About Kate

Kate is gone to Girl's Camp for the week, without a computer or phone, so now is the perfect time to do a post all about her. In typical bachelor style, I have not been eating well and the house is a mess, making her absence even more obvious. Anyways, Here are some pictures and details about Kate that some of you may not know.

Kate used to be an avid traveler, until she got married. Her dad works for Skywest and the flying benefits allowed them to travel all over the world. The picture above was taken in Krabi, Thailand with Laura the resident elephant at the hotel. When she married me, her flying benefits were terminated.

Kate is the only person in my family, besides Arie, that never knew Domino, our immortal Labrador. Kate also dislikes cats, so it goes without saying that she was not too pleased with my kitty cat dance post earlier this month.

Kate is hilarious. I would have to say that 99% of what makes me laugh each day is attributable to her. She cracks me up like nobody else.

Kate loves to camp. This comes in handy because she is camping all this week. This is a picture of her at the Johnson Family reunion a few weeks after our wedding. If we could, we would go camping a lot more since we have such amazing mountains right in our back yard.

Kate is an academic whiz kid. She earned straight A's through high school and was a regional sterling scholar. She spent a year on the exec council at Dixie College, was voted outstanding freshman of the year, and through scholarships she never had to pay for any of her college costs. Ok, I am bragging, I know.

And finally, Kate is a Skier, not a snowboarder. She refuses to strap on a board and see what it's like, but we get along despite this. As a bonus, you can see that she also has a pretty good scowl.

Moab + Scouts + July + Bikes = ?

For scout camp this year we went mountain biking in Moab. This was my first visit to the area and I was pretty impressed.


I was ready for a disappointment when we hiked up to delicate arch. I mean, it's just an arch. Anyways, I was totally amazed. Pictures do not do this place justice, it is just incredible.

The Gemini Bridges trail was pretty much all downhill, so it was a lot of fun. The bridges are pretty cool too.


Slickrock was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Up and down and up and down, over and over for 12 miles I think. It was a fun, hard ride.

This is Dead Horse Point, famous because it was used as a natural corral back in the wild west days.

The trip was a success, only a few of us were injured at all and even those were minor. I think we will go the more traditional route for scout camp next year, but this was a pretty fun alternative camp.

Kitty Cat Dance

This video has been around for awhile, but it still cracks me up.

Welcome Home

Spencer returned from his mission in Singapore last night so Kate and I surprised him at the Salt Lake airport. He was connecting to a flight to St. George so, with Jim's help, we were able to see him as he got off the plane. He was pretty confused, but considering the 2 days of traveling and 2 years away, he did pretty well.

More Pictures, Less Talk

Kate just hinted that I might write a little too much and post too few pictures. So Here are a bunch of pictures of New York. There is one more story from the trip that I want to tell, but I will save that until later. So here is the rest of the trip in visual format.


Waiting in line at the Empire State building


Some cute girl I met on top of the Empire State Building


Rockefeller Center, bumped into that cute girl again


Cool balloon thing near ground zero


Hangin' out with a wicked priest from the pageant. He was pretty nice.


Smallest fish in Lake Ontario


At the Canadian border. Who wouldn't brake for butterflies?


Ice cream at Niagara, Allie really enjoyed it


So did Arden, until she didn't get anymore


The falls are pretty amazing


The only picture of the whole family


Aboard the Maid of the Mist


Arie, all suited up


The Sacred Grove

That was a wicked-fun trip. Thanks Mom and Dad!

Mewzik

We just added music to the bottom of the blog. We borrowed the idea from the Boco's Brother. We got some killer tunes so check it out!

New York - Part 2

After our morning fiasco at the airport, we got to the airport extra early and flew into JFK somewhere around midnight. We spent the next day doing the usual touristy things, Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Rockefeller Center, etc. We had dinner at a pretty good steak house called sparks. The steaks were deeeeelicious but I got the feeling that we were a little out of our element there. The dinner menu consisted of one page of food and 3 pages of wine.

After dinner we were graced by a visit from Uncle Randolph, Liz, and Bamboo. Later on, Ralph took Andy, Fergi, Kate, and I to Cafe Lalo, pictured above, for some pastries. This particular cafe was featured in the movie You've got mail, which was particularly exciting for Kate since that is her favorite movie of all time.

After dessert, Kate and I hung out in times square. To Kate's great disappointment, the Ann Taylor Loft was not open at 1:00 am. It was fun enough that I've decided that we are moving there once I am done with school.