This is Ammon, not Lizzy!

Dont worry. She will be back. I am not a convert blogger. This is her thing. However, I do want to remember some of the things we are doing from my own point of view.. Not that Lizzy does a bad job..
A couple of weeks ago we had a lesson in sunday school about personal history. I have never kept a journal, not even on my mission. So I suppose Lizzys efforts to keep this thing going aren't so bad. Or maybe its justification??
Well, we did make it to the Grandaddy Lakes this weekend. Just the two of us as usual. It was so fun for me. This was one of the very first backpacking trips I ever went on. It brings back memories every time I go up there. Me and my Dad and my brother went up there a long time ago. We had quite the experience. We were the only ones on the mountain because it was in May. We left the van keys at the lake so we had to hike down the road and camp while my Dad ran down the next morning to the nearest camp for help. Back then it seemed like torture, but today I love those experiences. I hope I get the chance to have ones like those with my kids someday. But for now its the two of us.
We left after work on friday and got there about 6pm.. well, as far as we could drive. Because of all the snow we got this year the road was still blocked about a half mile from the trailhead.
We were one of three trucks parked there.. Probably the first packers of the season, which is good cause no crowds. We took off and moved pretty quick. Its only 5 miles in but there was so many swamps and snow patches it took us a while to find a spot by the lake.
But we finally did find a spot that was just dry enough for our little tent to fit in. We were soaked so we set up camp, ate, did a little reading and hit the pads. It was beautifull the next day. Except for Lizzys hair!!
We passed groups hiking out and in.. The group hiking out was the same that blazed the trail for us in the snow. They had been in there for a few days, they were from Colorado and were visiting there daughter who was in college here in utah. Its fun to meet people on the trail like that.

Things are going good for Lizzy and I. We Like Spanish Fork, have good little jobs, have great friends and family, and we are staying plenty busy with callings and everything else.. Life is good.
And I like western family string cheese, its probably the best string cheese out there.

A Friday Night Adventure...

So last friday Ammon and I decided we wanted to go up to Granddaddy lakes in the Uintas for a overnight backpacking trip. We planned to be packed and ready to go by 4pm. Well, that didn't happen we ended up leaving around 6:30pm. So we thought to cut out the Friday evening traffic through Utah Country and head up highway 6 and go over to Strawberry Resevoir. We followed the signs to Strawberry and about 19 miles up the road split, there wasn't any signs saying strawberry this way...so we went with our best judgement (and also the map) which we later found out was wrong. So Friday night we spend 4 1/2 hours driving on a small dirt road through Spanish Fork Canyon. So about 11:00 we finally found the city lights and the road lead us to Hobble Creek.

So from the story you can assume that we didn't make it to Granddaddy lakes. But I do have to say it was one beautiful evening. Ammon and I did find some quiet little camping spots for some future trips!

I'm Back...

I do apologize about the delay in a new post...as with everyone’s lives things just get a little crazy at times. But here is a condensed version of what has been going on with our crazy life...

• We thought we were being so good and took care of our taxes early (Beginning of March). Well, the middle of May we still hadn’t seen anythings so I called the tax lady to see what the hold up was…well to make a long story short the tax lady forgot to submit our taxes. I know, I know I should have kept better tabs on things but life was crazy and I wasn’t organized. So I rushed around for a couple of days to try and take of that little matter.
• Summer time = side jobs for Ammon… so the last 2 weeks of May it was non-stop work for Ammon. The nightly routine would be he would get off about 6pm from regular work and then head on over to the side job. I would run something over for dinner and then not see him again until 11pm.
• May is the last month of school…so it is by far the busiest month at work (That and August when I get a whole new class). Trying to get the paper work ready for graduation and externships, things get a little crazy.
• I started my summer class the first part of June. In the summer time I just mostly have Medical Coding students trying to finish up.
• I had a major project due at work for the incentive program. This was due at the end of June. MATC added Dental Office Administration last year to my list of classes and I was in charge of creating the curriculum, so for the incentive program I had to pick something that would help our program. So I thought because we don’t have the funds to buy all the dental instruments I thought I would take pictures of each instrument and organize them into the different procedures, oh and let me just add I had to make 3 sets because we have more than one campus. So that is a little history of what the project was. So I just finished that up last week and I finally feel like I have time to breath again.
• I had a little accident in the parking lot of Macey’s. I was backing out at the same time this massive truck was pulling out. Well, his massive hitch on the back of the truck is what got me. I think Ammon was more upset that I got hit by a guy that worked for Triple T (another HVAC company) then the actual dent in the car;)
• I had a dental office call me to see if I could help them out for a couple weeks while they were in the process of hiring someone. So after I taught in the morning I would head over to the office for the afternoon. That just ended last week!
• I have had to make a couple trips to salt lake for the doctor. So that pretty much takes up a whole day.

Well, I am thinking life is somewhat back to normal pace. We have a couple reunions planned, a couple wedding in August, a few backpacking trips planned, and a couple more side jobs schedule for Ammon. So that will pretty much finish off the summer just in time for school to start.