...a few more things

Hiking

Fun at the army surplus store.

Hiking up to "the living room" We are sitting on sandstone furniture which overlooks the Salt Lake Valley

Blazing a trail.

A free outdoor concert with the Utah Symphony.

Mesa Falls 4th of July weekend.

Cleaning the fish.

That's right...we caught 25 fish in the matter of a hours!

I had a real knack for catching "sucker fish". I caught 4 in a row. "Uncle" Jim said he hadn't caught that many in all of his time fishing this lake.

The first of 2 trout. I was a light weight when it came to catching the good fish. Emily caught 9 trout!! (please excuse the hickish way in which I am wearing my hat. I had some last minute help adjusting it right before the camera flashed)

Tales of a neglectful blogger

Of course these are coming in reverse order because I always forget to start in the right order, and I am just too lazy to fix it today.

The other night I had a night of no commitments, these usually turn out to be a ton of fun. I grabbed some ice cream with a friend after work then I headed home. Cambree and I decided to go out for dinner, but in our excitement to leave the house we left her dog inside with a very full garbage bag on the floor. She sure did have her hay day!



We were glad we decided to go out because we were able to enjoy these beautiful rainbows.

A couple of weeks ago we decided to go hiking on a lesser known trail, because of all the rain, the underbrush was drenched and as a result we were by the time we reached the top.

This peacock lives at the Tracey Aviary, one of my favorite places in Salt Lake. I went there on a field trip at work.

One morning I got out of the shower and thought there was a beautiful dragonfly on my bedroom floor. However, when I got closer I realized it was just two barrettes and a bobby pin I had thrown on the floor the night before.

Then there was the air show. If you read carefully you will realize we were taking a serious risk in attending.

This was on the train up to the air show. For you loyal followers you will remember that in the infancy of my blogging days I rode the train for the first time and loved it. It is still an enjoyable endeavor.

This is from another hike. Credit goes to my friend Becca who studies photography in college.

For those of you who have not participated in a murder mystery dinner, you should! A ton of fun. This one was set in the 1930's. I am not sure you can tell by the picture, but my friend Manelle did an actual finger wave hair style. It was fabulous!

The Continuing Adventure of EDC

These are just a few of the pictures from my trip to Yellowstone Memorial Day Weekend. We went up for my friend Chris' birthday celebration.
Left to right Heidi, Evan, Erica, Kandis.

This picture is so funny to me b/c right before we took I could tell Evan had his tongue sticking out, so I reached up and tapped his tongue with my hand. This picture captured the moment when he turned to me and asked if I had really just hit his tongue.

Erica, Heidi, Kandis

One of four bears spotted over the weekend.

Evan communing with nature.

The whole crew- Evan, Erica, Kandis, Ashley, Brant, Chris, Alan, Heidi.

There were ton of bison to be seen. The one picture I regret not taking was of 14 bison marching down the road with a tour bus stuck behind them. There were also lots of Elk out and about, but I don't have any pictures of them.

Erica and Kandis.

A wolf print from the many we saw on our hike.

I don't know what it is but I love to climb into small holes when the opportunity arises.

This was super cool! We were just driving along with no significant snow spots and then we came across this. I was out walking on it with out a jacket and sandals on my feet.

Relaxing outside the tourist trap while my friends were sucked in.

Brant, Erica, Evan.

A Camping We Will Go!!!

So you may be wondering what adventures I have been up to of late. Here is a picture guide.

2 weekends ago I went to a friends cabin down near Bryce National forest.

This was a picture taken to show my coordination with the color scheme.

The cabin crew minus 2.

The girls.

My good friend April and I.

This weekend I headed out to the west desert to celebrate Cambree's 4th annual 21st birthday. There ended up being a lot of boys there and not so many girls. Luckily our friends Camille and Kandis joined up last minute so Cambree and I didn't have to handle all those boys on our own.

Although I am perfectly capable of building a fire, it wasn't worth the effort when there were already 8 boys getting the job done.

This is Jake taking a picture of me taking a picture of him on Saturday morning. Darian is still looking a little sleepy-eyed in the background.

A big beetle I came across. Maybe an inch to an inch and a half long.


We went out to shoot some guns but chose to take pictures of nature instead. The last time I went shooting I ended up with a huge bruise from the kick-back.

This is lone peak. It was directly across from where we went to go shoot some guns.

I took this picture of through binoculars.

After shooting we headed out to find the Dugway Geode Beds. We accidentally took the scenic route out there (a.k.a. off roading) which ended up being a ton of fun!

We found a watering trough. Exciting!

Cambree buckling up for safety.

We finally arrived and were excited to be there.

They recommend digging 1-4 feet down to find good geodes, so I took a couple swings with the pickax.


The roads made everything incredibly dusty, even Jake.

The inside of one of the geodes I decided to keep.

My two geodes. The little one is cool because it is inverse.