3rd anniversary

We had such a fun anniversary, I wanted to do a little journal post to remember it.
We went to the SL Temple that morning to do sealings and then went to the Lion House Pantry for lunch.  I don't remember what we had but do remember it was gooooood. . 
I did a photo shoot up Big Cottonwood Canyon that evening so we stayed up there after and ate dinner and had a fire. 
This cave was right above our site, it was huge inside and totally freaky!  Joel went in, I did not. 

Joel started the fire while I took pics of rocks.

 We wanted to make things super low stress so we ran to the store at the mouth of the canyon and bought a bunch of easy stuff.  We cooked biscuits on roasting sticks, baked apples, roasted hot dogs, ate fizz candy,

 and popped our first jiffy pop!  yum. 

Joel, you are my favorite.  I love you.

baby camera gets her glory day in the hot sun

We take our little point and shoot with us when we don't want to carry my camera around. I was going through the photos we've collected a while back and found that we have taken a lot of random pics.  You wanna see some???!!! :)  Joel thinks not, but I think YES!

First up.....this amazing photo of us.  This has caused many a laughing fits at our house over the past few months.  Ladies, this is what a wacky wide angle point and shoot lens will do for your ego.  I look like Elf when he sits on Poppa Elf's lap.  I. am. ginormous.
Please see exibit A:

  to prove I haven't grown 2 ft and my head isn't the size of a watermelon...........exibit B:

 We went to the Festival of Trees with Katie and Eric back in November and found this beautiful crocheted toy in the gift shop.....what's that?  You don't know what this is???

 Why it's a Crocheted UFO Spaceship of course!  Complete with bonnet wearing six eyed aliens.......  "I wont that"

 We saw Santa in his summer home.

 and many beautiful wreaths.................... so this photo isn't that random, but I am still feeling ginormous and need validation.  My outfit rocks, right? ;)

 Guess what else is ginormous?  This sweet potato (or yam...whatever).  Joel appreciates my awkward hand angle. 

I think he will also appreciate me posting this photo of him.  hehe.  HOT

Still Winter!!

It's about that time of the season where I have to stop and calmly convince myself that it is still winter and it is still going to snow multiple times.  And it will still be cold enough that the snow will stick and stay around for a while so I can play in it.

Yes, call me childish, weird, or down right crazy, but I cannot get enough of that beautiful white stuff!!  And yes, when it snows, I still get my snow clothes on and go out and play in it (just ask Kalli!).  Who knows, when we have kids, I just might be more excited about playing in the snow than they will be.

You might say I'm almost 30 and shouldn't be "playing" in the snow anymore.  But you might just be jealous that I still like to play :)  So let's all enjoy these SNOWY pictures together as we think about how much we LOVE winter and how it is still going to be around for a long, long, time!!!  (Julie, maybe you shouldn't look)

If you didn't stay up late like we did, as these last few pictures show, then you might have missed the "Blizzard 2010".  It came and went so fast, no one really noticed it.  But for those of us who braved the storm in the middle of the night it was awesome!!

Someone's having fun!

"Christmas past is past"

Just a few memories from Christmas.  It goes so fast I barely remember having it!  But January is here and another year begins.  Now if only I can get over the flu!

It is day 5 of achy muscles, a fever, sore throat, runny nose, terrible sleep.  I now know why people want to get a flu shot - they've probably had the flu in the past couple years and remember how bad it is.  I hadn't had it since I was little and I'm thankful that I went as long as I did without it.

This is two straight New Year's Eve celebrations down the drain.  Last year we were at the Heaps' cabin and I got the stomach flu!  Not that we celebrate the holiday that much anyway, but HERE'S TO A BETTER NEW YEAR next year!! 

 

Larson Cabin 7/10

Just found these in our files and realized I never posted them!  We had such an awesome trip to the Larson cabin this year.  It was so gorgeous up there and it was the most relaxing trip we've had in a lonnng time.

Joel played Frisbee golf with Stu and Brianna and their kids and me and my mom hiked along with them for fun. 

See if you can spot Joel in the above left pic.

I was having fun checking out all the flora.  This is a wild pea!  How cute is that!  There were tons of gorgeous wild flowers.

It was so fun being able to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa and have them all to ourselves for a couple days!  Grandma even taught me some new crochet stiches.

We had fun fishing and enjoying the beautiful views

Joel's catch

Grandpa and I at the Ferrin Reservoir circa 1989

Grandpa and I at the Ferrin Resevoir 2010

Joel's Yearly Tradition

I have made it an official tradition to drive up the canyon alone early in the season and play in the snow/take winter pictures. I'm kind of thinking about making it a semi-annual tradition because it's so awesome!

Last year I went up about a month earlier and hiked up Brighton ski resort to get some good pictures. I thought it couldn't get any better because it was kind of snowing and foggy. But this year I think I did better. It was the perfect amount of snow (about a foot) and it was lightly snowing the whole time. I love how silent it is in the snow, especially up the canyon. I went on a walk on a pathway and didn't see anyone the whole time. I just enjoyed the pristine nature of Utah in the winter!

I'm sure this seems a little weird for some of you, but I seriously LOVE the snow! It's one of my favorite things ever. So anyway, here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip. I hope you enjoy them as much as me (I'm sure you won't!)

This one looked like Narnia to me, so I made it Narnia!

new{/old} music thursday, because I don't want to wait till monday

#1 pumps me up. gets my nose to the grindstone. photoshop theme song. it will be worth it.
#2 cause every girl needs some blues. good for getin' your swagger on. thanks sarah b :).
#3 sparkly. love and planets.
#4 dreamy. the good kind of sad song.