August Adventures with Carol

During Carol's four-day visit we went several places including rafting on the Snake River, enjoying the gardens on campus exploring Herbert, ID ghost town, and swimming at Monkey Rock. We also enjoyed other activities like playing Sequence and Ping-pong.

The first picture is a picture of Lindsay in the wheat field leading to the only remaining building... I don't know how one building can be considered a 'ghost TOWN'?!












The next one is of Carol and I evaluating a moose hide and skeleton that we happened upon. Yep, it was pretty cool--probably 'the find/treasure' of the trip.














The third is from inside the supposed Herbert General Store, the outside is shown above in the first picture.














The next, Lindsay cruisin' back through the hot dry wheat field toward the Subaru.














Swimming at Monkey Rock was surprisingly cold for August, very refreshing.














Now turning to the future, Lindsay and I both are looking forward to Dad, Mom, and Saren bringing Emily over to Rexburg for the coming Fall Semester. It's going to be so fun to have Emily here!! Lindsay and I have already talked about a Mower Family Sunday Dinner tradition in addition to movies in the Theater Room and Emily doing her laundry at our casa and spending the night when she wants. Yes, these next few months are going to be neat indeed.

(btw: that took me FOREVER to figure out how to get the words and pictures in the margins that I wanted... but I think that I have it now :)

FYI: I reported to the MTC 3 years and 7 months ago from today. ...that's half of Saren's lifetime ago!

Married Student Campout!

Jason and I went on a married student Campout through BYU-Idaho. It was put on by some classmates of Danika in one of her classes. We had tons of fun!!! Here's a video and some pictures from our trip!



So I had some problems getting this picture on here, but this is what the hidden oasis looked like. Sorry it's not in order!


It was a bumpy ride to get to the hidden oasis.





This is us on the van ride to the location!













Making our sleeping spot official!











We did team-building activities, and this is the one with the spiderweb. Each person has to go through a different hole without touching the web. Jason was on the other side ready to carry me through (that's me going through)!







This is everyone that went on the campout. YAY! The little valley we stayed in is right behind us, down below.









Lee and Danika are on the left...he he he... Everyone pretty much fell asleep on the way home; except our driver Justin (thank goodness).

Tossing the Bouquet!

Sarah was the only one left. She had a destiny ahead of her... Matt was relying on her to catch this bouquet - for them.

Thank goodness she caught it! Now she and Matt can get married. YAY!

Making cookies!

So the directions didn't tell me what to do for high elevations! I blame the poorly written directions.... LOL... They actually didn't taste too bad though! Needless to say, it was a waste of our M&M's and cookie ingredients. At least the M&M's were regular and not peanut. That would have been a TOTAL waste...