We be bloggin'

Well, we have enjoyed checking out Flickr and Blog accounts of friends and family for a while now- one of my favorite technological advances. As usual, we are little behind (or at least the Mulliken half of this pair is). But, move over and make some room, cause we are gettin on board! We want to be able to share some photos and details about the DuRoss happenin's (Western clan, Iowa ward) with all the loves we have out there in the world. So, let me know what you think. I am grateful to Chris DuRoss for this first picture of Chip and I diving into Chautauqua Lake this summer during our DuRoss family vacation. And, as the picture indicates, we are going to "dive in" to this whole world-wide-web sharing thang!





For our 6th anniversary, we returned to the Ashley National Forest in the Uintas for a five day backpacking trip. The Unitas are these old and wise mountains just a few hours outside Salt Lake City.





















Mother Nature gave us the gift of perfect weather; cool enough for hiking with a pack on all day, warm enough for skinny dipping in the clear and cold rivers and lakes that surrounded us. We saw only two other hikers. Otherwise, we had the whole Squaw Basin and Dead Horse Lake area to ourselves.




Highlights include but are not limited to, feeling like we didn't forget anything, reading aloud almost an entire book together (Buddah-Deepak Chopra), the view of Dead Horse Lake (DHL) from the pass, drinking a bottle of wine next to DHL that Chip packed in unbeknownst to me, creating a backcountry version of the "washer game", and remembering what it is like to only concern yourself with the bare necessities- what are we going to eat, where are we going to sleep, and how are we going to get there? Enjoy these couple shots and if you want to see more you can click on the link to our Costco "anniversary" album (link above and to the right).
Love y'all!
















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