Oh Remember Remember...

Remember how fun this was? Just wanted all of you to remember. Props to Paul on the shots!

Finally! I Am Blogging Again!

I know it has been a while since I last blogged but better late than never. I've been getting jealous of Brady and Karen going on their hiking trips and I'm running out of warm weather here in Provo. These past few days have been really nice though so I decided that I wanted to go hiking and take advantage of the good weather. I checked online and found the Silver Lake Trail up American Fork Canyon. I got a couple of people yesterday to come with me and we started in the morning. Funny enough, we had a similar experience as Brady and Karen's recent bike trek. When I parked my car, these three old ladies that were walking nearby asked if I knew that it was hunting season and that their would be hunters all over. We decided to take our chances and hike anyways. I just figured I would talk really loud. We did hear a few shots fired on our hike. The scenery was amazing!
Right in the middle of our hike, I stopped and saw a huge moose walking towards us on the trail. The moose saw us and stopped. (See pic below)


I quickly got my camera out and began taking pictures. We stepped forward a bit and it walked the away from us. We ended up catching up with it again and we got probably too close to this thing. It went into some trees just barely off the trail and we went right around it. You can see how close we were by the pictures I took below. We saw two other moose along the way but none as close as this one.
We continued our hike and reached our destination of Silver Lake. It was quite the sight.

Cali Trip

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted so I decided I needed to put up some of the pictures from my California trip in February. It was a lot of fun.

Me givin' Minnie Mouse a little lovin'.

Brad, Suzanne, and Allie pondering the meaning of the writing at the Indiana Jones ride.

The "Argyle Building" at Cali Adventure

Fireworks at Disneyland

Christmas in Michigan

Sorry it has taken me a while to post about Christmas but my Internet keeps on going down. Anyways, its up today so I decided to take advantage of it. I spent Christmas in Michigan for about a week and then came home and saw my good friends Derek and Heidi get sealed in the temple. It was neat this being my first sealing that I had been too. Christmas was really fun though. I got out there to see Mom and Dad a couple of days before everyone else got there. We had such a fun time with them. Here are some pictures and videos from the trip.

We of course did the Christmas story where we all dress up and reenact the story of Christ's birth. We had some crazy costumes and crazy happenings which will be shown hereafter in a video.

NUHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

"LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ANGEL OF THE NIGHT!"
Here's Dad reading being the narrator.
Mom and Kristen taking pictures.
Karen after a long day of traveling to see baby Jesus.

Here's a little taste of what our night was like. We sang Christmas hymns during the narration and Cory really got into it. While watching Cory "fly" across the room, pay attention to two things: Brady's opera voice in the background (and wearing his huge hat) and Blake's laugh as he follows his dad around the room. I call this video The Lord of the Dance II: A Christmas Special.

We went to the zoo and had a great time seeing the animals. Cory seemed to have a way with them. He bonded with some monkeys and with this snow leapord. As you will see, this leapord is very sad and Cory feels for this poor animal locked in the cage. This is hilarious.

Christmas was a great time. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. By the way, Congrats Cory and Kristen on your baby. Let's get that poor girl a name now.