Hav-a-poopi

After a strenuous and back-breaking weekend of hiking at Havasupi, I was feeling pretty good about myself. Although I failed to have the brute strength to hike out of Havasupi (for those uneducated in the outdoor "hard-core" arena, Havasupi is hiking in and out of the Grand Canyon carrying everything on your back and camping), I had made the hike in and even hiked to and from the village several times (strictly in search of Diet Coke). My hiking odometer clocked about twenty miles in three days, including gnarly bruises on my heels and shoulder, which officially categorized me as "hard-core" regardless of my helicopter ride out of the Grand Canyon.

However, I was brutally awakened to the pathetic and embarrassing state of my athletic ability the next weekend when two of my old roommates informed me they had hiked in AND out of Havasupi with packs on just the week before me! I wish I could claim the temperature was much more brutal when I was there, or that my pack was larger, but I finally had to come to grips with the truth...I am not HARD-CORE.





Ben decided to demonstrate one of his many talents of catching squirrels. After a few hours of bating them with peanuts while we all video-taped, Ben finally snagged a big one. Him and my dad proceeded to try and drown the squirrel (they claimed they wanted to see him swim) in the nearby river. It was no surprise to the rest of us when the squirrels starting trying to steal our playing cards and Gatorade as revenge.




The beautiful falls:



After our strenuous......helicopter ride....



And a few pictures of my trip to San Diego for Brooke's wedding:

The last month...

Okay, I have to admit that posting is not my favorite thing to do. It's not that I have nothing to say (I talk talk about nothing for quite some time), it's that I feel like it's a task, something to add to my to-do list. If I only had to type than it would be much easier. But the best part about blogs are the pictures...and that takes a lot of my effort. I have to go find the cord, hook it to the camera, hook the camera to the computer, decide what pictures I don't look absolutely disgusting in, and wait for them to download. Too much work! I'm fully aware that I sound incredibly lazy, but that doesn't convince me to do it any more often.

So, quick update: We have been extremely busy, Ben working, and me...traveling (I do go to school and work too, plus scrapbooking, doing puzzles, and other really important things). Here are a few pictures of our incredibly exciting and thrilling lives in the past month:

Ben's family comes to visit:



Our Church history trip to Missouri:



Boating with friends:





The Del Mar Fair:




4th of July in Park City: