Salt Lake and Back

I had a whirlwind last couple days and I loved every minute of it! On Friday morning I drove down to Salt Lake to take a days worth of art classes on Saturday. The best part of it was getting to stay with my wonderful friend Shannon Bahrke and her fiance Matt for the night. Being as Shannon is one of the most bad-ass athletes I know (you know she got a silver in the 2002 Olympics in moguls, right?) I get out of the car and she had me hiking up this monster mountain behind her house, right away, but look at that view, with all of Salt Lake below us it was pretty gorgeous.

I want all of you to cheer her on this year...she is such a great girl, one of the most passionate, kind, fun, life-loving people I know and she deserves it. Her goal is medaling in the Olympics
again, so a million lucks to you Shannon!!!

On another note, with less than two months left I crossed off four goals from The 30 List in the last week! Number 1, 10, 13 AND 18, with a couple more in the works! I am whipping them out, yee haw!

Shannon and I at the top of the world, ok, maybe just the top of Salt Lake...

The amazing view from Shannon and Matt's house, the twinkling lives of Salt Lake City below.

PIE!

Check another one off The 30 List! I made a pie from scratch this weekend and um, yum. That is my take on it and I definitely didn't hear any complaints from Trev either! Strawberry rhubarb, takes me back to my childhood with memories of the pies my mom would make every summer with strawberries and rhubarb out of our garden. Mmmmm....

Betty Crocker, Suzy Homemaker...you can call me whatever you want, well, as long as it's nice!

Maybe not the prettiest, but...

SERIOUS YUM.

Kari was here

So last weekend, our latest visitor to Camp Robinson was my friend and old college roommate, Kari. She now lives in Denver and has done the quick stop-ins in JH, but never got the full experience, until now...

Right off the plane we whisked her away to the deck on Dornan's (for sure the best deck in the park to watch the sun set behind the Tetons) to cheers to her arrival...

And she obviously needed to throw a few back to get in the swing of things here.

Then we hit up the carnival which was in town for the week of the Teton County Fair

We got seriously nauseous from our first 3 rides (that huge dragon/boat swing thing, this Superman flying guy and "The Experience" which I later dubbed "The most horrible Experience EVER), so we had to end it with a nice mellow Ferris wheel...

And you know what that means? Another one crossed off the list! Yikes I better get moving on the rest of those!

Happy (slightly sick) customers

The next day we went on a float on the Snake River and I did most of the rowing because I am just nice like that. Kari definitely beat Trev on her fish count...including this monster that almost (but not quite) made it into the boat.

This was Trev's catch of the day (well besides me of course)

And a happy Kari in front of the Tetons.

To be continued....

30 Things I Want to Do in My 30th Year

Okay, so I love lists. I thought it might be fun for you all to see my list of 30 things to do before I turn 31 (on December 11th). Some items are big, some are small, but why not try for them all right?

1. Learn to use my camera manually

2. Score a sewing machine and learn to use it

3. Bake a pie from scratch

4. Learn how to fly fish

5. Volunteer

6. Go on a backpack trip

7. Surprise Trevor

8. Have a dinner party

9. Read 2 books a month, including 2 classics

10. Decide on a business name

11. Make myself a web page (in the works, yippy!)

12. Go rollerskating

13. Take a photography class

14. Try out bangs

15. Take photos in a photobooth

16. Write a list of my 100 favorite things

17. Watch a movie at a drive-in movie theater

18. Get inspired

19. Ride on a Ferris wheel

20. Perfect a "go-to" recipe to impress guests

21. Take a dance class

22. Write a letter to someone I admire

23. Laugh until I am out of breath

24. Sleep under the stars

25. Explore a new city (Denver & Seattle)

26. Floss every day

27. Watch a professional sporting event

28. Create a homemade recipe book full of favorites

29. Take a photo a day for one year
(I started this project on Valentine's Day and am calling it Project 365...if you want to check it out, there is a link to my new Flickr page on the right!)

30. Print out this list and hang it somewhere I can see it daily

Do any of you have a list??

xox
Chelsea