Utah Climbing

Here are some photos of our two main climbing adventures while we were in Utah:

Here Kenneth, Stephanie (his sister) and I are doing a multi-pitch (5 rope lengths up) route in Little Cottonwood Canyon - gorgeous! It was so much fun! I had a blast!

Here we are climbing with Kenneth's sister, Stephanie and our friend Ben, Jenalynn and their daughter Camalla from Alaska up Big Cottonwood canyon.  The rivers were very large - and in the photo below the river is covering the base of several climbs that we have done in the past.  It was crazy, but beautiful!  It was so wonderful to see our friends from Alaska.  We haven't seen them since before Danny was born.  We had a wonderful time together.

Stephanie

Kenneth & Jenalynn

Me & Stephanie

Jenalynn & Camalla

Ben

Ben lending a hand as Camalla climbed

Gorgeous Big Cottonwood

One of my all-time favorite climbs!

In total we went climbing 5 times while in Utah.  We had a fantastic time!

Utah Adventures

Here are the rest of our pictures from our trip to Utah...now about 3 weeks ago!

The first set is from Danny's 2nd birthday party!! I can't believe my little boy is already TWO!! He is so funny, and so good with Emily. He LOVES to talk (but not usually in a large crowd unless he knows the people really well). He is obsessed with 1) trucks 2) books 3) animals (and making their noises) and 4) ring around the rosies. He is so fun!

Here are some photos of our outing to the Discovery Park near grandma & grandpa's house. Danny loves to play at the park and had a blast!

Here is a picture with our old Dinner Group!! Everyone was there except Kendall & Melissa and their clan, and Danny Kimball who had to go back to work in Colorado on the weekdays - we say him again on the weekend. It was so fun to see everyone and their kids (when we started the dinner group there was only 1 kid!). It was just like old times...but with lots of kids to chase after!

One of our days in Utah Kenneth's dad rented a jet ski and we went out to Utah Lake with it. Danny had so much fun playing in the water and chasing after the ducks. It was SO fun going on the jet ski! Danny loved it! The only bad part was when the thunderstorm came across the lake, and the millions of bugs flew to us...it made packing up, well, disgusting!

Last but not least, here is a photo of Emily with Aunt Leone.  She was in a car accident a few weeks earlier and was in a rehabilitation center because she broke her ankle.  She was very excited to see the kids and we were very excited to see her and Kenneth's grandma who was also there visiting.



There were lots of other fun things we did on our trip which we didn't get pictures of - mainly our day at Seven Peaks water park which was a blast!! Danny & Emily both enjoyed the water, and while they napped Kenneth and I were able to go on all the fun slides! It was amazing! Also, we spent a fun evening at my brother Michael's house and we had a game night and made grilled pizza on the BBQ! It was so delicious!

Anyway, I'll be posting a separate post with some of our awesome climbing pictures from the trip! That's coming next!

Maple Canyon & Go Carting

Firstly, isn't this girl cute!?

And this little boy too!

Well, we headed out to Utah about a week and a half ago and stayed for 10 days! It was a lot of fun, and we filled our days up with lots of fun activities.  We first stopped in Maple Canyon while driving up and did several climbs.  It was so fun, and SOO beautiful!  It was so incredibly green in Utah - I feel in love with the state all over again.

Maple Canyon - all the climbs were long, long, long!

We arrived in Utah on Friday afternoon, and spent some time with our family friend Britney.  Afterwards we spent some time driving around on the Go-Cart Kenneth's parents have.  It was a lot of fun to see Danny on it.  He loved it!

Just a side note...Danny loves to say, "HOT!" and then proceeds to touch everything that is hot - we can't seem to get him to stop.  So, after riding the go-cart what does he do?  He says "HOT" and then touches the exhaust pipe!!  He got a small blister on a few fingers...maybe he will now realize that when something is hot, it hurts to touch it!!

More pictures are to come, but overall here is the list of things we did while in Utah.  This is more for me to remember what to blog about!

Fri - Maple Canyon, Britney, Go Carting
Sat - multi-pitch climbing in Little Cottonwood with Stephanie, extended family BBQ
Sun - church, visit with Heidi
Mon - family BBQ, Danny's B-Day party and fireworks
Tues - climbing in Big Cottonwood with Steph, Ben & Jenalynn, temple sealings with family
Wed - climbing in American Fork canyon, shopping with Steph & Chantale, Dinner Group at the park
Thurs - Jet-skiing at Utah Lake
Fri - Seven Peaks water park, J Dawgs, and climbing in Rock Canyon
Sat - walk/run 5K in honor of Wendy & Maylee Mack, visit Rachelle's house, see our SL house, visit Grandma & Aunt Leone, grilled pizza and games with Michael & Kim and Jose & Analee

More posts coming soon!