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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Catchin' up
Well it's been a crazy kinda month. Feels like I should write a book, 1 Reception and 2 funerals. We had our fun celebration of our wedding in early August followed by two deaths in the family (one on each side). So welcomes and goodbyes are what our existence is composed of... the world goes on either way. Thank goodness!
I wanted to post a few pictures from the day of the reception. These are of the boys (Richie and Jay) taking the bobsled run down : >. I've done it already once in the summertime and would like to do it one more time... but in the winter... on real ice : o!
The driver is someone trained to drive the bobsleds. They don't let amateurs drive those badboys!
OK, so eBlogger isn't letting me publish, again, for some reason. I'll try to add more later... DOH
I wanted to post a few pictures from the day of the reception. These are of the boys (Richie and Jay) taking the bobsled run down : >. I've done it already once in the summertime and would like to do it one more time... but in the winter... on real ice : o!
The driver is someone trained to drive the bobsleds. They don't let amateurs drive those badboys!
OK, so eBlogger isn't letting me publish, again, for some reason. I'll try to add more later... DOH
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Jumpin' July!
We are SOOOOO busy, that it's really tough to keep up with all the activites and post, but here's the latest update.
I headed down to Sedona, Arizona around the 19th of June for another 9 day retreat. You'll see a few pictures from there, shortly.
The drive down was really neat. I drove to Kanab the first day, enjoying the sights. The next day I finished the drive to Sedona. I stopped off in Page, AZ to take a little hike and some photos.
This is looking up at the Glen Canyon dam with Lake Powell in the background.
Here is the Colorado River below the dam. It's so nice to see the lovely green sage and other wildflowers blooming!
In Sedona, I had another fabulous week of learning, laughing and releasing. In between the retreat and the coaches training, a group of us went hiking up one of the canyons...
This is just one of the many spectacular views while on our hike. It was a good 15 degrees cooler than in Sedona proper which was quite lovely.
Here are two of my favorite Sedona buddies, Suzanne and Toine.
Any yours truely...
It was a lovely place to sit, enjoy the scenery and the quiet.
Jay joined me the last day and then we headed to Colorado for the 4th of July. We spent the day with my parents and in the evening we drove up to Palmer Lake to see their fireworks display. I was very impressed! I wasn't expecting much from little Palmer Lake (at least it was little when I remembered it!), but they put on quite a show. Their post fireworks traffic control left a little to be desired, but I would still go see it again (but probably park somewhere else).
On the 5th we did a little mountain bike ride in the morning, then decided to go up to the top of Pikes Peak. I remember driving up it with my parents as a kid, so I opted to drive it instead of taking the Cog Railway. I forget how stunning a view it is.
Here is the world from the top of Pikes Peak
And here we are, still enjoying our newleywed status, and the view, of course. It was about 54 degrees up on top and almost 90 back at the old homestead.
On Sunday we drove back to Salt Lake, taking I-70 to just past Greenriver and then up toward 89 and back home. The trip was about 9.5 hours, so very doable! It makes me verrrrry happy that I can drive down to see my folks relatively easily. The gas is gettin' a little pricey, but it still beats the airfare.
A few days later I celebrated my 52nd birthday. We went up to Pam's to have cake and play with the girls. It was a load of fun.
I always get a kick at how much fun the little girls have with Jay. He is the perfect grandpa! He plays so sweet with them. They are playing a kinda of peek a boo game which changes depending on what characters the girls want to be.
Andi has become the scary monster, so Jay is now 'hiding' behind the pillow. : >
It was a terrific birthday celebration, topped off with a call to the birthday boy, Edamame!
This week has been busy with play, business, riding and adventure. Today I went for a test ride in Park City. It was a two hour ride to check out trails that Jay and I can ride perhaps next week. I got lost (not a problem, I had plenty of water and an extra food bar), then found, then lost again. Ultimately finding my way back, and hopefully a route that will become a new favorite. Tonight I'm going to take a little bit of a nap, then we're going to go see the midnight showing of the new Batman movie! I just love hanging out with Jay, he is SOOOO much fun : >. He loves doing this kinda crazy stuff, and I'm kinda groovin' on it too!
I headed down to Sedona, Arizona around the 19th of June for another 9 day retreat. You'll see a few pictures from there, shortly.
The drive down was really neat. I drove to Kanab the first day, enjoying the sights. The next day I finished the drive to Sedona. I stopped off in Page, AZ to take a little hike and some photos.
This is looking up at the Glen Canyon dam with Lake Powell in the background.
Here is the Colorado River below the dam. It's so nice to see the lovely green sage and other wildflowers blooming!
In Sedona, I had another fabulous week of learning, laughing and releasing. In between the retreat and the coaches training, a group of us went hiking up one of the canyons...
This is just one of the many spectacular views while on our hike. It was a good 15 degrees cooler than in Sedona proper which was quite lovely.
Here are two of my favorite Sedona buddies, Suzanne and Toine.
Any yours truely...
It was a lovely place to sit, enjoy the scenery and the quiet.
Jay joined me the last day and then we headed to Colorado for the 4th of July. We spent the day with my parents and in the evening we drove up to Palmer Lake to see their fireworks display. I was very impressed! I wasn't expecting much from little Palmer Lake (at least it was little when I remembered it!), but they put on quite a show. Their post fireworks traffic control left a little to be desired, but I would still go see it again (but probably park somewhere else).
On the 5th we did a little mountain bike ride in the morning, then decided to go up to the top of Pikes Peak. I remember driving up it with my parents as a kid, so I opted to drive it instead of taking the Cog Railway. I forget how stunning a view it is.
Here is the world from the top of Pikes Peak
And here we are, still enjoying our newleywed status, and the view, of course. It was about 54 degrees up on top and almost 90 back at the old homestead.
On Sunday we drove back to Salt Lake, taking I-70 to just past Greenriver and then up toward 89 and back home. The trip was about 9.5 hours, so very doable! It makes me verrrrry happy that I can drive down to see my folks relatively easily. The gas is gettin' a little pricey, but it still beats the airfare.
A few days later I celebrated my 52nd birthday. We went up to Pam's to have cake and play with the girls. It was a load of fun.
I always get a kick at how much fun the little girls have with Jay. He is the perfect grandpa! He plays so sweet with them. They are playing a kinda of peek a boo game which changes depending on what characters the girls want to be.
Andi has become the scary monster, so Jay is now 'hiding' behind the pillow. : >
It was a terrific birthday celebration, topped off with a call to the birthday boy, Edamame!
This week has been busy with play, business, riding and adventure. Today I went for a test ride in Park City. It was a two hour ride to check out trails that Jay and I can ride perhaps next week. I got lost (not a problem, I had plenty of water and an extra food bar), then found, then lost again. Ultimately finding my way back, and hopefully a route that will become a new favorite. Tonight I'm going to take a little bit of a nap, then we're going to go see the midnight showing of the new Batman movie! I just love hanging out with Jay, he is SOOOO much fun : >. He loves doing this kinda crazy stuff, and I'm kinda groovin' on it too!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Fun with B!
We had a visitor last week and I wanted to get some pictures up from our adventures. We went down to Moab to do a river rafting trip on the 'Westwater Canyon' of the Colorado river. It was fun and the potential for getting really wet was good, so we didn't take a camera. But the next day we did a little hiking in Arches National Park so here are some pics...
Window Arch from the back side after hiking around
Me 'n Miz B in front of 'The Three Gosspis'
Jay standing in front of the window arch. It's a little dark due to the sun in the background.
This is a picture of the water going down Little Cottonwood creek. The snow melt actually got a little greater a few days after I took this picture. Bini and I went hiking up the canyon after we got back from Moab. It's always so beautiful up there, and we often see the mountain goats. What a wonderful resource to have just 15 minutes away!
After Miz B left, I headed up to Pammy's to play. We had a little picnic outside while Albert worked on the kitchen window. Notice the mommy's 'see food' shot : >.
So a very fun week! It's always nice to have company and grandkids to play with!!!
Window Arch from the back side after hiking around
Me 'n Miz B in front of 'The Three Gosspis'
Jay standing in front of the window arch. It's a little dark due to the sun in the background.
This is a picture of the water going down Little Cottonwood creek. The snow melt actually got a little greater a few days after I took this picture. Bini and I went hiking up the canyon after we got back from Moab. It's always so beautiful up there, and we often see the mountain goats. What a wonderful resource to have just 15 minutes away!
After Miz B left, I headed up to Pammy's to play. We had a little picnic outside while Albert worked on the kitchen window. Notice the mommy's 'see food' shot : >.
So a very fun week! It's always nice to have company and grandkids to play with!!!
Monday, May 26, 2008
More Fiji Pics and My DH!
I'm going to start with a lovely picture of flowers my Dear Husband brought home to me on Friday afternoon : >
Dori's from Fiji. This picture is for Tenna, Clark and Andi...
And a few more pictures from the wedding. Me and Jimmy (notice Jay in the background : > )
Jimmy and Jay had a good laugh...
Paolo doubled as a dancer after serving as a dive master during the day! Very talented indeed. It was really fun to watch him dance with the others after a week of diving.
Dori's from Fiji. This picture is for Tenna, Clark and Andi...
And a few more pictures from the wedding. Me and Jimmy (notice Jay in the background : > )
Jimmy and Jay had a good laugh...
Paolo doubled as a dancer after serving as a dive master during the day! Very talented indeed. It was really fun to watch him dance with the others after a week of diving.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
WEDDING PIC's (at last!)
We went to our 'dive trip' reunion and finally got some pictures of the wedding from the other folks on the trip with us : >. They didn't know that I had accidentally deleted 'all' the photos from my camera. So now, thanks to Rob and Rachelle (our witnesses), John and Holly, Dave and Leann, Jerry, Terry, Colette, Jacquie, Heather and last but not least Michael from the Scuba Utah trip we have our photos. The staff at the Garden Island Resort (Ngaire and Dennis Irwin managers) were absolutely WONDERFUL the entire week and we especially want to thank them for making our wedding such a terrific event for us!!! Thanks to everyone! The dive crew were TOP NOTCH and we saw many amazing and beautiful things under water all week long. The housekeeping staff did a fabulous job of running the place! Food was great, and the rooms always neat and clean. The things done for the wedding were beyond words~!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you all!!!! Enjoy...
First a little of the underwater scenery, thank to the terrific photography works of several of the Dive Masters on our adventure
Yours truly floatin' underwater
This picture is a little too small to see all the lovely little christmas tree nudibranchs in their variety of color resting on the coral. As you can tell by the few pictures here, the colors were spectacular!
And now for the wedding. This is our wedding mat and arch prepared for us by the local Fijian people on Taveuni. We got to keep the wedding mat and still have the mat and will display it at home!
The vows with the Minister, Esala Nasaroa. He is such a wonderful man, and this bride was moved by his sweet nature in delivering the wedding vows. It was very obvious that he enjoyed doing weddings, and loved what it represented...
Jimmy (one of the dive masters) Minister Nasaroa and yours truly after the big event.
Ngaire and Dennis who organized the event (I'm sure like most weddings, I know who does the MAJOR work!). It was lovely and hopefully I'll get a copy of the wedding cake picture. Ngaire made a traditional fruit cake from their native New Zealand. It was delish! I usually am not fond of fruit cake, but this was extraordinare!
The entire crew from Scuba Utah at the wedding : >
The Dancing and Celebration!!!
Jay pays homage (just kidding). We do thank everyone for a wonderful wedding!
I plan to put a few more photos up in a different post of more of the diving and the WONDERFUL crew there.
First a little of the underwater scenery, thank to the terrific photography works of several of the Dive Masters on our adventure
Yours truly floatin' underwater
This picture is a little too small to see all the lovely little christmas tree nudibranchs in their variety of color resting on the coral. As you can tell by the few pictures here, the colors were spectacular!
And now for the wedding. This is our wedding mat and arch prepared for us by the local Fijian people on Taveuni. We got to keep the wedding mat and still have the mat and will display it at home!
The vows with the Minister, Esala Nasaroa. He is such a wonderful man, and this bride was moved by his sweet nature in delivering the wedding vows. It was very obvious that he enjoyed doing weddings, and loved what it represented...
Jimmy (one of the dive masters) Minister Nasaroa and yours truly after the big event.
Ngaire and Dennis who organized the event (I'm sure like most weddings, I know who does the MAJOR work!). It was lovely and hopefully I'll get a copy of the wedding cake picture. Ngaire made a traditional fruit cake from their native New Zealand. It was delish! I usually am not fond of fruit cake, but this was extraordinare!
The entire crew from Scuba Utah at the wedding : >
The Dancing and Celebration!!!
Jay pays homage (just kidding). We do thank everyone for a wonderful wedding!
I plan to put a few more photos up in a different post of more of the diving and the WONDERFUL crew there.
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