A New, Small, Addition to the Family

Recently a friend of ours left a comment, similar to the title of this post, on another post in this blog. I have been waiting a while to post this, about a month and a half. To clarify our friend's comment and share the good news I just have to say . . .



























WE BOUGHT ANOTHER NOOK!!!

That's right W and I are now a TWO Nook family instead of just a one Nook family and we love it. Now we both can read to our hearts content with our fairly large digital book collection. Welcome the our family my little nookie Nook, you've been a long time coming! ;-)

Great Basin

W and I went to Great Basin the weekend after Father's Day. We didn't hike to the top of Wheeler Peak again during this visit or see the Bristlecone Pine Grove. They had more snow this past year then they have had in a long time and most of the higher trails were too snowy to hike on or find. We did however take another tour through Lehman Caves, which was fun. Tara was our tour guide and we became such good friends with her during the tour that she suggested we take the Lehman Caves candlelight tour and even squeezed us in when the tour list was full. It was awesome to see the caves in a way that the first tourists might have seen them over one hundred years ago. I have some pictures, but I can't find the camera that has the pictures we took in the cave, I'll post those later. (I'm beginning to notice a bad pattern here, one of these days I will find all of my camera stuff and keep it close to my computer ;-) ).

Behold Wheeler Peak!

W built a snowman while we were out hiking at the end of June!

This is a picture of the first campfire I ever built by myself!

More fire!

Check out this cool fungus we saw on a hike!

Bryce Canyon

Well before this year was out and before our America the Beautiful Pass expired we went to Bryce Canyon for my first time. We went to Bryce Canyon with my Dad (it was his first time too) over Father's Day weekend and camped two nights! We spent Saturday going all over the park, seeing everything and hiking around a little bit. My dad took lots of pictures and I did too! I'm really going to enjoy them for years to come. It was the best Father's Day that I've celebrated in a long time.

Here are some of the pictures that we took:

Here is a picture of my two most favorite men at Wall Street!

One of my favorite of the amphitheater!

I'm very afraid of heights and this is a trail that we went on that drops off on both sides, the above picture is a picture of my return from the end of the trail and the below picture is one of me going toward the little hill in the top picture. The whole time that I was doing this I was repeating things to myself like "The only ground that matters is the ground below your feet." "Don't look anywhere but the ground beneath your feet." I'm such a wuss sometimes! :)

Me and my dad!

W and I standing next to a young Bristlecone Pine, this tree is probably only a few hundred years old!

Here's a cool looking Bristlecone!

Same one.

Here's a picture of me with another Bristlecone.

Hair

W has been growing his hair out and so have I!

Movie Extra

By the end of May W and I no longer worked at the after school thing because the school year was over. But W did get to be in a low budget movie! He had a small speaking part and a featured extra. They chose him because they thought he would look like a great pioneer and he did! I even got to make him and shirt and suspenders for it. It was fun!

Basket Weaving

I taught a basket weaving class for the first time this last spring. It was one of those community classes that they do in most areas only I taught it. I had a blast and my students made great baskets. One of them even went on to make dyed baskets for her nieces and nephews for Easter, it was more ambitious than I would have been. I was so proud of all of my students especially the two that were related to me, my mom and dad. :)

My Family

I failed to mention this earlier, but my family ended up moving here as well! My mom, dad, sister and her husband and kids, and my grandma all live here now. I have loved having them close and have really enjoyed being involved in all of the birthdays and other holidays that I have gotten to spend with them. It so nice to go over and see my nieces and nephew and actually have them recognize me and run up to me for a hug yelling "Auntie S!" I love it every time!