Hiking Tablerock Mountain

Last Wednesday, my coworker convinced David and I to hike Tablerock mountain. David and I have never been on a hike together before so we decided to do it. It sounded like a lot of fun. Little did we know...

We got met up with my coworker and his wife in the Teton Canyon and started up the trail. This is what we saw at the beginning of the trail:


And it was.

The hike:
4,000 ft (elevation change)
8 miles round trip
6 hours

The first few miles were straight up the hill. It was hard but we made good time. There were some beautiful views at the top. This was one halfway up the mountain when we made it to a little meadow. It was beautiful.


Here's a view from the top. Gorgeous, huh?


Here we all are at the top. You can see Grand Teton in the back. We were at 11,000 ft elevation. It was a bit scary.


It ended up being a fun hike and we're glad we went—even though I'm barely starting to feel my legs again. And we're already planning our next hike!

4th of July

I know this is way late but our 4th of July weekend was so fun that I just had to post about it. We went camping with David's family and invited our friends, Kylee and Aaron, to come along. It was a lot of fun. We went fishing.


David caught a lot of fish—not as much as his mom, she caught so many—but he caught quite a few.


Here's me with my fish. Isn't he so cute?


I took the following picture. David thought it was really cool. If only that sign wasn't in the way it could be a great fishing picture.


We took a lot of night pictures and this was one of the coolest ones we did. It's of Aaron punching himself. Cool huh? Cameras are totally cool!


We also went to the shooting range and shot rifles. I'm horrible at it but David was really good.




I'm still not sure why I couldn't hit the clay-pigeons. Maybe it would help if I opened my eyes...


The coolest part was when David and I took a walk one morning and on our way back to the camp we saw 3 moose (or moosen). It was soooooo cool! The only problems were that they were right on our path so we couldn't get back to our camp and we didn't have our camera. So we watched and waited for them to walk on before we booked it back to camp, grabbed our camera, and ran back to see if the moose were still there. Luckily, two of the three were still there and we got some cool shots. Here's proof:


And that was our weekend. It was great to spend time with friends and family and to just enjoy the beautiful nature. It was a lot of fun.

Blooper Reel

David has been working on a video for his senior class project. It's based on a true story about his grandma. It's really cute. We had some amazing actors come help us out and the video is turning out really good. But, one thing we all know, every good movie has to have a good blooper reel. David put together two blooper reels for his class that I thought I'd show you all. They're pretty funny.

*You should pay attention to the people in the second video... you might just know a few of them :-)

Thanks Mom and Dad for all your help!! We love you guys!

My week in the classroom

The winter semester finished off and I had a week break. So I finally had time to do my week of teaching for Seminary Teaching. From 10:50 to 11:55 I was at Rexburg Jr. Seminary teaching for Bro. Brown's class. In a movie called 500 Days of Summer there is a scene where it simultaneously shows someone's expectations and what really happens and how they don't match up. That is how I felt my first day in the classroom. One problem was that there was no computer so there went the PowerPoint presentation that I had prepared with all the quotes that I was going to use and from there things didn't go the way that I wanted them too. The next day was about the same but I was getting evaluated. I had planned an object lesson but didn't have time to get everything ready so it didn't work out. It wasn't my best lesson ever and I just wasn't having any fun. The message of the week is that when you teach a lesson you need to take your own agenda out of it and use the materials given to you. Before I was trying to use things that I thought up but I decided to change the way that I prepared. I used the manual more and the scriptures more and focused on the message and take myself out of it. The rest of the week went really well. I got evaluated on Friday again and the teacher said that my lesson was night and day. The students seemed sad to see me go and I was sad that I couldn't keep teaching. I will find out within the next few weeks whether I will be hired on as a student teacher. If I am then that's awesome and if not I enjoy video work and will focus on that. I have experienced the good and bad of teaching and so I am fine either way.

Giveaway

So my friend started up a website and is giving away a cool baby carrier. I know some of you have adorable babies that would look so cute in it or are planning on having one sometime in the future. So if you're interested, feel free to hop on over to aroundmybabyblog and leave a comment for a chance to win a free baby carrier for your little bundle of joy! There are not very many comments right now so your chances of winning are pretty good.

P.S. I don't want you all to think I'm pregnant or anything by posting about this, just supporting a friend.

More fun

As most of you all know, I have the best husband in the world! He is so kind and always makes me laugh. He's a hard worker and is always spoiling me. So I shouldn't have been surprised on Valentines' Day to come home to this:


We had both been really sick with the cold and I didn't think David would be up for anything this year. I was a little sad but knew I wouldn't love him any less. But he picked me up from work and took me out to dinner. Then I came home to this. I love symphony bars and the roses were beautiful. The bread is Great Harvest bread that has a pink heart shape on the top. It was way cute. I love my husband so much!

My nephew, Zach, performed in his high school play "Oklahoma." He was Will—one of the lead boy parts. He did such an amazing job and has a beautiful voice. It was fun to see him dancing around on the stage. Great job Zach!!


He even got his first kiss (not really since it's just a stage kiss). When my nephew, Tanner, saw Zach kiss the girl, he leaned over and told his mom, "Smoochy, smoochy, Zach's in love!"

Way overdue

I've been meaning to post about what we've been up to the past few months but just haven't had the time. (More like I just didn't feel like it) I'm usually gone 11 hours every day during weekdays and our weekends have been packed full of family activities or just enjoying some free time together. David is getting closer to finals and he has been gone a lot for group projects work. I miss him but I'm glad he loves what he's doing.

I'm really enjoying my job. I work with some fun people who always make life entertaining—even when we're in the middle of press week. I just found out that the Melaleuca magazine has a circulation of 275,000!! That's incredible. That's how many people read my work. Pretty cool, huh? :-)

So, the past few months we...

Decorated our new apartment. (Here are the pictures I promised you, Kimberly)

Our Kitchen—part of it at least. Laurie was nice enough to give us her dining set and we love it. It's perfect for our cozy little apartment. Thanks Laurie!


Bathroom. We have a huge vanity that I absolutely love. And we also have our own washer/dryer room. It's so nice not having to go to a laundromat or waiting till we visit our parents.

Our front room. David loves our recliner. It's way comfortable and just what every man needs.

We love our retro couch from my grandma. It's awesome and totally works in our apartment.

This, by far, is our favorite room. Our media room. Yes, that is a 27" imac—David's present for getting a full-tuition scholarship this semester. It's bigger than our tv so we just put our tv in the closet and use this. It's awesome. And, as we all know, every true media room has to have a love sac. We spend most of our time in this room watching movies, working on projects, or just hanging out. We love our new apartment. And, for those of you who saw our last apartment, it's definitely an upgrade from our last one. :-)