Spring Break

Well Winter Semester is finally over, and I am looking forward to the Summertime! Over my Spring Break I was able to go down and spend time in Utah with my family and Ryan and his family. Because it was Easter weekend, Ryan had Friday and Monday off, which worked out well so that we were able to meet up in Utah on Thursday afternoon.

We went rock climbing up Big Cottonwood Canyon

Ryan took me for a bike ride, I really enjoyed it!

Thursday night we were able to go to baptisms at the Draper Temple!

There I am...

St. George

Uncle Darrin and Aunt Jenny were kind enough to let us bombard them for a few days...THANK YOU!

Hoover Dam

We were able to take a tour of the dam and got to go all the way down to the bottom!

Zion's Nation Park

Me and Daddy on our first hike on the second day

On our way up to Angles Landing

I get the credit for finding this hole in the rock, thank you very much! lol.

...and credit for this too, but it was Ryan's idea to climb into it

17 switch backs...I thought it was harder going down than up

So I risked death here...climbing for 1/2 a mile on this rim, 1500 foot drop off on both sides

That's the ridge I hiked, some places were only a 2 feet wide

Resting

I made it the top of Angles Landing, and this is view from up there. We hiked up in the snow, and as we reached the top, the clouds moved out and it was beautiful! And by the time we got back to the bottom, there wasn't a cloud in sight.

Only the three of us made it all the way to the top, and I'm glad I did

On top of the world

Look at those Studs (Ryan and Casey)

So last weekend I went down to Lake Powell with Ryan's family, the weather was beautiful and the water was freezing...but worth ever ounce of tan that I got! lol.

So that sand hill in the back ground, we hiked up it, it's a WHOLE lot steeper than it looks in the picture, and took me forever to get to the top, but it was a lot of fun going down!

Hiking to the top of the Sand Hill...last one up...big surprise

This is Ryan...he's crazy

So there's a story behind this...it's called an Aqua Skipper, Ryan's cousin Reece is big into toys and this is one of his. I'll add some video's below of how this works, but you can also check it out on youtube...

He's my little climber

Tubing

LOOK! I was brave enough to get into this water...it was 50 degrees...crazy. My hands are out of the water, because they started to go numb if they were in the water...

So this is what we call a Sky Ski...I've never seen one before, but apparently they're quite popular. This is Ryan's Cousin Reece don't some stunts, he's crazy!

The Aqua Skipper:

This is Reece trying it for the first time

And here's Ryan trying it for the last time, they both got pretty good at it!

This Weekend

We went to a car show this weekend that my Uncle was in, we've got just a few pictures... Here's Ryan and his Lambo...

This is my uncles truck, it's so pretty!


So, this video...Ryan doesn't know it's up here, so don't tell him...he would really be embarrassed, but this just gives you a little idea of Ryan's Personality, something that you can't really see in the pictures. He is also so fun to be around.......Remember, don't tell, and enjoy...lol

Rest of St. George Trip

So these are the pictures that were taken when I went down to St. George last month, I and just got them from Ryan this weekend.

Ryan, Me, then behind me is Dan (Ryan's friend), then next to him is Ryan's Cousin Travis, then Greg and Joni (cousin).

So we fit 9 adults in this little 5 seater car...we got really close that day.

Ya, I know there's snow, and I'm in shorts, but it really wasn't that cold, that is not until the sun when down.

So we hiked into the canyon, then turned around and hiked back out of the canyon, this is on our way out. 13 miles and 9 hours later I wanted to crawl under a tree and die...but thankfully Ryan was there and kept me going.

I know this is a littl out of order, but this one is us hiking into the canyon

Just taking a little breather

So pretty!

This was the very beginning of the hike

I got to hold his hand ALL DAY! lol...

Ryan, Me, Reece (cousin), Meg (friend), Dan (friend), Ashlyn (friend), and Travis (cousin)

Here's all of us!

If my mother only knew I was doing this, she probably would kill me or Ryan for that matter. But I LOVE it!!!

Setting up the wall to climb

This is our bike ride that had so many challenges with flat tires...nothing was working out like we planned.

Oh, another bike ride two weeks ago in West Jordan, 17 miles baby!

So we 'had' to stop by the river to Ryan could teach to skip rocks, it was a failed attemp...

So Sad

I was able to go down to Utah this last weekend and spend it with Ryan and his family! It's Ryan's Spring Break, so he is off of school all this week. I was able to stay down there till Tuesday and made an extra long weekend out of it! For the rest of his Spring Break he's hiking down into the Grand Canyon with his family. I just got of the phone with him, and won't be able to talk to him again until they get out on Sunday afternoon. It makes me so sad, because now can I only not see him, but I can't even talk to him. This will be the first time since the day we met that we hadn't talked. And on top of that, my parents are still on their cruise, so I can't talk to them either. So I just feel sad with no one to talk to.

I have just a few pictures and a video to share of Ryan singing! Don't tell him, he'd be so embarrassed. The only problem is that the pictures and video are on my camera that I left at Ryan's house. So sorry, but you'll have to wait for it.

Well, I don't have much to report, there's three more weeks of the semester and six weeks till I have to say goodbye to Ryan for the Summer. School's starting to wind down, I only have one more final to take, two projects, and one paper left to do. So It's getting close. Well I should get going...

St. George trip

This weekend I was able to go all the way down to St. George and spend a few days with Ryan. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed my time down there, it was really hard to come back to school today and face the 30 degree weather again, it was in the 70's down there all weekend!!!

I mostly only have pictures from our Sunday activities, and Ryan has pictures from our Saturday activities, so I'll get those up here as soon as I can get them from him.

I drove down on Thursday afternoon and Ryan showed me around his campus, and it was so beautiful, it makes BYU-I look old and dumpy.

Friday I did homework for two hours while Ryan was in class, then we went down to St. George and went Mountain Biking, which was quite interesting. First of all I had to use Ryan's bike because it was the only one that was small enough for me, and it had the peddles that locked your feet in. So pretty much whenever we came to a big hill that I couldn't make it up, I would fall...with the bike...because I couldn't get my feet out of the peddles, I've got some sweet scratches and bruises from that. Then we went Rock climbing with another couple, and I mean real rock climbing, outside, on a rock, non of this gym rock wall stuff. It was really fun, I had never been real rock climbing before, but I definitely like it a lot more, and it was definitely a lot more challenging. After that we went to Darrin and Jenny's and was able to spend some time with them before we all headed to bed.

Saturday we got up and headed to Zion's, and hiked part of the subway, long story short...after many complications we all made it out after 9 hours of walking 13+ miles. We were so tired and just to glad to finally be done. I seriously got to the point where I didn't know how my feet were moving, they just were. That night we headed back to camp, had hot dogs and somores then headed to bed.

Sunday we got up, had breakfast and cleaned up camp then went to a local ward for church. After church we went to a part across the street and had lunch and took a short little nap out on the grass before we headed back into Zion's for a short little hike.

Well here are the pictures I have, enjoy:

We went for a walk around the St. George temple on Sunday afternoon

We did a short little hike in Zions after church on Sunday, so easy, I even did it in flip flops.

Oh I just LOVE him! At Zions

The Boys

Travis (Ryan's Cousin), Joni (Ryan's Cousin), and her fiance Greg, Me and Ryan, and Dan (friend of Ryan's).

So while we were driving through Zions, I was stuck in the back middle seat of the car and couldn't see anything, and I have never been to Zions and wanted to see it all, so I stood outside of the sun roof...don't tell my Dad, he'd kill me. lol.

We took a little power nap at this park after church and Travis wouldn't wake up, so all the guys went and jumped on him.

Travis sleeping, notice the handkerchief over his eyes...

Friday we went mountain biking in St. George, and my bike kept getting a flat tire, and Ryan was not very happy about that. You can't tell, but he's not smiling in this picture.