oh, what do you do in the summertime

we started off our pioneer day bright and early (7 am) with a little water skiing at hyrum dam - that was an adventure!
we then had a bbq and watched our adorable little nephew.

the two of us, up and at em, ready to hit the water!

on sunday, we attended the free usu alumni band concert on the quad. it was a fabulous time enjoying the nice weather and the beautiful campus! we were really surprised at how many people were there when we got there -- i think all the summer citizens that move to logan in the summer go to these concerst! i loved watching them bounce their feet to the beat of the marches played (i even tapped my foot along with the music) and especially enjoyed watching a cute little boy dance for everyone that would watch (he's the blonde one in the picture).

i love old main!

happy father's day

before i get to our activities for pioneer day, i wanted to share our adventure from a couple weekends ago.

my father-in-law has talked about riding the front runner for quite a while. any time someone said they we're heading down to salt lake, he would ask if they had taken the front runner. much to his dismay, hardly anyone ever had.

so, for father's day (about a month late), we took papa craig and dojo on a ride on the front runner -- complete with lunch at the little america cafe.





we actually missed the train back to ogden (they only run every hour) by a few minutes, so we strolled through the gateway (dojo and i stayed at anthropologie) while we waited for the next train. we left the gateway a little later than anticipated and ended up running to catch trax back to the train station to avoid having to wait another hour!

after about seven hours we made it back home, but it was well worth the trip!

my butt is big...

i have some things to post, but they'll have to wait for a minute.

thanks to nikeblog for this great add.

fourth of july in boston

we spent an awesome fourth of july with my family in boston (one of our very favorite places)!
we got to tour fenway park and watch the red sox beat the baltimore orioles and sang sweet caroline.
we were sore and sweaty after climbing to the top of the bunker hill monument.
we enjoyed waking up the other room with our fancy-shmancy doorbells.
we rubbed john harvard's shoe for good luck.
we had a hard time finding any dr. pepper, much to the dismay of many of my family members.
we ate many, many cookies and canolies from mike's pastry.
we watched the fireworks from the grass along the river near harvard.
we squished onto the T with too many people.
we walked the freedom trail.
we attempted to go to church. (didn't work out. apparently they got a new building.)
we saw the old harvard stadium.
we walked down acorn street.
we shopped on newbury street.
we survived the heat and "no" humidity and lots and lots of people.
we really enjoyed our trip to boston!

wilkins wonders: rockin' the ragnar

our team in front of van 1 ("white bread") and van 2 ("wheat bread")

well, we did it! we survived running the back of the rugged wasatch mountains, from logan all the way to park city. i don't know how to explain the great bonding, pain and also triumph you feel when you complete something like this. you'll just have to do it yourself to experience and know. our team was wonderfully supportive and i think that's what got me through.

go team!the RAGNAR!beautiful, blessed mountains coming into PC and, of course, the honey bucketsfinished! on our way up to the finish line

it really was a great experience and i think we all accomplished more than we thought we could. you can read more about it here, here, here and here.