Finally

So it has been 10 months since I lasted posted. I decided it would be a good idea to catch up a bit :-)

Grand Canyon!

I flew down to Dallas one last time so that Chris and I could drive back to Utah together and make an adventure out of our drive. I had talked to a friend at work and she suggested that we stop in Sedona. I am glad she did. It was a great little town. There is a place called Slide Rock State park that has an 80 foot natural water slide on the way to Sedona. We stopped there to enjoy the slide. The water was cold but we had fun. The rocks were really slippery. Chris and I went down the slide and were walking back up. The rocks were really slippery and Chris did not have any shoes on. I stopped and turned around and I saw Chris flat on his belly. He had slipped on the rocks. He was okay so it was really funny. I wish I had seen the fall!

The next day we went to the Grand Canyon. We only had an afternoon to see it. I wish we would have had another day to explore a bit more but it we still had a great time.

When we first got to the Grand Canyon it was a little cold and very windy. I was afraid it would be like that the entire time and we did not dress for rain or chilly weather. I did not post it but in another picture we took I could not even open my eyes because it was so windy.

Chris being his crazy self!

The views were so pretty. I guess it is about 10 miles across most places rim to rim. Most of the time you could barley see the river which is about a mile below. A couple of interesting facts I learned was that it can be 20-30 degrees hotter at the base/river then on the rim and many times it will rain on the rim but not down at the river. I thought that was crazy!

As you can see this raven was not afraid of people at all. He even poised for a picture with Chris.

We decided to end our day with a hike. We wanted to get to a good point to see the sunset but we had to get out past the mountain. We barley made it for the end of the sunset, unfortunately we did not see the whole thing but it was still gorgeous. I love this next picture, it almost looks fake!

I thought this was fun!

This is at the end of the sunset!

One thing that is different about hiking in the Grand Canyon is that the easy part is one the way to the destination and then after you get there and head back you have to do the hard work. We watched the sunset and then had to make our way out as it got dark. We loved it! It was tons of fun.

On our last morning we were able to take a helicopter ride to see the red rock cliffs of Sedona. We were able to go for free because we got suckered into listening to a time share presentation but hey at least we got a cool ride out of it. Here are some of our aerial pics.

Summer Adventures

Chris left at the beginning of May for the entire summer :-( I did not like being without my husband but I did try to keep myself busy by going on a few trips. My first trip of the summer was to see Chris in Texas but I do not have many pictures to post from that trip. Chris went down to Texas for an internship in accounting with KPMG. We decided that we could make a little extra money if he went down early to sell pest control. My first visit for Chris was mainly selling. Yes, I did it again. It is definitely not my favorite thing but I did all right.

A few wakes later I was able to take a trip to Montana to see my grandma. I haven't seen her for 3 years. I was definitely past due for a visit. My grandma is a great lady. She has so much spunk to her. She has a great personality and one I would like to emulate more. She is fun loving and will laugh at the drop of a hat. I was also able to see my parents during this trip. They planned their trip around when I could go so that we could kill two birds with one stone.

The next adventure of the summer was seeing my husband again. We both few into Iowa for Chris's family reunion. We were only in Iowa for a couple of days. We haven't seen Chris's grandparents for a few years so it was nice to catch up with them.

Once we left Iowa we few to Dallas and I was able to spend about a week with Chris. By this time he was working full time for his internship. I thought that I was going to be really bored by myself during the day but I wasn't. I was surprised at how quickly the time passed. We had a little more fun this time around. We went to a Rangers game, Fort Worth, and out with some of Chris's friends from his internship to name a few. Of course the time went by way to fast and I had to come back to good old Utah a slave away at work :-)

A few weeks after I got home from Dallas I went to my family reunion in McCall Idaho. A lot of our extended family was there. I had a great time visiting. I had not seen some of them for 5 years or more. I wish I would have taken more pictures. My dad got a great one of me flying off the banana while being pulled behind the boat. The banana seats five people. I was the oldest on the thing by at least 9 years but the only one to fly off at that particular instance. The water was FREEZING but I had to connect with my inner child and past and try the banana again!

More Weddings!!!

My sophomore roommate Torrey got married in April. She is awesome and I was lucky enough to go to the wedding. It actually happened to be in my mission so I was also able to see a couple of people from my mission as well.

Quite a few of us were able to make it to Torrey's wedding. It was wonderful to see everyone. I miss them all and look back on the years with them fondly. The second picture is of Anne, Kaitlyn and me. Along with Torrey we were all roommates our sophomore year of college.

Weddings!

My Niece got married in this last March. I CANNOT believe that she is old enough to be married, let alone to actually be married!!! I had to tease her that she is seven years younger than me but only got married a little over two years after me. I always have to show pictures of my nieces and nephews when I get the chance. I just love them all so much. They are so old, which mean that I am old too...aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

Here are more pictures of my other brothers kids. I miss them sooooo much. I wish they did not live so far away.

My whole family at Taylor and Denton's wedding. I wonder how long it will be until we are all together again.

Taylor had a beautiful dress! (it was actually the same dress that I wore but she had it her own with a different sash) I felt honored that my dress was still in style.

Some more pictures of my family just for fun!