Camping at Little Naches & Jaime's new toy

We sure have spent a lot of time camping so far this summer and it's been great! I love being out in the mountains and relaxing on the weekends. We found a really nice campsite at Naches that is a short walk from the river and the cliff jump. It's kind of tucked away, so it's usually open for us. There's plenty of room for anyone who wants to join us! Here's some pictures from our last trip.

Here's me smiling for the camera. Happy to be in the mountains!


Me taking a quick nap in my hammock. My feet got 10+ mosquito bites during this time. That'll teach me to sleep with flip flops.


The day before we went out to Little Naches, Jaime pulled up in front of the house with this on the trailer. (Total surprise to me) It's his "new" 2006 CRF250X. And it's street legal which I'm not too excited about. But he promised he will only ride it on FS roads.....we'll see if he sticks to that.
Anyways, here's a picture of him minutes after he pulled up and informed me for the first time of his splurge. (He used his tax return money to buy this + some money he's had stashed.)


Jaime jumping the new bike in the campsite.


Jaime doing a wheelie through camp.


This now puts our dirtbike total to six! He now has 4 and I still have my 2. Seems a little unfair to me....I think it should be 3 and 3. =) Anyone want to buy a dirtbike? Let me know....we need to make some room in the garage for our cars.

Summer Summer Summer!

Summer is BY FAR my favorite time of the year! Jaime and I both love being outdoors enjoying all that Washington has to offer. We wasted no time this year getting out into the mountains and going camping/dirtbiking.
Our first camping trip of the season was to a spot about 10 miles outside of South Cle Elum. I had just bought my "new toy" (.45 HK USP Compact) and I was dying to get out and shoot it. It's got quite a bit more kick than I'm used to, but it's a really fun gun.


Here's a video of me shooting my new gun for the first time. =)



Jaime, Brent, Aaron and I went for a pretty intense ride in the Taneum area outside of Cle Elum. There were awesome views, but very technically and sometimes scary parts of the trail. There were also some scary river crossings that we thankfully didn't attempt. The snow melt made the rivers VERY high and my bike probably would've been swept down river. Here's a couple pictures from the ride.
Here's a picture of my muddy dirtbike after a day of really tough riding.


This was on our last day at camp. Aaron was playing with fire and I got this shot.


I work really close to Lake Washington, so now that the weather is nice, I drive over to Kennydale park and spend my break there. Jaime is able to come visit me sometimes and have lunch with me. I got this picture to show you all that he really is a 28 year old KID.


This is just a cute picture I took of Pawsi. I was putting groceries away and had left the cupboards open for a couple minutes. He had jumped up there (about 4 feet from ground) and found a comfortbale spot next to the friskies. I think he's trying to tell me something.


Andra and I turned 25 on June 26th!!! I feel so old! It seems like I just turned 17 like 2 years ago. It's so crazy how fast the past few years have gone by.
Here's our Oreo Blizzard Ice Cream Cake. It was ridiculously good!



Me scarfing down the yummy cake. Dad in the background. haha.


Jaime got me a HUGE Fox racing gear bag. It fits all my riding gear and there's still room left over. It's so big I fit in there....sort of.


Andra and I celebrated our 25th birthday at Naches. I can't think of a better place to spend it.


Little Naches is BY FAR our favorite place to camp. Hundreds of miles of dirtbike trails, a bunch of rivers, beautiful views, and tons of camping spots. This year, they took an extra month to open because the winter was so harsh, it took far more work to get the trails "rideable." We finally got out there the weekend after they opened. Here's some pictures from our trip.
There are elk EVERYWHERE up there.


Hanging out by the Little Naches River.


Jaime and I at Ravens Roost at sunset.

Me and Mt. Rainier!!


This was our massive "birthday fire" that Brent, Aaron, Jaime and Dustin made for us. It was so huge and hot you had to stand about 10'+ away.


Me and Andra about to go for a ride!!


Jaime cutting up firewood.


Me on my 25th BIRTHDAY!! yay!


I was doing handstands by the fire....not really sure why.


Here's some pictures from Ravens Roost on the last night. The sunset was so beautiful. I wish these pictures did it justice, but they just don't.



Here's a picture of Lexus and Pawsi getting into mischeif at home. They know they're not supposed to be up there, but there they are.


On weekends when we aren't able to get out of town, we spend a lot of time at Lake Wilderness. Here's some pictures of us jumping off the logs across the lake. (Well 4 of Jaime, the last one is of me)


The summer is already going by so fast! But then I guess they always do. Summers in the Pacifit Northwest are the best and we are looking forward to the rest of the summer and the adventures we'll have. If anyone wants to go camping with us, just lets us know!!

Maui Trip 2009

From May 20-26th, Jaime and I had the opportunity to go to Maui on vacation. We had a great time and got to do a lot of fun things. Here is a bunch of pictures to go along with some of the stories of our trip.

This is a panoramic picture of the beach right outside our hotel. (Don't forget to click on the pictures to get the full version.)


These are a couple pictures of the beautiful sunset on our first night there. The sunsets were so amazing! I took TONS of pictures of them, but I'll only post a couple.




There were some feral cats that lived in some bushes right outside our hotel. This one was the cutest and he greeted me everyday. It was SO hard not to feed them. Jaime eventually took to him too. He named him "Crossed-eyed-fussy" haha. He comes up with pretty weird pet names.



They had this sign up which I didn't like. Even feral cats need to eat!


Jaime and I went on a drive out to a lava flow on southern Maui. We stopped along some cool spots to take some pictures.

We also went snorkeling out where the lava flow goes into the ocean. The day after that, we went on a snorkel cruise out to the Molokini Crater and went to a few snorkel spots. We saw a 4-5 foot shark, eels, sea turtles, and TONS of tropical fish. What a cool experince!


I love Macadamia nuts!! I ate so many of these while we were there. And pineapples too!

Another cool sunset!! I especially loved this one because a few sail boats were floating by making some cool views. There was also a huge black cloud moving inland that made some dramatic coloring.


That wave hit me and I got soaked right as Jaime was taking this picture.


We ate at Bubba Gumps TWICE while we were there because it was so good! And it was right on the water in down town Lahaina. Here's a picture of my super good Mahi Mahi. Best meal I've had in a long time!


Panoramic sunset



My cute lizard friend! He came on our back patio almost every evening.


This is a huge frog we saw one night on our walk to the pool. He jumped out right in front of us and scared us!


Jaime standing on the rocks right near Ho'okipa Beach. We were watching surfers and sea turtles swimming around in the water by the rocks.



Some Hawaiian dude that caught a huge fish while we were checking out this black sand beach. I'm really confused by those goggles he's wearing....


Jaime and I pulled over along our drive Hana Highway and hiked down a small river.


We eventually found a really cool waterfall and pool PERFECT for cliff jumping. The water was suprisingly warm. (maybe because we're used to the frigid Green River water temps) We hung out here for quite a while and jumped off the waterfall and swam around in the pools. Here's some pictures of us jumping. At the bottom of this blog, there's a couple videos of me jumping the cliff.

---This sign was up but you better believe we went in anyways.


Here is Jaime really tired after a long day of body boarding and snorkeling.


Dead cockroach we found on our back patio one morning.


Kaanapali Beach with Black Rock in the background. We hung out here for the majority of the day. We snorkeled over by the rock and saw tons of fish and even some sea turtles. I even jumped off Black Rock few times but we didn't get any more pictures that day.




We took a whole day to do the Drive to Hana. It was a beautiful drive! Awesome views and scenery. The road was very interesting. Lots of one lane roads and bridges. Jaime especially loved the hair pin turns. Whenever he saw one of these signs, he would get so excited and turn off traction control and then gas it. It was very nerve racking, but fun too!


This is me scared out of my mind with Jaime behind the wheel.


Here's Jaime coming out of the water after body boarding. Looks like the waves got a little bit small for him.

On one of our last days, we went on a short hike to Honolua Bay. It was down in this little valley so there was tons of greenery. One of the prettiest walks I've been on.



Here's Jaime and I on the plane on our way home. It was a sad day! As you can probably tell, I'm very drugged up (because I have a deathly fear of flying)

Here's our pouty sad faces. We weren't ready to leave. We'll come back some day. Hopefully sooner than later.


Here are the videos of me jumping the waterfall cliff.