Catch Up

Last week my work sent out a memo reminding us of Black-Out. This is when we can't use any of our paid time off. Unlike the past years, where I used all of my time by August, I still have quite a bit left that I have less than a month to use. I called Brendon and asked what the chances were of him getting Saturday off cause I want to take a personal day. Brendon found a way to make it work, so what did we do?...... we went CAMPING!!! You're surprised, I know. Sadly, the summer is almost over and we haven't gone camping nearly as much as normal. We had to try to squeeze another trip in. I left work early on Friday, got everything packed up, and when Brendon got off work we made the 10 minute trip up Hobble Creek. Ha ha!! Yeah we literally camped 10 minutes from our house. We got a great spot at the campground, with power and water, and enjoyed a nice weekend of some rest and relaxation. We were camped right by the creek and there weren't any other camp spots by us, so it was more like our usual trips that don't include a campground. Chevis enjoyed the creek and Michael is a born mountain child, so he kept himself entertained in the dirt with "Whinnin a Teen" (Lighting McQueen.)

We are really excited to spend our next scheduled vacation in Cedar! haha not really but we are looking forward to seeing the family and actually (hopefully) having some time to spend with everyone. After work on Tuesday we will head south..... and let the job hunt begin. At least we will be out on some kind of a hunt! Traditionally we spend the deer hunt camping, so we are hoping to get us a big one! haha

We also wanted to post a few pictures from our trip we took to Strawberry. This was over Labor Day weekend. While we were up there, we took a drive down to Deer Creek and took Michael swimming in a lake for the first time. He did a lot better than we thought and even made a little girlfriend. Her name was Aurora. Mom was staying at our house and watched Michael on the first night and the whole next day. (Grandparents are such a blessing!!!!!) It was hard leaving him, but we took advantage anyways and visited Park City, where we saw the Ski Jumps and the Bobsled track. You'd think that living up here we would actually take advantage of our surroundings. However, this was the first time either of us went to where the 2002 Winter Olympics had events. Then we took a ride on the Alpine Slide and the Alpine Coaster. Coaster was waaaaayyy better! We had a really great time and we are so thankful that we have the ability to take some time off work here and there to enjoy the outdoors!