Joel's Bridge

Joel has free time in the mornings at work and this past week he has been very productive. He is learning so much in his classes about composites and thinks about them all the time. He is always coming up with things he can build. He is very creative! So he decided he was going to build a bridge. Here is the final bridge. I think the bridge looks amazing!!!



It looks so good! Joel keeps telling me that he wants to put it in the kitchen or the living room. LOL I don't really know if it will look that good in either room but we might work something out. This isn't a fragile bridge...which I thought it would be but here is a picture of it holding a bucket that is almost 50 lbs.



Now that is impressive! It weighs like 0.8 lbs and can hold up to 50 lbs. I bet it can hold more that is just the most that Joel has tested on it.

The Cake

Joel goes to school at six pm which is when I get off work. So we just barely miss each other...it gets really boring at our house without Joel. If I am not at the gym then I am at home trying to make something new. This Thursday I made a cake. Here it is!

I was trying to make star decorations on it but it turned out more like a sun but I still like how it turned out.
It tasted delicious!!

It was my first time making frosting. It was so good! I couldn't stop eating it. I think I might have beat it a little to long it started to get thick. It was white chocolate...and did I mention it was sooooo good!!!

Here is Joel eating the cake...he seemed to like it. Not as much as me but then again it had white chocolate frosting and Joel isn't too much of a chocolate fan. He loved it with milk and a bowl just like his Papa.

I also made tapioca. It was not very good. LOL I must have cooked it too long. Joel still ate a lot of it though...probably so he wouldn't hurt my feelings. He is a great husband! He is very thoughtful and loving. I am one lucky woman!!

Hiking

Joel and I went hiking up by Payson Lakes this weekend. We had a good time...It was so nice up in the mountains. We hiked up by a waterfall- the Grotto. This is the view from the top of the waterfall.

We then drove like twenty more miles up the mountain to a site called Devil's Kitchen. They call it the little Bryce Canyon. It was a pretty cool outlook. The only problem we couldn't go down and actually hike around the rock formations. It was fenced off.




We had a picnic then were on our way back down the mountain....here is a picture of Joel right before. It is the famous Joel look. =) I have like a million pictures of him making this face...I just love it!




On our drive down the mountain, we saw cows everywhere...even on the road. It felt like we were back in Idaho.

Joel finished his bookshelf this week when Mom and Dad Ricks and Melanie came to visit us. I think it turned out great!! It really looks good. It is a darker wood that matches the table in our kitchen that Joel refinished. So Joel finished it and we got it half way down the stairs and it got stuck....so we had to flip it. But we did get it down the stairs as for when we have to bring it back up that will be a challenge. I finished filling it with stuff last night...so here it is finished!

Joel's Friend Loren got married...and Joel was a groomsman. He looks amazing in a tux!! These were the few pictures we actually took with our camera. Joel took a ton of pictures with the cameras off the table...most of which are of people eating and not watching =) We had a good time though. We got to catch up with Joel's friends from high school. It is hilarious to listen to them all reminisce about the good 'ol days.