This must be done.

I'm sorry folks, but the backlog on blogging is really getting the best of me, and there is just one thing that must be done. Prepare yourself for a massive photo dump (it's for posterity's sake, I'm sure!). This makes me a little sad because I'm sure I could make great stories out of most of these pictures, but lets be honest, it's no fun reading about July when it's October. Actually, I think it is kind of fun and also necessary since having all these photos just waiting to be blogged is stressing me out and I want to get to pictures of Celeste's wedding and cyclocross season already!

So, if you ever wanted to see a blog post with 66 pictures and videos, here is your chance!


Tour of Utah! A pro bike race! We collected so many water bottles from all the best teams: Garmin Vervelo, Liquigas, BMC, etc! We saw Levi Lephimer, Teejay VanGarderen, Tommy Danielson, Brent Bookwalter, and lots of other skinny spandex men.

Look close and you can see a train of cyclists climbing the hill behind the capital. Luckily, Camie took some more pictures, because I only took videos.

Jeff and Paul saw another stage in Alpine!

Lake Powell sunset (as you can see this post is going to jump around a lot).

An essential part of Lake Powell trips: Hollow Mountain

Jo jo before Rigby Lake!

Rigby Lake cousin fun!

Such a lovely little beach in the middle of Idaho!

Amari learned a great trick at church. I should've taught her this years ago, because it's one of my favorites.

Flour game...?

So glad I didn't lose. So glad Irelynd and Marian did because they loved having flour all over their face.

Amari on her actual birthday. I really wish I would've bought that hat for her (or me).

Utah sunny mountain love

Echo reservoir and Carruth Canyon to the left (seriously! A canyon named after my great great grandparents! proof!

A hair cut, before and...

after...  Maybe you can't tell a difference, like Paul but it's nice and healthy now!

Some of the best shoes I ever did find.

A haily rainstorm, I love those guys!

The animal bushes in my neighborhood. This is where me and Lyndsi Thompson would meet to walk to school.

A screen shot of my house getting pummeled by a hurricane.

My tree that I won in 3rd grade that has grown so nice and large! Plus, it's an Idaho Spruce, so I think I was destined to marry that Idaho boy Paul.

Golfing Murray Parkway with my parents!

Doesn't my dad do such a great job at keeping this place so lovely?

"The longest shadows ever cast" (name those lyrics!)

Beautiful pink mountains and clouds

Shopping with Camie and Mykita

Jovi says cheese, hahahahaha

Amari's kitty watering can we gave her for her birthday. Please note her cape. She wears one everyday I think.

Hot pink clouds, hot pink shirt. (Saying goodbye to Utah for a couple weeks!)

Back with my Pauly friend! We took a walk down by the Raritan River, Boyd Park is so nice!

Except pretty damaged by Ms. Ireney (aka the Hurricane)

Cyclocross season begins!

J POW!!!!!!!!!!!! (Best cyclocross racer in the world!)

Flying back to Utah and enjoying the nicest clouds...

Bachelorette Party for Celestatron

or should I say... Bacheceleste Party, hahahah oh Maddi.

Celeste was throwing away this Tiger, but I knew Amari would love it so we took it to her.

And Zander praised the fire.

And we had pushup contests. Even Jovi wanted to try.

And we roasted some mallows. And Paul payed Zander 5 bucks because he did 51 pushups, and it was really impressive and almost made me cry because he was trying so hard.

And then I had to send my sweetie Paul off to Germany, and I stayed in Utah a little while longer.

And I went and hung out with the Brown kiddos. And Mari chose her superman cape today, which was so nice, and I fell in love with her Saltwaters, and she jumped on the tramp seeing "I believe I can fly" and it was such a great time.

And Jovi can jump higher than any 2 year-old I've ever known.

Then all the kids (minus sick Irelynd) came out to watch Uncle Paul's plane fly over their house.

And I think we saw it, but it wasn't this plane, but this was a nice picture.

Then I went skiing some more... at Rockport. And just two weeks later, we deemed the dry suit necessary because it got real cold while I was away in New Jersey.

And the newlyweds came home and cheered for all their presents!

And my mom and I went to Morrelia's for dinner and I loved this little dish.

Another round of golf...

And some more pictures of Mt. Olympus, which is probably my favorite one because it's right in my own backyard pretty much.

I know that was a bit much, but really, now we can move on to some more recent events and I can start sleeping at night again because I've done my blogging duties and saved my pictures on the internet for future generations to enjoy.

Also, my grandparents and my parents are flying into New York tomorrow! Isn't that great news? Maybe I should go clean my house in that case... ok bye.

I went to Utah and ate a bunch of things I miss.

Of course when I went to Utah I ate all of my unavailable on the East Coast favorites.

I went to Cafe Rio. 

I am not ashamed of being part of this trend because it really tastes so good. Also, I learned this new trick. A tostada is a mini salad, and you don't have to throw half of it away, and you don't have to try to warm it up the next day and eat goopy lettuce. I ask for a flour tortilla instead of the corn.

Demi and Jeff's wedding cake! 

My dad made sure we stopped at one of his favorite ice cream spots: Polar King on our way home from  Echo reservoir. However, when we arrived, we found that it was recently renamed "Rodriguez Polar King Authentic Mexican Food". Interesting!

Mmmmm! Jalepenos and Ice Cream go so nice together?

I really enjoyed this cactus touch!

 (PS Don't worry, Rodriguez's Polar King's ice cream was still pretty good!)

Noodles & Co. Duh.

Wisconsin Mac & Cheese with cavatappi noodles of course.

Practicing cupcakes for Celeste's wedding.

Reed's dairy chocolate milk. Maybe the only milk that has potatoes in it, but it's from Idaho Falls so that makes sense, and also it so the most delicious chocolate milk I have ever consumed.

Snow cones are better than Italian Ice every time. And New Jersey loves it's Italian Ice, and I love my snow cones.

My recipe for deliciousness is raspberry + watermelon with cream.

Karn. 

(Corn.)

As much as I love those Utah restaurants, nothing beats my mom's home cooking.

99 cent Monday Night Rootbeer Floats at A&W! 

Apples in the sink. 

(Prepping for Celeste's wedding).

Happy Sumo!

And I almost forgot to take a picture of the roll until I only had one piece left, because I was so hungry and it was so delicious. Vegas Roll!

That food was all so good, I'm already craving it all of it all over again. Eat it for me you lucky Utahans.

Oh yes, and speaking of delicious food. Look what that sweet Paul brought me from Germany:

Alpenmilch (German Chocolate), Dairy Milk (hooray for layovers in London!) some handmade Czeck earrings (not actually food), but they were also in the picture, as well as some Euros, Kuronas, and Pence - all sorts of neat loose change. :) And a real nice watercolor of Prague obviously not pictured here, which is a shame, because it's really lovely.

Me and Those Mountains

You are probably aware of my deep, bizarre and obsessive love for mountains. How could I help it? I've had these guys in my back yard my whole life and all the sudden I miss them like crazy in the flat as a pancake but green as can be East.

So it's not wonder, or surprise that the first thing I did when I got back to my mountains was photograph them from the plane, and another thing I did was hike the crap out of them. A few times. It was one of my favorite events during my time in Utah, so as far as iPhone picture dumps (I finally hooked up my phone with my new computer! Three cheers for that!), mountains to go first.

Driving up Little Cottonwood canyon is dreamy.

And it's green as green this year, thanks rain!

Alta ski resort, minus snow. (This is where we hiked).

Looking across to Mt. Superior and Mounte Cristo. (keep reading to hear more about these guys).

The wildflowers were all dreamy and nice. 

As my mom said "in all of the value colors!"

True words.

Some poor skier lost his pole, but it was a funny sight for me to see.

What a view!

What a guy!

Oh hey dorky picture. 

My beautiful mother!

mi padres.

My dearest father.

And on our drive down the canyon we got to see this nice storm brewing in the Valley. Utah is really cool like that. 

While we were hiking on this lovely day, my dad kept looking over at the Mountains across from Alta. He said, we need to hike those. I knew I wouldn't be able to go because I was flying out before we'd be able to. Then Hurricane Irene decided to let me stay in Utah for an extra week, and so my dad and I conquered Mt. Superior and it's neighbor Monte Cristo.

Looking in Big Cottonwood canyon.

Snowy tops in Little Cottonwood.

The winds at the peak were absolutely insane. There were several times we had to go down on all four to avoid falling off the mountain. 

 Hello Snowbird! No snow!

 Feeling on top of the world.

 And then we hiked back down and looked up at the two peaks we had climbed.

 Thanks for having mountains Utah! Thanks for taking me hiking on them parents!