Some Spring Pictures

Spring is here! And with that comes beautiful blooming flowers everywhere. Just outside our back door there are some fruit trees that had beautiful blooms and I just couldn't resist taking a few pictures!

And with Spring comes BBQ'ing! Here is a picture of Morgan with our new/used bbq given to us from his parents (they happened to have an extra). It works great and we've used it a lot!

Quick Getaway to Angels Camp, CA

Morgan and I had been wanting to get away for so long and finally last weekend, we got home from work, got online and quickly decided without second thoughts, that we were going to Angels Camp and made a reservation at the Best Western there. Without knowing much of what else we were going to do we left. Our 1.5 hr drive there was beautiful. The sun was setting as we traveled. After we arrived we had the plan of going to Calavares Big Trees in the morning and then to one of the few caverns that they have around that area.

In the morning we traveled to Calavares Big Trees. There, we hiked the North Grove Trail in the snow. It took about 1 hr & 10 minutes or so. It was so pretty. It was a new experience to see everything in the snow.

Remember the book "Where's Waldo?"...Where's Morgan?

The trail was so pretty.

At one point we went off the trail and I was walking up a snowy hillside to a big tree (they were everywhere, let me tell ya) and then all of a sudden I fell through the snow and I was about upper thigh deep in snow. It was pretty funny. The picture below is me getting the snow out of my socks and shoes. Morgan had to do that a few times too. We'd be walking the trail and then "Whoosh" he'd sink into the snow a few feet or so. We had so much fun. Lots of laughing.

The only time you'll see Morgan as a treehugger.

My cute lil' hubby.

I love making snow angels!

M.Y. stands for Morgan Young in case you were wondering :)-

Moaning Cavern, CA

After our adventures at Calavares Big Trees we went to the Moaning Cavern. Morgan had never been in a cave before so it was pretty darn cool. There were two ways into this cave. The entrance below where you walk down well over 200 flights of stairs 165 ft under the earths surface or repel the entire 165 ft (the 2nd picture). I am so afraid of heights so we walked down and back up. It was a great workout.

After you walk down the first 65 ft, the cave opens up into this big deep room that goes down another 100 ft where it is said that the statue of liberty could almost fit.

These stairs are made of World War I or II (I don't know my history) battleship steel. We walked down the next 100 ft on these stairs. It was pretty amazing.

This is the ceiling of the cave.

The view looking up at all of those stairs. At this point I'm thinking "Oh yeah, we have to walk back up these stairs". Let me tell you, I was huffing and puffing whereas Morgan was ahead of me doing just fine.

Happy Valentines Day!

Yesterday was Stake Temple Day and it just happened to fall on Valentines Day. I can't think of a better way to spend it than in the temple with my husband. My parents and Mikey were there as well and it was just so wonderful. The weather was so amazing. The clouds were beautiful and the sky was so blue. My sister, Leslie and her husband Jason came into town for a short visit lasnight as well. It was good to see them and their beautiful kids.

My cute parents.

It Snowed!

Friday February 13th, 2009 it snowed! It was so beautiful! Of course we were at work that day so we only got to see it in the morning and it melted by the time we went home that evening. We sure need all this moisture we are getting.

January 4th - Our 1 Year Anniversary

Yes, it has been a year since we've been married. We made it a year! Honestly, it seems longer. It's been a great year and we look forward to the many years to come! We didn't celebrate our Anniversary until the weekend following January 4th. We stayed in and made a special dinner. We would have liked to leave town for a few days but we got ourselves a treadmill instead. It was such a great deal! We have always talked about being better about exercising but moving to a place that is in the boondocks posed the question, 'where would we go running'? There isn't any room to go running on the 55 mph road that we live off of. Our second bedroom in our new place fits the treadmill perfectly. We've been using it a lot too!

Happy New Year!

For New Year's Eve, we as family and friends gathered at my parents house. It looked like everyone had a great time. I slept from 9pm or so until 30 seconds before the ball dropped, so I wasn't much company. There was plenty of food to go around, times ten and a lot of visiting, and Settler's of Catan was being played. It was a good evening. Happy New Year!!!

This was our first New Year's as a married couple and I was asleep for most of it then half asleep for our New Year's kiss! Pretty funny lookin' eh?

Here are some random pictures of Mikey's turtle. This turtle is so cool. His name is Speed. Sometimes we catch him sleeping, standing up, on the edge of the rock in his little aquarium. It is hilarious!

Then sometimes he lays there on the rock with his head stretched forward and one or both of his back legs stretched behind him, and this is how he sunbathes.

Our friends, Sean and Courtney Whelan were in town and came over before the family and friends get together. Although it was a quick visit, it was a good one. We wish we could see them more, they are going to school in Utah.