My family recently came together to celebrate my Grandpa’s 89th birthday party. It was fun to see everyone and talk about everything that’s changed since we last saw each other–new babies, jobs, getting older, you know the fun stuff.

Since this was such a rare occurrence to get everyone together, and since my Grandpa has Alzheimer’s and we’re not sure how much longer he has left, we decided to commemorate the event by hiring a professional photographer to take a big family photo. Since the pictures turned out great, we couldn’t be happier with the Utah photographer that we chose.

I’m so grateful we had a chance to get together as a family. Those memories really are priceless, particularly as we get older.

My sister is a very active, outdoorsy person. She has always been adverturous, and loves to mountain bike, rock climb, run marathons, and do plenty of other things I don’t think I could ever do. Until now that is.

She finally convinced me that I should go out with her and she would take it easy on me. Last winter we went snow biking in the mountains. This year I decided to try out Utah mountain biking with her before the weather turned cold.

Although I was very nervous at first, once I calmed down, I had a blast! It was so exhilirating to be going so fast with the air rushing at your face (better than a sports car)! I think the rush is addictive because I’m going out again next week!