Jordanelle Camping

We went to Jordanelle and camped on a site called "Hike-in" camping. We really beached our boat and walked just a little to get to the site. It was nice, it had a picnic table, cement pad, and fire pit. Emily and Neil drove up from Idaho and picked up Christina at the airport. We got to our campsite at about 6 or 7pm. We set up our tents and cooked our foil dinners. After that we took the boat out for a drive but did not get in the water. We played Neil's loud music and had fun. We played games like "BANG!" and ate s'mores. The next morning we ate bacon, pancakes, and eggs. Most of the day we were out on the lake teaching everyone how to waterskii. They all liked it a lot and picked it up pretty fast. We did some tubing also and Brian fell off pretty badly once. We did a little bit of fishing and I almost caught one but it got away. It was a very fun trip, I liked sitting around the campfire and cooking food the best.

Grove Creek Backpacking

This weekend we hiked the Grove Creek trail that starts in Pleasant Grove. It was about 3.5 miles one way and 2 miles were the side of the cliff like in the one picture. The trail was pretty skinny and some places had rocks up and down the side of the cliff that looked like they had slid. There is a bench to sit at about mile 3 that looks at a waterfall. The trail follows the Grove Creek almost the whole way. After that there is a bridge that crosses the creek and the scenery becomes more forest. There is a really nice place to camp called Indian Springs where the Grove Creek spring is. We got there at about 8pm and still had about an hour of daylight left. It was a really nice meadow to set up a tent in. We ate tortilla soup and it was so good. The next morning we had bacon and hot chocolate and it didn't take very long to hike down. Having walking poles was very nice on that cliff because they helped us balance and not fall. One of my favorite things about this hike was that it was free and not very far to drive to. It was very fun and we both enjoyed it. Here is a link to a page about the trail.

New Mexico

Brian and I took a trip down to New Mexico to go boating with Brian's brother Jared and his two sons Andrew (9) and Brayden (6). We went to Navajo lake which is kinda like Lake Powell but smaller, I like that it has a lot of little fingers so you can camp on the beach but be away from the main body of water. We camped on the beach and went tubing and water-skiing on Friday. We also did some fishing and Brian caught what we think is 2 Small mouth Bass. I also caught one. We ate one of Brian's and it was so good! I wanted to keep the others to eat but it was too much work to clean them so we threw them back. It was very fun.

On the Thursday Brian and I went to the Aztec ruins (actually inhabited by the Pueblo people). They were really cool. It was a city that was basically 1 building with a lot of rooms like houses.

Fishing at Utah Lake

Today we went fishing at Utah lake. It was really fun but we did not catch anything. It was supposed to rain today but it didn't so we went out. It was a bit cold though and kinda windy.

MCAT & Sand Hollow

Last weekend we drove down to Vegas and stayed with Brian's brother's family (Seth & Jenny) so Brian could take the MCAT. We drove Thursday and brought our boat which we dropped off in Hurricane with Brian's Mom's cousin (Buffalo) and then continued on to Vegas to spend the night with Seth and Jenny. Brian took the MCAT Friday morning and he thinks he did pretty well, he is very confident about most of it except the biology part. The practice tests he has been taking he got a 8, 10, and 9 on the three sections. Most mid or low level schools accept all 8's as average scores. So hopefully he did well.
Then Friday afternoon we drove back to Hurricane to grab our boat and go to Sand Hollow (10 minutes away from Hurricane). Before we left we found out that the Scuba Diving club in Springville was going down there that weekend so we brought all our gear and our boat too. We got there Friday night and just camped on the beach but it was very windy so it was like a sandstorm. We ended up sleeping on the floor of the boat so the sand would not get in our faces, it was very nice to have a bit of a breeze too.
Saturday morning we headed out on the boat because it was supposed to be less windy in the morning. We went water skiing and rode the tube a bit also. We tried to go diving but we started descending on our boat's anchor line to go look at the anchor and we could not see a thing. The wind had mixed up all the sand on the bottom that I could not even see Brian 2 feet away. So we didn't end up diving much, just 2 times for about 5 minutes each.
At 2pm on Saturday the Scuba club had a steak and baked potato BBQ which was really good. The potatoes were huge! We got to talk to everyone and nobody did much diving because there was nothing to see and it was easy to get lost.
We played around on the boat for a while and then we drove to Walmart and bought some fishing poles and tried our luck at fishing. We didn't catch anything but we did successfully figure out how to work the poles and put them all together. We did use worms and I didn't want to poke them with the hook but Brian made me. It was so weird because they would get all tense and wiggle too much. Anyways, we had a good time fishing and just relaxing on our boat.
We went to drive home Saturday night and were going to get a hotel somewhere around Parowan but we blew a tire on the trailer right before we got onto the freeway. The tire was ripped to shreds and luckly we were about a mile from Walmart so we just drove very slow about 1 mph to walmart but by then it was 7:30 and their tire service closes at 7pm so we stayed the night at Buffalo's house and went back to Walmart in the morning to get 4 new tires on the trailer because they were so old. Probably from like 1990 or something.
We drove back to Provo Sunday safely and then woke up Monday to find snow. It was a crazy weekend. We both got a bit of a sunburn but it is not that bad. Our skin is just so dry and needs lots of lotion.

Boat

Brian and I got a new boat, not new but new to us. It is just about as old as the other one we had. We found out that our old boat that we were fixing was not worth it to fix. It was beyond repair. So we got this new boat and we will be selling off parts from the old one which will pretty much pay for itself. It has a bench in the back and it continues up one side. The driver has a seat and the bow has more benches. There is storage under almost every seat and next to the engine. This one runs and yesterday we took it out to Utah lake to test it out. A storm was coming in so it was pretty choppy but at least we know it floats and moves. Here are a few pictures from when Mom and Dad were here.

Easter

This morning the Easter Bunny came and hid some candy in our house. Then he gave us some eggs with crazy faces. Brian loved the hunt.