A Hike

I discovered a new hike this summer and I can't get enough of it! It is the same trail as Timpanogos trail but I don't climb that whole mountain.  That is an activity for another summer.  I hiked it several times this summer and I hope to go one more time so if anybody wants to go............
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you know where to find me.

Too sexy for this trail

 

 

Look at that backpack of wildflowers! I shall date him!

So Bad

In case you haven't noticed I have not been blogging as of late. Time to start anew!
In July we had some visitors from Japan.  Yuki, her husband Toshi, and their daughter Rena come occasionally to visit my grandparents because Yuki was a foreign exchange student with them a long time ago.  This was the first time they had come to visit since both of my grandparents passed away.  It was hard not having my grandparents there but it was fun to have Yuki and her family stay with us!
We went to Salt Lake to visit Temple Square and the grave site.  We also shopped around the new City Creek Center and shared some caramel apples.  YUM.

YUM

Alyssa loves flowers

Thanks for visiting us Hasegawas!! We loved having you!

Braiding Fools

Boredom took on a whole new meaning today.

Mississippi

Bri has a birthday. It is in July.  I thought it would be fun to fly to Mississippi to surprise her for her birthday. So I did.  And I took my darling mother with me.  Thanks to a certain airline we flew with we missed a flight and plans quickly changed from surprise to expected surprise.  It was kind of a bummer but we managed.  We flew into New Orleans late one night and soaked up some good ol' fashioned humidity.  Bleh.  Then we slept.  Then...we played for like 120 hours straight.  Then we came home.  While I was there I was on a nasty medication that was killing whatever joined my digestive system in Ghana (3 years ago).  I was kind of a party pooper and I am sorry. I didn't take very many pictures because I wasn't feeling well, but here are a few pics to prove that I actually chose to spend time in humidity:

Crab! Yikes!

Uncle Sam wants YOU

Spring Break: Week 2

I happen to get a week for Spring Break in college. Yay college.  I also happen to work with multiple school districts around here so I get school holidays off. This included their Spring Break. So I got two weeks for Spring Break this year. Win. For the first week I did the whole bum-around-the-house-live-it-up-in-Vegas thing.  For week two I repeated step one in Spring Break: Week 1.  I sat around for a good long while and then I went with the fam to Park City for a day.  It was awesome. We shopped our little hearts out.  And I happened to try on the one dress in the store with the broken zipper. It was such a cute dress. Look!

I showed Alyssa and then I went back into the dressing room to change when I realized that it was going to be more of a challenge than I anticipated. I struggled with the zipper for about 10 minutes before I sent a desperate text to Alyssa that read "I am literally trapped in this dress".  She came to my rescue and we struggled with the zipper for several more minutes.  Here is what happened: nothing. Yup.  We pulled this and tugged that. She tried to hang on the zipper and towards the end of 10 minutes we had hamburger for fingers.  I was at the point where I thought I was going to be forced to buy the dress because I couldn't get out of it.  It even earned itself the nickname of "death dress" because I thought I was going to die before I got it off.  The struggle continued for awhile longer when Alyssa and I decided it was best to bring my dad into it,  That's right.  I had to summon my dad to save me from a dress. As he was coming back to the store (my family had already left) I had a genius idea. I took off all of my clothes and tried to slip it over my shoulders.  I had to work with it for a few more minutes but it finally gave.  When I had my clothes back on and my head back in order I put the dress back on the hanger and tried to zip it up.  It would not budge. I left it on the hanger in a disheveled manner and booked it. 

I need a long, long break from Park City.

Funny Funny Funny

This post inspired me to do one of my own.  Here is more of our hilarity:

Food

I am here (again) to show you the awesome food I eat.

On the first line we have: Pizza Factory, a piña colada, Guru's, Cheesecake Factory
Line two: Cheesecake Factory, my Easter dinner, another piña colada
Bottom half: another piña colada, Texas Roadhouse (kind of a disappointment), more Cheesecake Factory, El Mexsal, another piña colada, and my 10 dollar watermelon.
I really didn't think that watermelon through and....I ended up with a watermelon worth its weight in gold.