Confession

Dear Megan,

I lied. On Thursday, when I dropped you off at the cabin for your Family Reunion, I told you I had to come back to Provo to go to work.

That's not true.

I went to IKEA.
I brought home some boxes and put together some furniture.
When I finished setting it all up I decided to leave the furniture in our room.
I hope you like it.Happy I-Cannot-Confirm-Or-Deny-It's-Your-30th Birthday.

So Behind

I am weeks behind on blogging. Let's see if I can finish this post from weeks ago so I can catch up to this week.

We went to temple square a few weeks ago with our summer play group. It was really fun to go in the summer. I usually only think about going there to see the lights at Christmas but it is absolutely beautiful this time of year.


These two are homies.

Mom, Jake, and Sawyer met up with us at the temple and then we headed to the zoo.

I always love the zoo. It's so nice to just wander around and look at the animals you've gotten to know over the years. Zuri the new baby elephant is pretty cute, too.

It was a zooriffic day!

Paul's Dam From on Top

Pictures & Patriots

Did you know Pocatello, Idaho has a water park? Neither did we.
And neither does our camera.
But we did show our camera over 100 other things worthy of picturing.
We showed it fireworks in the driveway, picnic lunches, backyard games, tennis, a parade, and paintball guns.
I also took Megan on the Paul's Dam hike in Humphrey. It was my first time in 15 years. Winds were nuts. Cows were irritable. Elk were wary. Fences were barbed. And the sagebrush was thick. But the views were AMAZING! I was just glad I made it back alive. Megan made it back too.
On our last day we visited Yellowstone's Bear World. In the little magazine they give you there, it says you are 60,000 times more likely to die from a bee sting than a bear attack. Although that may be true, I don't remember the last time a bee flew by and I tucked myself into a ball to cover my vitals and played dead. Silly hippies and their ability to distort statistics.