What We’ve Been Up To: Animal Edition!

Before we left Provo, we made sure to visit some friends and places we knew we would miss. Dana’s coworker, Joey, has a great collection of lizards, snakes, and spiders that he lets us play with sometimes. A pink toe spider: so cute! Blue-tongued skink: this one only has 3 legs!

We also stopped by the foot of the bell tower where there are some ducks. We got rid of our bread, they got a snack. This duck is willing to go the extra mile… And this is what happens when you give a duck a piece of bread…

When we got to Washington, Dana made sure to let the kids meet the new pets. Here is Megan with our stick-bug: Can you find him?

At Beacon Rock, this bird let us walk on his dock, Wasn’t that nice of him? And again with the fish ladder, this time with a size reference. They look tasty :-)

Here is a video of the fish ladder!

At the beach in Oregon we saw all kinds of pretty anemones and star fish. Look at all of them! We made sure to get a picture with one of them: Dana gave him a high-five.

Keep your eyes peeled for Dana’s posts on his bug catching trips!

What We’ve Been Up To

After packing up most of our possessions into a storage unit, we left Provo! We made it a nice leisurely trip home, staying with my Aunt Mary (thanks, Aunt Mary!) in Boise.  We made our second half of the trip unique by driving around Mt. Hood (without snow).  It was really pretty!   

We made it to Vancouver in time to see Steen and Katie before they all moved to Florida.  We also got to spend some time with Elina before she went back to school.  We had a good time hanging out together.

A few days ago, Dana and I went to Beacon Rock.   We hiked up all 52 switchbacks to the top, 849 ft above sea level.    This is taller than any point in Rhode Island (812 ft).  Then we went to see the fish ladder at the Bonneville Dam. This lamprey didn’t read about how it was for salmon. It was a nice afternoon.

Yesterday, we went to the beach with Dana’s brother and Mom. We hit the Tillamook cheese factory and ate tasty ice cream (and cheese!).  And we drove out to Ecola State park and Indian head beach.   It was a beautiful day at the beach. 

Graduation

We did it. We both graduated from BYU. It all happened in August, but after all the festivities and the moving and everything else that has been happening, we finally have time to post about it.

It was a lot of fun. We both had family come to celebrate with us. Ruth’s parents came out from Rhode Island with her sister, Emily, and her kids, Matthew and Anna. Dana’s parents came out from Washington with his brother Anton and sister Elina.

It was a busy weekend. It made some of us very tired:

 

We spent time at parks with the family, including some aunts and uncles.

  

Friday night, after all the ceremonies, we had a picnic dinner in South Fork of Provo Canyon

 

Thank you to everyone that came. And thank you to everyone that helped us get through to the end.