ever since the fire went out

how do you know when your family is getting old? it's when your family vacations start to be referred to as "family reunions"

last weekend we went to JACKSON, WY ala la GRAND TETONS which is where we used to go a lot when we were younger but haven't been for a while. it was really fun and great weather despite some leftover snow from the previous weekend (??) that inhibited some of our grand hiking ambitions. i started saying "giddyup" about a week before the trip to get ready, because it's kind of a cowboy town. like a designer leather jackets, $4,000 antler furniture, i'm on a harley but 100 years ago it would have been a horse no question, i'm glad we're here so i can finally dust off my cowboy boots type of cowboy town. so i was warming up to "giddyup" and i thought it sounded pretty smooth and it just made sense to say and it fit right in, usually around "hey do you want to go to the bar j chuckwagon dinner?" response: "oh ya, giddyup". get it. but on day one, stacey was like why do you keep saying "giddyup" i don't know if i like it. but by day two she was saying it all the time too, but it didn't sound as good as she hadn't been warming up to it. i can't decide yet if i will stick with it or not because it kind of draws a lot of attention to the fact that i am not a cowboy.

sandlot ii

i went to the hip happening orem summerfest last weekend. all the rides looked super amateur and our greatest fear was the rides falling apart. i also paid a dollar so i could throw a dart and win a $.50 prize. i did not win. we went on the below ride and i felt so sick i thought i could die. g force backwards to the max. we didn't notice on the way in, but upon disembarking the ride, we noticed a decent amount of upchuck around the perimeter. consider it the last time i time i call any ride amateur to its face. ehhhh

growing gills

over the past few months we (family and i) have been going through s.c.u.b.a. certification, and last saturday was the final dive day, so we are officially dive and fish and underwater excitement ready. we were thinking about going to hawaii this summer so we started getting certified, but then it didn't happen, so now we are just all dressed up but nowhere to go. but if you think about it, it's kind of like getting a passport, you really have to get it before you have plans, because once you buy that plane ticket, it's hard to fit in all those scuba lessons to your schedule and the post office takes forever to send the passport so they charge you an extra $100 even though it only takes a few days to make anyway.

the shop, the homestead crater where we dived
it was actually really just fun to have an excuse to hang out with the fam once a week, and it was soo easy, easier than snorkling, and fun, even though there have been no fish yet, mostly just bandaids and toy alligators. trip time...

slow june