Back to Normal...?

I hesitate to say this (and I knock on wood as I do so), but its sort of starting to feel like life is getting back to normal.  Kind of.  Sort of.  For the most part.

Its a nice feeling after 6 11 months of crazy.  About a year ago it seemed like all crap hit the fan, we were booked every weekend, we were planning an anniversary party, family retreat, and a trip to Honduras.  Once we got through the holidays and Honduras, we hit the ground running with the church project.  Then it was Mandy's wedding, then the sprint to get things done before vacation.

And now vacation is over.  And life is sort of normal.  We're still way busier than I want to be, but its sort of a routine busy.  Like the same kind of busy on a regular basis... NOT leaving town every-other-weekend busy.

I've decided to enjoy it.  And soak up summer.  Here's one of the awesome things about being childless (and not a teacher): we don't live on a school schedule.  Summer for us really runs from mid-June (when it really gets warm) well into September.  As long as the weather's warm, it's summer!

Here's a little bit of what's been going on around here.

Wyoming: the overnight hike

I was going to wait a few days to post this, to space things out a bit.  However, this part of the trip felt very long, and also we took a ton of pictures.  To more accurately portray the experience, this post is long, with lots of pictures.  I am posting it in the middle of the weekend so you might have a better chance of finding time to read it if you want to.  Or you can just scroll through and look at the pictures.

Wyoming: The Early Days

We packed A LOT into the first two days we were in Jackson Hole.  Sunday all 21 of us went for a hike.  Tim and Nate had spotted the trail on a map in our condo, and the adults in charge of making the decision chose the trail completely independently of knowing Tim and Nate had been interested.  It was rated somewhere as an "easy to moderate" hike, it was a couple of miles before you got an awesome view of the Grand Teton, and then a few more miles around a lake.

Wyoming Adventures

We've been on a bit of an adventure lately.

Photo Credit: Emily Taylor