Never Forget

I still can't believe its been 9 years since the tragic day of 9/11. I'm so proud to be an American, and am thankful for all the men and women who fight for our freedom! My heart and prayers still go out to those who lost their lives and to the people who lost loved ones. God Bless America!!!

Fluuuugtaaaag!

This weekend Tyler and I had the privilege to go to St. Paul Minnesota and experience the Red Bull Flugtag, it was a blast! Tyler is the Red Bull Manager at General Distributing and works along side the actual Red Bull company so we were invited to go. Although it was a quick trip, it was all payed for and well worth it! St. Paul was so beautiful, and very very green!

If you don't know what the Flugtag is...people form a team and come up with some sort of flying device that they have to push off this 30 ft. platform into the water (in St. Paul it was the Mississippi River) to see who can fly/float the farthest. They also have to perform some sort of skit/dance before and are judged on that as well, it's free to enter and free to go watch! There were some pretty awesome and entertaining skits and air crafts! There were some professional judges, the Vikings linebacker, a professional snowmobiler (Red Bull athlete), and a professional Olympic skier (Red Bull athlete), etc. They estimated that there were 90,000 people there watching, it was packed! We were given VIP passes that sat us really close to the event on the water, so we were able to see everything great! The most exciting thing that happened was the Flugtag world record was broken, it hasn't been for 19 years. It was set at 195 feet, and the team that won this weekend reached 207 feet. Here are a few pics we snapped of the fun weekend get-away!

(James-a driver at General & Montana-who works for Red Bull in Ut.)

(Red Bull skydivers)

(the winner)

Lake Powell

So we are back from Lake Powell, and I'm so glad we were able to go down with my relatives and enjoy their company and the beauty of the lake! I still don't know why they chose the middle of July because it was over 100 degrees, but it was totally worth it(and actually wasn't as bad as I thought it might be)! I used to go every year with them, but haven't for about 6 years so it was great to go back! It was even better to be able to go with Tyler and Easton and experience it with them. We had a great time swimming, playing volleyball, wakeboarding, hiking, and sight seeing. I forgot to take pictures the first 2 days we were there so these are all of the last 3 days...

(gross!)

(the crew)

new hobby?

This past weekend I had the pleasure of taking my beautiful sister-in-law Taneal's senior pictures. We took our family pictures just this past fall with our Canon powershot (SX20 IS) nothing too fancy but a nice camera...and just did basic photoshop on them since I'm not educated well with photoshop. Anyways, Taneal had asked me to take them so I agreed to not thinking much because when I took our family pictures it wasn't as fun because lets just say it was a long day! I actually had a lot of fun shooting pictures of Taneal, she is so cute, petite, and such a talented amazing dancer & young woman!!! I was pretty pleased with the outcome even though I'm no pro...and would maybe even consider taking a photography class and learning more about photoshop! Here are just a few of my favorite pictures from that day.