Anniversary, Alaska, and Hair

First, for those of you who couldn't see the clip of me crossing the finish line on the marathon post, I have uploaded the actual video, its not a link anymore, so you can see it now!

Ah! So, we had a busy couple of weeks so it will, as usual, be a lot of pictures.

First, we celebrated our two-year anniversary on June 7, 2010! It is crazy, the one year felt exciting because it was the "one year" and not that this one wasn't exciting, but it just felt more...solid. We made it this far, it made it seem like a long time even though in the grand scheme its so little time! But, it has been a wonderful year. To celebrate we went to the Anniversary Inn in Logan, UT. This place has themed rooms, its sweet. We stayed in Vegas Nights. Before you judge, the room was AMAZING and the one little section with gambling things we ignored.

BIG circle bed!

View with the HUGE TV, 52". We watched 3 movies and lots of TV shows in the 22 hours we were there, lol, it was SO RELAXING!


The sitting area.

OK THIS WAS THE SWEETEST PART. 1, the four knob things on the left, yes, the spray water AT you in that direction. 2) the HUGE shower head on top. 3) on the right is a "normal" shower head that you can take off with the hose on it. So, 3 directions at one time. AWESOME.


Lastly, rest of the lovely bathroom, really big jetted tub, TV. We brought bubble bath and it was almost overflowing, it was just so fun.

Ok, second trip. Alaska for 6 days. We visited family and celebrated Chris's dad's birthday up there as well. The biggest event was going to Homer, about 4 hours away, which is a really popular fishing area. Technically we were in Ninilchik, but we also went down to Homer. Chris, his dad Brad, and I went deep sea halibut fishing. I'll post a few pictures, but I'll tell the stories first.

The drive to and from was absolutely gorgeous. Even though it was a little rainy and overcast, the mountains and scenery were just majestic. We saw a moose (almost hit the moose actually), mountain goats, and sea otters!

We went on a fishing boat with another family of 3 who were really nice and we were all good friends by the end. The captain "didn't believe" in letting us use things that can help you hold your rod up, either a waist belt or a rod holder you put on the rail. So, my arm was SO TIRED. Halibut are on the sea floor, so you have to put a 5 lb weight on it as well so it hits the floor. Then, its a couple hundred feet down so it seems to take FOREVER to reel anything up. The first fish I caught was a halibut, a small one, but I kept it anyway. You can keep 2 and I figured I could catch another one that would probably be bigger. However, I then caught 3 or 4 cod! All the work for a fish that isn't even good (they aren't good for eating in that region). Ugh. The first fish Chris caught was an Irish Lord. He also caught one halibut and a bunch of cod. Brad caught 2 halibut, one small and one pretty big so he was done pretty early. After a couple hours Brad and Chris got sick, and then I got sick right as we were stopping and getting ready to leave. So, Chris and I opted out of staying longer to try and catch another one. The biggest one caught on our boat was by the other family, 50 lbs!! The ones we caught that were small were probably only like 20, maybe. But I really liked it and want to go again, maybe next time we will go Salmon fishing, I hear that's easier. Once you gut and clean the fish you have about half its weight in meat. All together our family ended up with about 35 lbs of fish. Whats pretty cool is fresh halibut costs $10-$12 a lb in the store! We had to pay to go on the boat, of course, but we caught back quite a bit of our tickets. And we ate some of the halibut without having to freeze it, so it was SO FRESH and so good. Chris and I brought some home with us too, enough to eat about 5 meals of halibut. Pictures....Chris posted some on facebook already so sorry for those of you who will have already seen them.

Chris's Irish Lord. Weird looking, eh?

My halibut! And Matt, who was a great deck hand, very nice and helpful and funny.

Chris's halibut, and our captain, who was also nice deep down though pretty strict.


From left to right of the fish, Chris's, Brad's, Brad's, mine. Baby fish, but thats okay. They said the small ones actually taste better because they aren't as tough.


This is just nasty, bit I wanted to post it anyway! Those bumps are SEA LICE!!!!


Also in Alaska Chris, me, and his brother Jason hiked Mt. Baldy. It is a steep hike, like unto Y mountain. But, hiking the Y (at BYU) gives you breaks from the steepness, Baldy is steep the whole way! But, once you are at the top the view is gorgeous!


The last thing I did up there was do a 5 mile walk for Breast Cancer with Chris's mom Michelle and some other friends of hers. I have been up there enough times that I actually knew a few of them quite well, so it was really fun.

We all wore pink leopard head bands, and the two ladies who are also wearing pink hats are survivors. It was really cool to see how many women there were who were survivors of breast cancer. There was 7,500 participants, it was the biggest event of its kind so far! Go Alaska!

Oops, forgot this pic in the fishing trip, this is us near Homer.

Lastly, sorry for the long post again, but I chopped my hair off! I went in to get it trimmed and the lady measured it and told me I had 13 inches if I wanted to cut it now. Well, you only need 10 for Locks of Love so off it went! I have some good thick hair I noticed as I was looking at it in the braid before I mailed it. So, here it is! Both straight and curly. I love it!



And, I guess Chris's wanted a head shot too :)


Ok, thats all, thanks for reading!