Oh say can you see, Callie and Cara wakeboarding!

Yep we both got up! You can see from my face that I was pretty ecstatic. We both got stuck outside of the wake and couldn't get back in. I ended up going pretty fast and we both had headaches from crashing pretty hard.



Regardless, we both are wakeboarders. And we are awesome.

Marin and Mitch had fun surfing together again.





Jaren and I went up to Bear Lake with my family on Saturday to swim and hang out on the beach. It was a little cold, but you gotta love Bear Lake!!







Also, we watched fireworks in Brigham City. Happy 4th of July!!!

A dead squirrel... I mean chipmunk, a boat, and fathers

Believe in bad luck? I didn't much until this past weekend. It was a nice Friday evening, I just got home from work and was being told to "hustle my bustle" by my impatient husband. We both grabbed a pepperoni lean pocket, a yogurt, and a string cheese for dinner and cruised up the canyon to go backpacking. The drive was beautiful. We pulled off at the Tony Grove entrance and headed up towards the lake. We had almost made it, when a poor little something dashed out into the road. The little chipmunk ran right under the front tire and he was a goner. Poor little guy!

We started up the trail at a pretty fast pace. It was getting late and we had 3 ish miles to go to get to White Pine Lake. Fifteen minutes later, Jaren realized he had forgotten the tin foil for our dinner and a couple other things in the car, so he had me wait with the stuff while he ran back down the trail. He got about ten feet from the car and realized that the keys were in his pack. With me. Back up the trail he ran. Once he got back, he was out of breath, and so I grabbed the keys and took off. From early on, I felt this strange feeling that our trip might be plagued by the spirit of an evil dead chipmunk........

I think I was right. We lost the trail soon after and found ourselves scaling a mountain practically straight up trying to take a short cut over a hill. It wouldn't have been bad, but my legs were sore and my "25 pound pack" was actually 35 pounds (Jaren lied to me about the weight so I would think it was lighter... ), plus I am married to a little mountain goat so I was trying to catch up the whole time without falling to my death.

The sun went down, but luckily for us, Jaren had packed some handy dandy head lamps which helped us climb down the mountain, over another hill and finally find some other campers. We decided to camp for the night and went about finding a flat spot to pitch our tent. Jaren was great and built a fire with only ONE match!! ........ And about half a bottle of lighter fluid. We got our tent up and settled in for the night.



We will just say it was a long, cold, uncomfortable night. We have since bought ground pads and fleece blankets to take with us on our next adventure. Jaren packed up our stuff and started a fire while I gathered more wood, and warmed up our breakfast over the fire. We were back on the trail by six thirty am and home by nine. Hopefully this weekend we will be able to find the lake... and not run over any more chipmunks.








Luckily, we had plenty of time to take a nap the next day and get ready to go BOATING! Cara and Mitch just got a boat. They just became the favorite ;) The boys went wakeboarding and some of the girls went tubing. I went with Marin and yep, I was definitely more afraid than she was. Spencer didn't seem to know what to think of the boat and did not like putting his lifejacket on, and I don't know how many times little Kate fell over when the boat took off.











We spent most of fathers day at my Mom's new house in Brigham City. We had our usual breakfast for lunch feast and watched a couple of movies. My mom has a huge project on her hands, but good thing she is the Queen of projects!









That's all for now!!

Kate The Great.

Driving back from our family reunion in Cedar City on Saturday, I looked over and saw these gorgeous eyes.
Kate was so fun and was so smiley. About five minutes after I took these pictures she was sound asleep.

Happy 23rd Jaren!

Jaren is officially 23 years old! We celebrated by heading down to St. George for Memorial Day Weekend. We kicked off the weekend on a great foot... Jaren and I were driving down to St. George, swapping first date stories when I heard something big hit the back right wheel well. I thought, "Wow that was a big rock..." and we kept on driving. Only a couple seconds later, we heard the awful sound of a flat tire flopping on the road. We pulled over as fast as we could, but when you are going 80 mph, it takes a few seconds. Jaren and I hopped out and Jaren started changing the tire. I was glad he was there, I probably would have died. I was somewhat terrified being on the side of the road and seeing all those cars (and HUGE semis) barrel right on by us... I was surprised to see some physiology taking place... I think my adrenaline was going a little because I was shaking all over! I could just see a car smashing into us at any second... Jaren, however was not quite as useless as I was in this situation and got the spare tire on pretty fast, and we were soon back on the road going super slow on our doughnut tire. Luckily, it was still light enough for Jaren to be able to see, and again, luckily we made it into Beaver right about 9:45 as the tire shop was getting ready to close. Two new tires and less a few dollars later, we were back on the road going eighty and made it to St. George in no time.

The super active Sandberg family was up and going early the next morning. Jaren and Blake were off scrambling up cliffs in Snow Park, and I was out in the sun with JeriDell and Jay for a 6 mile walk around town. I only got sunburned a little, and tried to hide it from Jay, but of course he noticed it right off. :) Jaren and Blake had fun on their "scramble" up Snow Canyon also. In one spot they referred to as the "birthing canal," they had to shimmy up a super steep narrow spot and climb out of a small hole. Jaren almost lost his shorts, but thanks to Blake, made it up in one piece. It sounds like they had a good time!

After our exercises we all went out to lunch at Applebee's! It was great. We also made a trip up to Cedar City to visit Grandpa Sandberg. It was fun to see him and talk to him for a while. We visited Grandma Sandberg's headstone and found some other family while we were there.

Jay cooked up some steaks for lunch on Jaren's birthday, and JeriDell made an awesome cake. We had tons of good food and LOTS of delicious cake and ice cream. Jaren's friends came over for a few minutes to wish him a happy birthday. Jaren really cashed in this birthday. He got some camping gear, clothes, new basketball shoes, and his car cleaned and detailed. What a lucky kid! I got some new shoes too though, so I can't be jealous... Thanks again!!

On our way home, we stopped in Gunnison to visit my dad. It was fun to see him and the boys talked alot about cars. Good thing there was a cute baby around for me to watch while they talked... :) We stopped at my mom's new house on the way home also. They are definitely still moving in, but are making progress. They finally made it out of their storage units!! Way to go Mom!

Oh, and we found a creepy spider and had to take pictures of it. Sick!