Deer Mountain

So a few weeks ago we hiked Deer Mountain to watch the sunset. It was my sister Jenny, her husband Dallon, our friend Robin, Bryce, and myself. Heres some pictures from the hike- enjoy the view, I know we did! 

Gorgeous hike! And my husbands poor ankles afterwards :(

Moral of the story: don't wear xtratuffs hiking- it hurts. (For the record, Bryce said the view was totally worth it! And his ankles are much better now!)

The Promised Pictures

Here are the promised pictures!

We went hiking to upper and lower Sylvis Lake. And by we I meant Jenny, Dallon, and I. This is Upper

And this is lower. 

We also did Coastguard Trail. It starts at a local elementary school and ends at this beach! Awesome, right?

This is my project for the program. To apply you started by choosing 5 objects and making 6 abstractions for each. These were mine:

Ballerina

Peacock

Floatplane (Seaplane)

Blender

Elephant 

Then you chose one abstraction from each object and made a 3D model out of cardstock:

Blender

Peacock 

Ballerina

Elephant 

Floatplane 

Then tou chose one of the objects and repeated it swveral times to make a light out of cardstock only. 

I chose the peacock. This is the light turned off. 

And on. 

 

Then you had to draw your light

My drawing 

The last step was a paragraph but I won't bore you all with that! 

Finally- we got a glass octopus 

Cool right?!

Till next time :)

Summer Time and the Livin is Easy

So I'm a horrible person and haven't blogged since November... I apologize! But here's what's happened to the McRae family as of yet :)

We're going to Hawaii! (In July with my awesome in-laws!) and we're pretty stoked for the vacay! We will only be there for about a week but hey, it's Hawaii!!! 

We're in Alaska for the summer now-woot woot! Back to the place that we met and fell in love :) We got here May 2nd and will be here (minus that awesome trip to Hawaii) till August 28th. And miracles of miracles, it's been sunny!!! 

And here's what's happened since we got here:

I've gone hiking with my sister jenny and her hubby Dallom a few times :) bryce had to work though-boo!

And drumroll please... I got accepted to the Interior Design Program at Utah State!!!! There was a 59% acceptance rate and 41 people applied. I've been on cloud 9 ever since :) Bryce was a total stud and took me out to eat to celebrate :) thanks hunny! Xoxo 

Other than that- bryce has been working like crazy! Lots of overtime, early mornings, and long days. (Have I mentioned I married a hard working stud?!) and I've been working full time in my parents art gallery (they're closing after this season which breaks my heart a little! Bitter-sweet) I LOVE my job- surrounded by beautiful art an my beautiful family :) Bryce and I have been living with my sister and her husband and we live by my brother Russell and his family. So we've gotten to babysit their adorable baby girl Elianna :) she loves my hair and always is fascinated by it as well as the little monkey fist bryce made me. She gets so excited when we swing it in front of her face and she instantly grabs for it. Can you say adorable?!

Well that is a short summary of what we're up to! Pictures will follow shortly when I have a better internet connection :)

Thanks for being patient for my post! We love and miss you all!