Trails 2 Travel

Let's get you caught up on another triad of random happenings this winter. The new Provo City Center Temple had it's open house and I had the immense please of going twice! First I went with Braden and my mind was blown! It is absolutely gorgeous inside! I mean really classy and well done. The second time I took my gal pal Katie (same one from the Ice Castles and half my other posts) and again had a splendid time. We capped that visit off with breaskfast at Kneaders so I could give her the full Utah morning routine while she's out here... she needed to experience it at least once. And for me.. I need to experience skiing in Utah... at least once. Well gear up friends for yet another. traumatizing. tale. I got Snow bird lift tickets for Braden and I for extraordinary good behavior at work and we were both so excited! Even though I've been working graves, I woke up early, Braden took a half day at work, and we headed up the mountain by noon. We stopped i...

Next post: ICE CASTLES!!! Dun dun dun... So ya I've been wanting to go to the Ice Castles pretty much since I moved to Utah, but like most Winter things... I just never got around to it until it was like Spring... not not possible anymore. So when my girl friend asked me if Braden and I wanted to join her on a week night (less busy and MUCH cheaper) I jumped right on the band wagon! They had a couple really cool running fountains (the one at the top and the one to the right) All in all I'd say the castle felt more like an ice canyon and the fountain to the right reminded me of a picturesque water fall, but castle works too! It started off not too cold but as the sun set and things started to chill, we helped ourselves to some hot chocolate at the cute little stand inside the ice castle. They had cinnamon rolls and other snacks and the prices were really actually decent which made the hot chocolate all the more sweet! Then it was off to explore! We circled the p...

Ok so this post is kind of just a hodge podge of my life on grave shifts. Above photo is the what I claimed as my 1st hike of the 52 and I went with my good friend Mya and her dogs! It was actively snowing and the best part was, since we both wore snow pants, we actually slid down most of the trail on our bottoms! It was a blast! To the left: Ollie passed out after the adventure. He sure loves cuddling with (on) Braden. To the right: Just about every night that I'm home on my night's off, I usually stay up till around 4 in the morning so I'm in between shifts and Monty cuddles like this with me on the couch. I sit on my computer with the tv on, and he climbs in between me and the couch! What a snuggle bug! Below: How Ollie copes with the grave shifts... he sleeps in "his" chair. Such sweet kids! And because how could I not post photos of the progress at Battle Creek Falls, here is a photo from probably a month later (hike 2) with another gal pal!...

Quick little New Year's Eve post. I actually had to work New Years Eve and New Years day so I didn't quite make it to midnight but we still had a great night! We had a relaxing dinner and dessert, watched some movies, and for a brief couple of minutes, we ran out on my back deck to play with sparklers! And by play, of course I mean pretend I'm a wizard casting spells with my wand. We also wrote out our New Years Resolutions which of course I've already failed a nice chunk of them. Some of mine included: 1. Hike or run at least 15 miles per week. Considering I've been on graves, it's cold outside, and my knee was hurting too much to actually run, this turned more into using the elliptical machine and doing more like 12 miles per week. But Hey maybe I'll get there now that the weather is warming up! 2. Eat healthier (especially concerning fruits and vegetables) again a failure as the majority of the time I had an apple a day and sometimes ...

Recognize this spot?! Yep I posted about it like 2 days ago with the beautiful Fall leaves and now... covered in snow! I bought snow boots and when I saw how beautiful the mountains looked from my house, I knew it was finally my time to go explore the Winter Wonderland! (Sorry, this post actually precedes Christmas and snowshoeing chronologically...) Sorry, photo over load, but the best part of going hiking on this go around was seeing how much the boys loved it! We had the trail completely to ourselves and all in all, it wasn't too cold of a day! I loved seeing them both run around and Monty had the snow sticking to him which just made him the cutest snow bunny in my book! We hiked around the little park area and headed up to Battle Creek Falls to check out how frozen they were! We weren't disappointed by one bit of this trail! The base of the waterfall had started to grow into a little bowl but it's not nearly the size of what it ...