I'm behind

As evident by our lack of posts here, I'm behind on my blogging duties.  Drat.  On the mostly plus side though, my time has recently been gobbled up by planning for our biggest adventure yet... the Western Caribbean cruise we've been dreaming about.  Rejoice!

Unfortunately I finally have a second to blog and I do not have my camera with me which includes the other Christmas adventure I wanted to post about.  I guess those will have to come later.  In the meantime, I do have access to some lovely images of my birthday trip, so let's skip ahead for a bit, shall we? 

Turning 24 this year totally rocked!  I don't know why I didn't start doing this years ago, but I decided to take the day off for my birthday in order to enjoy the sunlight and use our new snow shoes.  It was absolutely fantastic!  Snow shoeing is now one of my favorite forms of exercise and it was so beautiful!  Thanks to Tyler for making my day blissful and perfect!  He made every possible preparation- researched what kind/how many layers of clothing and gear we needed to wear, prepared sack lunches, readied my new backpack, etc...   I even made him dig through my parents' shed to find some ski poles for us to borrow and that was a pretty miserable thing to do in the cold, dark night.  In the end though, it was beyond worth it.

One of the many reasons I LOVE Utah!  Is this beautiful or what?!  It was so fun to trek deep in the mountains where we got to see beautiful views like this that were not accessible in the car.

We are kind of nerdy.  But we love it!

I was all geared up like this for about 45 minutes.  From that point on, I couldn't get enough of this super thick, warm gear off of me.  It was so hot!  But all it took was a resting break to remind us that the temperatures were actually well below freezing.

Can you say gorgeous? That applies to both Tyler and the view.  I loved this spot along the trail because we found a little river that was mostly frozen over but you could still see the water flowing underneath it.

These last two pictures represent my best efforts to capture our snow art on camera.  In my defense, I couldn't even see the screen on my phone because the snow was so bright.  Anyway, you get the idea.

I'm now two dozen years old and I have to say that if every future birthday turns out to be as good as this one, bring it on!

Now you're probably wondering what this last picture has to do with snow shoeing in January.  Allow me to explain.  If you don't hear from us for a while, don't mind us, we're just living life to the fullest on this giant.  Wish us luck and take care!