Hawaii!! August 2011

Our good friends Chris and Katye are lucky enough to have a timeshare they get to use every year or two.  It was their 10 year anniversary this year and they wanted to go somewhere fun and invited us along for the ride!  We decided to go to the Big Island of Hawaii and check it out!  We stayed in Kona.

The first day we decided we wanted to go cliff jumping into the ocean. Kinda scary but fun!





Getting ready in our wet suits to go snorkeling with the Manta Rays at night!




Swimming in the Ocean after jumping off the rocks




Checking out some history of Hawaii after an afternoon of snorkeling




So Beautiful!




Having fun on the boat before getting to our Manta Ray snorkel spot




On our last day there we traveled to another side of the island that is very tropical and rainy.  This was the lookout




Parasailing for the first time!  It was a blast!



24th of July

We ran the enterprise fun run again this year. Good times. Mik'L decided to join us too. We actually placed in our age group for the 10k :)

Austin decided to join us this year as well and decided Enterprise is a lot of fun on the 24th! Austin and Luke ran the 5k

Hike to Kannarraville Falls

For my Birthday this year we decided to hike Kannarraville Falls. It turned out to be a really cool hike Behind waterfall #1



Austin and Shelby came along too

Waterfall #1

Waterfall #2. A bit harder and a lot more wet!

Girls Camp 2011

Girls Camp this year was on a ward level. Luckily we are friends with some people that own a cabin in Brian Head.

We did a service project cleaning up trash at Giant Steps

After all our hard work we had some Pizza

Me(assistant camp director) and Anna(Camp Director) at the top of Giant Steps

All of our girls at the top of Giant Steps




Riding up the ski lift

Ragnar!!

We decided to run the Wasatch Back Ragnar last June. Our team name was the Ragnafarians! Hence the Rasta wig :)

Katye, Anna, and Me after we were finished running and waiting for the rest of the team.

My leg was a total of 20 miles. I started the team out with a 7 mile run in the freezing cold morning in Logan.

This Picture was taken in the afternoon shortly before my 2nd run of 8 miles

After our van was done running and the boys took over we headed for a place to sleep. We found a cheeseburger joint to grab some food and then headed to a high school I think to sleep. We got our sleeping bags out and headed for the grassy field. It was freezing cold and I didn't get any sleep! So exhausted after running 15 miles and no sleep I woke up to run my last leg of 5 miles at 5 a.m. I had blisters on both feet after that one :( It was a little bit of a rough experience for me. After running a marathon I thought it would be easier, but it was totally different and harder in some ways (lack of sleep, didn't train as much, lasted way longer than 4.5 hrs).

I think our team finished in around 32 hours or so. It was a good experience. Would I do it again? Probably not. Maybe. It can probably be related to childbirth. After long enough you forget how painful it is and do it again :)

Simkins Family Pics



The entire family.  Even Shelby got to be in this years since they were outside :)




Us :)




My favorite




The Grandkids



Comedy show in Vegas

Ok so I know that these pics are from over a year ago and I started this post a long time ago! I have decided I'm going to try and do better at blogging and I need to get caught up for the last year that I have been slacking!

These pics are from a comedy show we went to in Las Vegas last February! It was Ray Ramano and Kevin James. Luke loves Kevin James so I surprised him with the tickets for Christmas.