Grandeur Peak.

My oldest brother is an avid hiker. He goes on two or three hikes every week. He told me earlier this year that he is going to summit the "6 Peaks of the Wasatch". Those peaks would be in order of North to South; Grandeur, Olympus, Twin, Lone, Box Elder and Timpanogos. This sounded like a great idea to me. I drive the Wasatch front day in and day out and look at these peaks. It would be awesome to say that I have stood atop of the lot of them.

On Saturday June 2nd I was having a day that I am sure we are all familiar with. The "what do you want to do? 'I don't know what do you want to do?" type of day. I figured that if I went alone and huffed it I could summit Grandeur reasonably quick. I headed out and in a 2 1/2 hour round trip I was up and down. I have been getting in better shape and was able to keep a good pace the entire time.

I did have a quick run in with nature. As I rounded one of the many corners I ran nose to snout with a nice sized rattler positioned on the trail. We caught each other of guard and he let me know it. He hissed rattled and posed in a striking position. A couple of rock throws and he moved out of the way. All in all it was some great scenery, good tunes (thanks to iPod) and a decent sense of accomplishment stepping towards accomplishing a goal of mine.

Camden is on the board.

Our family would like to introduce you to the toothless version of Camden. He is by far the most excited kid ever. I have caught him giggling all day at the prospect of a pending trip from "Twinkle" the tooth fairy.

2007 Team Meag-A-Tuff Race for the Cure.

The 2007 Team was full of friends and family. We had a great turn out! Roughly 65people that ran, walked and rolled the 5K race. It was a lot of fun and we will do it again next year. The fastest of our team was Justin who finished in 20:20. My goal was to finish in 29:59 and I was able to finish in 28:38, exactly one minute behind my wife.
Sarah, Marlene and Riley. Three generations. Marlene is a breast cancer survivor and a great mother-in-law!!!
My beautiful family.

Fishin' with Bob.

Friday the 27th of April brought some of the best weather of the year. A perfect day to grab the poles and head for the holes. My step dad Bob and Brian and I ran up Provo Canyon to Deer Creek Reservoir. Bob lives in Alaska and is an amazing fisherman.

I think he was disappointed in our power bait techniques. He played along with us and we all had a really good time. After no action on DCR we headed up the Wallsburg creek that inlets to DCR. It was fast action after that. We ended up catching 6-8 fish with Brian doing most of the damage.

All in all it was great weather, good fishing and great company!



Brian with the first catch of the day.

The Utah Red/White game.

On Saturday April 21st we went to watch the Utes in their spring football game. It was a lot of fun and a good quencher for my football thirst. After the game they let everyone go down onto the field and get autographs and pictures with their favorite players.

All of the players were very nice including Brent "The Man of" Casteel and Steve Tate. The picture above is with Riley and Casteel and below is Cooper with Tate's helmet on. The boys played football against each other and had a really fun time.

Spring Hike.

On Saturday the 14th of April, Camden and I went on a nice spring hike. We went up Butlers Fork up Big Cottonwood and then branched off towards Dog Lake. It was muddy and snowy most of the way but the temps were perfect.

Camden did pretty good but wore out just short off our destination (dog lake). We came back down and had some great post hike sandwiches and some water.

I am convinced that we live in some of the prettiest country on the face of the earth. It was a lot of fun to be up there with my boy doing something I love so much.

Cooper is funnier than me.

I love this kid. He is always cracking me up.

He saw me relieve myself an thought it a good idea. Keep in mind the little guy just hiked two miles "all by his self."