Anniversary Trip - August 2014

     Andrew and I celebrated our 7th anniversary this year.  It  is crazy that we've been married that long! We're old. ;)  Andrew has really been wanting us to have a getaway with just the two of us for a while.  So, I finally agreed and we let the kids stay with Becca, and then with my Mom while we went to Midway. We were away for 3 nights.  The first night, Sunday night, we stayed at The Homestead Resort.  On Monday we went mountain biking at Dutch Hollow.  It was so fun!  We are certainly not pro mountain bikers or anything, but we both enjoy it, and haven't been in several years. It felt great to hop on our bikes and hit the trail!  There were some pretty awesome views from the top!
     We were planning to stay at Johnson's Mill the second night, so after mountain biking we went to check in.  It was an awesome place.  There was a pond at the Mill that we took a canoe ride on, and tons of land to explore, so we hiked around for a while.  It was a bed and breakfast, and their breakfast was delicious!  I had never been to a bad & breakfast before, and had always wanted to.  It was a lot of fun.  Tuesday, after breakfast, we drove to the Park City Outlets, did some shopping, then headed to Salt Lake and saw 'Wicked' at the Capitol Theater.  It was SOOO good!  I LOVED it! Andrew thought it was ok, but I was blown away by how awesome it was!  However, I was really missing the girls by this point.  They were in Orem and the musical ended at a late hour, so we slept at out house, and I picked the girls up from my parents house Wednesday morning.  We had a really fun little get away!  It was fun to eat a lot of food, watch a lot of our favorite shows, just relax, and hang out together.  I'm happy I'm married to this guy. :)

Flaming Gorge-July 2014

We LOVE Flaming Gorge!  We had so much fun!  This is another trip we would like to make a tradition out of.  We went to Flaming Gorge 2 years ago for the first time.  We went again this year and it was such a blast!  We all stayed in a house together that my parents rented for the weekend. We rented a motorboat and went knee boarding, water skiing, and jumped off some of the red cliffs into the lake.  We were nervous about how Ivy would do on the boat because she would have to wear a big puffy life jacket the whole time, but she did great!  She even fell asleep in our arms while on the boat. :) We jumped off a few cliffs, which was really fun.  Well, Andrew and Darian jumped off a few cliffs, I only jumped off one. :) We also went water skiing and knee boarding.  Andrew had a goal to complete a 360 on the knee board and he did it!  He was also able to go in and out of the wake on the skiis. He is pretty athletic. :)

 The next day we rented rafts and went river rafting down the Green River.  It is such a fun river.  Very smooth, with just a couple of little rapids to keep things fun. :)  We played games every night and had a lot of fun together.  Flaming Gorge is so beautiful.  We were surrounded by tall, red rock cliffs while boating and when we were rafting.  I am excited to go again!