Surprise guests at my house, Squashy Joshy (and a couple beardy hippy looking kids in the background eating flan)

Storm clouds gathering somewhere over Idaho

The Skagit River in Washington

Oceanside climbing up on The Malamute

Memorial Crack

Jake going up Deidre

Venturing out onto Alice Lake

Slabby! (appropriately named Satellite Dish)

Log stairs at The Smoke Bluffs

First day of climbing in Squamish

On a walk around town after stopping for brunch in Bellingham WA

Lubing the cams

Xavier with some farmer's market watermelon

On top of the library (Dad likes to point to things in pictures)

That real kind of buttercream frosting made with egg whites instead of shortning.

A walk around Silver Lake

Hiking at Alta with the Mannings…all the Mannings

Unexpected surprise

Hall of Self Portraits at the Springville Art Museum

Drive-Ins

Sunset over the white horses in back

Solstice on The Bear

On the North Summit of Mt. Olympus via The West Slabs

The best way I've found to eat lime curd

Sunset at the Challenge Buttress

I have finally mastered how to make Lemon Curd (that comes out thick enough to hold up a wooden spoon even!)

James lighting Alicia's birthday candles

Flavoring the Lavender Lemon Chiffon Cake

7pm clouds over the horse pasture

Escape from work

Sunset storm clouds over the pasture

Violet's Bounce House Birthday

The end of something good

So the point of this blog was to help me appreciate every day of the year I was 30. I'm now 31 and I think the experiment was a smashing success. I love looking back over this blog and reminiscing about each day I had, especially the TENs. I'm not sure if it was the pictures or the fact that I'd previously had some pretty crappy years but I had some of the best times I can remember over the past year as well as a few not so great ones…which only make the good ones better. Since I started on May first I went ahead and finished on May 31 a year later and I think I'm going to leave it at that. If I kept going I'd have to take pictures till I was 40 and as cool as that would be later on, I might go crazy, so I'm not going to do it. I was surprised I could do it for 13 months. It's time now for something new. I may occasionally put up a picture now and then just for fun, so don't leave forever, but until then, adios amigos, it's been fun, thanks for tuning in. If you miss the pictures then join me on my regularly scheduled blog once in awhile and feel free to not read any of the rambling words I write in between the pictures. This is me officially walking away.

Memorial Day in Nate's backyard

Testing (tasting) out cake and frosting recipes

In the Salt Lake City Cemetery (I liked this quote)

Do you know the Cream Puff Man?

I'm gradually becoming obsessed with photographing the clouds over the horse pasture

My jewelry pile on top of my dresser since I don't have a jewery box anymore (and my tiny rubber chicken which reminds me of Magnum P.I.)

There's mushrooms on my backyard bench (too much rain)

Lunch at The Tin Angel Cafe

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7 day old Roxanne hiding her lips (which, by the way, are enormous)

On Ensign Peak with Stace-Face

One of the reasons I initally bought my house was because it had lilacs

What I look at all day

I'm trying out starting from seed this year

My Birthday

Joshua and Clover