Spring brings Camping and Climbing

 Spring has come and I am oh so excited! The warm weather has been so nice and with spring comes spring activities. Although at this time I am slightly limited with the activities I can do... I try not to let it stop me from doing the things I can do. Even if it's a little bit more trouble or uncomfortable. One thing I'm excited for is to get back to running! I see everyone out running these days and it just gives me that itch.

Rock climbing seems to be activity of choice this spring. Scott and I are really excited to have so many of our family members into rock climbing this year so that we have more people to go with.

Scott was able to take a weekend rock climbing trip down to City of Rocks with a few of his friends! He had a lot of fun and was able to get a lot of good climbing in. 

In early spring we got together with Venny and Scott D, Clarissa and Justin and got Scott and Crystal to go climbing at Hysie. I think we have hooked Scott and Crystal, and I'm really excited that they are getting so into it. Once you get the gear it's a nice cheap activity you can do all summer. We have also been able to get Derek, Shelyn and Ondrea into it!

 I even got on the rock for a climb! See... You can still go climbing at 7 in a half month pregnant. :) It was a very easy climb and I stopped before it got to any of the technical stuff.

Everyone also convinced me to go camping :) I told them I would go anywhere they wanted as long as they brought my bean bag... So what did they do... They stuffed that bean bag in the back of Scott's subaru (it took up 3/4 of the whole back seat with the front seats scooted forward) and we went camping with Scott and Crystal! It was a lot of fun! We went rock climbing again and I was surprised by how different I felt from going just 3 weeks before... It was night and day. There was no way I was going to get on any rock. So alas... The rock climbing will have to wait until this baby is out of me!

  Geocaching

It's not rock climbing if you don't go get frozen yogurt afterwards. :)

I am looking forward to a really fun summer filled with rock climbing and camping :)

Clarissa and Justin's Wedding

I know these are a little bit out of order.... my focus has been staying up to date with baby updates as much as possible. Everything else has kind of been neglected.... But in April we were able to celebrate Clarissa and Justin's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and I have to say that all the decorations at the reception turned out perfect! Just what she wanted. I thought everything looked so great! And she was beautiful!

I had a really hard time finding a maternity dress so I decided to make my own. Maybe just a little ambitious 2 weeks away from the wedding! I had never made clothing of any kind by myself... But I found a pattern I liked and just figured it out. For how many times I had to take out stitches and redo things I probably ended up making the dress 8 times! But it finally all came together and I am proud of my work. As long as nobody looks to closely. :) I do think it made me look a little bigger then I was.... But oh well. :)

I am so proud of Clarissa for making the decision to get sealed in the temple. It will only bring joy and happiness to her life. It was also fun to be able to help with the wedding as much as a 7 month prego women could help. I'm glad I was able to be apart of it all!

Congrats to Clarissa and Justin!