Needed this

"Patience—the ability to put our desires on hold for a time—is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter."Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect."

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

3 year anniversary

Yesterday we celebrate our 3 year anniversary!

I can't believe how time flies, but I also feel like I can't imagine life any other way. I am so lucky to have married my best friend and copilot. I love the life we have together, the struggles and adventures, the great triumphs and subtle stumblings, the joyous occasions and the quiet moments. Skyler makes me laugh everyday. Giggles abound in our cozy apartment. Skyler you are one of the greatest blessings Heavenly Father has sent to me. I am thankful for you everyday, even when you don't rise out your dishes. :)

I hope to get around to posting our early "anniversary" trip to San Diego. (any one seen Anchor man?)

Sun Dial Hike

Yeah the last post on this blog was over a year ago. OOPS! This last year has been busy and we've been having a lot of adventures, but here's a great post. (by the way I mkae no promises how often we'll post on this blog, sorry)

For Skyler's birthday, he decided that he wanted to hike up to Sun Dial, and his brother Kenz came with us. It was a very hard hike, but absolutely beautiful. It felt nice to get outside and be in the sun.

This picture is form the beginning of the hike. We were smiling and joking, little did I know the steep climb before us. :)

This is about half way up. It was really neat to see the snow and then the waterfall coming down. (By the way we hiked up past this ridge to get to the Lake)

When we reached the top we headed for the waterfall, Skyler jumped in the ice cold snow melt water. I've never heard his voice go that high. Hopefully, we still be able to have kids one day.

His Face is hilarious in this one.

Kenz the Mack-man. He's available and i'm accepting applications to determine suitability.

The Boys hiking to our resting place, where I sleepily watched clouds drift by in the blue blue sky.

Lake Blanche

Me and my favorite person!

Jumping for Joy (at my request)

(No words only giggles)

Just Heavenly!

Skyler's now 27 years old, but he's still climbing mountains, having adventures, and smiling every step of the way!

On the way down, I kept thinking I can't believe we climbed this thing. We saw a snake and of course Skyler wanted to catch it and of course I freaked out like a little girl! At the bottom of all us hurt, but those slurpees really did the trick.

Skyler and I can barely move today, and I haven't talked to Kenz, but he was pretty sore yesterday too.

All in all it was a fun adventure and I loved being with Sky and Kenz out doing what they love best.

HAPYY BIRTHDAY SKY!!! I LOVE YOU!

Mirror Lake Walk

So a couple of sundays ago it was beautiful so we grabbed Sky's dad and headed up Mirror Lake Highway. It was still pretty earlie in the season and the upper part of the highway was still closed to vehicle and people were snowmobiling in shorts and t-shirts. The water level was super high and it was flooding one of the areas we stopped to look at. As always Charlie wanted to jump in the water so we found a shallower part and in he went. 

This is Sky and charlie stomping around in the ponds looking for beavers.
Sky and his Dad.
"Now you have to ask your self . . . . " 

Charlie, born as a dog but fish at heart.

Baby Snake! 



Sky was working with the Macro lens to capture the snake, needless to say it was a tough task, but sky got some great pictures.

BFA Exhibit Opening Night

Here are some snapshots from the opening night of my BFA exhibit, Pearls of Wisdom LDS women of Faith. Thanks to every who came and saw the show. It meant so much!! Also I have to give a special shout out to my amazing husband, who was a great support and help through the whole thing. He helped me put up the show and light it and it looked wonderful. And on top of all that he had to put up with me. Thanks sweet love you!!

Me and Skyler.

Me and Mack-Man

Stephanie, me and Johnie
Stephanie, me, john, and Doug.
Baby Gabe.
Christy, Chandler, Gabe, Sandel, Noel, Eloise, George, Mack and Me.
My cutie-pie husband!

Millcreek Pipe Line Hike

Well, ,you can tell summer is here, because Skyler has the hiking itch and on tuesday we scratched it. We took charlie up Millcreek canyon and went for a hike on the Pipeline trail. We originally planned going on a different hike, but the trail was closed becuase there was still snow. It was a beautiful day not too hot with a slight breeze.  And the top had a beautiful view.

This is my lame attempt at hiding! I guess I forgot I had a huge old back pack on DUH!

This is the cutest picture of my boys!

Charlie got tired by the end of th hike. Sky scoped him up and carried him for a little bit. Charlie just relaxed over skyler's shoulder with his tongue hanging out. IT was the cutest things! Charlie was in Heaven. It doesn't get much better than that for a dog.