Kirk Hill Hike

 The morning of our six year anniversary, Christian and I decided to go on a hike up Kirk Hill. It was a short, albeit steep, 1.5 mile hike, but totally worth it when we made it to the top!

We will probably hike this often because the trail head is only about a five minute drive from our apartment, there are a few different routes to the top and it only took us about 40 minutes to complete the hike.

The view from the top was completely rewarding for the way up and was indescribably beautiful!

This hike was a really wonderful way to begin the celebration of our togetherness! 

I am really thankful that we found such a fun hike that is so close to home!

Summer Reading

One of my summer goals is to read all of the books that I have bought over the years, but haven't actually read [or read half of and never finished]. And there are some books that I just want to re-read. 

The kitties would not leave me alone when I was trying to take a picture of the books, so this is what I ended up with.

Anyhow, if you can't see the books, they are:

The History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russel

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

Sister of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - John Krakauer

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Mighty - Rodman Philbrick

The Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds

Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

I may write in depth about a book if I feel so compelled. I am excited to have the time to go on a reading blitz, I think it will be fun!

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful spring!

Sourdough Hike

 Our second hike was through the Sourdough Valley.

It was a beautiful, easy, long hike. And we did some interval running on the way back, which was a ton of fun!

We both got some sun, which is nice because turns out that moving to MT was not great for my previously golden skin [point for CA]. I think this is the whitest I have ever been, and it's not a good color on me. I actually got some tan lines from being in the sun.

If Christian looks annoyed, it's because he is. I "made" him go further than he wanted to and his feet started to hurt [then I got a really fun story about how when he was little his feet always hurt and no one cared and it is because he has baby-like flat feet... I know, exciting.] In the depths of his heart he loved the last 5 miles :)

 We really did have fun though, and we met many puppies.