Congrats!!!

I just wanted to congratulate my good friend from Jackson on her engagement!! Congratulations Annie and Chris, we are so happy for you!!! YAH!

Kind of Like Heaven...

This last Friday, Todd and I had the opportunity to hike to the Peak of Mt. Timpanogos with Todd's sister, Kristi and her husband Maurice. Maurice brought his brother Jerome also. This hike was a total of about 15 miles and it took us about 9 hours total. The peak is at about 11,750 ft in elevation, so it was quite a steep hike. There were beautiful waterfalls along the way and so many different sceneries! We saw quite a few mountain goats also. This is a view of what we were hiking up, you can see the peak in the very far back, it is the 2nd tallest in Utah!! Behind us, you can see what we just climbed up! About half way up, it opened up into this big bowl with a huge field! It was beautiful! The flowers were gorgous! There was quite a few glaciers that we found the closer we got to the top. The dogs LOVED the snow! They ate it, rolled in it, and slid down hills in it, it was hilarious! You can see the peak that we had to get to behind this hill! This was up on the ridge walking over to the peak, or I guess I should say "climbing" to the peak! It was SO incredibly windy at the top...as my shirt shows! We were at the peak in this picture and you can see Emerald Lake where we stopped to eat lunch...it looks so far away! There was a little shack at the top here, everyone signed a book to show that you made it all the way to the top! We were a little excited we made it to the top! However, I have to admit, it was scary up there, especially cause it was so windy! Thrilled by our accomplishment!....6 hours from the bottom!! It was raining once we finally reached the top, but it made a great view! In the little shack at the top... The best part of the whole hike! We got to slide down a glacier from the top. It was close to 1000 ft. that we slid down. It was really steep and really cold! The dogs slid down it too and it was the cutest thing ever! Here it is!! you can see our trail that we made all the way down! This is in front of Emeral Lake My very smart husband and our brother in law decided to jump in the lake even though there was snow all around it!! And we made it down... 3 hours down...a total of 9 hours!!! Thanks for inviting us to hike it guys! We've always wanted to!! It was something we will never forget!
Here is a video of Todd and Mo going into the freezing water!

And a video of sledding down the glacier!

Ward Campout:Lava Hot Springs

So this campout was about a month ago, but I haven't had the time to make this post! Todd and I are the activity directors of our Ward so this was quite the job to put all of it together... however, it turned out awesome!! We did so much in the 2 days and 2 nights we were there. We went to the pools, where my huband did a backflip off the third platform!!! He is so crazy, I don't know how he does it!


The guys after cooking some breakfast...

The Girls after breakfast one morning...

The Fireside Friday night. We also did an American Idol Lipsync. It was hilarious! The Bishopric, their wives, our activities committee, and the Elders Quorums were competing.

The Bishopric Wives! They did "Dancing Queen"

The judges: Randy, Paula, and Simon! They were so funny, they played their parts very well!

Our committee, we did "Love Shack"... it was Hot!

My one and only solo! Check out Todd in his Hot outfit!


Floating the river was quite the experience!

The husbands going over the falls...

The wives waiting patiently for their husband to come out alive!

We all connected together to go down the river! I'm not sure how smart of an idea that was, but it was super fun!!

The boys doing their backflips!

We also got to go hiking, and this was at the top of the mountain. It was a tough one!

We also got to play a good game of glow in the dark frisbee...
Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves, the weather and food were awesome, and it ended up being all in all, very successful!!

Crimson Trail Hike!

So since Todd and I, as well as Kiwi and Kaya, LOVE to hike, we got the chance to try out a new trail up the Logan Canyon. Todd's sister, Kristi, and her husband, are up in Ogden for the month of August. So they invited us to go up hiking with them and some other family and friends. It was a very cool trail, you hiked right along the edge of what they call, "The China Wall". I have to admit, I was playing the "worried mom" the whole time afraid my dogs might slip and fall off the edge!! I know, I know, dogs are probably smarter then humans when it comes to that stuff... as you will see in the pictures of Todd and our brother in law, Mo.



The whole gang... except me, I'm taking the picture!


And here they are, Kristi and I's very SMART and CAUTIOUS husbands...







Our little family... what an awesome view huh?!



7 little heads in the crack in the rock!

Thanks guys! That was a fun fun night!