Lake Powell

We went to Lake Powell this weekend with my family. I managed to avoid sunburn until the last day! Our air matress deflated all three nights. I learned to wakeboard, but I'm not exactly a quick learner. We found two scorpions before they found us. We played with our little airsoft pellet guns all over the place and Kevin dominated. Both Rosie and I had lizards fall in love with us and try to live on us. AND My parents duck dog Argos saw ducks in the water on the last day and swam all over our little alcove trying to catch them. I love Lake Powell. This was such a better trip than earlier this year.

Wednesday

By some lucky coincidence I was able to have today (a Wednesday) off and so did my dad and Kevin. We decided to hang out together and did all sorts of white trash stuff. We started the day with a trip to McDonalds for breakfast. Then we took the duck boat out for, well, I'm not really sure why we took it out. I think it had something to do with seeing how much weight the boat could take. All I know is I got to drive the boat and weave a torch out of the reeds when I was bored. The boat was lots of fun when it got up to speed and there were birds EVERYWHERE. It was lots of fun to see the coots, ducks, geese, pelicans, and cranes. After we finished with the boat we decided to go shoot some skeet. I was pretty slow to warm up but had a good time. On the other hand Kevin and my dad were crack shots from the begining. Then we had a delicious lunch at Maddox, where I ran into Nate Adams and his beautiful new wife. Here are a few pictures and some video of me looking pretty cocky as I hit one of my clay pigeons out of like a hundred I missed.

Family Home Evening

Kevin's family started monthly family home evenings because his family doesn't think they have enough togetherness (trust me they are wrong, they have way too much family togetherness time). Nonetheless we were suppossed to take turns hosting said monthly get togethers. When our turn came around we sort of dropped the ball for a couple of months. Part of the problem being we live an hour south of everyone else, the othe part being our laziness. Now if we were to host a family home evening in Salt Lake everyone would have trouble driving the hour to and from, so it took a while before we had enough time to drive an hour north, set up said family home evening, and still have it done early enough that everyone could come and still put their munchkins to bed at a descent time. I sound like I'm complaining and truthfully I'm making it sound worse than it is. Kevin's family does a million things to help us out and driving an hour for family home evening doesn't come anywhere near the support they lend us. The family get together was held at a campsite in Mantua and was so much fun. We had tin-foil dinners and everyone brought something to share (I brought Heidi's spinach dip which was a huge hit -Thanks Heidi). We played some games and enjoyed the campfire and everyone's company. All in all it was a fun little shindig.

Wyoming weekend

We had another fun trip to wyoming last weekend with my family. It was a quick trip because Rosie had to get back for a missionary farewell on Sunday. Nonetheless, we had an exciting saturday. Early Saturday we rafted the Snake since I had not yet gone this year. It was a lovely float but a bit more chilly than I was expecting. No one was quite as chilly as my dad after the boat slingshotted him out in Kahuna (the larger of the rapids this time of year). For those of us that have swum a rapid before it was an entertaining spectacle to watch everyone on the boat scramble and scream and panic. My mom didn't find it nearly as entertaining and had a look of pure terror with every rapid after that. After we made it safely to Sheep Gulch we dumped the boat headed to Jackson. Rosie brought cowboy clothes so that she and I could "go western" together. It was lots of fun meandering through Jackson and equally fun going to the Bar J ranch for dinner and entertainment. After my family went home on Sunday Kev and I stuck around and had fun playing along the river, in the fields, and on the mud flats.

This is my Dad before his little "swim".

This is the horrified face my mom made just before each rapid.

Justin and his less-than-ghetto rubberband gun.

Waiting for the show to start at Bar-J.

The snake we found, named Hugo.



A candid shot that Kevin took when I was looking less brave.

Kevin on the fourwheeler in the fields.

Kevin will want to kill me for posting this video, but everytime I see it I get hiccups from laughing so hard.

Too much information??

So I recently joined facebook with mixed feelings. I was excited to add a few friends that I know pretty well and regularly do stuff with. I was even more excited to add my brother and sister to get some insight into their lives. However, it was with some apprehension that I watched facebook search my email account to see who else I may know on facebook. Do I add them as "friends" do I really care what is going on in their lives? I added some high school friends and it was fun to see how they are doing, to be linked to their blogs. But now I'm wondering, how much do we really want people to know about us? How much do we really want to know about other people? With my prior blogstalking, I felt that I was seeing what people I knew wanted to be seen. With facebook I get updates about what my sister posted on her friends blogs, it seems so invasive. Just pondering (I have WAY too much time on my hands on my current rotation). I personally feel I have nothing to hide, but is this like a smaller version of reality tv? Is too much scrutiny of our lives likely to lead to disaster? Or is this the new small town, its a small world after all, etc? Is this much info at our fingertips really healthy?