Packed Summer

Here is the update, in hyperspeed. When Angela's brother Scott came home from his mission, Josh and Amanda came down to see him and spend some time with us too. We went to Las Vegas and Picked up Scott, and then when Scott and Angela's parents went home, the rest of us went to Zion for the day. We hiked the overlook trail and then played in the Pine Creek Waterfall where we built what have been dubbed the pooh castles. (Sorry I don't have many pictures) On a whim we stayed in Springdale and watched Transformers at the Imax, 9x larger (and you better know that when you leave, because they tell you that like 10 times) and unfortunately for Addy, probably 9x louder too. We had a great time with Josh and Amanda.

The next weekend we did work around the house and then stayed Saturday night at Yankee Meadows, a nice break from the heat. The following Friday night we went to Bryce Canyon with my parents. Saturday we rode the Thunder Mountain Bike trail which ended up being pretty intense, and then we hiked the Queen's Garden Trail in Bryce.

Thunder Mountain switchbacks over Red Canyon

Ang on the downhill

Oh how nice

Caught you Austin!

This is Ang heading for a razor ridge with the trail on top and very, very steep hills on the sides.

Queen's Garden

Queen's Garden

Queen's Garden

Queen's Garden/Navajo Loop

Girls Night Out

Aaron keeps telling me I need to post the pictures from our "girls night out." Maybe that's because he wants you all to know what a wonderful husband he is for being so supportive and letting his wife go on an over-nighter without him.

So here they are. The proof...

And yes, we'll take you there.

Where is it 2

This one may be a little bit harder, but still not too bad. Here is the hint, think just barely outside the corner missing box.

Next phase of remodeling

So, we have been working on getting the next step of remodeling done on our house. It was kind of a leap of faith and we went back and forth about whether it was a good idea or not, but we did it and now we are pretty excited we did. We even got a sweet deal because we said we were willing to refer any friends who wanted to let American Exteriors work on their house too. Let us know if you like it and we can send them your way to give you an estimate.

Where is it 1

I would like to try and start a Where is it contest. Lets see if you know or can guess where the picture was taken. I figured we need to do something with all the pictures in our library so this seemed like the best idea. Just one rule, if you know for sure where it is, just post the initials so that others may guess without seeing on accident. Even if you don't know, post a guess or ask for a hint and we will see what we can come up with. Here is the first one.... Who will get it?

Lookin at Mud, etc.

So this saturday I had to go to Kanab to look at some cuttings that came out of a well we have been working on at work. You can't just go out there and not go exploring, so here are our pictures of exploring.

Kanarra - Sewer - Sewer

These are the latest pictures from our last two weeks, we went hiking in Kanarra Canyon then fixed the sewer line, then went to Red Cave and had another encounter with water that smelled like sewer. Like good little canyoneers we still went into the water and saw the rest of the canyon, but not without much knashing of teeth and twisted faces (sorry no pictures of that part).


Kanarra Creek, Kanarraville Canyon, you can choose which name you like best.


Aaron's masterful water pictures.


Guess how deep the water was.


Oh the joys! Need I say more?


Red Cave: Enter at your own risk!


Red Cave


Beautiful refrigeration!