Au-gust it's my turn 8-14: Reunionizing

8. I am in a church parking lot in Cedar City mooching internet because 

9. the house we are staying in for the family reunion has no internet

10. so I have not met the au-gust obligation of blogging every day but

11. when I get home I will be back on track but

12. right now it doesn't matter because everyone who reads my blog has been doing all the things i've been doing for the past 5 days and the next 2, including 

13. running, sleeping, eating, fishing, shooting, laughing, gaming, N64ing, storytelling, family historying, dirt biking and 

14. picture taking, believe it or not, cus I have not a single picture of the whole dang thing!

Au-gust it's my turn 7: Ready for lift-off!

Actually, we're not actually even close to ready for lift-off yet! There is still a lot of packing, truck-cleaning, bike-loading, stuff-finding, landscaping, truck-picking-upping, dumping-grass-ing, picking-up-Willis-ing, answering-Morinda-email-ing and much, much more to do before we leave for the family reunion in the morning, but we are excited!

Our progress of packing... better get a move on!

See you all tomorrow!

Au-gust it's my turn 6: LaDon FARTED ON MY FREAKING COUNTER!

Cross country practice was a huge success! It was so fun and so much easier than primary!

Also, the Lindes are less than 20 hours away from being official home owners, and they are staying in our house to celebrate! It is joyous to see LaDon!

Who looks like Daniel! 

Au-gust it's my turn 5: Our Outfits!

Today was a busy day for both of us, and tomorrow will be even busier! Always seems to work like that when you are getting ready to leave town. 

Billy worked all day so hard in the very wet rain. This picture does not do it justice (and has kind of a weird angle to it...) But he was filthy and wet and obviously looked like he worked hard all day. 

I got my shirt that I will wear when I am coaching cross country, which starts tomorrow! I am soooo excited and so nervous and also haven't even planned what is going to happen so hopefully it is ok! There are about 20 kids on the team, and it is going to be an adventure!

I had to go to the police department to get a background check and it was scary. There was an angry patron in there and he asked me what I was doing there because obviously I did not look like the other people that you might expect to be at the police department. It was an adventure!

I also taught at my RS activity tonight about digital organization! It was great and fun. Tomorrow, if you are lucky, I will upload pictures of Billy's project! But only if my computer is also less slow than it has been of late. I can't believe how long it takes to upload my pictures!

Au-gust it's my turn 4: Po ta toes

 Two years ago today Billy proposed to me while I sat on this very wall: 

awww romantic!

This is a picture of the water feature in front of the new Provo Rec Center, which doesn't really have any significance besides the fact that I went there today to fill out new employee forms for my new job as the cross country coach for the Provo team! Woot!

Also, Morinda gave me a delicious birthday cake since it is birthday month 

aaaand the potatoes I was sure were goners because they've turned into nothing but spindly, withering stalks as of late actually produced some real live potatoes! And there are many more (and bigger!) where these came from! Gardens are amazing!

Au-gust it's my turn 3: Soreness and Roast

'Twas a good Sunday. I was a little sore from our adventures up Timp, but it felt good!

I just tried all Primary long to think of ways to take a picture of primary without being irreverent or weird so I could blog about it, but I just couldn't even be sly enough. Suffice it to say, primary was as joyous and crazy as ever. I do quite like that calling. 

We had the Perez's over for roast. It was fun! Billy and Andy ate all the breadsticks and me and Bum ate all the rice krispies and Eliana was just a cute little monkey! And it wasn't even roasting hot in our house, so that was good too!

I sewed a skirt and now we are off to bed!

Au-gust it's my turn 2: Timp!

We've been wanting to hike Timp for a long time, but most Saturdays are too busy, until Billy came up with the brilliant idea to hike it at night and camp on the mountain! That's what we did last night. 

We left on time and were pumped for a joyous adventure with what weather.com said would involve 0% precipitation, only to arrive at the parking lot to a downpour. We had no rain gear or even coats, so we ended up going back home, grabbing coats, and getting back just in time for the rain to pass.

Billy checking out the storm

As we started hiking, I couldn't see anything cus Billy's pack was huge and blocking the whole trail. At one point he jumped back with a yelp and was startled and my first thought was "badger!!" 

But it was a huge moose, and it just came crashing out of the bushes!!We got a good look at it, but it was hiding too good for the camera to catch. But it was awesome!

We hiked into the night, which was beautiful. 

We made it to the lake (maybe 2 miles under the summit?) in about 3 hours, so it was like 10 or so by then. We were trying out our backpacking stove for the first time and it was amazing! Billy's favorite part of the trip, so he says.  

brats for dinner!

We slept under the stars. Definitely my favorite part of the trip. It was so beautiful. Hikers were hiking past all night cus it's a thing to hike in the night and make it to the top for sunrise, but I was grateful that they woke me up now and then because it was a beautiful place and the stars were incredible. 

And we woke up to the sunrise!

Made sausages for breakfast on the stove, which Billy of course loved. It was quite a cool little invention. 

Then hiked the rest of the way to the top. I could not believe how many people were on the mountain! Crazy!

this picture is cool mostly because it's a birds-eye view of all the canyons and trails Billy and I run. Such fondness for those trails!

Cool trail shot, with surprisingly few people on it. 

the lake we slept near

horrible, hilarious picture!

the shack on top. no donuts there. 

the usual outfits we are always wearing on such adventures

wildflower field and "the glacier", which people were still sliding down, the crazies

on the way down. Also on the way down, we ran into Rob who was taking his young men up! We found out the night before we would be on the mountain at the same time, so we were so excited to run into them.

Another on the way down. It was kinda rough. But fun! And note the long braid I have!

I do believe this trip was exactly what I needed to pick me up in what has been a rather rough time. It was so fun and so beautiful!