St. Patrick's Day Weekend

We've had a great weekend playing with family and friends. Here are some of our pictures.

St. Patrick's Day Party

President's Day Weekend

Hey we just got back from the cabin and had a fantastic time. We decided it was time to get out of the smog so we took off to Wyoming. Friday night was lots of work shoveling but it was nice to wake up to everything being done Saturday morning. We went snowmobiling lots and lots this weekend. First we went up the Greys river and found that about thirty miles up is the Box Y ranch. It was cool because the Box Y has a restaurant/cafe thingy that you can eat at in the winter with all sorts of yummy food and hot cocoa and stuff. PLUS there is this great tubing hill right by it so we are excited to go again soon. For the rest of the day we went up to Jackson and just hung out and shopped and looked at some of the galleries. We also managed to find a pretty good BBQ joint that was delicious.

The next day we wanted to go up to Yellowstone on our snowmobiles but I guess now there is a law where you can only go into Yellowstone in the winter with a guided tour (like 250$ each). Yeah right like we could afford that. So I guess we'll never see Yellowstone in the winter but the upside was that we saw the Tetons at sunrise which was beautiful!

Because our grand Yellowstone ambitions were squashed, we decided to do a little exploring. We found a great groomed trail with lots of tubing hills that has a hot spring at the top. With a hot spring in the middle of nowhere, naturally we had to go swimming. The only problem was that we didn't have swimming suits so we had to borrow some. Gross. I know. But it turned out to be tons of fun and the ridiculous looking suits made it that much more entertaining.

When we finally got home to the cabin that afternoon there were two moose in the yard, a mama and her calf. They were tons of fun and stayed around for hours and didn't seem to mind us at all so we took a few million pictures with them. That's it for our President's day weekend. All in all- a fun way to waste time.

Hi Everybody!

Well we've been gone a little while, just been a little busy. Not a whole lot is exciting and new with us. We had a great Christmas and have been enjoying work and school. Kevin can't complain about having every other week off of work and getting to choose all his own hours. I on the other hand complain plenty but love what I'm doing. School is actually pretty interesting and it's been fun seeing just how many options there are out there. I got my schedule for next year and am trying to prepare for the complete lack of sleep. I'm actually really excited to finally be somewhere other than a classroom and I'm looking forward to seeing live patients. We've been having fun at home just hanging out and enjoying the snow. We have a new calling in church, we're primary teachers. It's actually been lots of fun because now we have an excuse to bring ridiculous amounts of candy to church. Well, like I said, we don't have that exciting of a life but we're enjoying it.

July-August

Well, its been a great summer. We've gotten lots done and had tons of fun. Kevin went to Alaska with his dad and some of his brothers. I hung out with the girls of the wilding family up in park city and then went camping and boating with my family. Kev had a great time even though the fishing was a little slow at first. They found out that it's actually better to have the fishing a little slow because when the fishing picks up the daily limit of fish you can keep drops.. it dropped all the way down to zero the day they left. The boys also went halibut fishing in Alaska and we've had fried halibut almost everynight now for a week. It doesn't matter though because it tastes soo good. When I was with the girls we mostly just hung out and went shopping and watched movies but we also went down the alpine slide which was tons of fun and had a little talent show... mostly to show off our lack of talent. Camping and boating with my family was awesome and we had a great time playing Taboo for hours upon hours. Rosie explained Abe Lincoln as a famous guy with a hat that was shot on a train... nice huh? A great example of our public school system at its finest. Then kev and I went up to the cabin and went out on the waverunners and did some fireworks. It was fun just to relax and rosie and I are headed to the beach-house on wednesday so hopefully that will work out too!

Summer Lovin'

Well we've been so busy so long we've neglected our blog. So we are back with some quick updates on what's happened over the last few months. Kevin started working seven days on and seven days off during the day which is so much more fun that it was when he had to work all the evenings. Now we get to take a fun trip every other week. Tori finished her first year of medical school and has started working for the summer at a research lab. She is doing research on the genetics of hypertension. Last week when school finally got out Tori went with her family down to lake powell for the weekend and had a blast. She and Rosie learned how to drive the boat and jumped off the cliffs into the water in between laying out for a tan and gossiping with her mom Missy. Kevin and Justin were both sorely missed since Tori and Rosie had to be the "boys" and tie off the boats and set up and take down camp, not normally jobs of the princesses. Nonetheless Tori had a blast. Upon returning from lake powell Tori and Kevin immediately set off on a camping adventure all over Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. First they went to Wood road number 5, a famous camping spot in wilding tradition, to camp and fish. The river was beautiful and the company was good except for the numerous mosquitoes that plagued the camp. After a full day of hiking, fishing, and sunburns we took off from there to wyoming. We stayed at the cabin in Wyoming and went fishing/floating below the dam. It rained on us a bit but all in all was a fun adventure with Kevin's brother dave and his boys. The next day bright and early we set off for the beaverhead river to do some more fishing. Here we met one of Kevin's other brother's Scott and two of his girls. Despite the rain we had an awesome time and caught some huge browns on the river. Natalie, one of Scott's girls, was such a great fisherwoman that we practically had to drag her off the river at the end of the trip. From there we went up to Missoula Montana to see where Scott and his family have been living for the past couple of years while they were in law school. They have a great place but are excited to almost be done and have a lawyer in the family. While at Scott and Carolyn's house we decided that it would be fun to go see Glacier National park while we were in Montana. It was tons of fun and we stayed at beautiful Bowman lake where the deer are pretty much tame and the views are fantastic. Then on Tori's birthday we went to Boondock's with Tori's family and had a blast riding go karts, climbing rock walls, playing lazer tag and hitting a few balls in the batting cages. Tori says it was the best birthday ever.