Newlyweds at 3 months

Everyone says that the first year of marriage is difficult, but does that really ever deter anyone from getting married? I sure hope not. Ben and I recently celebrated our 3 month anniversary, and our discovery has been that the first 25% of the first 1.0 year of marriage is actually pretty amazing. How's that for a statistic? As a side note, statisticians say that 98% of statistics are made up... so let's just say we're madly in love.

24th of July Camping

For the 24th of July weekend we went camping up near Cascade Springs with Landon and Liesl, who we commend for bringing little baby Andelin to join us. We found a beautiful meadow to camp in with a new found friend, Rex, who insisted we borrow several items from his trailer full of camping gear. The men loved doing MANLY things like setting up the new tents, looking for firewood, and building a raging fire. My favorite part was the food: eating delicious tinfoil dinners as well as an amazing dutch oven breakfast provided by Landon and Liesl. Camping is the greatest!



The manly men (Landon and Ben) searching for firewood.












Ben making delicious tinfoil dinners. As every mountain man knows, a good head lamp makes the meat much more tender.

Lake Powell

In July we had the awesome opportunity to go to Lake Powell with Ben's grandparents and family. Athena had never been but absolutely loved it! What a beautiful place. We water skied, jet skied, sun bathed, hiked up a slot canyon, all the while staying on a beautiful houseboat. Thank you Poppa and Grams!











Where we parked the houseboat. Can you see it?






When you get married you still don't know a lot about each other. I had yet to find out that my husband is the best looking man to have water skied Lake Powell. But I could have guessed that... :)