We're goin' to Jackson

We went to Jackson Hole this weekend as a final hurrah for our first summer together. School starts in a week, and we needed an escape before we settled in to our Fall routine. We joined forces with our friends David and Natalie Bean (no relation!) and road-tripped to WY for a camping / whitewater rafting trip.



Our campground was lovely, in the middle of the Elk Preserve (no Elk in sight), and I was grateful for the bathroom option -- an outhouse with a hole in the ground. I drank as little as possible without getting dehydrated, and only used that wonderful option twice during our 2 night stay.



I usually never pack enough shirts for camping, so I was generous this trip. Not even necessary. Why is that?



This is the four of us plus Andrew's cousin Jason who was our guide on the river. We are currently "surfing lunch counter." Basically, we purposely got stuck on a big rapid and rode it for about 5 minutes! We have some great photos thanks to the guys taking photos from a rock above us.



Just outside our campsite -- what a beautiful view of the Tetons!



David and Natalie with the elk antler archway in the town.

We had such a great trip! And we all came home healthy, mom!

Rise and Shout

...and pull your iPods out...



Andrew has been GLUED to his iPhone, trying to gain any information he can about plans for BYU's athletic program in the 2011 school year. The number of articles I have read only increases according to how many articles Andrew chooses to READ OUT LOUD to me. I've become as well versed in conference negotiation lingo as I want to be -- and I'll stick to my craft blogs while I'm online, thank you very much.

All my friends have blogs with a list of their friends' blogs along the side of the page. I've started one of those lists, and I'm realizing we have not integrated ourselves into the married blogging world yet! We need more blogs / friends for our list. The first step is awareness, right? Then ... something like action? We'll keep trying to make blogger friends so we fit in here in UT valley.

Netflix

So I felt guilty for getting "When in Rome" the other day, so I watched it in the morning and ran down to put it in the mailbox before the mailman came that day. I knew "The Bourne Identity" would be coming next, so I thought we were even steven--one movie for me, one movie for Andrew. But SURPRISE! The next movie was actually "Stardust," which we have yet to watch because Andrew is still so disappointed. Looks like I lost my job running the Netflix queue. I'll just stick to the Instant Queue. It's already full of seasons of Lost and 24, so Andrew won't notice if I throw in some Reese Witherspoon and Katherine Heigl, right?

Home Grown Beans

Less than a month into our marriage, we had a great opportunity to baby-sit Andrew's three younger cousins, ages 8, 5, and 2. Beautiful and fun children. We learned a lot of stuff. A lot. And mostly what we learned is that we don't know ANYTHING about raising children!

BYU student married wards are pretty interesting. We were a little surprised when we walked in to church and saw everyone sitting in pairs!

Honeymoon in Disney World

When we checked into our hotel in Disney World, they gave us "Just Married" buttons to wear. We cheerfully put them on, and like magic, everyone was rejoicing in our recent union as much as we were!

We think we saw the same 2 newlywed couples throughout the whole week at the park. Presh.

Married May 1, 2010

We loved all our wedding gifts! Especially the old fashioned egg beater and the pig-shaped fry pan. Unfortunately, we planned to live in a place located thousands of miles from each of our reception locations. We spent a lot of post-wedding wrap-up returning gifts to local stores and making lists of what to buy again once we got back to Utah. The only casualty was a beautiful serving platter we returned to JC Penney and then couldn't buy back because they no longer had it in stock!