Camping

This weekend we went camping up Springville Canyon by Hobble Creek. We had a really good time it was a nice get away for the two of us since we had been so busy the last couple of weeks.



We went to the same place we went last year. I thought it would get a lot cooler up in the mountains which I guess it did since in Salem it was nearly 100 degrees and in the mountains it was about 75 degrees. It felt really nice but almost too warm to have a fire but we did anyways. We had some good food. We had tin foil dinners and raspberry cobbler for dinner. Joel made a log cabin with the briquettes. Here is a picture of it.



While we were waiting for the briquettes to heat up we were roasting starbursts...which are DELICIOUS!!



It was my first time to roast them and they were so good! Here is a picture right after Joel popped one in his mouth...they are so juicy!



Then later on in the evening we roasted marshmallows. Joel taught me how to make it golden and delicious. On our drive up I realized I forgot the flashlight...which I will never do again. So in the middle of the night I had to use our cellphones for light-which didn't work very well at all! We had some bacon and eggs in the dutch oven for breakfast. It was pretty good but, I think I need to practice cooking in the dutch oven more though. It was good to get away and spend sometime together ;)

Together Forever!!!

On July 2, 2010 Joel and I were sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. We have been asked why this temple...well there are a couple of reasons.

When we went to the Draper Temple open house the directions paper said there would be a temple over by the Bangerter Highway. It said the temple would be called Ogre Mountain. We thought that was funny and definitely unique-which put it in the ranking for our sealing. Then when the open house for that temple finally came we found out someone had just misspelled it (which wouldn't be hard to do). It was the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.

We went there one day and walked around before it was open and decided that we loved it. We took a lot of pictures. I think this is when we decided for sure it was where we wanted to be sealed.

Also when we went to the Oquirrh Mt. open house it was gorgeous inside. It has chandeliers in the shapes of stars (which are my favorite). It is considered the ring and star temple. This just helped reinforce that it was the temple for us to be sealed in.

This was a great experience and we loved having the family come. We missed the family that couldn't be there. We want them to be able to enjoy our experience also. So here are some pictures. The wind was blowing so hard we had to hide by the temple and couldn't go to far from it because it would blow my veil and dress. Thus there are lots of shadows on the pictures.



A picture in black and white.



We stood up on this ledge so you could see the beautiful yellow flowers.



A great example of how strong the wind was...it blew my veil up straight every time but usually the other person in the picture had to hold it down for me.

A picture with my parents.



A picture with Joel's parents.