Mountain bikes and ice caves

For the longest time (4 years to be exact) I have wanted to go the ice caves. The road to get to the ice caves is so horrible that you HAVE to have four wheel drive and since no one I know has four wheel drive we have never gone. That is, until we decided to bike there. In this picture the road looks very nice but in many places there are deep ruts and lots of sand. Heather fell off her bike hitting one of the sand patches it was pretty funny.

These caves were hidden, no signs, no nothing. Just a dirt road, five miles later tons of lava rock. Then you have to dive into a gigantic pit and search for the cave opening.

We made rockin knee pads out of hand towels and duct tape. What a LIFESAVER. We should have made one for our butt though, sitting on the ice got SOOO cold

there was ice stalagmites, stalagtights and crystals everywhere. This is heather and the AWESOME ceiling

We had to repel a few feet inside the cave... How adventurous of us (notice the 12ft ice stalagmite behind me)

The hills are ALIVE...

With the sound of funky music!

My sister wanted pictures too, so I took them :)

Three years ago...

McKay and I were married! I know there are a whole bunch of people who are like "psh! shut up, that's nothing cool" but I don't care. For our anniversary we went to Grand Targhee and rode the ski lift up the mountain. At the top they have a great view which, i guess, is expected when you are 8,000 feet above the ground. And of course, I had to bring my camera!

I loved being with McKay and we have so much fun together!

Originally we were going to go to Jackson Hole but decided that driving down the mountain would not be a smart decision in our car. So we stayed on the WEST SIIIIDE! It was fun too (and a whole heck of a lot cheaper)

We had such a great time we are probably going to go back, but next time we will bike down the mountain! Sounds fun huh? Let me know if you would like to join us!

Idaho...

...is gorgeous in the summer!

and so is mcKay... well, actually I just put this up because it makes me laugh.

Way to jump out infront of the camera! haha

AHHHH!!!

So for graduation my grandma got me a brand new totally slamin camera. I am so excited and am still trying to figure it out. Braiden, Sharon and Ethan volunteered to be my practice models and we went to town! This is just a few photos I thought were SOOO ADORABLE! Aren't they cute?! Your jealous... I know you are.... ha

I will post more pictures soon. :)

Going to the beach

Going to the beach was one of the first things we did in Maryland. We had a really great time. We stayed at a hotel right next to the boardwalk, ate lots of good food, went shopping, and played on the beach. This first picture is us scoping out a good spot to set up.

McKay saying "AHH! this water is cold!"

My sister turned into a retarded ostrich. haha. She stayed like that for an hour and a half.

Apparently after this trip McKay LOVES the beach. HA! And now he loves to play "over or under" too.

One morning we went on a bike ride, there wasn't enough bikes for all of us so we rented this pedal-car thing. It looks easy but it is really hard. It would be a lot easier if we could change gears but not on this thing. It was stuck at like 1.1 the easiest setting ever.

Even with that as a limitation to how fast we could go it didn't stop us (see video) we actually got yelled at by some stranger after I ended this video.

Tornado

During our vacation in Maryland all we did was play, play, play. The one chore we did have was to mulch the playground. Mulching took three sweaty hours and many trips up and down the hill with wheelbarrows. Once we were done it felt good to take a shower and get all cleaned up. It was even better that we beat the rainstorm that was coming too. In less than thirty seconds a weird storm hit us and we had some pretty serious horizontal wind. Totally crazy! I was getting dressed in the bedroom I looked out the window, amused by the random leaves and junk flying in the air and thought it was funny. Then my mom told everyone to get downstairs.

I am pretty sure if I lived in a place with "real" tornadoes I would be one of those stupid people who gets killed.

Anyway, this picture with my brother and sister in it is what is left of the playground that we just mulched. Ironic...

The wind ripped our apple tree out of the ground. Sad day, but not very impressive... it was a small tree anyway.

Our neighbor had a full on bigmama tree fall feet from their house. Luckily it fell at an angle so it didn't crush their house. I mean how can that tree be uprooted like that and our cars didn't even get pushed over? (not that I'm complaining) I just don't get it.

This picture i put up because there are all these little goober things that got flung on our house and now it is polka dotted.

This swing was the lone survivor from our playground, held up by two beams. Awesome.

Entering the "real" world

I'm not really sure what "real" is though. Some people say it is moving out of your parent's house, graduation of high school, graduation of college, moving out of Idaho, or moving out of Maryland. I think it is just whenever you take responcibility for youself i guess. I would also disagree with the people who say that college is not the real world because talk about sucky,.... you have to pay thousands of dollars to do something that is not easy or fun. You have to pay for it too so you take up random jobs like being a janitor at 3:00 a.m. so you can make it to Calculus by 8:00. All the while surviving on ramen noodles, pizza, and mountain dew.

Well, whatever it is, I did it! Yay!

My mom and little sister came out to see my graduation
She is taller than me now (weird)

We all went out to dinner before graduation. mmMMM RIBS!
Thanks to everyone who has helped me!