Pictures from the Edge

One of the good things about living in St. George is that we get to have visitors who have to come down for business. We get to see them and have an excuse to go and play. This happened this week when William came to see us. (and maybe to go to a conference on water rights too, which is more fun?) It was also Angela's spring break so we did some playing around St. George and then went out and stayed at Toroweap on the Grand Canyon Wendsday night. The canyon drops straight down almost 3,500 feet and had we had a water balloon launcher we could hit the river with rocks. Now you know what we will take next time. We had been there once before, but we didn't find the overhanging rocks in the pictures until this time.
Looking up the Colorado river.

Looking down the Colorado river with Lava falls in the bottom,

Zoom in on this picture to see us on the rock.






Here is my try at artistic photography,

There are a lot of these pools on either side of the road on the way to the point.

Hope of Spring

These are two pictures of hope for anyone still stuck in winter. Hang in there, it is coming, I took these pictures today.

Goosberry Mesa

While Angela was away seeing her parents off to the MTC, the boys had to get in a little play. After hearing how great mountain biking Gooseberry Mesa is we finally got to go and check it out yesterday. Chris, Jerad and I went out and road about half the trails, South Rim, Skatepark, Hidden Canyon, North Rim and Slickrock 101. We then went down to Grafton and they did some drops (my bike is not made for these). We were tired but it was really fun and I hope to get out there again soon.

Igloos of Life

Last week was the Klondike, we went up to Cedar Canyon and found some good snow, 3-4 feet of it to be more exact. It really was interesting to watch the scouts build their snow caves and work together. Although I don't know that I help out a lot, there is a difference between the older scouts and the younger ones. The 12 year olds still have some things to learn while some of the older ones know how to take the lead and get things done. One of the other leaders and I had to scramble to get our Igloo built because we spent a lot of time trying to help the scouts with their stuff. In the end all the boys (8) slept in snow caves and 3 of the leaders slept in the Igloo. It was a lot of fun, but a lot of work, kinda like life. Hope you like the pictures,

My thoughts....brace yourselves

So, I had a few extra minutes today (actually, they weren't extra--I stole them from the time I was supposed to be writing a report), and I was reading a friend's website called 100 Days of Love. From there I got linked to another website, The Next 100 Days. I'm feeling inspired (a little guilty, but inspired nontheless). See, the thing is, it's so easy to get wrapped up in yourself, and I didn't even realize it until I took a second to see what other people were thinking. Unfortunately, I can't say it has changed my life forever and I will never be that selfish self that I am. But I am passing on the links to all of you (check the list on the right). Maybe you will be inspired. And maybe if you all get inspired, it will keep inspiring me! There I go again being selfish. :)

Tribute to my wife

We have recently gotten many requests to see pregnant Angela. So here are all the pictures of her that I could round up from the last week or so. Isn't she so cute!





Okay, maybe not exactly as requested, but she does look good, as can be told from the pictures and she sure is good to me too as I drag her all over creation.

Bonus points for anyone who can guess where the pictures are. Nathan and Suzie are disqualified on all except for the first one because they were there as you can see. We had a great weekend with Nathan, Suzie and Kye. Too bad they had to go back to winter, we will have to invite them back next winter:)

Christmas and Moab

I got some feedback that we need to post again, so here we go, I am a little too lazy to say much about the pics, but here they are, enjoy.
Igloo 1

New backpack for chuckette


Austin took this one

It was cold!


Ahh, the Swell


Igloo 2