was the time we were able to spend with good friends.

geoff & jenn were dear dear neighbors of ours for about four years before they moved to maui a year ago. they were incredibly generous to us on this trip {thank you!} and we loved seeing what life is like for them on the island.

it was so nice to catch up with their family, and take a peek into their new lifestyle…

we were able to celebrate crew’s birthday with them,
had lots of yummy meals,
went to a couple of movies,
spent time at the beach together and we {dusty and I,

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our anniversary get-a-way…

February 5, 2010

was beautiful.

we were lazy.
my husband and i breed laziness when we vacation.

we talked about doing all kinds of cool activities.
ziplining. hiking. etc.etc.
but talking is all we did.
along with sitting by the pool. sitting on the beach.
eating.
eating.
eating.
visited friends. we attempted paddle boarding. visited more friends.
movies. movies. movies.
sleep. sleep. sleep.

that about sums it up!

*****

my husband dislikes traveling with my camera bags{s}
so, this trip i opted to leave one camera bag home
my real polaroid camera.
instead, i used my polaroid iphone app,

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then spent 14 amazing years together!
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i was going through some old scrapbooks a while back,
and found these old pictures of dusty and i.
it’s a few of the first pictures we took together.

and oh the memories these bring back.

here, we were hiking around zions national park,
in southern utah,
and stopped for a water/photo break…

and these are both from one of my first trips {of many later to come}
to the ranch in southern nevada where dusty was raised…


but all three of these were taken before we were husband and wife.

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kj’s very first…

January 28, 2010
pinewood derby!

cub scouts starts at 6:30pm.

text from dusty at 7:05pm,

“kj is dominating”


Story of the evening:
kj won sixteen races, on the down-low after the races,
he was invited to bring his pinewood derby car to
the ‘boy scouts’ race in march…

he’s so big-time!

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