Wynter is an awesome helper and always willing to do whatever and also asking what I need help with, this was for her sis... check out the cute feet, 'finishing' Skye's floor

Summer project of cleaning up the wood floor under the gross pet carpet! Skye kicked some major butt being an awesome remodel girl and it ended up looking awesome.... now if we could just finish the rest of the house:)


Spring road trip to Durango and beyond.... some good times
Montrose Colorado, had a great time hanging out! My husband is awesome....love him

I Love Yoga and Brittney Hale for hanging out with me for my yoga photo shoot at Borrowed Earth Emporium yoga studio... she is awesome and it was fun to challenge myself to get some shots for the yoga journal challenge.... too bad I am not from some big city, just ol o-town utah;)
Maybe next time, hard to get that big yoga teacher status is such a small town....

My favorite self portrait of the season, really fun split boarding adventure with the dogs. I got lost from Ryan for a minute and started to panic and then I figured that he was lost too, so the dogs would perhaps find us and that is what happened, got down to the road and Huck pulled me almost to the car. He is an unbelievable crazy psycho dog......lets leave it at that.

Some of my Favorites

My awesome husband and midget dog Mowgli in Montana at Chico Hot Springs, great gardens and yummy coffee....a definite place to visit. We had a great time driving, soaking, and walking around enjoying a great random find on our Montana road trip.

Wynter, a great BB gun shot at Sunridge

Skye with a gun, scary stuff.....Sunridge

Zoie, Skye and Wynter cupcake extravaganza...... sprinkles were definitely used in excess!

MONTANA.......... I want to go back right now, this was an unbelievable trip of 1500 miles + it was amazing to see Bald Eagles over the river, Ry fly fishing, Jackson, Yellowstone, Livingston, Bozeman, hot springs, Bitterroot Valley, yoga in the morn, Gallatin River camping, Hamilton Brew, cold mornings, sunny afternoons, beef stew, horses, fires, Salmon ID, and sleeping in the truck with 3 crazy dogs.
We will be going back for more and maybe to stay.........

LOVE this pic of us at Sun Valley, had so much fun on our private horseback ride experience. More to come as I sort out the pics but had to share:)

Summer Slacker

Ryan, the man I love.....

My Beautiful daughters with their faces painted, they were super patient because the line was so incredibly long. This was at the Jon Schmidt concert at Wolf Mountain and was so fun! Ryan even had a day off after 21 days straight working..... was a very relaxing night at work for me and fun for the fam too:)

At the top of 'chin scraper' training for the 100, Huck is such a great dog and the night just got more awesome with thunder and lightening and me running faster because I did not want that storm to kick my ass!

After 'Hurt in the Dirt' with my awesome mug:) I had so much fun at this race and had a great crew cheering me on, thanks girls

Us at the Rodeo! Great memories of my awesome husband proposing and sharing the spirit of the rodeo with Grandma and Grandpa. It was a night to remember with happy tears, cowboys, cowgirls, Wynter's broken boot, slushees thx to G-pa, Me missin Ry, G-ma and G-pa smiling, and fireworks....Happy B-day Mom, you rock:)

Favorite pic of the summer I think, we rode our bikes to fireworks at Weber State and ended up with the best spot, the best daughters and a down hill ride home that was so amazing with the wind in our hair and Wynt seeing trolls in the bushes....hee hee she is so cute!

Missing Ryan this summer because he is so busy and working his ass off for his dream with the Forest Service and Fire Tours.... We love him and appreciate his hard work and love when he comes home smelling like smoke and with dirt on his face. He is an amazing husband and loves Skye and Wynt so much, it is hard to not have him here to enjoy the things we love but know he is doing great things for his career and our family. I Love you Ry

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The Snow Chicks!

Thought I would include the self portrait of myself on the lift at Wolf on a really beautiful morning, I am so grateful that I have such a great job patroling on my snowboard. It has been such a blessing to smile every day that I go to work and not be stressed out, and even to invent the soup cooker out of a wire hanger with my fellow patroller Phil! The resolutions are coming along and I have completely enjoyed running and hiking this mellow Feb. and Mar.! More running and I will take pics too so that I can share.

The Yellow house in progress..... paint soon!!!! Awesome sunset night and it looks so beautiful sitting on the almost done porch, Ry did an amazing job and I love sitting and enjoying the random people of O-Town:)

Skye going big with some style to take 3rd in the Wolf Creed Slopestyle, she is so good under pressure..... I couldn't believe her on the rails... I am too scared of head injuries at this point in my life, but she is talented, stylish, and funny!

Wynter being a great supportive sis! She is such an amazing skier and lately snowboarder.... we will see what she decides to do more of! Love her crazy lines on the mountain!

resolutions?

Take the Leap!
Well, 2010, I am making some commitments in my life, and renewing some commitments also.



1. Run

2. Be the best mom and wife I can be despite moments of utter craziness

3. Run

4. Be a better sister and friend

5. Run

6. Be a better teacher

7. Run

8. Save money



Well that is about it, some people hate resolutions but I see them as a way to remember why you are who you are, and as a way of doing the things that you know are important to you but you are too scared to admit to.... for me, if I say it I have to be and do it .... Happy New Year

New Year's!!!!

Our devil dog Huck, this was after Ry tried and tried to get him to sit and take a pic, he went inside frustrated and I said two words......Huck, SIT
Getting ready to board the Polar Express, I realized how much Christmas spirit my girls have and had a beautiful moon lit dinner behind the grocery store after.....

Just a random shot, but for some reason I love it!

Merry Christmas!

Skye and Wynter are such fun girls and were such good sports at our 'on location' self portrait photo shoot! We had a lot of fun and even had some pics turn out! Can you believe they still like each other;) I will post more pics after Christmas!
Happy Holidays from Ryan, Christy Jo, Skye, Wynter, Ollie and Huck!
Hope you all get what you wish for, the spirit of Christmas has definitely hit us..... I have had happy tears three times in 24 hours:) Sometimes you just have to believe.......

Random Stuff from October

So cute.... the Baby not the pile of poo!
Wynter's Birthday....Joshua really loved popping the balloons....so fun to have everyone over

Skye and Mom at the Zoo,
saw the baby elephant and the baby giraffe....so cute!

Ryan and his self carving;)

Shingle Time...

Thank goodness Ry got this done before today's storm! It looks awesome... and his first time doing wood shake!

My NEW Old Stove....LOVE it so much and the griddle reminds me of the good ol' days in Bountiful ...pancakes and grilled cheese...yummy

The shingle removal.... hopefully the last of the really messy stuff. I can't wait to post pictures of the final product....which will hopefully be done before winter settles in, if it's not you will just have to wait til spring because we are going snowboarding!

Snowbird

Swinging!
Wynter's Balloon!

I have never heard the girls laugh so much, I could hear them from so far away since they walked to the park in front of us and I found them at the magic mirror! They were hilarious.....Snowbird was very relaxing and fun. The girls rode the alpine slide thanks to Grandpa Vic and had so much fun riding the lift without skiis, they thought it felt weird. Fabulous dinner thanks to George and Marla and beautiful weather, music, mountains....Love Snowbird and am grateful and happy we get to visit G-ma and G-pa Great in such a 'great' place.

Canoe Trip 2009

Good Morning to the world!
Am I enjoying the view or pooping in a bucket?

One of the beautiful canyons we experienced!

My favorite campsite of the trip, our deserted island... it was so awesome!

At Green River State Park, the start of the journey only 68 miles to go! Labyrinth Canyon
here we come..... what a great way to spend our anniversary. We saw so many beautiful things and paddling was pretty mellow. Our longest day was 23 miles and I was a bit bitchy and hungry by the time we found camp. But after a delicious river meal and a fire all was well
and we slept amazing!

We saw geese, wild dogs, blue heron, deer, a buck and we think a bear or a beaver... I say large beaver because I didn't want it to actually be a bear. Come to find out Ry actually did see some bear scat and was nice not to tell me and just quietly put the paddle by the tent for protection.... The echoes were amazing and we thought a lot about how cool it would be to hear Native American ceremonies in the canyon. What a serene place to relax and unwind, we did not see another soul for 2 and a half days.....

After 3 days of hard paddling the last night was spent on the island in the sand with red canyon walls, a great sunset and sunrise and only 9-ish miles to get to our take-out. We saw a cool inscription from 1836 up a canyon on the way. Huck became a great river dog sleeping under his polka dot umbrella and was hilarious checking stuff out. The wind made the going slow but we made it to Mineral Bottom by about noon.

AND!

We had some beer fairies leave us a treat in our car somehow still cold and boy did it ever make us smile...thanks Chelsea and Derek for braving the road and finding our car ...that was such a sweet end to a great trip.

Last Days of Summer!

This was so cool watching this storm come in...then the downpour started, we were soaked!

The girls ended up with about 3 inches of water in their tent by morning!

Day 2 Rain is awesome!

Wynter's poncho?

Before the storm began...great night and fire and roasted marshmellows

Skye's sandwich, yummy

Skye at the Point!

Wynter at Inspiration Point

Skye and Huck at sunset

Mom and Wynter

Checking the Mountain Goats out!

Wynter Anne

This is from a great trip to Inspiration Point, this was a great night hanging out. The weather was great, our dinner was awesome and the sunset was beautiful. These photos are in opposite order just for fun! Every trip we have been on this summer has had some sort of rain or snow or both....we seem to have a theme going on for 2009! The storm blew in over night and scared all of us to death it was so loud....had to get up in the middle of the night to put a rain fly on the girls tent. Heard the dogs howling all night, wind, rain and more wind. It was pretty funny.

Now the kids are back in school.... I am sure we will have many more great times to come!