Anniversary

It's been 2 wonderful years of married life!  I'm such a lucky girl to have Brad in my life.  We've had so much fun together and I know that this is only the start.   In commemoration of our anniversary, I've updated our "About Us" page.  It has a lot more about the story of how we met, dated, and got engaged.  We've had a lot of good times together and I love having such an amazing best friend.  We've had a lot going on this year, but I'm glad you've been there with me for it all.  Here's to another wonderful year.

Zion National Park

Going into summer, we knew we were going to be busy.  The DAT, dental applications, going to Nicaragua, working, attending school, and being put in as Elder's Quorum President doesn't leave much time for much else.  However, we looked at Brad's schedule and found one weekend when he didn't have a test and I could take time off work to go on a little vacation.  We went down to southern Utah to Zion National Park.  We just spent 2 days there, but it was relaxing, gorgeous, and much needed.

Brad and I went on a hike and found a nice little spot to sit and eat our dinner.  We ended up getting surrounded by squirrels.  We had five of them coming within inches of us, trying to get our food.  They kept fighting each other and we were afraid of getting attacked.  They had pictures up everywhere of someone who had been attacked by squirrels and we were not excited at the prospect of being the next billboard.

Sunset at Zion

The next day, we hiked up to the Emerald Pools.  The waterfalls were much cooler than the puddles, I mean pools.

Waterfalls

It was much too hot after that to do any more hiking so we went on a drive on the Mount Carmel Highway.  

Dr. Seuss Rock

It looks a little like this:

And we met this guy on the side of the road.

We also went on a great drive up to Kolob Reservoir.

We didn't go down with many expectations.  Brad had never been to Zion National Park and the last time I went down and actually saw the park was when I was 8.  But for a quick trip with lots to do, photo opportunities galore, and long, peaceful drives, Zion National Park was great.  Arches next?

Brigham City Temple Groundbreaking

Sorry it has been forever since we have had anything new on our blog.  It's not that nothing has been going on, it's just that we've been too busy to edit pictures and compose blog posts.  We've been to Packer Family Reunion, on a lot of cool drives (with lots of pictures), enjoying time with family, celebrating the 4th of July and 24th of July, and we even took a trip to Zion National Park this last week.  We'll try really hard to get our blog updated as soon as possible.  We are still working, going to school, and applying for dental school so it will still take us a while, but it will get done.

Like I said, we went to Zion National Park this week.  It was amazing and it will have it's own blog post once we have the pictures edited.  While we were driving home late at night, we got a call from Brad's dad.  Now, we knew that he would be coming out Friday night and we knew that we would probably have lunch with him on Saturday so we weren't really in a rush to get home at a decent hour.  However, Brad's dad was calling to invite us to the groundbreaking for the Brigham City Temple.  For those of you who don't know, the Packers are from Brigham City and this is a pretty big deal for the family.  We accepted the invitation, not realizing that by the time we got home we would only get 3 1/2 hours of sleep before we would be up again to make it to Brigham City on time.  It was completely worth the lack of sleep.  Neither of us had been to a groundbreaking before, but we are really glad we made the effort to get up early. There was a really special spirit there and it was really nice that Uncle Boyd got to conduct the groundbreaking.

 

President Packer                                                                     Elder Nelson

Uncle Boyd turned some dirt first, and then with Elder Nelson.  The other general authorities were then ask to turn the dirt, followed by other dignitaries.  After that anyone else who wanted to was able to turn the dirt.  Grandma was the first to go.  We all had a turn after that.

Breaking ground in front of the tabernacle.

Thanks Grandma for getting us the really good seats!  We loved hanging out with the Packer family for the day.