Wednesday, September 23, 2009

utah is pretty

The moment we drove home from Vegas we grabbed our prepacked backpacks and headed up to AF Canyon to meet our friends Matt and Alissa.

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Within the fist mile a big storm hit. Once we got out of it the weather was cold but nice.

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The next morning was beautiful!

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Looking down towards Midway

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My favorite color combo in nature: blue sky, yellow field. This is looking at the backside of Timp.

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We hiked up to 10K feet quite a few times on this trip. Once we dropped down the ridge in the picture we had lunch at Catherine Lake.

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Then we headed down the trail towards Alta and Snowbird - or so we thought!

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As we decended we started coming through the ski runs. Justin was taking a trip down memory lane remembering the sweet jumps at Alta he used to go off. But at the bottom there was a map for Brighton. We came down the wrong canyon. We were so ready to just relax. Everyone but Matt was totally devestated. Matt just laughed at us wimps. After lunch we began the climb back up to 10,000 feet, over the ridge and back down the left side - to Alta and our destination, Snowbird.

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Matt and Alissa

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Heading to Alta, attempt 2.

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After all is said and done I'm glad we went to Brighton - Big Cottonwood was incredible.

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Once we got finally got to Snowbird around 8:00 pm we cleaned up and had the most amazing dinner at the Cliff Lodge. My fav was the heirloom tomatoes with buffalo mozzarella. The next day we checked out Oktoberfest, sat in the hot tub, and then took the tram to the top and hiked down Mineral Basin to our truck. We figured we did about 27 miles. I AM SORE!

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vegas

So Wednesday our friends Jared and Simi called to invite us to their wedding. The next day. In Vegas. H ya! :) We drove down Thursday, they got married, we played in Vegas till 3 a.m., and came home the next morning at 9:00.

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The lovely couple.

Before the ceremony, we all took turns having a "moment" if you will.

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Done! Thanks so much for inviting us, we had a blast!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

around the house

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Date with Cody to Sundance. After the hike we got an M&M cookie and a sucker. Now whenever we get in the car Cody says, "Go get cookie sucker?"

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There could not have been anything more perfect at the end of our hike than a "digger".

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Kids office.

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New hat, new Vans. Now Cody and Justin can be twins. Maybe now Justin won't feel the need to match his tie with my dress on Sunday just to bug me.

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Failed boating attempt.

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"Hummm, who can I boss around now?"

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I got a new camera! It is a point and shoot but has a bigger lens. Cheap and good. Like it lots.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

first day of school

No, not for Ellie silly, for me!

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I am going to attempt to finish my graphic design degree!

Monday, September 14, 2009

peach font




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Saturday, September 12, 2009

park city

Labor Day weekend in Park City with the Bankheads. Oh how nice it was to be in fresh clean dry mountain air! Although my lungs and heart did not like the elevation. We road biked and mountain biked, shopped, relaxed, and got to know our two little cousins better.

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Baby Brayden

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Baby Cade, who is almost 1!

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My mini boyfriend.