Another Darrell Post!

Well folks, Kaela is off making brownies in the kitchen so it’s up to me to bring you up to speed on our summer. 

Wow, it is flying by! July 15, 2013 already. 

It’s sad to say goodbye, and it’s even harder to say goodbye to family.  This week Greg and Carlin Pickett headed to Texas.  Ben and Angela Williams packed up their home to head to Taiwan for two years!  We are going miss them and will hopefully get a chance to see Ben and Angela next summer on a vacation to Asia.  I mean, you might as well go over there when you have a connection right?  That’s what I thought. 

Any way as much as we are going to miss them, it’s nice to poach their old stuff.  Greg and Carlin let us have their old kitchen table, which is a big step up for us considering our old table could only fit two people and just their plates.  All of our meals up until this point have been buffet style.  Not only can we fit our food on the table, we can now fit more than just us!  So if you’re in the Utah County area, let us know, we’d love to have you over for dinner. 

Ben and Angela are really good one uppers.  We borrowed an elliptical machine, two book shelves, a bike stand, camping gear, lawn mower, and a power washer.  Since so much of their stuff has to be put in storage, and they only get to have so much of it stored.  We were able to lessen the amount of stuff their bulk and get to use it in the meantime while they are away.  I’m super excited for the bike stand.  Now I just need a new bike to put in it. 

Wednesday, mutual activity adventures landed us on the Provo River. Kaela in tubes up the canyon, and me in canoes down by the lake.  Kaela’s group wanted to float the river up past Vivian Park.  They had some issues with tubes not being inflated enough to keep them out of the river.  Many of the girls got cold and they eventually bailed from the river early to get out of the water.  When the leader got back up to the top (thanks to a friendly fly fisher who was willing to give them a ride) they found a police officer waiting for them.  Apparently it’s illegal to have anyone under 18 without a life jacket.   Kaela has a suspicion that one of the commercial float crews had a stick up their butt and called it in.  Fortunately the cop just gave them a verbal warning. 

The young men and I loaded up a few canoes in preparation for our upcoming float trip down the Green River in two weeks.  We didn’t have enough canoes for all the boys but we had a few in tubes and switched halfway through.  One of the tubes popped and the others we under inflated.  Anybody sensing a theme to this blog post yet?  The boys did well paddling and should do well going down 70 miles to the bottom!  Super excited!

Friday we made a somewhat impromptu trip back up to Logan again to help my soon-to-be brother in law shop for a suit for his wedding.  We didn’t find exactly what he was looking for, but hopefully put him on the right path.  We had intended to just stay a few hours but got distracted by the sidewalk sale on main street, taco trucks with my mom (so freaking good), and picking fresh raspberries in the back yard that we figured ‘eh might as well spend the night’.  Saturday morning we checked out the Logan Farmers market at Willow Park, before coming back down the state. 

Kaela and I both feel so blessed to have great friends and family all around country and soon, the world.  We are extremely excited to be seeing a few of them in the next weeks in our nation’s capital.  Stay tuned for that blog entry.  Hopefully I won’t be too burned in next weeks post!