10=boondoggle

The hubby and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary last weekend!!  My in laws drove out to watch the kiddos and have some quality time together.  Papa got Sister to say "mommy and daddy are going on a boondoggle."  It was pretty fun to hear her ask me today if I was going on another boondoggle :)  Hopefully yes, and hopefully I won't have to wait ten more years!

We went up to Wolf Creek, which is in Eden.  I cannot even describe what a nice time we had!  Don't get me wrong, I love my kids (most of the time), but it was such a release to be able to do what we wanted and not worry about nap times, picky eaters and kids activities.  Hubby and I decided this was the epic packing fail trip though.  We forgot a bike tire and biking shoes . . . and something else, but it wasn't as important (can't remember what it was now).

Hubby is training for a marathon and had his 13 mile run on Saturday.  I rode the whole bike we brought and carried the water.  It was nice to be out in nature and I got to go at a leisurely pace; he was doing all the hard work!  I did wimp out on the humongous hill back to our lodgings though-had to walk the bike up.  In my defense there are some very steep hills, getting up to a 16% grade!

We hiked up to Powder Mountain and enjoyed the scenery.

It was nice even though it was steep and hot.  This is me airing out and enjoying the surroundings :)

Hubby went fishing and I brought my book.  We had an enjoyable few hours in the quiet.

We saw this hot air balloon coming over the mountain one morning.

More fishing, this is my view to the right.

And my view looking up :)

And to the left :)

We drove up to Snowbasin and eventually made it.  Our first route was closed, but we did get some nice pictures.

We also drove into Ogden to see a movie and had dinner at 9:30 p.m.  We attempted to play racquetball one day.  We sat in the hot tub and slept in.  It was heavenly!

On our last day Nana and Papa drove up with the kids.  We went to a trout farm in Ogden and caught some very wiggly fish.

The first fish

Brother's first fish.  He was so funny because he wanted to fish, but would hand off the pole and run away as soon as he snagged one.  He definitely didn't want to touch them.

Hubby's fish attempting to get away.

Sister randomly asked me to take her picture, but when I tried to get her to look at the camera and smile, this is what she did-

We went on a short hike with everyone with a great look out spot.

Such a nice break!  I came back feeling refreshed and excited to give myself a new start on motherhood.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to nana and papa, without whom this wouldn't have been possible!

To my cute husband-I love you infinity!  Sometimes I feel like we are still newlyweds.  I'm so happy I said yes all those years ago and for the life we have built together.  I am super excited for the next ten years! 

Powell 2012

Another successful trip to Lake Powell.  We had a couple of hiccups, first with poor Aunt B breaking both her arms days before we were to leave.  Nana drove up to care for her and the boys came down.  The generator was very unreliable, but we were still able to enjoy ourselves (lots of pictures). 

Uncle J pulling the boys behind the kayak.

Crisis was averted when we brought out the scuba gear to recover a dropped fishing net.

Good Hope Bay.  It was beautiful! And look at that perfect water!  We wish we could have stayed longer, but the generator didn't cooperate.  Props to our boys who put the anchors in wonderfully so we didn't blow away in the wind storm that evening that reached about 35 mph.

We love the beach!  It made me wish we lived closer to a beach so sister could play more; she loved it.

Cute puppies :)

I snapped this picture of the hubby out fishing.  He says it is one of his favorites now; yay me :)

For being such a girly girl with her dresses she definitely knows how to get down and dirty!

The hubby caught this sweet shot of her mid air jumping into her mud puddle.

Papa snuck a picture of us in the shade; please disregard my unshowered state . . . .

Climbing up mud is fun too!

Yay fish!  We only wish we could have caught more.

Sister is watching out the window while we were driving the house boat.

She absolutely loved her cousins!  Both the kids were so sad to leave them.

Brother's birthday was during our trip so we got to have more cake and some yummy homemade ice cream (thanks again J!).

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Birthday time again!

The yummy cake Aunt T made and the birthday boy decorated :)

Paca's (grandpa's) cake

Cinderella attended the festivities :)

I hope all your wishes come true handsome boy! 

On another note, so happy my dad was able to find a job just before his birthday after being unexpectedly laid off a few weeks earlier.

Fun on the 4th

The hubby ran the annual 5k solo this year.  His time was 21 minutes 18 seconds.  Yeah, he's awesome like that.

Enjoying some post race watermelon.

This funny girl has had some very adamant opinions about her clothing.  She will only wear dresses now.  I convinced her that her night gown was a night time dress so we didn't have to fight about it every night.  We bought the hat a couple of days before and she refused to take it off, even wore it to bed.  She had a lot of fun and has been asking me to see the parade and get more candy since then.

Our crazy group.  Notice I'm wearing my Captain America shirt.  My sister is indulging me in my crush :)

The camel was a very fun addition to this year's parade.

The ever popular crawlers.

So happy about the lego float-see next picture-

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!  The 4th has become one of my favorite days.  I have a more sentimental post brewing that I will post on the other blog and give a link to here.  If I get it done by the end of the month it will still count, right?