Moab, Mead, and Engagements

It has been forever since I posted last, so I have a lot to update!

Ill start with March:
The Walker clan went to Moab to run in the half marathon and 5 mile races. I think Steph was happy to have some others join her in the 1/2 marathon this year!

Meg, Jamie, Abby, Me, Steph, and Tyler ran the half marathon, and Chad, Jen, Erin, Whitney, Kramer, and Shawn ran the 5 mile race.

Then in May.....

    We went to Lake Mead!
Friday we had perfect water for wake boarding, warm weather, and even saw some wildlife! It was a perfect weekend for my first time to Lake Mead.

June
   My little sister Lindsay got engaged to Drew!

Drew tricked Lindsay into going up AF canyon to help one of his friends that was stuck in the mud. When they got up to a lake with a canoe and tikki torches around it, Lindsay got a little hint that Drew's friend didn't need their help. They rowed out to the middle of the lake, popped the question, and his friends lit off fireworks! So cute; Good Job Drew!!!
We really like Drew and are so excited to have him join the fam!
These two tie the knot on August 9th!!!

Spoiled

This is the Ipad 2. 

This is also Chad's most recent birthday present.

For the month or so before Chad's birthday he had been eying this. Why this one and not the original I pad? 

Well... as Apple's website says it's:

1. Thinner

2. Lighter

3. Faster

4. Has  Facetime 

5. Smart Covers

6. 10 hour battery

So after missing the online deadline to have it before his birthday, we started our search by trying to get one in the store.

After many failed attempts at getting the one or two that came into Walmart or Target... we (well Chad) kind of gave up. The morning of Chad's birthday, I woke up early and called the Layton Walmart. They had 1!!!!!! I left immediately and sped right over to buy it! Can you say LUCKY!!!!

Chad loves it and i kinda lucked out on getting a new toy too!

Amazing!

I saw this on my friend Rachelle's blog and loved it so much I had to steal it!
Thanks!

Family Pictures

My whole family was in town for Christmas this year, so us kids decided to surprise our parents by getting Family Pictures. We wanted to take the pictures at Wheeler Farm, but the weather decided that was not an option. Who knew... rain 3 days after Christmas. We were bummed, but instead, we went to the Salt Lake City Library. Check out our photographer's blog.

Highway Debris

I was on my way down to meet some of my old college roommates at the Oquirrh Mountain temple. When THIS happened!!!!

I was getting close to merge onto I-215 and a rock that was larger than a softball fell out of a truck in the lane next to me, and hit my windshield! INSTANT SPIDER WEB!
This reminded me of a news story I saw a few months ago...I'm glad I'm not THIS guy! I guess this stuff really does happen!

So other than the giant rock that decided to hit my windshield; I had a really fun time hanging out with some of my best friends, Genna and Rachelle! I seriously havn't laughed so hard in a long long time!!!!

I'm Done!!!! for now.....

I just finished the 2nd time around of taking the GRE! I am feeling so great right now... I feel like I just finished taking finals all over again.
Now..... time to do some last minute Christmas shopping!

Who needs matches

Chad's parents gave us a couple pumpkins to carve for Halloween. I thought we had matches to light up our pumpkins; but when I looked in our cabinet, they were gone! What to do.... Well take advantage of our gas stove of course! We lit up the stove, lit some birthday candles to help light up the smaller wick candles inside the pumkins, and then watched the pumkins glow. Problem solved!