Solar Eclipse

Thanks Cash and Kali for throwing an awesome pot lock at the "Sweet Spot" for the eclipse.
It was a good time had lots of fun taking pictures and hanging out with the family. Here's a photo to make you all envious.

You Know You're in Elsinore If...

You are driving with your mom on your way to your sister's house and you see this: 

You think it's really funny so you slow way down and take a picture through the windshield of your car.  You laugh as these horses start calmly walking in the opposite direction you are heading (toward where they live).

Then you turn the corner from Center Street onto Main Street and see these horses (who have since cut through someone's backyard and completely changed direction) on a dead run heading straight toward the passenger window your mom has rolled down.

You slam on your breaks thinking, maybe if I'm not moving the horses will have a better chance of not hitting me.  You lean to your left and brace yourself for the impact.  You hear the hooves sliding on the pavement trying to turn and not hit your car.  Your mom sees the whites of their eyes.  Strangely you notice a guy you grew up with working in his yard just in front of you with his mouth wide open.  And by some miracle, the horses turn in time.  Literally inches from your car.  And you laugh because you just dodged two giant bullets.  You somehow have the thought to take another picture because no one but your mom and the guy in the front yard are going to believe this.

And they happily trot away down main street.

Asparagus for Trade

Logan has had a run of good luck lately.  Just for some background, many of you have no doubt heard Logan's rant about how much better British/Australian chocolate is and how he can't get it here. Well his luck started when some friends from  the ward (Jim and Sherry) traveled to New Zealand in November to visit family and brought him back some Cherry Ripes.  Then, the family they were visiting moved to the ward a couple weeks ago and brought him two more.  Then tonight a couple from the ward (Shelley and Tim) texted and told us that if we had any asparagus left that they were willing to make a trade for some British Chocolate.  Logan had it picked and up there within a couple of hours.  This is his stash now, along with some expired Tim Tams I bought in Hawaii a couple of years ago.  I guess it pays to have connections with the British siblings in the ward:)

If Libby Can...

My cousin Libby has hiked the strenuous 11 miles to Kolob Arch and ran 3 half marathons on pure will, so I thought why can't I hike up to observation point without any preparation?  The hike is 8 miles round trip with a 2148 elevation gain.  I thought I would do it to try and prepare for my rim to rim hike in the Grand Canyon I have in 7 weeks on June 7-9.  Strangely enough it took me about the same time to up the trail as it did down. 

on May the 12th I'm planning another practice run before the Grand Canyon.  I want to hike UP the West Rim trail.  This is a 14.4 miles hike with an elevation gain of 3140 ft.   The Bright Angel Trail is going to be 9.5 miles with an elevation gain of 4380 ft.  This should be a good warm up to let me know how it will be.  If any one wants to hike the West Rim Trail let me know I could use some company.

Disturbing

Look what I found in the freezer section at Lin's right next to the popsicles meant for human consumption.

Springtime

Thunder Over Utah

A big thanks to Kristy for getting us tickets and roping us into going to the "Thunder Over Utah" air show. We were on the fence about it but were really glad we got to go and hang out. Photography is really about the quantity and touch ups, "I know, right?"

A little help from picasa

I didn't do anything to this one, yeah I'm that good:)
Sydney says I have to say it's me.

Valentine's Day

This is what I got from Logan. So sweet:)

I had been talking about how nice it would be to get a mixed bag of M&Ms. So he bought me all kinds of M&Ms and mixed them. Why should you have to choose? :)

We finally went to the Wave

This is a taste of the Amazing photos we took.

Prints are available for purchase.
Oh yeah I charge now, because I bought a nice camera and that makes me a professional photographer don't cha know.

Inspired by Libby's Freebies Post

First of All I want to congratulate Libby on writing a post that is really interesting and pretty concise.

However, I do have some questions?

The first 5, I get, they would typically be on women’s list of freebies, but Kevin James Libby, Really? He doesn’t even have blue eyes.

Now since most of us don’t know the real person behind the celebrity I was wondering which character they played inspired you admiration.

Was it the Jason Bateman from Juno or from The Switch?

Was it the underage/illegal Zac Efron from the mentioned High School Musical or was it the other underage/illegal Zac Efron from 17 Again?

Was it the Heroic romantic Jake Gyllenhaal from Source Code or was it the ruggedly homosexual Jake Gyllenhaal from Brokeback Mountain?

Was it the Leo DiCaprio from Titanic that everybody loved or the recent old grumpy one from J. Edgar?

Ryan Gosling, you explained him very well thank you.

Lastly was it the Kevin James from King of Queens or was it Paul Blart?


Ps. My mother and sister are very sick with stomach flu so tattling on me right now would be very inconsiderate to the unwell:)

Posted by Logan

The Beard Project of 2011

It took me 30 years.

I've lived here for 30 years and never got around to hiking Angel's Landing in Zion. I've hiked the West rim trail twice now but after hiking 11 miles, was always to tired to venture out on the edge. The switch backs always seemed way to daunting. "It would be like hiking the Navajo loop in Bryce canyon only 10 times worse," I would tell myself. But it was on Sydney's bucket list so we took off with our new camera in tow. Come to find out it really wasn't that bad the trail is paved most of the way and the chain is not that scary, you just need to be patient and take your time. It was cool we got some cool pictures in the end and Sydney was even able to call her mom from up on top and induce a heart attack.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you from us and our new camera:)

Updating the Basement

I'll let the pictures tell the story.

Belated Birthday Post

I turned 24 almost two weeks ago. This one went a little less eventfully than last year when I found my first (and only) grey hair on my birthday.

All I asked for this year was a really good steak. And Logan delivered:) He also got me an awesome pink pouch to hold ammunition when we go skeet shooting. Fun stuff!

I also got lots of other fun stuff, like an immersion blender (been wanting one of those) and a hilarious joke played on my with Christmas stuff (Thanks Shellie). I also got money from the parents and I finally decided on a new kitchen faucet since the old one leaked terribly. So basically I got all I could ask for and more. Here are a few pictures to commemorate the day.