Jazz vs. Pacers

Alyson got some great tickets to the Jazz game a few weeks ago. We got a sponsored dinner followed by desserts from Schmidt's bakery. Then we got to walk to our seats through the portal the players come through. We walked in with Frank Layden (he commented that we should be in beauty pageants, etc. Thanks FRANK!)
We were sitting by Daron Williams wife and baby (you should have seen the bling on her watch!) and spent a lot of the game watching the players on the injured bench just below us (especially Kyle Korver!!!)

It was an especially good games because it was close but the Jazz pulled out the victory.

After the game we went up to Hires for hot chocolate with our friends Amy and Ashley from Florida. It worked out perfectly that they were in town for a family reunion and had to kill a few hours waiting for their Mom's flight. It was a great night of basketball and chatting with friends we don't get to see too often.

We did get to plan a trip to Chicago for the summer so if you'd like to join us in July let me know!!

So You Think You Can Dance

We are big fans of the TV show So You Think You Can Dance and have been to the tour two years now. It was back in November but I'm just not getting around to posting about it. Life, huh!
Anyway, we had a great time going to dinner and then watching some of our favorite dances. It's always better in person, and this year did not disappoint. Here I am with Kelly in a grainy view from our seats. Sorry about the lighting in this pic, hard to get the flash with the bright lights in the background.

Lyndsi and Kelly

Me and Carlee

Kirsten and Al

The whole crew...
Watching these dancers and hearing the music blaring seriously makes you want to get up and dance.

We are loving some of the dancers from Season 6 and can't wait for another tour! If you don't watch it, you should start. Seriously some amazing dancers and choreographers.

Halloween '09

We had a fun Halloween weekend. On Friday night we went to a party at a friends house. On the way there I was having a hard time finding the turn for the house so I was driving really slow down the median and u-turned about 3 times before I was finally pulled over for drunk driving! So 2 officers come up on both sides of the car and shine their lights in at a fallen angel, a pirate, and a cat. Yeah it was embarrassing! He let us go after some explanation of where the turn was without even a warning. Good Night!
Here we are with Kirsten as Garth from Wayne's World, Al as a fallen angel, Kell the pirate wench, Me the cat, and Jenny as a masquerade person. On Halloween I went with the girls to a club for some dancing. Here are some single shots...

And here are a couple more...

We had a great time dancing, (even though I did see a former student there and it made me feel old!) I hope you had a great Halloween too!

2nd Annual Witches Brew Tea

We had another great Witches Brew hosted by Kell this year. She really outdid herself with the invites...(It's a ceramic finger if you couldn't tell.) Kelly does a great job with the decor and really makes her place SPOOKY! (She even caught one of the candles on fire a few days later while we were getting ready for Halloween! That's how dedicated she is!)

I always have a gret time when I get together with some of my best girls, we were sad some couldn't attend this year but can't wait for them to come again next year.

Great time for dress up, good friends, and delicious food. Three things I love best!

Parkour!

Because of the Office, we decided we would try some Parkour while we were out on a trail by ourselves. As you can see, we are pretty good at it! Parkour is defined as a sport or activity in which the participant seeks to move quickly, fluidly and creativly through an area.

Enjoy!

Moab for UEA

I can't believe it has been a month and a half since I have posted. I guess life has just been busy!
I went to Moab the first week of October for UEA break. I went with my roommates who had never been before so naturally we spent a lot of time hiking in Arches.
Here's the traditional picture in front of the sign-luckily there were plenty of German's around to take our pictures! This one's in the Garden of Eden, taken by another German tourist! All of my practice in Jr. High, High School, and College finally paid off.

"When I say boost, boost!"

Taking a nice break, enjoying the view.

Practicing our jumping skills...PARKOUR!

One of my favorites, Sand Dune Arch.

And finally, even though I have hiked in Arches countless times I have never actually hiked Delicate Arch. I have hiked the lookout but never to the actual arch. It was beautiful up close, and I'm so glad I finally got to do it, (Even though I am pretty red-faced in the pictures!)

We also spent some time hiking to some petroglyphs and window shopping on main street. It was conference weekend so we took some drives down the river road and listened to conference. It was a great weekend and we couldn't have asked for better weather.

Whiskey Creek Ranch

Over Labor Day weekend we headed up to Whiskey Creek Ranch in Grace, Idaho. We had a great time hiking, chatting, fly-fishing, playing with animals and riding 4-wheelers.

Kelly has great form from years of fly-fishing!

This was my first time fishing, crazy I know. I had to learn a few tips from M.R. Brown but we caught a beautiful rainbow trout after a team play of him casting and me reeling it in! (We didn't get a picture of it before we had to put it back in.)

We feed the piglets slop, (mostly left-over pizza and rotten veggies but they loved it!)

Kell and her cousin Alan decided to chase the pigs in the pen. They really can squeal!

We played with the calfs.

I even got in the pen to pet them. Notice I was wearing flip-flops. I just had to watch where I stepped.

We spent the afternoon riding the 4-wheelers. Here is one of Kell trying to reply her accident with Dave K. back in junior high.

Al refused to ride without a helmet, even though Kell and I are the ones with no health insurance!

It was a long, but beautiful ride through the forest. We had a great time.

Here are a few shots of the ranch courtsey of M.R. Brown: it is harvest time!

We had a great time, and I was sad when we had to leave. Hopefully we can head up there again next summer for the giant slip-n-slide!

Lagoon

Carlee's sister works for Lagoon, so we decided to head over for a family appreciation day. Our first stop: Jet Star. It turns out that you have to have even numbers to ride and since there was three of us we weren't sure what to do. There were 3 guys behind us so Kelly offered to ride with them. Oh, did I mention the 3 guys were somewhere between the ages of 10-11. The kid sat behind Kelly and had to straddle her. Car and I couldn't stop laughing! Next, Kell and Car decided to ride the Samurai. I do not ride spinny, twisty rides unless I'm feeling like I want to puke. I had a nice rest on a bench and did some great people watching. (Hill this one's for you: Dammit Derek!)

After a few more rides, we strolled over to Pioneer Park. Even after my 2 summers lifeguarding at the beach I still had not spent any time here besides riding the log flume. It was fun exploring the old houses and shops.

This is what Carlee did while Kell and I had a look around. She had apparently been to Pioneer Village before and once you've seen one log cabin, you've seen 'em all!

We ended the night with a fun ride on Wicked, the new roller coaster. It was a blast, and always fun to hang out with some of my best girls!

Orlando in July?

Since I'm so backed up on updates, I am just now posting pics of my trip to Orlando in July. My friend Kelly had to go for work so I decided to tag along to see some of my besties since 7th grade who live in FL! Ash lives in Orlando and Amy made the drive up from Gainesville for the weekend.
It was so fun to see these girls, and it reminded me that even though I hadn't seen them for a few years we'll always be good friends.
While Kelly was working, we got to head out to Cocoa Beach. It was beautiful. We played a great game called tailgate golf. I was by far the worst, but it was great fun!

This was our spot, we layed here for hours. The thing I love about the this water is that it's warm, if you try this in the Pacific even in the middle of summer you still get a shock the first time you step in! Not in Florida, bathwater yet still refreshing!

We stopped at the famous Grills restaurant and I had this...

crab legs, creamy red potatoes, veggies, garlic bread, and sweet potato french fries. YUM!

By the evening we had given our meal time to settle, and Kelly joined us for dinner in downtown Orlando. We ate at a delicious Thai restaurant. The next day while Kell was working again, we did some awesome outlet shopping, then we grabbed some yummy peanut butter cup dessert!

The next day Ashley's friend who works for Universal Studios got us in for free! We rode some great rides at Islands of Adventure and enjoyed a buy one get one free churro!

I don't know how people on the East Coast do it, but as soon as we walked outside we started sweating. YUCK!! That was one thing I didn't not appreciate, standing in line while you felt sweat bead up and roll down your back.

With Kell's work we got to go to Epcot at Disney as VIP's and have a dinner reception and VIP seating for the fireworks show on the Rivers of America. (We also got in free here

Here I am at Epcot, I love Disney! And here's one with me and Kell in front of our VIP seating at the fireworks. notice the shiny faces. Even at 9:00 at night it was still super humid, it never cooled off.

I spent plenty of time at the pool catching up on some reading and we headed out to Cocoa Beach another afternoon so Kelly could get a chance to dip her toes! We had a great trip and I was so happy to see Amy and Ashley. Hopefully I can get back to Florida again soon!