10 years!?!

Today is our 10th anniversary and we're just back from a wonderful 2 nights away in the mountains. Jen and Eric were kind enough to keep Erin at their house overnight with Jean and Kathy helping out during the work days. Seems like Erin had lots of fun! We were sent several picture texts showing her enjoying splashing in water and playing the kennels at the Parrish's Click here to see Erin's adventures. As for us, we had a nice little hike up to Dream Lake (even though I got stung by something in my face right below my eye-OUCH!). Here's Blayne there.

Mostly we just relaxed in our cabin, enjoyed our hot-tub, ate yummy food and hung out in the mountains. Here we are enjoying a sunset.

I was looking at some of our wedding pics. Surrounded by so many wonderful friends and our family-it was such a sweet time. It seems very natural that we've been together that long-but at the same time, it just doesn't seem possible that it really was that long ago! I can't really be that old, can I?! :0)
Here's the random image for the day-this is the sunset from our building over the roof of the courthouse a few nights ago. They're often beautiful, but this one I just had to get the camera for.

Erin just gave us the best anniversary present ever-she finally took her first steps today! She's 18 months and even though you know its bound to happen, you start to wonder :0) She'd taken a few steps at this point and I finally got out the camera for this one...

Lots of love to you all. Thinking back over the last 10 years is amazing-I love my crazy wonderful husband! And I'm so thankful for all of my dear friends-the ones far away and the ones near.

Workin' on a building...

Last Wednesday morning at 5 am as Jen and I left to hike Flattop Mountain Blayne was up and waiting for the crew of workers to come and start demolition on the facade. Work began and you can see the first 3 days of progress on the gallery at Blayne's Blog He did a slide show for each day-so be sure to check out all three of them (on day 2 there's some great shots of Erin for those who need to see new pics of her ;0) Its fun to see the progress! There's still quite a bit of work to be done, but its so inspiring!

Jen and I really enjoyed our only summit hike this summer. I'd forgotten how glorious it is to be on the trail early. We were at the summit at 9:15am. Here are some shots from our hike.

A friendly marmot (a bit too tame, I'm afraid).


view from the summit of Flattop Mountain.


Here's a random, but favorite shot of Erin from a hike earlier this summer :)


Starting Wednesday night I started having elevated heart rate issues which usually happens when I'm getting too much thyroid medicine-only problem with that theory is that I'm off medicine and have been for months. My doc gave me drugs to slow down my heart, and the jury's out on which makes me feel worse-the problem or the "cure". So, I'll spend tomorrow trying to get an appointment soon (and that's the tricky part) with an endocrinologist here in town. Hopefully I'll be feeling better for our weekend getaway-we'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary this weekend! Off to the mountains for us. Yeah!