Hike to Ruth Lake

Saturday Greg and I went on a little adventure. I had seen this cool hike in the newspaper and decided it would be a fun Saturday date. It was in the Uintah National Forest. We got a little lost and it ended up taking us an hour longer to get there than we thought, we almost ran out of gas, we forgot to get passes for our car when we drove into the park so when we parked we were worried we were going to get a ticket so we jogged the trail, and luckily made it back to our car before they caught us. Definitely was a struggle to finally start our hike, but it was gorgeous and the drive up was just as pretty. Our goal is to come back next summer and go camping and hike the trail again and hopefully be able to just relax and enjoy it to its fullest.

Sedona

Saturday we went to Sedona, AZ with our good friends Mal & Tim. It was gorgeous!! We have decided to start a tradition of going somewhere new in Arizona each month.

We had fun playing car games on the long drive there :), walking around all the cute little shops. We ate cactus fries which I actually thought were delicious, but no one else liked them. Got ice cream and headed over to see Montezuma's Castle....

I actually thought it would be a little hike, but you pretty much just drove up to it. It was really cool. Mallory and I really wanted to sneak up there and go exploring.

On the way home we went shopping at the outlet malls and to end the great day Greg got pulled over....

Luckily he is amazing at getting out of tickets and only got a warning :). We are excited for our next adventure.

Strawberry, AZ

To start our memorial weekend we went hiking and walked around the small city of Strawberry Arizona with the Low's.

The cute little Low family

We hiked to a natural bridge. It was a really hard hike :) ....well we thought we would be hiking for at LEAST a mile, but you basically drove to this area and than just hiked down. It was really pretty and there was what looked like a refreshing area to swim but you weren't allowed. So we were going to drive to Fossil Springs where Greg and I went on the fourth to go swimming, but it started raining.

So we decided to just walk around the small town of Strawberry. It was really cute we went to a bunch of antique shops, got ice cream and went out to eat at a little family owned restaurant.

Brady was so cute begging for ice cream and Erin was nice enough to share :)

I love that Erin is sticking out her tongue as well.

Fossil Springs

Greg and I had tons of fun on our long fourth of July weekend. We had the Low's and Wither's over on friday night and we played games, ate watermelon and had fun talking. On the fourth of July we got up early and went hiking with my co-worker Shannon, her husband Brenton and some of their friends. It was gorgoeous! We hiked to Fossil Springs which is near Strawberry, Arizona. We hiked down about four miles and just in the middle of no where is the springs. You would have never guesssed you were in Arizona. It was amazing!

Greg and Brenton


We explored a little when we got to this area and climbed trees, jumped off this little cliff into a pool of water between the first and second waterfall. We swam under the waterfall and in the cave below that you can barely see.

We swam here and played on the rope swing.

We hiked a different way out and right before we got to the cars we reached this other area where the springs were coming down. It would be a great spot to come and swim if you didn't want to hike. I definetly recommend hiking to the Springs someday it was so much fun. The only thing I can recommend is drinking a bunch of water. I was really scared I would faint or get sick, but I didn't at all and I was so proud of myself. We are so excited we found fun hiking buddies, we are looking forward to planning more trips, hopefully before the summer ends we will hike the Narrows. To end our fourth of July we drove home and were able to see fireworks all across the valley. It was a great end to a great day.

So it has been a while since I have blogged so here are a few little updates.....

- we got a couch!! so we don't have to sit on the floor anymore to watch a movie, we love it.

- I got a job working for my Uncle Tommy. I'm a receptionist at his company that does other companies payrolls, benefits and stuff like that. I love it, the people I work with are so friendly and laid back. Shannon is the one training me and we have become friends instantly. We have so much in common and during work half the time we are just talking about all these things we want to do together.Having good friends at work always makes things so much more enjoyable.

- I also found out that I got accepted to ASU! I still don't know if I'm going to go there though because tuition is so much more expensive compared to BYU, but at least I have a backup.