I am way beyond excited about it! For those of you that know that my birthday isn't until January, my new digital piano is early for good reason. I am getting released from my calling as Relief Society pianist so I can accept my new calling as choir pianist. :) I'm really excited about it. I always seem to get called into music or activities callings. At one time or another I've had most every activities or music calling available, but this is my first time being choir pianist and I'm way excited because I get to play different music than just from the hymn book. Woot! We've been planning to get this practically since we got married, but were going to wait until my birthday in January. With the new calling, it only seemed right to get it now and I'm am loving it!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
My New Baby (not of the human kind)
This treasure has just taken up residence in my living room. Bill got it for me for my birthday!
I am way beyond excited about it! For those of you that know that my birthday isn't until January, my new digital piano is early for good reason. I am getting released from my calling as Relief Society pianist so I can accept my new calling as choir pianist. :) I'm really excited about it. I always seem to get called into music or activities callings. At one time or another I've had most every activities or music calling available, but this is my first time being choir pianist and I'm way excited because I get to play different music than just from the hymn book. Woot! We've been planning to get this practically since we got married, but were going to wait until my birthday in January. With the new calling, it only seemed right to get it now and I'm am loving it!
I am way beyond excited about it! For those of you that know that my birthday isn't until January, my new digital piano is early for good reason. I am getting released from my calling as Relief Society pianist so I can accept my new calling as choir pianist. :) I'm really excited about it. I always seem to get called into music or activities callings. At one time or another I've had most every activities or music calling available, but this is my first time being choir pianist and I'm way excited because I get to play different music than just from the hymn book. Woot! We've been planning to get this practically since we got married, but were going to wait until my birthday in January. With the new calling, it only seemed right to get it now and I'm am loving it!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Climbing Mt. Olympus
Bill and I headed out with our friend David to do some hiking/rock climbing yesterday. The day involved a lot of firsts for us. First time Bill's done a multi-pitch climb, first time either of us have done big wall climbing, first time we've simul-climbed. Yeah, it was a great day. This is what Mt. Olympus looks like from Salt Lake. It's the mountain just south of Big Cottonwood Canyon:
We climbed that big rock face on the left side of the picture. It's about 2000 feet high. Neither Bill nor I had any idea how much we would be climbing when we started, but it was an incredible climb. I estimate we did 10 pitches of climbs. A pitch is the length of a climbing rope, by the way, if anyone is wondering. They're usually 60M long, or 200 feet.
The climb was awesome! David led it, so he had all the cams and stuff to connect into the rock. He had two ropes connected to his harness, one going to me and one going to Bill. We let him climb to just about the end of the rope and then we would together start climbing up after him simultaneously. It's called simul-climbing. Well, that's not really a technical term, but that's what we called it.
Once we got all the way to the top of the wall, we scrambled up a couple hundred more yards to get to the ridgeline, and then came back down the side of the big face and rapelled a good portion of it back down, then scrambled over tons of boulders and loose rocks the rest of the way down. We started the hike at about 7:30AM and I expected to be done by maybe 1PM, but we actually didn't get back to our car until 5:30PM.
What a crazy day! It was one of the coolest things I've done in a long time. We even managed not to get too terribly burned. My skin's particularly sensitive at the moment so I did get a bit burned even though I had sunscreen on, but it's all good. It was ridiculously hot! 102 in Salt Lake and we definitely felt it out on the rock. There was a cool breeze since we were up a few thousand feet from the valley, but man, I have not sweated that much in years. We were dripping wet pretty much the whole day, but it was totally worth it for the adventure.
Here's a few pictures. Ignore the bum shot, but this is a view up from where we started climbing. The rock part in the sun in this shot is where we ended up climbing. We're just scrambling up the ravine here.
This is one of the views looking down on part of what we climbed.
Here's a couple of us almost to the top.
Here's the views from the top.
This is one of the belay stations we rapelled off of.
And this is another shot of the wall we climbed up and later rapelled down the side of.
We climbed that big rock face on the left side of the picture. It's about 2000 feet high. Neither Bill nor I had any idea how much we would be climbing when we started, but it was an incredible climb. I estimate we did 10 pitches of climbs. A pitch is the length of a climbing rope, by the way, if anyone is wondering. They're usually 60M long, or 200 feet.
The climb was awesome! David led it, so he had all the cams and stuff to connect into the rock. He had two ropes connected to his harness, one going to me and one going to Bill. We let him climb to just about the end of the rope and then we would together start climbing up after him simultaneously. It's called simul-climbing. Well, that's not really a technical term, but that's what we called it.
Once we got all the way to the top of the wall, we scrambled up a couple hundred more yards to get to the ridgeline, and then came back down the side of the big face and rapelled a good portion of it back down, then scrambled over tons of boulders and loose rocks the rest of the way down. We started the hike at about 7:30AM and I expected to be done by maybe 1PM, but we actually didn't get back to our car until 5:30PM.
What a crazy day! It was one of the coolest things I've done in a long time. We even managed not to get too terribly burned. My skin's particularly sensitive at the moment so I did get a bit burned even though I had sunscreen on, but it's all good. It was ridiculously hot! 102 in Salt Lake and we definitely felt it out on the rock. There was a cool breeze since we were up a few thousand feet from the valley, but man, I have not sweated that much in years. We were dripping wet pretty much the whole day, but it was totally worth it for the adventure.
Here's a few pictures. Ignore the bum shot, but this is a view up from where we started climbing. The rock part in the sun in this shot is where we ended up climbing. We're just scrambling up the ravine here.
This is one of the views looking down on part of what we climbed.
Here's a couple of us almost to the top.
Here's the views from the top.
This is one of the belay stations we rapelled off of.
And this is another shot of the wall we climbed up and later rapelled down the side of.
Friday, July 17, 2009
6 Months!
Today is Bill and my 6 month anniversary! And guess what? Both of us completely forgot about it until my sister called me just now to announce she's engaged! Yay for her!!! I am SO excited about that! She's 9 years older than me, not like you can even tell, but it's definitely about time for her to be able to get married and I'm just so happy for her. She and her fiance talked for the first time on my wedding day, and went on their first date 4 days later on my birthday, so I feel very invested in their relationship. :)
Oh, and I'm very happy about the fact that Bill and I have been married for 6 months. I can't believe it's been that long! It seems more like 6 weeks or 6 days or something like that. Yay for marital bliss!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Long and Short of It
This is not a low-maintenance haircut, but I think it came out pretty cute this morning. My hair has so much body in it that I have to flatten the top down as much as I can, lest it look rather ridiculous. It'll be fun for summer though.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Quite a Cut
I've kind of disappeared from blogging in the last month or so. Life was happening, ya know? I'll have to post about that later, but in today's news I got a free promotional offer at a day spa in town recently with a bunch of sweet offers in it. I went this morning to use the first one, a haircut, since I figured my hair needed a trim. I wasn't planning to cut half my hair off, but I like the result. :) I'm excited to see what it looks like tomorrow when I do it myself. I might be blow-drying my hair a lot more this summer if it doesn't do curly as well. lol
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