Catchin' up on the blog

Boating, Hiking, Mountain Biking - same ol' same ol'

We aren't very original, we keep doing the same stuff week after week, but we're having fun! (makes for a boring blog, however! oh well!)

Oh yeah - last weekend we did go to a movie- Dark Knight. TOTALLY disturbing! Pretty good though, if only I could get the mental picture of that freaky joker out of my head. Yikes!

And seems like forever ago (but I just uploaded the pics) but we went to the zoo.



And we had an awesome time at my good friends' street party last night! He plays in a band and they block off an entire street and the band plays all evening and its super fun. Tons of kiddos with glow sticks dancin' in the street. I wish I would have taken pics - tons of cute moments. I love getting together with great, old friends. Except it always gives me "big family envy" because they always have lots of kids that are totally growing up fast and I still feel like nothing's really changed for me in the last 10 years! :) (Oh ya, I guess I have one kid of my own - why does my 1 seem less significant than their 6???) And, BTW, I can't believe my friends have kids going through puberty, but it's true. Yikes! It really freaks me out to think that in a blink of an eye its going to be Wyatt! Heaven help us all.

TWIN LAKES HIKE





ROCKPORT

We actually went to a different lake (other than East Canyon) a few weeks ago. Totally rained on us. You know you are a die-hard when you are wakeboarding in the rain! :) And especially Mark b/c he was hit by a truck just 5 days before this day... He was hit by a truck at 40mph while riding his bike downtown. Luckily he walked away from it - thank goodness!



We've ridden WASATCH CREST and DOG LAKE via MILL D the last two date nights/days. Since I've never ridden Dog Lake from the Big Cottonwood side before, short trail recap (for future reference): Good ride, worked my wind (to say the least), steepest at the top and the bottom, pretty meadow in between.

Can't think of anything else of interest lately... except that I've turned into a couch potato watching the Olympics every night. And BTW it's really getting in the way of my sleep!

Oh yeah, I turned 34, bleh.

Fathers Day 2008

Thank goodness for daddies! We sure love ours.

MOSS LEDGE HIKE

Steve got to choose all activities on Fathers Day. He wanted to hike to Moss Ledge Sunday morning.






There is ALWAYS a lizard involved these days...



Wyatt made Daddy a TIE (which was worn to church... all primary kids daddies had one :))


PICNIC - Millcreek Canyon



We celebrated with my Dad on Monday. We went to Murray Park for a picnic and then the guys raced go karts.

GO-KART RACE

Belay on/Party on

We did this too on Wyatt's actual Birthday day...










And this on Wyatt's Birthday Evening...

Daily Monotony of the Last Week

Steve & I got to be substitute coaches for Wyatt's soccer team the last two weeks b/c Jackie has been livin it up in So Utah two weekends in a row. We really had fun. I loved to watch Steve as coach to the 4/5 year olds. He did a great job. He is so patient and so good at teaching them all the important soccer skills such as where to stand as to not give the other team a chance. :) I can see more coaching of Wyatt's teams in our future...

Plus, the past two Saturdays 30 mins. soccer games have constituted our "quality time" together for the entire last two weeks. Steve has been super busy w/real estate work plus our rentals have been a nightmare as of late and has been working sometimes through the night til like 3AM. Poor sleepy guy. After we had to evict a guy for not paying his rent, he caused a bunch of damage in his apartment in our triplex including stealing the copper drain lines! I couldn't believe it. A person has to be pretty hard up to literally cut the drain lines out of our place just for the scrap value of the copper. We also have a home in Rose Park that we rent out that our tenant just moved and left the usual messes so I spent a few days this week trying to get the yard back into decent condition and cleaning inside. Here is a picture of the home we lovingly call "Goldie".

After feeling cooped up from cleaning Goldie I had to get outdoors again so Mark & I took Wyatt on a little hike to Ensign Peak. (Lame hike, but low enough that there's no snow...) We had fun hiking around the foothills behind the trail, too. We ended up having to bushwhack our way back down to our car. I love that Wyatt likes to hike. I just can't stand to be indoors for long and hiking is a good activity for us mostly b/c its an activity outside that I can do w/a 4 year old. (If only I could get him mountain biking so we could ride The Crest or Pipeline. Someday...)

And yesterday we had a rainy good time at the Zoo for our ward playgroup and then Tracy Aviary for a preschool fieldtrip. We still had fun even though we got rained on all day. Wyatt is his happiest when he's with his friends.