Hurricane Season

I didn't know eastern Oregon had a hurricane season but that's sure what it feels like right now. If there were palm trees in my front yard this is what they'd look like.

For Laura my sister with musical love

Tuning please!

PG-married post!

Oo la la! Naughty V-day cookies! I made these with some friends for a special husband suprise. There was another set but I accidentally sent them to work with Rory before I took a picture. They were a good laugh for us.

Rory made me a lovely Valentines dinner. It was delicious. I like our beach towel table cloth. We were pretending it was summer... and we just don't have a real table cloth.

Visit Home

Rory headed off to Montana for some work meetings last week so I went home to Rexburg! It was such a fun, relaxing week. I got to see old friends:

And have a mommy daughter date. We went to Targhee and skiied/snowboarded to our hearts content. At the end of the day we switched gear just for fun... I think I screamed the whole way down the baby hill! Skiing is fun but I definitely need to work on it.

Mom says her lips were frozen so she couldn't smile.

I also played the Wii with my brothers for probably three days straight. I love Mario Kart! I went running with my dad and went and saw the new conference center on the BYU-I campus with mom. Sara came too and we hung out. I taught little Ruby how to say naughty words. What an awesome cousin I am. All in all it was a great vacation.

Finished!

I've been working on this quilt for the past few weeks and it's done! This is my second ever attempt at sewing and I made a lot of mistakes but also learned a lot. I love long arm quilting machines! Best invention ever.

Mud Camping

We meant to go snow camping but when we got to Hart mountain there wasn't any snow. There were some hot springs and we may have gone skinny dipping in them.

The next morning we climbed Warner Peak. There was lots of snow up there.

We ran into a cougar trail. Luckily it was a few days old but that didn't stop me looking over my shoulder every once in a while.

It took us about three hours to make it to the top. The wind was howling! We took a few pictures and high tailed it down to a less windy spot for lunch.

The selected lunch spot was in a nice little mahogany grove. Hardly any wind!

On the way down we followed a little stream that meandered through a canyon. Most of the time we were on hard snow but occasionally a foot would break through and you'd sink.... or fall over in my case. I only actually face planted once.

Lesson Learned

Don't stick candles in a hot pie.... Happy 24th birthday to me!