Good friends, good times

Well now it seems I am in a blogging frenzy...

Last night we went up to our friend's cabin for the night. It was tons of fun to get to spend time with these really cool couples that we have gotten to be such good friends with. We are all getting kicked out of our apartments within the next couple of months so they can be sold as condos and I have just been so sad since we found out. This is our first apartment and first ward and I do not want to leave it yet!Thanks to all our friends for the good times- craft night with the gals, B-ball for the boys, chatting, playing and just hanging out!

--Ashlee

Halloween

This Halloween we joined forces with our friends Mandi and Rory (and all the kids who would come near the scary redhead) for our funniest costume ever.

Polygamy can be funny right?

--Ashlee

Ketchup

Well it has been a LONG time since we last posted so here is a little catch-up and a few pics...

September was a little packed for us now that I look back on it. We went to the state fair and Lagoon one weekend...

Just being a little goofy :)


Enjoying the absolute best thing about the fair (besides friends) FUNNEL CAKE!

'Wicked' was our favorite ride--we rode it three times in a row and probably would have gone once more except they were closing the park!


Then, later in September we got to go on family vacations with both sides of the family! It was so much fun to get to spend time with both sides of our family since we don't get to see them all nearly enough! We love you guys!


First we flew to North Carolina and went to Myrtle Beach with the Berbert clan. I wondered a little if Mark would stress about sharks or jellyfish or something, but he was a regular beach boy! We loved the sand, the sun and the body surfing! We built a small sand castle, rode bikes one day to the pier and played lots of games.


We spent a brief time at home and then we were headed to the annual Pidcock Lake Powell family getaway. Unfortunately Mark and I hardly took any pictures at all since we had our professional photographer on hand (We need to get copies from Becky!) We got to play Bocce, explore the beaches and canyons of the lake, and wakeboard. Mark's mom tried wakeboarding too and is a pro!

Whew- 30 minutes later and we are only caught up through September. Maybe I can get to October this weekend. Stay tuned for the best Halloween costumes ever...

--Ashlee

Ashlee's first day of school

Well, its a little late but here it is Ashlee's picture on her first day of school. Unlike in kindergarten I think she has finally grew into her backpack. Ashlee is taking a couple of classes at the University of Utah because she wants to keep her teaching certificates up to date (as kind of an emergency prepardness item). This is just in case we have to rely on it during hard times. She is such a great team player.

--Mark

Bear Lake Motorcycle Ride

Here I am taking down the tent Saturday morning of what seemed to be the coldest night ever. I got no sleep and adding to the discomfort someones car alarm kept going off in the middle of the night.

These are our friends that went with us on the ride. Jake and Janet obviously put on all articles of clothing they had because when we went through woodruff and randolph it was freezing. I had to hunker down behind the windshield for protection.

Here is Bear Lake, we rented a jet ski for an hour and cut up the water for all those intense skiiers and wakeboarders. It was a good time.

--Mark

Food Storage and Welfare Square Cannery

Well, here we are with our humble beginings of a food storage. Our Prophet and the Stake are counseling us repeatedly about having a 3 month supply of daily food and a year supply of the basics. We finally had the opportunity to go to the Cannery at Welfare Square to get some supplies. What a wonderful opportunity that was. This experience gave me a strong testimony of the truthfulness of this church and the law of consecration. Just as Nephi said many years ago--he would go and do because the Lord would provide a way to accomplish. The Lord has asked us, through his Prophets, to have a food storage and he has provided a way that is a top of the line operation to accomplish what he has asked. Not only did we pack food for oursleves, we also packed for the shelf which others could pick from later.

--Mark

More summer pics

I think Mark did a great job in getting our blog started- thanks BABE! But I have to admit, I think the best thing about a blog is pictures! AND, we have had the chance to do a lot of fun things this summer, so I took the liberty to post some older summer pics...

--Ashlee

One of our more recent rides- just the two of us up Hobble Creek canyon. We fell asleep listening to the youth group singing in the campsite next to us :)

The "Wild Hogs" stopping at my new favorite tot provider on the way back from Dinosaur Nat'l Park (although not my favorite Nat'l Park). Seriously they had the best tots and fry sauce ever!

Memorial Day weekend Mark, Mark Roylance and I went to Zion's and Bryce Nat'l Parks. Hiking the Narrows was fun!

For being May- it was a bit chilly!

Another of our "Preparatory rides" (in anticipation of the HUGE, butt numbing ride for our anniversary). This was taken in Lehman's cave-Great Basin National Park. Really cool and fun place to see-

(I recommend it if you have a Nat'l Parks pass and are dying to see Delta)

We rode to the peak at Great Basin- it was 80 degrees at the bottom and like 50 at the top!

This is just us at a Blaze game- I thought we looked like a smokin' hot couple, but really didn't think you would scroll this far down...