Flirty Thirties, Sporty Forties

Last weekend I enjoyed a beautiful weekend playing (kayaking, hiking) in Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana. I have always wanted to see Many Glacier, which is sometimes described as America's Alps. there are more pictures available if you follow my link over there (-->) that takes you to my Webshots. Great news - not one blister despite wearing brand new shoes! I even hiked through a waterfall - not just behind it or far enough in front of it to avoid getting wet -- nope, right through it because there was a steep dropoff in front of it, so we all got drenched, but it was 95+ degrees so it actually felt good once we were out of it! My hair was ruined by that's what hats are for! :-)

Birthday Boy! Pictures from my trip to Montana for Carson's birthday...

San Francisco / San Jose / Sunnyvale I took a spur-of-the-moment trip to California last weekend to see my cousin Nate. It was fun seeing the city again as a grown up and the one particular draw, since he lives so close to it, was to see the Winchester Mansion. Another highlight was seeing the Google campus - sorry, I didn't have my camera along that day. We did the usual touristy things, thanks in part to our helpful GPS system, which I named Priscilla. She got a bit prissy from time to time! There are a ton of pictures so I will post them at community.webshots.com/user/upsadaz

My very first haircut! Gulp! I donated 10 inches to Locks of Love (www.locksoflove.org)

Pictures from my trip to Mexico.... I just got back last night. Great time -- stayed at Mayan Palace, between Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos. The water there was beautiful! I went "snuba" diving (mix of snorkeling and scuba), snorkled, acted like I was on a jumbo rotisserie (flipping every so often so I didn't get overly "done" on any one side), and read a book or two. The pools were simply beautiful. Many had infinity edges. You could walk from one to another and spend all day doing it. XCaret was great - I highly recommend their Xpa (spa) for massages!!! Pure bliss! I loved surprising people by speaking Spanish :-) I'll miss all the flirtaceous mexican guys, but luckily I'm home where there are plenty more :-)

April Fools Day party at Beth's House! I hate to give away all the secrets in case she does it again. I've never enjoyed frozen peas and carrots more. It was all wonderful and I even came away with a new pair of shoes!

I am woman, hear me drill! I finally got to use the drill that I got for Valentine's Day! (I wanted that instead of flowers - seriously) I hung up the Gallery Frame Set, from Red Envelope. I found a stud on my first attempt - pity I can't say the same thing about real life, huh?! The whole thing is perfectly level and I used those anchor things so it hasn't fallen out of the wall yet! Special credit goes to Jen for her knowledge on the subject!!

and the boys after their shower -- hard to believe they're not twins!

Bowdrie's first day skiing!! Debbie asked Jen if she wanted to go, but Jen had to work, so Debbie asked, 'What about Bowdrie?", so Jen asked him and he quickly started saying, "Hat! Gloves! Hat! gloves!", so they took that to be YES! He had a lot of fun, pointing at the Magic Carpet and excitedly shouting, "elevator!!" (he likes riding the escalators at the mall). He was a tired little boy on the way home and I bet he'll sleep good tonight, and want to go do it again tomorrow!