The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree

Last week I had some eye-opening realizations. Pete had the opportunity to shadow two different doctors, one of which was his father. Because of this opportunity, he dressed a little differently than he normally does and for whatever reason put on his glasses as well. When he came home I was across the room and could swear it was his father walking into our home. I told him I had to have a picture because he looked so much like his dad and you can see how happy he was to take it.

This next picture actually happens to be more like my own dad...which is a scary realization that I may have married someone more like my crazy father than I realized (I say that with complete love, we tease him a lot. Love you dad!) Since getting warm outside, we have had tons of little neighbor kids who have set up their stands on the sidewalks selling just about anything.

One night he came home with these two lovely pictures of . . . Dogs? Raccoons? I am not really sure. But he couldn't resist buying the 50 cent pictures.

I laughed at Pete for buying those pictures thinking it was a onetime thing. But of course the next day he came home with two small Dixie cups of red KoolAid he handed to me as a "gift." He had already drank his all gone but couldn't wait to watch me flinch as I tastes the YUMMY KoolAid the little neighbor kids had made.

I really hope we aren't creating a habit here or we could potentially go broke. :) Nonetheless, it is kind of sweet that he wants to keep those kids in business. He says he loved the people who would buy from his little stand growing up. I really can't dislike his sweet intentions.

6 months, what!?

Last Friday Pete and I celebrated 6 months of being married! It does not feel like we have been married that long at all. Maybe that is because we have been away from each other for nearly half that time. Whatever the reason, time has flown!


I am not one to celebrate made up holidays but I thought this special occasion was worth a date night. Pete and I went out to eat at Carrabbas, a really good Italian restaurant, then went and got our wedding cake out of my parents' freezer and borrowed Star Trek while we were there.


While watching Star Trek we ate two large pieces of our wedding cake and still have enough left for our 1- and 2-year anniversaries. To our surprise it still tasted really good! My grandma is the best at making beautiful and delicious cakes! Thanks Grandma!


This really is not a great picture of us but it is the only one we took of the evening. We had fun celebrating the small milestone in our new lives together.

Side Note

Can anyone else not figure out this formatting business? I set my blog posts up all nicely but for some reason blogger will not cooperate.

Please, any suggestions on how to get along with blogger when formatting my blog posts would be appreciated.

I seriously struggle.

A couple of gallons of water and 15 miles later....

Pete and I had a great weekend hiking Zion's. We wish we had time to do more but probably wouldn't have been able to handle much more consistent hiking. We were so sore!


We got into Zion's Thursday evening, had some good--but way too expensive--sandwiches in the park and then proceeded to hike to the upper emerald pool.

As we were hiking up we heard some loud noises that sounded like goats. Once we got to the top we realized that it was these tiny frogs that made LOUD noises! Must have been mating season. Pete's aunt Alyce was kind enough to let us stay in her beautiful home (The Alyce Palace). We got in late and they had just closed their pool but they opened it back up for us and we got to swim in the cool water under the St. George stars.

The next morning we woke up and ate wonderful omelets made by Alyce. Then we filled our packs with lots of water and peanut butter sandwiches and headed to Zion's to hike the 8 mile roundtrip Observation Point on the East Rim.

I was in awe the whole time. Everything was so incredible and beautiful! The information we got from the park said that the hike should take us about 5 hours. But we were at the top in an hour and a half. We booked it! We were passing people left and right, ha!
(on the top)

Coming down was worse than going up because it was so steep. But we finally made it down and had the time and energy to hike to Weeping Rock as well.
We got back to Alyce's just in time to play with the kids in the pool for a little while before Alyce fed us yet again. Then we hit the town...meaning the outlets and Cold Stone Creamery! We woke up early again on Saturday, packed up and headed to hike Angel's Landing. I was a bit worried about hiking this one because of all the horror stories I had heard. I did OK though, as long as I didn't look down...which is kind of the point on this hike. But I enjoyed it regardless. The terrain was completely different than any other hike we did so i enjoyed it. And I felt very proud of myself for accomplishing it...until I saw the 7 year olds surrounding me...then I just felt like a baby for being scared.
(Pete was ready to take a nap on the top of Angel's Landing, but I wouldn't let him. I was too eager to get off that high mountain where I was bound to slip.)

(we saw this owl sleeping on our hike, I could have sworn it was a stuffed animal.)

Pete and I had planned on hiking the Narrows but found out that it is still closed because of high water...surprise. So we just hiked a few things and relaxed the rest of the time which was really nice for both of us--we don't naturally gravitate toward resting or relaxing so it was a good vacation for us.

Weekend Trip

Headed here today....
(Zion's National Park)

Three days of hiking.

Should be pretty cool because I have never been there. And it is on my list of places I want to go. And since the other places just so happen to be on the other side of the world, I am utterly content with this weekend trip.

Mustachio

In case you didn't notice, Pete grew out his mustache for the month of May. When he left for his 8-day baseball trip to the Great West Tournament it was a little gross and he got a few comments on it but when he returned I was appalled at how discustingly funny my husband could look! I thorougly enjoyed his enthusiasm for doing something new and audacious (yeah I used the thesaurus for that one!).

A few pictures from when he returned for your enjoyment:

This was us last Halloween when we were engaged, we talked about how we wish he could of had the Chester-stache back then to complete the look.

Hallelujah

Guess who's back?

Home for good.

And LOVING it.