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My Birthday Paradise

All I wanted for my birthday this year was to go camping. We wanted to go all year and haven't been able to find time. The one time we tried to go this year we found 4 to 5 feet of snow in all the places we could have camped. :-( So, we were very excited to FINALLY get out of the city and share some time with each other and nature. We had such a great time. We got up there about 3 on Friday, my birthday, and got everything set up. We did a lot better packing this time than the last time we "tried" to go camping. And we bought this big new tent the beginning of this year that we got to try out for the first time. Landon used his boyscout skills and built us a perfect little fire to cook our tinfoil dinners on. I won't lie, they were absolutley fantastic. For those of you who use cream of chicken soup you should give broccolli cheese soup a try. It was mAgIcaL! Then of course we had to make the famous campfire smores. Yum! We brought up our DVD player to watch movies while we went to bed at night. I had thought I was charging the DVD player the whole day before, but it was on the wrong setting and didn't charge it at all. So, less than half way through the movie it shut off. We got some blankets and headed up to the car to watch the rest of it, while having it plugged into the car. :-) The next day we woke up and ate some cereal for breakfast and took the dogs on a little adventure. It was Moosey's first time in the mountains so you can only imagine how excited and curious he was. Mia always has a great time when we take her out like that so they were both like two little kids hyped up on a pound of sugar. We drove up to a pretty pond we know of and let the dogs run around and get dirty. We finally got Mia to swim!!!~~~~~~~ She is a real lab now! :-) We were very proud parents. Moosey on the other hand was a little prissy dog and would barely go in past the middle of his legs. That's okay though. We love them for those little differences. Landon would throw a stick out far enough in the water where Mia barely couldn't touch so she'd have to swim the rest of the way to get it. Then Moose would be waiting for her on the beach ready to take the stick from Mia. Mia is a good big sister. She'd let Moose take it and bring it to us, taking all the glory, without too much of a fuss. It is so beautiful up there right now, especially at those ponds. I got to take some pretty pictures. Landon always says that I spend too much time taking pics and not enough time paying attention to him. lol After our adventure at the ponds we got the wet and very dirty dogs back in the Escape and headed back to camp. We were planning on staying that night also, but when we got back we saw and heard the gray rumbling clouds rowling in. We didn't want to have to pack all our stuff up the next day soaking wet so we hurry and packed up everything in the escape in about fifteen minutes. Even though the trip was cut short we were so glad we were able to go. I couldn't think of a better way to spend my birthday, in the beautiful mountains with the man that I love. :-) The best way to explain this adventure is....MY BIRTHDAY PARADISE.

Happy B-day to ME!

The big 23! Wow! A lot of people seem to dread getting older. The way I have always looked at it is your age is just a number. You decide how old you are. You're only as old as you make yourself. Why wouldn't I be happy about getting older? I am 23, married to a perfect husband, have a beautiful home, two pups and many years ahead of me to raise a family. :-) We're off to go camping so I'll give you all the details when we get back! Have a splendid weekend!

Red, Red, & More Red

Last weekend we all head up to Landon's grandma and grandpa Smellie's to take family pictures. Each one of Landon's mom's siblings families had to wear a certain color. We orginally got baby blue, but it was a bit difficult for us all to find something we all liked in light blue. So, we ended up wearing red. Landon and I went up early to go relax at a park. We laid a blanket out, ate some lunch, watched a movie and took a nap. It was so nice to get to do something like that together. We never really have time where we just relax like that. Here are some fun pics to share the family fun!

Two Year Anniversary

Landon and I just had our two year anniversary on Sunday. We are now more in love, more patient, and more knowledgable about each other than we were a year ago.

Two Years Ago

Each year one of us plans something for our anniversary. This year was my turn. Since our actual anniversary was on Sunday this year we decided to make plans to celebrate it on Monday. So on Sunday Landon surprised me by making breakfast in bed and then took me out to Antelope Island. I had never been there before. It was so beautiful! We drove to the historic sight and got to see a lot of what life might have been like for our great grandparents. There were lots of antiques and some history about Antelope Island. As we were sitting out on one of the benches by the old houses a whole swarm of humming birds came up to the feeder hanger about 5 feet in front of us. I had never seen one so close. You could get almost right up to them without them even caring you were there. Then a huge storm came through that had the winds up to 50 mph so we decided to head on home. Our anniversary happens to be Landon's older sister's bday so we went to her house to wish her a happy birthday. We feel bad that we may sometimes over look her bday, it being on our anniversary, so we try our hardest to let her know we are remembering it's her special day too. :-)

This year I had planned for us to go up to Park City to do some shopping and have dinner. So on Monday morning we got up early and took the back way to Park City. It was such beautiful scenery! When we got there we jumped right into shopping. We parked at one end and walked and just kept going until we got to the end. We shopped for about 6 hours and both had good sized bags of clothes. Mission accomplished! :-) You can only imagine how hungry we were from all that shopping, so we went to Baja Cantina, a mexican food restaurant up by the Alpine Slide, and stuffed our faces. The food was delicious! I recommend all of you try it. You can't go up to Park City without getting a carmeled apple, so we stopped at the chocolate shop and grabbed one. Then we headed back home exhausted and with our brand new wardrobes. We had a lot of fun just getting to spend time together. We really don't get to do that as much as we'd like. Our jobs are very demanding and so our free time for "us" is few and far between. We both decided this was a perfect way to spend our anniversary. We got new clothes, good food, and time with each other. Who could ask for more? :-)