Back to the land of the living

Well nothing terribly exciting has happened to us lately, but in the spirit of updating blogs here I go..... I have been studying like a maniac for the first step of my medical licensing exam, AKA "the Boards". Studying has been a nightmare and, to be perfectly honest, so have I. I'm sure that my husband is eagerly anticipating the return of a wife who doesn't cry at the drop of a hat or yell at small children for blocking her view of the ice cream counter (ask Kevin about it). I think I am well on my way to recovery after a night of movies and junk food and I hope to be at full force next week when we take a trip to California with my family. In the meantime we actually have managed to squeeze in some fun here and there. Both Mother's Day and Father's day were lots of fun since we were able to hang out with our families. Mother's day was especially fun for me because Justin called and seems to be doing really well on his mission.
A couple of weeks ago we went camping overnight with my family (and the dogs) up in North Fork. It was a beautiful and welcome break. We had a great time going on a little hike up to a waterfall and playing around. It was a nice hike because it was super easy for a great reward.

We also went up Millcreek canyon and built a campfire with some of our friends a while back. It was so much fun to just get to hang out and eat our interesting smore-like concoctions.
Kevin was able to go fishing in Wyoming a little this last week which was good because I was worried that he might actually drop over dead from not fishing if he didn't get up there soon. Thank goodness his dad came to the rescue and whisked him away to the river he loves. He had a great time and caught some great fish (of course).

A Bit of Spring Fun

So it's been a pretty fun month. Nothing terribly significant but we've had a great time just hanging out with friends and family. In April we went on a fun hike up towards Black Mountain. We picked a beautiful day for the hike but unfortunately there ended up being a storm rolling in for later that night. Even though it was pretty the wind up on the ridge was a little too much for all the babies that were on the hike with us. To be perfectly honest it was a little nice to "have to" turn back early, wow am I out of shape.

Then we went to Flaming gorge with my family. It was such beautiful weather that we couldn't resist wading in the streams as we fished. As the pictures show the fishing was pretty good. It was also lots of fun to just hang out by the campfire. I think the highlight of the trip for Kevin was being able to return to a childhood fishing hole and have it be just as fun as he remembered. The canyon we camped in was beautiful and I was blown away by the actual lake. It was a great weekend!

Flaming Gorge

It's been great weather During the week we had fun with our friends and played tennis. We also went to the park and played frisbee. We also went and had a great fish fry with Kevin's family.

Spring has sprung

Well we had a good time over conference weekend. We were able to go to Kevin's parents cabin in Wyoming for a few days. I skipped school on friday and went up with Kevin, Scott (kev's brother), Grace (scott's two year old), and Kevin's folks. It was lots of fun. The weather wasn't very conducive to fishing but the boys got lots of work done on the old cabin and Kev's mom got lots done on the newer one. Grace and I were able to play together quite a bit while all of the working was going on. Friday night the rest of Scott's family joined us and we had a fun time watching conference and playing endless hours of Axis and Allies as well as Incan Gold for the rest of the weekend.

The next weekend was Easter weekend and that was great. After church I was able to join my family, grandparents and all, down at Temple Square. The weather was warm and sunny and the grounds were spectacular. All of the tulips were still out in full glory from conference and the star of jasmiine smelled amazing. We were even able to take a tour of the conference center and go up on the roof and see all of the landscaping and fountains up there. We then went to the park and played some games and ate our Easter candy. It was a great weekend.

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.