Hi to the High Uintas

We love this place. Well I love it. Marc is obsessed with the Uintas. He could go up there every weekend. He's nuts. We found these waterfalls that you can slide in from Marc's childhood. I milked the pregnancy thing as an excuse to stay out of the freezing water.

McRaes meet Montana

We hosted my family reunion this year at Marc's family ranch. The ole HPR!! :) It was so much fun. With only one set of stitches. Poor Ian. We all packed in the cabins and all worked in the huge amazing kitchen. There was plenty of swimming in the pond, horseback riding, four wheeler riding. It was a lot of fun. I think everyone had a great time. My two nephews went to Europe the year before and they said they liked this better. So it must have been pretty great.

Hey Jude

It's a boy!! We could not be more thrilled. Marc was convinced it was going to be a girl. He thought now way would it be a boy. We are so excited. Not only is it a he. But he is healthy and growing strong. We have so much love for him already and cannot wait to see him and guess who he looks like. I can't wait to call it he or Jude instead of it. I am growing a person in my stomach not a creature.

Hiking to Sundance with Sundance

Felt a little funny calling Sundance's name when your at Sundance. We started this hike at the trail head for Timpanogos/Stewart falls and hiked to the top of back mountain. It was a lot of fun. I only fell once and got a scraped knee. Better then a scraped belly.

Spring hiking.

We are trying to get out and about as much as possibl. Work makes that really difficult but we try. Luckily we live so close and that helps. This is one of our passions. We love to hike!!

Russia and China

We are so fortunate. We have a healthy baby growing in my womb and we are also blessed to have had the opportunity to travel. I am about 15 weeks pregnant during this trip. We first went to Russia. We spent time first in Moscow. It is so amazing. You could still feel the presence of the failed communism in the brisk air. It was amazing too. We'd be walking around checking things out and it'd be totally light outside and then we'd realize it would be almost midnight. Next we hit St.Petersburg. The jet lag hit us here the hardest I think. We both passed out lying in the grass of a busy public park. We have no idea how long we were sleeping. Ha ha. But we fit in. Lots of people passed out in that park. They just had an empty vodka bottle in there hands. We then shot back over to Moscow and caught a very unorganized, dysfunctional flight to China. The flight wasn't bad. The airport was horrible. We would have missed the flight if they didn't hold the plane for the chaos trying to check in. It was very frustrating. Then we landed in the most quiet, clean, zen airport in Beijing. Such an amazing city. We toured the forbidden city climbed the great wall, ate at the same spicy noodle place every evening. Saw their food market, where people would eat live scorpions and things. UGH! Can't even think about it. Gotta be nuts!! Then we caught a train to Shanghai. WOW! Modern, funky, amazing city. So cool. For Marc's birthday we went up to the top of the second tallest building. It was so cool. We loved it. I felt like batman!

Moscow



St. Petersburg


Beijing




Shanghai

Happy anniversary

It is our 5 year anniversary. And We are celebrating it with a trip to my O.B.'s office. We are expecting a little bundle of Joy on November 30th. We can't wait. We are so nervous and so so excited. The baby was too small to pick up the heartbeat with the Doppler so we were lucky and got to have an ultrasound and see our little peanut. Which is healthy and everything looks normal right now. :) So excited. We are just holding our breathe to make it to 12 weeks. Then the risk of miscarriage goes down significantly.

There it is!! The little hamster!!