27 E. WARD YOUTH CONFERENCE 2009

From there I'm going to Youth Conference. Scott and I are both in callings in our ward where we are with the Young Men/Young Women. Scott is the Scout Master for three wards, and I'm the second counselor in the Young Women's presidency. We love our callings.

We ended up going to Youth Conference with them down at Snow College. The kids were able to do a ropes course, water fights, all the standard stuff, and then go to the Manti Pageant at night. Scott and I took some of my girls hiking up Marble Canyon on the way home as well.

TWENTY-FIVE

I am WAY too behind on this blogging business, so I'm going to do a quick recap of the last few weeks... or months. This will probably mean I will be catching up bit by bit for the next few days!

To start off, Scotty turned 25 in June! Happy Birthday to Scotty! We had such a fun birthday! I feel like it was my birthday too... I get way too into holidays! Scotty and I spend the weekend eating delicious food, hiking new trails, reading new books, and taking pictures with our new camera! We even went to the mountains above our house and flew a kite all of Sunday afternoon.





Sunday evening, we went to my parents house for a birthday/father's day shindig. Scott is a perfect fit in our wild family. He's quickly caught on that his jobs are putting ice in the glasses for Sunday dinner and entertaining/pacifying his two hyperactive nephews. He is a great uncle! I made Scott's favorite, carrot cake. It tasted better than it looked! I swear! I know every girl has made that cake before.. the one that has a pool of frosting on the top to fill in the giant hole that was created when the non-stick pans decided to dig a chunk out of the top of the cake...

OH CANADA!

Happy Canada Day! What better way to celebrate than to GO to Canada! Here are some of the things we're looking forward to on our quick trip... Calgary, Banff, the Calgary Stampede!

BYE BYE BEARDO!

After our Grand Canyon adventure, Scott had achieved a level of scruffy that was edging closer and closer to a serious fuzzy beard. We felt it would have been a shame to rid our lives of all that hard work and persistent beard growing. We enjoyed it for a while, but I think Scott was getting a little ancy to shave. He started getting food caught in his beard. He started combing it at night. We found critters hiding in it on occasion. It was time to shave. Scott, the weirdo that he is, did what all guys do post-BYU when they can finally have a beard and realize all they want to do is get rid of it, he shaved it in sequence. He went from an Abe Lincoln to a Mad Dog (these are his terms). At one point I went into the bathroom and he was playing an air guitar and wearing his non-prescription glasses. I guess his beard trim was an "artistic" one, with a little bit of goatee (is that how I write it?)/ side burn action. Anyways... what fun facial hair can be!

This one is a real beauty....

GRAND CANYON PICTURES

I'm getting sort of caught up! K... I have just posted a bunch of pictures from our Grand Canyon trip! It took quite a while... so explanations of the pictures and a little travel log of our trip are forthcoming (I've run out of blogging energy)!!!! This first one is a cup of chocolate milk. It's the same color as our river!

We turned ourselves into a human water slide in the Little Colorado. This water was so blue! It was like a tropical paradise!

Happy Thursday Lindsey!

As my first and only post so far, I thought it would be appropriate to communicate through my favorite medium, video. Lindsey has no clue why I had a camera with us for our lunchtime break today, so this is all a surprise for her. I know, it's a little corny, but it was made in about an hour. I will redeem myself through future posts, I promise! And don't worry, it was not shot on work time, I really do work when I telecommute!