Lake Powell

The weekend before last, while at drill, a Chaplin asked us who wasn't married, and if we would like to go on a paid fishing trip to Lake Powell, and to take a class on "How not to fall in love with a Jerk" So my two friends, Guy and Taylor, and I all signed up and took this weekend off to go fishing. We got there late Friday night and went to our first class. Saturday Morning came and the weather had changed to cold and rainy. Guy and Taylor didn't bring any wet gear, so we decided not to go on the all day fishing trip in the boat (they were gone from 9am to 6pm). We went to the Glen Canyon dam and took a tour of it. When we got out, the sun was shining so we went on one of the many hikes there. It was a fun hike, the sand made it a challenge and the rock formations there are really cool.

The Arch was our main focus of the hike, We went on top of it, it was very high, i chickened out on going onto it, I just don't like heights very much, especially when I'm about to get married soon.

If you look off to the left, you can see a huge Eagles nest

This was cool, it looked like a man riding a horse, only that the horse had fallen apart already.

A cool side cave we explored. The hike was said to be 4 miles round trip, but i think we did 5 altogether. We explored and hikes around a lot, it was a lot of fun but we were all very sore at the end of the day.

The Story

So I had originally planned to take Kat up to a waterfall and propose there, but i got the feeling that she was catching on, so Mary Ann got the idea to go up to Timpanogas cave. I looked it up and found out there was a giant, heart shaped, sculpture. We went up and started going through the cave and finally got to the giant heart. I had Mary Ann take our picture and the ceiling was too low for me to stand so i had to kneel down. She took our picture and then she said, hold on, the camera is messed up, and really switched it to video. While Kat was distracted, I pulled out the ring.

She was surprised

Just before I proposed, you can kind of see the heart in the back ground

The summer

This summer has been a busy one, here are a few pics of things we've done.

I graduated from the police academy on July 9th. It's been a fun, long semester. I'm glad it's over though.

We went to Idaho for the 4th of July to help put in sprinkler systems in Tracie's and Susan's yards. We didn't get there in time for Tracie's yard, but we helped with Susan's a little bit. Jeff had to work for one of his softball games, so I got to take his place, it was a lot of fun.

We went to a Natural Science Museum, it was free and a lot of fun tonight.

Cookies with Brooklyn

Today Brooklyn got to play with my girlfriend, Kat, and I, and we made cookies. She was being such a cheese today I couldn't resist posting pictures.

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Cedar City/ St George/ and others

Taylor and I got the bright idea to hit up all the temples in Utah, so last weekend, we went to Cedar City to play and have fun and go to the St. George temple, it was great!

All of us went to basic together

Fayette boys hanging out

I painted Brooklyn's fingernails the other day when I was boared, it turned out really cute.

Costa Rica (finaly)

Our trip to Costa Rica was great! We had a lot of fun. Here are a few of the many pictures we took. We have them all posted on facebook.

Update

Sorry it's taking so long, I will update soon.