The mostly finished living room

After 3 layers of wall paper, smelly carpet, 8 hours with a wickedly large drum sander, plaster work, 4 new layers of paint, 1 layer of stain, and 3 layers of polyurathane.... behold our living room. (see my mothers blog for more of a play by play:http://dyerweb.com/mom/blog/ ) And the picture dosent really catch the colors, but its nice.

1976 Honda CB 550

Pure Style, complete with hand knit moccasines. We went for a sunday afternoon cruise on my new bike.

Its kinda un real..

It makes it almost not scary at all because its hard to believe that your really just gliding around with your own little set of wings.. its quiet too.. its like riding your bike fast but no other noise except the wind.

in the upper left you can see how high we got.. pretty darn high.. high enough that hieght didnt matter..

loveable

Here is my wife.. in her caccoon.. right before takeoff. she was screaming as it lifted.. I was a very pround husband.

2000 ft

We went hanggliding! It was so sweet. They dragged me up to 2000 ft and let me go. I had an instructor strapped to me.. which was 100% good cause its a little bit intimidating. however I flew the kite (even behind the plane) except for some wild moves...stalls, dives, etc. and he also landed it.

It was really something. here you can see lauren getting towed up in the air behind a little "sport lite" its like an ultra lite...

Typical

This a what my typical surf pictures look like.. myron is there.. I have a longer wide tongued board myron has his shorter board. This was taken at Huntington. we surfed newport too... however huntington was better this trip. (see november 28th 2005 in the archives)

California Tree

I think this one is called the california tree.. lauren on the left amanda looking up and myron on the right.. this was a very big tree. however it is not as big as old grizzly.. which is the largest living single organizm in the world ( so it said on the sign.. (we saw him too)

Lower Yosemite Falls

Here you can see myron (bottom blue shorts) and myself (top white belt, not to be confused with the man in the red shorts) in the lower yosemite falls.. ussually you would not want to be standing here cause the falls are so huge.. however this year there is almost no water. Myron actually took a massive face plant to get us all in the water. We were jumping from rock to rock and he bit it.. if you get the chance you should have him show you the video.. its funny. Th girls got in here too.. the water was SO cold. beyond cold.

Dont leave your wallet in the Seat!!

In Irvine during a sacrament meeting on our fantastic road trip we were robbed! they spent 1000 or so dollars in the 45 mins (give or take) it took me to cancel my credit cards! bummer. We were staying with Amy and Brain (thanks) and the night before they told us irvine was the safest city in the US three years running ... doubly ironically after the break in, lauren and I have been looking into perhaps moving there for a few months (probably closer to the beach if we do it). We do love California.

Annual Yosemite Visit

One year back we were un married and in Yosemite at this same spot!

CLimbering

On the bottom right we have Brian Todd in the way back with lauren and I up front.. along with Jo and the mighty lee over on the left.

Rock Canyon

Red Pointed this one... but Im not going to say what it was rated.

Hello Northwest!!

Shane came home today with an envelope addressed to Shane and Lauren Dyer, so I grabbed it and I looked inside to find 2 tickets to Oregon!(disguised cleverly as concert tickets) I am extra super duper happy about this as my sister Annie and her husband Jake will be meeting up with us, and we get to see Dan and Minna and the kids! Shane is the best husband ever, and it was great news after finding out that we're being evicted from our apartment, and the house we were buying fell through. So, at least from July 3rd to the 8th we will not be homeless - we will be on vacation!

Golf = Blood Sweat and Tears

Golf... I find golf to be a very difficult game. Its heart crushing, and yet so satisfying. In these photographs Lauren and I battled it out on a short course (par3 and 4 only)... it was a tough game. In the end she won by 4 strokes. Her best clubs: The Putter and her trusty 1 wood, (she got fantastic 2002 Womens Callaway C4) . My best clubs: The 7 and 8 irons. I only lost one ball!

Angels Landing

This is the the very edge of hiking more on the mountaineering side... Ive done a bunch of the climbing stuff but it didn't really help, I was still nervous, maybe more for my wife; one slip and your totally dead. Its such a good hike. they have chains all the way up. I would have preferred ropes, It would have felt safer. I circled some more people if you click on it. This odd sliver of rock is 1500 feet of shear cliff on both side. Truly amazing what God has done. Lee and Jo are in the foreground. They are our good friends(hopefuls for Team Married) and camping partners, very adventurous...

The Magnitude

Here I circled two people in red. You can click on the picture to enlarge it. It kinda gives you an idea of the depth of the narrows. Its unreal... miles and miles of this.

Becoming a Man

Along the rite of passage highway which I have been zipping down this year, I found one of my favorite man creating moments to be the purchase of this fine barbecue. It was at a thrift store. I did a graceful job of helping them to see why it should only cost 10 dollars. Its a nice kenmore 3 burner, with a temperature gauge. Im smiling just writing about this excellent piece of equipment.

However I have found 1 glich in the man making perchase. The burners only have a tiny flame, and so I meet perhaps another right of passage; Needing to fulfill my manly duty of "Mr. Fix it"... and not having done so.

Graduation Festivities

After Hanging out with Dick Cheney, Gordon B. Hickley, Richard G. Scott, David Bednar, and other accomplished folk we got down and dirty with Dance Dance Revolution. Mom and Dad were killing it!

Graduation

Well I Graduated last December. However I walked this last week. My parents came to town... I thought that its a good idea to walk at least once for my college experance. Here you can see that my robe is that of a PhD.. I was feeling pretty sweet with this bad boy on. And with such a good looking wife, It was hard to feel anything but rad.

Im glad that my parents came too. Its nice to have them in town.

Hard at Work

Me with my $10,000 GPS hard at work.
The truth is I rarely get to go to the field so this day was a treat. I put on waders and walked irrigation canals all day. It was fantastic. I'm doing the design for a pipe that will take the place of the canals.

Shake your Peace

We went to the "Shake your Peace" Bike tour. We ended up in the mountains...with a bike that has a generator hooked to it.. so people played music with an amp and mic high in the Wasatch.. here we have Lauren "shaking her peace" for the generator.

Gang

sometimes we ride in a gang.. people get scared, sometimes even hurt.. its a dog eat dog world

Last Ski day

The Unseen Images

The new Family went to the Bahamas. These are rare photos and comprise 99 percent of all honeymoon photos taken by the New Dyers while in the Bahamas...
Newly married Shane is in awe at how much he enjoys being married. Newly married Lauren does not like her husband to make her go to class. She is however Loving Married life. And finds herself Blown away by the easy and natural transition both the newlyweds have felt in their new life together.

Lauren and Shane pre marriage at Park City... this was one cold day.

The Lovely Desert

Here we have peterified sand dunes. But since petrified is such a hard word to spell we will call them "Ancient hardened Sand mounds"

In search of a camp spot

Saint George does not do much to fasilitate no budget campers. They make everything "day use only" and in the parks you have to pay for a camp site. But since the 4 of us pay our taxes (and therefore own the country) we camp whereever we please... the key is hideing the car.  

Presidents Day Weekend Strikes Again!

This weekend 2006 lauren and I took this same road trip with; myron, and lee. She impressed me.. she didnt complain.. and it was cold. (we camped). this year we did a version of the same trip. with Lee, jo, lauren, and I. It was an amazing trip. I love road trips, camping, adventure and Lauren. so you can imagine how good of a trip that it must have been.