5 Years!

Saturday was our 5th anniversary! I can hardly believe it! There are a few things that I need to mention here though before we move on to the pictures: 1) I am an idiot and I put the pictures in backwards again. This does not please me. 2) I am not going to be one of those people that posts a bunch of pictures from our wedding day because we got married in the dark ages before digital cameras were all that prevalent, so I would have to scan some-way too lazy for that. And frankly, I don't really feel like I need the world to see how much cuter and skinnier we were then--I don't think THAT blow to my ego is necessary at this point in my blogging career. Maybe next year. Anyhoo, we had such a great time, and here is our fun-filled weekend in reverse order:

On Saturday we hiked to the Timpanogos caves. I have wanted to do that since we moved here, and it was well-worth the trip. Here's Nate pretending that one of the stalagmites in the cave is his tooth...it didn't really turn out as he had hoped.

These were way cooler in person. I could go on and on about the caves, but I won't. I'll just tell you that the tour was like an hour of squeezing through tight spaces and learning about the history and legends that go along with the cave. Our tour guide was hilarious too. We really loved it, and I highly recommend it to anyone in the Utah area. They say you can bring kids, but you have to carry them inside the cave for the entire tour. That so would not fly with our little Dr. Moopers, so we had our wonderful downstairs neighbor, Jen watch him for us.

This is a really neat formation inside the cave called "cave bacon" There was also "cave popcorn" and "cave something else that I forget"


This is one of the views from our hike. The hike was fabulous. It was 1.5 miles up, we gained over a thousand feet of elevation in just that short distance!



Back to the caves again. They were very adamant about not touching the formations because they are alive, and the oils from our skin and clothes kills them.

I got really hungry though.

A fab. self-portrait because Nate and I feel stupid asking people to take our picture for us.

Finally we got up the courage to ask someone because we can never seem to squeeze both of our fat faces in the same picture at the same time. Go figure.

Being dorky in a beautiful archway along the hike.

Two dorks in a pod!

The Friday before we went on the same hike my Dad and I went on in May. So fun!

We are masters of the self portrait!

Here we are at the top-- all sweaty and gross!

Sadly, our hike came to a tragic conclusion. Reid (being the daredevil that he is) "over-leaned" while we were resting on a bridge and landed head first onto some rocks. Needless to say, he was very unhappy, and I had a panic-attack. We're all OK now though.


After our cave experience (see above photos) we went and saw "Get Smart" and let me tell you, I haven't laughed so hard in a movie for a really long time. I highly recommend it!

So here we are after five years of marriage. I would tell the story of how we met and all that, but I kind of think those stories can be a little annoying and a lot boring, so I will give you the very abridged version: We met in Bellingham. I wasn't interested at all. He took me to a scary movie. Still not interested. He took me go-carting and wowed me with his driving skills. We have been together ever since! I love my fabulous husband, and I look forward to many more years together!