Oregon

Cole and I had the chance to go to Portland and the coast a few weekends ago to see my sister, her cute family, and my brother. It was so fun to see my nephews and niece. We just love them to death!! One thing we always realize when we go up there is how dry Idaho is! It's so pretty up there. We always get lucky and have sunny warm weather. I wish I could have gotten more pictures of everyone. Here are a few, okay a lot of pictures from our trip.

The Olympics are making me lazy

The Olympics are making me lazy. I love watching them, but all I've done since they've started is sit on my booty. I keep telling myself after this event I'll go run, walk, grocery shop, prepare my young women's lesson, clean the kitchen, fold the clothes, and the list could probably go on and on. It doesn't help my guilt that these athletes are so fit while I'm living a sedentary lifestyle for two weeks. But they only come around every 4 years so I guess it's okay right? I'm building up my motivation to work toward an Olympic-fit body...

Some of my favorite things to watch have been: Missy Franklin's swimming, beach volleyball, and women's gymnastics.

Have any of you watched track cycling? Now that is craziness!

90 years of life

Can you imagine living 90 years of life? Our world has changed so much since 1922. If you were born in 1922, you would have lived through many wars, many presidents, many technological discoveries, many people coming into this world, and many people leaving this world. Well my amazing Grandpa did just this. He turned 90 and he's still just as handsome, smart, witty, and mobile as ever. He is one of the best guys I know. I love him so much. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have Grandpa Jack in my life. Happy Birthday Grandpa Jack. One year older and wiser too!!

36 Mosquito Bites

Cole and I decided to be spontaneous and go camping at 6:30 pm last night. So we threw everything in the back of our Subaru and drove an hour and a half past the Anderson Ranch Reservoir and down into a little river canyon.

We thought that we had everything we needed until we found a camp spot and got out of the car. Mosquitoville!!! We didn't have any bug spray. Ugh. We sat in the car and thought about whether we should just go back home or stick it out. We decided to stick it out. And even though I counted 36 mosquito bites today, I'm glad we went! We had a good time sitting around the campfire and waking up to the beautiful river. We decided to sleep in the back of the car and it was pretty comfy. We even had s'mores for breakfast. You can't beat that.

It's a race!

We went to the horse races yesterday and had a "hog killin' time". Yes that is a real cowboy phrase. I looked it up on a cowboy language website. :) Horses scare me. They are huge. But they're amazing and fun animals to watch. Naturally, I wanted to place bets on Lucky Sis to win.

The day and the life in Cicily's cubical

This is me not wanting to be at work. Understandably since coming back from Hawaii, work has been a little hard to get into. I have piles of paper to deal with all over my desk.

It's so freezing in here I have to make myself some herbal tea just to warm my paws on. I hate that I have to wear my winter coat/sweaters to work when it's 100 degrees outside.

I like to accumulate different cups and bottles as you can see.

Welcome to my cubical! :)

They're pretty cute

I have a couple nieces that are pretty darn cute. We got to hang with them tonight.

We went to the park tonight with my brother and sister-in-law and their two cute kiddies - Norah and Juniper. It was a great night with good weather and good company!

Norah named the little fishy Junie fish because it was small like Juniper. :)

Na Pali Coast and dolphins!

Today we started out early. We had a boat tour to see the Na Pali Coast. We had to wake up at 4:30 am in order to get to the harbor in time for launch.

The tour was amazing! Na Pali coast can only be seen by boat or air so it is mostly uninhabited. I've never seen anything like it. We saw dolphins and turtles swimming nearby.

After the coast, they took us to the forbidden island where we were able to snorkel right off the boat. I was really scared to be snorkeling in the middle of the ocean but I thought I'd better give it a try. It was cool, but I didn't stay out there too long.

The waters were really choppy on the way back. We all went flying around quite a bit. Overall it was a very adventurous experience. I got burnt really bad dangit!!

We all were pooped when we got back, but mustered up enough strength to go to a nice place to eat for our last night here. We went to Duke's Canoe Club and it was so fun and delicious.

I am so sad that we have to go home tomorrow. This trip came and went way too fast! Ugh...we made some good memories.