In honor of his birthday...

We had a fabulous day celebrating the day of this guy's birth..

And on honor of him I entered a giveaway on The Color Issue.  Check out that Copper River bag giveaway!

Zombies???

So I've been told on multiple occasions that if there was ever a zombie apocalypse that we would survive.  Here's ten reasons why:

1.  I love my 72 Hour Kit and food storage.
2.  Noah makes our milk(from almonds).
3.  We love camping and have plenty of gear to high tail it to the middle of nowhere.
4.  We can make sprouts!(Thanks Esther.)
5.  Noah bakes bread(and sometimes he hand grinds the wheat.  I know you are all jealous of my domestic husband.  Don't tell him I called him that on the internet.)
6. We garden.
7.  I know how to make cheese.
8.  We dream of living on our own farm/B&B in the middle of some abandoned stretch of land.
9.  We own a book about dying our own clothes from plants.
10.  I sewed my own dress.

Which brings us to the real reason I'm putting up this post.  I made a dress.  I spend quite some time on Pinterest oogling over maxi dresses and decided I didn't want a pattern--I was going to make it up.  Scary right?  If you think that is scary, try reading or attempting an actual dress pattern.  The dress I just made took: 3 yds. of fabric cut into 4 pieces, a sewing machine(and other various sewing equipment), and about 3 hours.

I didn't make the belt.  I bought that at Downeast.

So this will be my first day of school dress.  Bring it on zombies!

The Great Mt. Timpanogos

So, Wednesday last week, Noah and I decided on a whim to hike Mt. Timpanogos.  That lasted about an hour (unfortunately, we ran into a thunderstorm and turned back).  Along the way, we heard that the other side of Mt. Timp was prettier, so for our next attempt we decided to try that route--and boy are we glad we did!

Attempt #1 

Attempt #2 (Noah is going off to use the restroom.)

I kept getting mad because it kept moving, but then it was just trying to pose for a closer shot!

There were wildflowers the entire way.  It was BEAUTIFUL!

We found a spring!  It saved our lives.

Me sliding down on my bum for fear of sliding down against my will.

We camped next to this waterfall coming from Emerald Lake.

The mountain goats that invaded our campsite.

The view from our campsite.

Where we slept.

I think this was at like 4 a.m.  The beans kept us up most of the night.

Sunrise. 

A fossil!

So, a short funny story(of which there were many) from the hike:

I woke up that morning and we looked at the stars for awhile and I discovered a little mouse under my backpack.  I thought, "Oh it's so cute!" and turned on my flashlight and it scampered away.  Noah goes to get breakfast ready and I'm packing up camp and I go to put on my shoes, but my sock is missing!  I had tucked it in to one of the mesh pockets on the side of my pack to let it dry.  I quickly realized that the mouse must have taken it!  Darn sneaky fellow.  I did have an extra pair of nice fluffy wool ones, which is exactly what you want to wear on a hot July day down the mountainside.  Noah says it was just looking for a sleeping bag for it's next mousy sleepover.  :)

One word of advice before I leave you.  Mt. Timpanogos is a very popular hike, while hiking from Aspen Grove is in fact shorter, it is also not for the faint of heart.  We highly recommend hiking from Timpanooeke side which may be longer, but is a much easier/prettier hike.

Dearest Body,

You are welcome now at any point to look like this again.  Anytime now would be great.  I know you're missing a tiny little organ, but I was told you could function fine without it.  So suck it up and get with the program body.  Nobody likes a party pooper and you are pooping at my party.

Love, Becky

Two Things

1.  I updated the blog layout and am very proud of my Photoshop skills for the day. :)  Check out the header if you haven't yet.

2.  I started a website for my artwork!!!  It's been 4 years and I think I've been on an art hiatus.  Check it out!

Summer lovin' happened so fa-ast!

I hosted Book Club this month for the book Rules.  It was a lot of fun to think of something out of ordinary to eat!

I posted several of my favorite rules from the book.  Which included, "Pantless brothers are not my problem."

While I was away for most of June, Brandon came to visit(yay!) and they took a trip to the Sun Tunnels.

They are cement tubes in the middle of the Utah dessert.  They line up with the sun during the summer solstice.

You can tell Brandon really enjoyed himself. :)

And that Noah just loves his fancy camera.

Also while I was home eating Rita's, Noah was enjoying a Castle Dale tea party.  Wish I could have been there!

No Internet=no blog

Been without Internet, but lately we've done:
- a long bike ride in the rain
- a short hike up Hobble Creek Canyon
- gardening
- and spent a lot of time reading

 Basically, summer is bliss.