Roland and Andrea's Summer so far

hey everyone! we have joined the blogging community! well, i guess we will start by showing some pictures from our new hampshire and st. george trips! it was really fun. I left for new hampshire on june 12 and then got to go to Gretchen's high school graduation. Congrats Gretchen! Roland was still finishing up school so he joined me about 2 weeks later. While there we were able to put on an anniversary party for my parents (their 25th wedding anniversary), go hiking and go bowling with the family. Then we were off to St. George to spend some time with Roland's family. That was also tons of fun. We were able to go on 2 hikes in Zion National Park, play baseball and tennis, make good food, and just have fun hanging out with the family. So the summer has been really good so far!

strawberry picking in new hampshire

dad and mom's anniversary party feeding cake to eachother

Ryan and Peder had a mustache off (They grew mustaches for a month to see who could grow the longest one) , and it just so happened the month was up when we were visiting. So we got to take some pictures of it. Here are some before and after pictures. (I think Ryan won, but I will let you decide)

peder and ryan before!

ryan after

peder after
family picture! We all hadn't been together for a long time, so this was really nice.

And then we were off to St. George. All of the family on the hike in the Narrows (The Yancey's were in town so that was nice)

tiffany, dennis, roxanna, maria and kevin

roxanna and rosieadrian

roland and I on a hike in kolob canyon

pretty butterfly

kolob arch

some nice frogs

A rattlesnake we saw on the kolob hike. It was kinda scary because I was about to sit right near where this beauty was. Luckily Roland spotted it.

Another snake. This one was not as scary.