Heeding The Call of The Wild

Austin and I have been playing vagabond for the past month. It's really fun, you should try it! It's sort of like playing house, except you live out of your suit case for weeks at a time, sleep on the ground (other people's bed's are sometimes allowed), bum food off of your parents, and shower only once in a while. It's wonderfully simple, this wild vagabond life. Sometimes you don't even need a toothbrush!

For our little family this has been the wonderful month of vacations. What happened was that Austin and I looked over our schedule for the next 10 years and decided that instead of spreading out our vacations over those years like normal people....we'd just stuff them all into this one month!

So we've been cabining up in Idaho with my fam where we went biking, hiking, and paragliding; went water skiing/ skin burning at Bear Lake with the Beck's and the Bear Lake families; did some time in Liberty with old pals; Beaver Mountain with my extended family; spent some time at Beck's for Keslie and Jake's birthday; Pocatello for cousin's homecoming; St. George for a wedding and now my memory is fading so I can't remember the rest. Whew! What a blast! I love being with both Austin and my family. It draws us closer together and gives us ridiculous memories to laugh about later on (like listening to Jake try to convince Jenny to go golfing at 7:30 in the morning...good times)

Cooling off at Bath Tub rock

Girls and Dad on a hike while the boys are flying

City of Rocks

Mom and Dad found a peep hole at Bath Tub Rock

And now we are back to reality and man is she demanding! Reality sure does have a long "to do" list....it's much more fun pretending like you live in reality then to actually be in it sometimes. But don't worry, we didn't dawdle. Reality grabbed us as soon as we walked in our door. She gave us packages of reality surprises like: mold in the sink = dishes getting washed with bleach, a plugged bath tube that caught ginormous spiders, moldy bread on the shelf, a stinky garbage can, and lots of ear wigs because we live next to a field. But! It's good to be back in our little apartment where I sleep in my own bed, just be with Austin, make my own food, clean all our clothes, wash all the dishes, and pay my own bills---wait a minute, that's not fun. Oh reality, you are such a kidder.

(More pictures to come once I can kyfe them from various sources)