Update

I really am horrible on updating this thing, but really what are you going to do? Well the past couple of months have been pretty busy and crazy. In the beginning of July I had the opportunity to fly down to Florida and spend sometime with my brother Justin. We went to the Daytona nascar race, hung out at the beach, and I also got to see him in action at the Miami clinic. It was great to be able to spend sometime just him and me, I can't remember the last time that we got to do that. Love ya bro! Here are some pics from Florida.

Justin and I at the Miami clinic

Pics at the beach
While I was in Florida I was offered a full time job at Monarch dental in bountiful! I love it there! Its great. I love the staff and the Drs that I work with. They are very down to earth and really funny!
The end of july Chris and I went to Lake Powell with his family. We had a house boat and then some regular boats. We both were able to wake board and have a lot of fun. It was great to spend time with the family, but after a week I was familied out.

Chris wake boarding

beautiful views!

Chris and I chillaxin
My dad turned 50 this week and for his birthday he wanted to climb to the top of Mount Timpanogos. He only really invited Chris, but I wanted to go too. So yesterday at 5:30a.m we started our hike. For those of you who haven't climbed it before its 7.5 miles to the summit and then of course you have to climb back down making it a round trip of 15 miles. The climb up was exhausting, but after 6 hours chris and I finally made it to the top 11,700 feet up! It was pretty rewarding to get there. Then the way down sucked! We have so many blisters and aches in our bodies! Every step was the worst pain ever and it seemed longer on the way down than it was up. All in all we're glad we did it, but we both agreed to NEVER do it again!!!

Chris on our way up.

Chris and I at the top!!

Picture of the peak about 2/3 of the way into our hike.

Oh Canada!!!

Well as many of you probably don't know, Chris and I just got back from Canada!!! This was my first trip to the "north country", while Chris had been there before with his family pre-courtney. We stayed with my father-in-laws missionary companion from WAY back in the day Lewis Raiche and his family. They live in Calgary, Alberta. Chris and I drove there....yes we made the 13 hour trek in one day and arrived around 10ish. The first day we kinda just lounged around but went to some Dragon boat races at a local lake. These boats fit 20 people. It's pretty cool.


On Monday we went to a movie. We went and saw Step brothers. I seriously love Will Ferrell and although this may scare most of you....sometimes I find him a little attractive. I know I know!!!! I just love his movies and he never ceases to amaze me with his humor. What can I say I love funny men!!!
On Tuesday we went to the Calgary Zoo. This zoo is huge and is on its own little island. Chris and I walked around for what seemed like 3 days. I nicknamed it the mating zoo because there were tons of baby animals....so cute!!

I dare you to try and figure out which one is Chris!! Good luck you'll need it.

It's okay people!!! I'm used to animals biting me...and going to the hospital.

Wednesday was probably the funnest. We went up to the National park Banff. It's so beautiful up there!!! The little "town" of Banff is very Park Cityish. The road is lined with shops.


There are many glaciers in the national park and one of the most beautiful locations is lake louise. It's this beautiful crystal blue lake with a glacier behind it. The water was freezing!!!


I recommend making a trip sometime!!!
Then we got lost for a bit, ended up in British Columbia and then realized opps!! We took the wrong road! Oh well, it only set us off an hour. Next was Jasper national park which is about 2 hours north of Banff. Jasper is home of the Columbian Ice fields where we were able to actually go on a glacier!!! It was really cool. You have to go on this Ice traveler thing that is huge and it takes you up the glacier. We were able to drink the water (really good, and really cold) and walk around for a bit.



Chris doing his face plant into the freezing water. He had a brain freeze after!

Big stream running through the glacier.

One of my favorite pictures coming out of the park.
While we were coming back from Jasper we saw all of these cars pulled off the the side of the road. There was a black bear not 100 feet off of the road!!! It was really cool to see a bear in its natural habitat. People are so stupid though. It looked like a fairly young bear so naturally I was thinking...hmmm I hope mom isn't near by....but people seemed to be oblivious. Chris and I hurried, got our picture and headed back to our car. The bear started to go closer to the road and instead of these people thinking "holy crap this bear could eat my retarded face off!" they continued to take pictures. Chris and I left and I seriously hope that the bear mauled a few people.
On Thursday we went to Calgary's olympic park. They held the winter olympics in 1988. We went by the high jump and just had a blast walking around the park. I'm sure that we broke a few rules, but who really cares!! We acted like we owned the place (typical americans)and no one got hurt.


We found this trampoline and we decided to have some fun!


Chris and I jumped over the bobsled track and decided to take some pics!! We won the gold in each of our divisions....bad asses.

Feel the rhythm....Feel the rhyme....get on up...It's bobsled time...
One thing I learned is never put anything past Canadians. Has anyone ever heard of Poutine? Please let me enlighten you at once. It is a horrible thing that they eat. Yuck. It's french fries, Gravy (yes gravy), and chunks of Mozzarella cheese. Are you freaking kidding me? Chris and I decided to try it, and we almost threw up. We couldn't even finish it, plus it looked like someone had thrown up on our plate.

Hungry yet? I do have to give it to them for potato chips. They have Ketchup chips that are the best!!! Also their Salt and Vinegar chips are like 3 times as flavorful as ours. Yummy.
On Friday we went to the local pool and had a blast. It had two water slides, a wave pool and much more!!! Chris and I had seriously had so much fun.


As we were passing through the border on our way home we had to stop and give the boarder patrol our passports and everything. After we were all cleared he said "Welcome home". I can't describe how happy I am to live in the USA. Chris and I have had the opportunity to go to several different countries and I think each time we leave the USA we are reminded of how lucky we truly are. It was the best welcome home I could have imagined and it does feel really nice to be back home.