Dear Fellow Bloggers,

Well, I realize I have been slacking on our blogging! Sorry to all those who are even remotely interested in what we have been up to! I'll try harder, I promise! More entries are coming! Stay tuned...

Happy 23rd Rory!!

Rory celebrated his 23rd Birthday on the 14th! It has been tradition that we all go to the Bonzai Japanese Steakhouse for dinner on his B-days. It was so-o yummy!

We also planned a dual B-day party with our friends to celebrate both Rory and Nate's Birthdays! We had all of our friends over, or those who could make it that is... It was such a great day, someone brought up the idea of sitting outside in the backyard. Unfortunately we don't have patio furniture, so we all sat picnic style on a blanket. It was fun to visit and eat the yummy BBQ!
Rory got golf clubs for his present this year! For the past two weeks, we have gone almost every day golfing! I tried a Par 3 at Mick Riley Golf Course and actually did pretty well (or so they told me)!! Now I have become hooked...not very good but we try!!
Happy Birthday Rory!! I love you!

Busy Summer Wrap-up

Rory and I have had such an fun and excited last couple weeks of summer! Too busy to sit down and blog I guess...so here is what we have been up to for the month of August:

Our good friends Issak and Beth got married on 8/8/08. It was a beautiful wedding! For our gift, Rory and I wanted to decorate their hotel room!
It was fun shopping for all the candles, roses, chocolate covered strawberries...etc. I can't believe how great it turned out!!
It looked a lot better in real life of course...

Luckily, Danny, Annie, and Roy offered their help to decorate! We would not have been able to do it all without them!! Danny and Rory were little pyros!! I was praying that we wouldn't set the whole place on fire!!!

The Great Outdoors!

Yes, well Rory and I have become quite the outdoor couple! For the remaining of the holiday weekend, we joined my family camping up near the Timberlakes area on a sweet 300 + acre property, thanks to Travis's family hookups!! It was so-o fun up there! We went fishing, four-wheeling, and just hung out! Hutch LOVED it up there, except when we threw him in the water! It was his first time swimming and he was a natural...went straight for the shore! He didn't trust us much after that... Four wheeling up into the Unitas was absolutely amazing! We thought that kind of seclusion only existed in places like Yellowstone! Overall, we had a great time! Sunday, my little bro Jake had his Court of Honor. Good job Eagle! We are so proud of you!

Happy 24th!

Rory and I have been none stop this summer, including this past holiday weekend! Thursday included hiking to Mt. Timpanogos cave and later enjoying dinner at Texas Roadhouse with Rory's family! Yummy-it was so good! Rory went a little crazy again with the camera, so here are a few of his best shots...

Yah, we are so strong!


I'm on top of the world!!

Courtney and Kelly

Waiting for our tour...

The cave was so amazing! An added feature is that the cave stays a constant 46 degrees! So going from a sweltering 95+ outside to the inside cool temp was quite refreshing! Rory was like a Japanese tourist inside the cave, taking pictures right and left!! I won't post any of the formations pics, but everything was super amazing!

After the long day of hiking, we enjoyed a yummy steak and ribs dinner! It was so good!

Yellowstone!

July 12-15

Last weekend, Rory and I had a great time camping in Yellowstone National Park!! It was so beautiful up there! From bison walking down the road, to river otters hanging out in Trout Lake; we couldn't believe all the wildlife we saw! We even saw a mama Black Bear and her cub from far away from the road! Overall, we had a really fun time! We took so many pictures, I thought I would just share them all! Check out our slideshow!

Camping Mt Timp!

Well, with nothing better to do last weekend, Rory and I headed up American Fork Canyon Friday to beautiful Mt Timpanogos. We hoped to find a campsite but instead, all that was available were these "disperse-camping" areas. I'm not one for roughing it so we should have just left; but we gave it a shot anyway...What a MISTAKE! We had to hike in all of our crap up and down a steap hill, our spot was so slanted, and the mosquitos were so bad!!! Needless to say, we left first thing the next morning (yes, at 6:30 a.m. we were out of there; tent and all)!!

Isaak and Beth went up the next day as planned and FOUND a campsite at Timpanooke campground!! I couldn't believe it! We went up for dinner Saturday night and again Sunday afternoon to hike Sundance! It was a great hike and we had a lot of fun!!

When we arrived to the Waterfall, it started to rain like crazy!! We were soaking wet as we ran from the downpour! It was actually nice for me because, thanks to my mother's jeans, I don't sweat that much (just get red in the face), so the rain acted as a subsitute! Hutch hates any sort of water! He was squinting his eyes and was trying to run for cover! It was really funny...