Temples and Trails

Kyle and Miranda got sealed in the Rexburg Temple on Friday, July 26. Cortney came up and rode with us to Rexburg on Thursday night so she could attend the sealing with us.

It was a wonderful ceremony. Cortney and I also went to the Logan temple the week before when Miranda received her endowments.

The are such a cute couple!
We then had family pictures at the temple after. We then went over to a church for the luncheon. It was delish and the Father's said a few words. I wish I could have heard Jon better but they did a good job.

The church was decorated so cute! Miranda likes old things and the room was just darling.

This was the first time that Doran and I were able to visit the Rexburg Temple.

It was pretty warm and when Daddy shed his jacket I caught this picture.

After the luncheon we went back to the hotel and changed in Jon and Denise's room and headed to Driggs. Cortney came with us for the whole weekend. 

Jon and Denise have a condo up there and since no one was using it we decided to stay there and visit Jackson, Wyoming.

They have their old kitchen table up there and when anyone visits we sign our names on the table.

Well since Bar J was sold out we decided to go to Merry Piglets for dinner Friday night.

This is one of our favorite Mexican places to eat. 

It has fabulous salsa!

(We actually bought some to bring home with us)

We were planning on going for a run somewhere but we were unfamiliar with the area.

We decided that we would go up to Targee, as Jon suggested, and run some trails up on the ski hill.

It was over cast when we started and ended up raining but it was nice and cool.

We got lost a couple of times thinking we were on one trail but we ended up on another but they all brought us back to where we started.

It was BEAUTIFUL up there!

I would like to go again and maybe with a GPS instead of just the map we had.

I wish we would have started this sport when all the kids were younger but it is nice to have Cortney join us.

Our poor shoes got so muddy.

We ran/walked for about an hour on the trails and headed back.

When we got back to the parking lot we decided that we would take turns running down the canyon and driving.

I took first driving shift while Daddy and Cortney ran.

After a couple of miles Cortney and I switched places. I wanted to see if my heel could handle the downhill.

We decided to call it quits after a couple more miles. 

The rain was really coming down.

Cortney is a mess

We had a fun time running in the rain!

After our run we went back to the condo and cleaned up and headed back to Pocatello for Miranda's reception. It was held in a nursery and it was so cute!

They served cookies and milk and cereal!!

We headed home after that.

What a wonderful weekend we had!

Temple Service and Bear Lake

Thursday, June 6 we worked on the temple grounds. Doran did a lot of the mowing and I learned how to deadhead roses. No wonder why the temple grounds always look so nice. There is order in their service work and everyone is willing to do their part.

I wish I were better about making our own yard look as nice.

It was a neat learning experience.

I would do this again.

After the service work we went home and hooked the trailer up for our first camp trip.

We went to Bear Lake for the weekend with my Mom and Stan.

We had reservations for Rendezvous Beach.

We aren't much for the water experience as we are to get away.

When we arrived there weren't very many campers and then we figured out why, maybe.

On our drive over Logan canyon we saw helicopters flying over the mountains. We were wondering where they were headed.

Come to find out that they are based at Rendezvous Beach for some training.

Some people were annoyed that they were there because the were flying from sun-up to way late in the night. They didn't bother me, I was fascinated with them.

I asked what it would take for us to ride in one and they said to sign on the dotted line.

Uh...sign on the Enlistment papers.

I am not ready to do that and I admire the men and women that do!

Every time a chopped started up the M*A*S*H* theme song would start playing in my head.

Friday morning Doran and I got up and drove to the top of the summit.

When we were driving before we were calculating how far it was to our camp site.

We figured it to be about 8 miles.

We parked the truck at the lookout and headed down the road.

We were having a pretty good run and then we had a watch die on us so I started my phone.

We stopped and filled our water along the way and used a resort potty.

When we hit eight miles we knew we had miscalculated!!

At about mile 13 we ran out of water again.

There was a rest stop that the water was not working. There was some parks lady there filling a bucket and said we could have some of that water. We asked if it was drinking water but she wasn't sure. She thought so. It tasted AWFUL!

We could see the camp site so we sucked it up and finished instead of calling for a ride.

That was the longest eight miles I have ever run.
We ended at 14 miles!

Such a refreshing treat after a run.

I was so needing to put my feet in some ice so we decided to go and sit in the lake.

Well to get to the water from where we were, we had to trudge through the muck and sludge to get there.

This is as far as I got. It was gross, it felt like quicksand and...sharks!

That night we went to Pickleville Playhouse to see "El Bandito Rides Again".

It was hilarious!

Saturday morning was the Bear Lake Half-10k-5k race.

Doran thought about running the half but since we had already ran a grundle of miles the day before he wasn't sure he was up to another 13 miles so we went out to the road and watched for a couple of people we knew were running.

The service men and women were volunteering at a couple of the water stops. So cool!

We all took our bikes with us so we rode around camp a few times.

Sunday morning Doran and I went in to town to attend Sacrament.

It definitely was a great weekend!!

What's on YOUR plate?

Gah!! It's that time again!

You know, the time where you feel overwhelmed. 

Where you are so disorganized you don't know where to begin.

Where you put so much on your plate at the same time.

My home office is in shambles.

My work office doesn't look any better.

My closets are a mess.

My kitchen needs help.

I can't see out my windows because they are so dirty.

My callings are keeping me running,

not because it is busy and hard (which they are, in a way)

but because I created HUGE activities that will take a lot of organizing, work and cooperation from others.

My finances are out of control.

The dust is building up.

My fitness is slacking.

My motivation is shot.

I fell off the blog world and I want to come back!

My job is ehh...but I am thankful I have one.

Thank goodness my marriage is intact.

I want to CONTROL my life again.

Not my life control me!

One. Day. At. A. Time.