how to get them off.
Kari and I opted to sleep in a little later and then we hiked up Rock Canyon to the campground while the "die-hards" were scaling up the side of a mountain.


Chris was exhausted, scraped up, and covered in mosquito bites and dirt when he got home. All he wanted to do was lay down and sleep and shower. The sleeping came first. I wouldn't let him sleep in our bed because he was so dirty, so he konked out on the floor.

On July 10 we hiked to Stewart Falls with Erik & Nicole, Nicole's sister Lyndee, and Kari & Kenny.


The boys playing in the water. Erik and Kenny did push-ups in the waterfall and came out with brain freeze

Moving out



Last Thursday I realized my track days are officially over when I cleaned out my locker. It was actually a very sad moment; I felt like I was giving up my one last tie to BYU.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Stadium of Fire!!






REAL soccer game






Adam's first sonic slushie--he loved it

Thursday, July 1, 2010

HE'S HOME!

Waiting at the airport for Elder Page!

We all dressed up as missionaries and Mikey and I stuffed our shirts to trick Chris into thinking we were pregnant.







Here he comes...He was walking so fast all the pictures came out blurry.


And HE'S HERE!!


Hugging one of the "pregnant" sisters




All of Chris' new in-laws he just met for the first time



The welcome home sign Nate made. He drew everything by hand
Laurie's welcome home gift: Homemade White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

A few weeks late: Chris' first rodeo


A few weeks ago we went to the Strawberry Days Rodeo and Chris and Martina both experienced their very first rodeo. Martina is a visiting professor from Hungary who stayed with my parents for a few days.
It was a very cultural experience for her.


Chris' favorite was the wild cow milking, while Martina loved the barrel racing. Unfortunately, it was freezing cold. But at least the strawberries and cream were delicious!
I'm still not quite sure what was so neat about this trick, but a lady on a horse rode around and whipped a whip, and after several times, these two buffalo climbed up onto the trailer.



Chris and Martina both felt bad for these little calves. I guess I'm heart-less, I like calf-roping and wrestling.