Clever boys. I think maybe they had too much time on their hands. Pete recently sent home some pictures of his mission experience so I thought I'd put some up. He seems to be a happy boy in Brazil. He'll have been out a whole year next month. He's getting so big! 
I'm so glad the spreading of the gospel is in this boys hands.
I like the white wet suits. Pete fills his out nicely. 
A run in with the Brazilian mafia?
These boys are serious. They're out to get converts.
Rory, Mom, and I hiked the Teton Crest Trail a few weeks ago. It was incredible!!! It was a 44 mile hike and we took five days to hike it. We went about ten miles a day which was a nice leisurely pace. The views were great and the weather was great and everything was wonderful.
Allergies were a problem.
Rory in the Great Outdoors.
Cooking dinner at our first camp site. Moose Lake. We saw a moose there. It was pretty far away though. The tent space was slanted so we spent a night sliding all over the place. All three of us slept in a two and a half man tent. Luckily we're all small.
We were all pretty tired by the end of the first day. Luckily after that our tiredness didn't really get any worse. It didn't get better either. Rory was tired too. You just can't tell from this picture.
Day two started out with a walk across a stone bridge. We found this really neat cave where a creek runs sometimes. It was dry when we found it so we explored a little. No bears. Mom and I felt like Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade in this picture.
Yay for National Forests!
Dipping our toes in Marion Lake during our lunch break. This lake was gorgeous! And there were tons of pikas.
A yellow bellied marmot! We saw tons of these on the hike. Some were all black. They looked like little monkies. We also saw pikas, a big horned sheep, and martins.
Setting up camp on Death Canyon shelf. This was my favorite camp. The water was close.
Day three and off to Alaska Basin.
Pumping water from Sunset Lake.
We've almost made it to the top of Hurricane Pass! The view of Battleship Mountain from here was spectacular!
We got caught in a storm on top of Hurricane Pass. It was freezing cold! Luckily it only lasted about fifteen minutes and then the sun returned.
Here we are being cold on top of Hurricane Pass. We took this picture quick like gazelles and then speedily hiked down the mountain in case more storms were coming. None did so we got nice and hot on the way down.
There were beautiful waterfalls like this all over Cascade Canyon.
Mmmmm....
A different view of the Tetons.
Mom sliding down a watermelon glacier.
Sock change. Rory had a pair of socks to go up hills and a different pair of socks to go down hills. He said the up hill pair rubbed his toes when he wore them going down hill. This is on top of Paintbrush Divide on our fourth day. It was a long hike up and a scary hike down.
The view from the top of Paintbrush Divide looking down on (sort of) where we're going.
Mom and Rory crossing the treacherous glacier. I slipped and fell on this glacier right before I took this picture. Luckily I didn't slide all the way down or this picture never would have been taken.
Holly Lake! There were rumors of bears here but we never saw any. I can't decide if I'm happy or sad about that.
Our hair was soooo disgusting. So we stuck our heads in a creek. I think all it did was make my hair disgusting and wet.
I was freezing after I stuck my head in the creek so I sat in the sun and pretended to be a hippy child.
Day five! We only did five miles that day and it was all down hill. We plowed through the miels super fast and got to the bottom before noon. 
I think this might be the best picture of my mom I've ever seen.
Showing off the sweat stains.
It was that bad.
Some of you might not know it but I have a sister. Her name is Laura. We really are related. I recently got in contact with an old friend and she told me I didn't have any pictures of Laura on my blog and I looked.... and she was right! How sad! So here are some pictures of my only sister. She's lots of fun and I love her pretty brown hair.
Rory and I bought climbing gear this summer and took Sam to Paramount Rock to try it out. We're not dead so it must be fine. Rory nearly stepped on the grandad of all rattle snakes though. (Ten rattles long!) He's happy that it didn't bite him. The climb was good. Lots of big hand holds for spazzy people like me. And I only got stuck a little bit. I think the guys next to us thought I was silly. They seemed a bit more skilled than me. But Rory rocked the rock. Har har. Anyway, if anyone wants to climb let us know! Rory's dying for climbing buds.
We went to an Ecology conference in Albuquerque. There were neat mosaics everywhere! (And a tortoise) Driving to Albuquerque in one day is too much. Especially if you drove all day the previous day and broke down in Boise at 9:30 at night. I don't think we'll do it again.
