Flaming Gorge

We try to hit flaming gorge this time of year because the fishing is SO good.  However, this year the fishing was SO good for everyone except me and my dad.  In the entire fishing trip I caught two fish, my dad caught two.  Kevin however, caught between 10 and 15 fish.  My sister Rosie and her friend caught 5 in the first hour.  I don't know why my dad and I were so jinxed, but we still had fun.  The amazing thing was that Kevin's parents actually came fishing with us too!  That's right we had BOTH families at Flaming Gorge.  Although both families are great it was definately more work and more worry trying to keep everyone happy.  The highlight of the trip is when Kevin's neice, Grace, explained how her dad was very strong, but that KEVIN is stronger than her dad.  Yeah, it was great.

Here Kevin is teaching Grace how to clean fish.  She knealt down in the fish guts, put her face right up to the fish and said, "I'll never do that.  That's gross."

Here is my fish attempting his great escape.

Yeah, it took me a while to wrangle that fish.

One of Kevin's 5 million fish being set free.

Kev and his dad, just being guys.

Boise Apartment

Last month we went and picked out our place to stay in Boise.  We found a super cute little one bedroom in the River Quarry apartments.  It is on a little lake/pond that is crowded with geese and ducks.  Next to the pond is the Boise river.  We are very excited about the river because it has a greenway all the way along it through town with great biking/jogging trails.  Also, we'll be able to fish within a short walk.  My work is five minutes away.  Here are some pictures.

Here's the actual apartment (second floor).

Here's the river.

Here's the pond/lake.

Oh Baby Baby, how was I supposed to know?

How was I supposed to know that a Britney Spears concert would be such a spectacle?  

Yesterday, Kev got some last minute tickets from work from a co-worker.  We thought it would be a lot of fun if we could go to a concert to celebrate my last day of school, ever.  Plus, this was my first real concert (I went to Janet Jackson when I was little but I don't remember).  It was AWESOME.  I won't try to hide it, I am a Britney Spears fan.  How could you not help but root for her?  She is the ultimate underdog.  Plus I can sing along with most of her songs.  On top of it all she had the notoriously scandalous Pussycat Dolls open for her.  It was really fun.  The theme was "Circus" and the concert had real circus performers.  It even had those people that dangle from the ceiling by ribons, and clowns, and acrobats, and some dude that rolled around in a big huge ring.  I'll be the first to admit that it was definately not kid appropriate.  We had tons of fun though and overall I'm very glad we went.  I felt like such a teenager.

We're MOVING!!! Twice

That's right, we're moving to BOISE IDAHO for intern year, then back to Salt Lake!!!! We are so excited!  More info to follow...

Moab with tha fam

We scooted down to moab for the weekend with my family.  No matter how many times we go down, it never ceases to amaze me how much fun you can have in one weekend.  We started off playing games in my parents brand spankin' new land whale (pretty sweet).  Then we woke up took the Jeep up baby lion's back.  Since I had never really been jeeping I was pretty sure we were going to die, but we didn't.  My parent's dog, Argos, loved the mud at the bottom of the hill.  Then we went mountain biking on the slick rock trail on our walmart bikes.  I HATED every minute of the first half of the trail, and so did Kevin.  However, by the end we were having a great time and if we match somewhere practical, we may get some good bikes.  Later that day we went shopping downtown Moab and got some great hiking boots.  Sunday we took the fiery furnace tour and had tons of fun.  My little sister Rosie and her boyfriend (shaggy) didn't like the ranger very much, but you have to go once with the ranger to be allowed to hike it alone later.  It was a quick weekend but a great one.