The Wright Stuff

Camping in Ak

2008-10-02T17:47:00.000-07:00

We did get the chance to do a camping trip.. Here in the background is Mt Mckinley, and thats about as close as we got. Sorry it's not a better pic.
Our camping spot!! You can't really tell, but we had to cut some bushes down to even clear a spot for our tent. We then got awoken the next morning by some huge animal about ten feet away. We kept making noise and eventually scared it away.. And i'm pretty glad I never found out what it was.
This waterfall is called bridal veil falls. Random, but pretty.

Valdez

2008-10-02T17:41:00.000-07:00

The view of the ocean from the town. It was freeeezing!
Oh, i forgot to say I won the fishing competition by catching a 325 lb halibut. Fish anyone?

My love

2008-10-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

On September 9th it was Taylor and my 2 year anniversary!! I can't believe it has flown by so fast!! I can't believe how lucky I am to have such a GREAT guy in my life. He is such a positive, happy guy that always keeps me on my toes with new adventures and fun. He will kill me but I had to put up these pictures because he is so dang cute. I love you Tay!!

My cakes!

2008-10-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

Yes, the ever famous cakes I have been doing up here in Alaska. Now, I know i'm going to have an overwhelming flood of posts of people that want me to re-create the clown cake, but I'm sorry to say, it was a once in a lifetime miracle. This one was pretty exciting for me, It was a bunch of roses, and roses are pretty freakin' hard to do! So even though you don't appreciate it, I was proud.

This was one I made last week and it was with fondant, which I am very excited to be learning to use. Its actually super easy and always looks pretty cute, it just tastes nasty, so I need to find a better recipe.

More trip pics..

2008-08-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

So this is what Ak looks like from our house in Fairbanks, at about 2:00 am. Very pretty!
This lake was also in Canada, and of the 1,000 lakes we saw, we loved this one the most. It was called Muncho lake, and though you can't tell it was a very cool green color.
I lied, we got a picture of a moose.

2008-07-31T16:46:00.000-07:00

Wellll. It's time for me to get this going I suppose, since I have four whole people who look at it!! Im keeping it short and sweet. These pics are from our trip from SALT LAKE up to ALASKA! The first day was driving and we stopped in Idaho for the night. Nothing crazy, just exciting to get on the road. This first pic is when we arrived in Seattle. We planned it for my b-day to be there and it was really neat. (minus the fact i locked the keys in the car and Tay had to jimmy rig it for an hour or so!!) We went to Pikes market and walked all over town. Tay got me a chocolate cake for breakfast! -YUM- and I got a hot dog for lunch. My favorite! This pic is from the pier and it was very beautiful there, but we had to get going with the trip, and so off we went again about 5 in the afternoon.

These two pictures were from the signpost forest in a very random town in Canada but there were literally THOUSANDS of homeade signs, so of course we ghetto'd one up with pie plates and a piece of wood and left our mark! If I didn't mention it before, we slept in hotels the first 2 nights and camped the rest of the four days, so i'm looking a little scary, but a very cool (cold !) experience.

This was our second bear that we had seen, and we saw a couple more. We also saw (but didn't catch pictures of: fox, buffalo, eagles, tons of moose and some funny looking birds that run on the ground. I think we saw more, but i can't rememeber. That last picture of the mountains and waterfalls cracks me up cuz we just thought it was soo pretty and had to take a picture, this was right into Canada, little did we know that this is what it looks like for another 1500 miles!! Who thought you could get sick of trees, lakes and waterfalls??!

UPdate

2008-05-06T23:11:00.000-07:00

Found my phone! Yay! It was at our friends house in the tool box... WHAT!!!? Anyway, now you can go back to screening your calls :)

2008-04-14T14:24:00.000-07:00

2008-04-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

Taylor and I went to Zion for the weekend with some friends and ended up camping with some of her friends from St. George that had property about 5 minutes away from Zion! The property was set up for boys and girls camp, so it had a swing, zip line, a mule(?) and little benches around the campfire for everyone to sit on! We had so much fun camping and seeing zion and BEING WARM! :)

zion trip

2008-04-14T14:18:00.001-07:00

Where have we been?

2008-04-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

Well, I started off yesterday trying to catch up on my blog and post pictures and music and let everyone know what has been going on with us, but my A.D.D kicked in and I got one done, and it was a random one. I thought no one would look before today, but you did, so I'm just gonna write a little to tell you whats been going on in our little, cold world.

Tay has been crazy with school and is excited for finals to come and get over with, and I am still just working at Great Clips, though I must say that I love it. It is much different from the old one I was at and really fun !

I'm just getting to walking and exercising since my surgery, and can only wear flip flops still, but hopefully that will go away and de-puff a little. I'm going in for my second one at the end of the month.

OUTDOORS... (kinda) since we will be missing a lot of summer this year, we are trying to get everything summer in early. We tried camping (see picture) and that was the view. A frozen LAKE!! We have also been having friends oven and bbq-ing on our balcony. I just wish it was a little warmer!!!
Seeing friends-trying to see all of our salt lake friends before we leave for alaska. We are going to try to be there by the first of June if everything goes as planned. We will keep you updated on when and where as that gets closer.

Also I have been making sunglasses and will be making a few sand gardens (dorky, I know, but we have one and all of our friends want one) and may think about selling some on etsy.com just for fun, not so much for profit.

And that kind of sums it up for us right now. I hope to be able to see you all before we leave for the summer and will try to keep you updated better. xoxo

i'll wear these sunglasses at night

2008-04-07T09:57:00.000-07:00

Holy sunglasses! I have been pretty "creative"(?) lately and decided I wanted some cool sunglasses for the summer, so here are a couple of pairs that I made. They are a little out of control, but I love them!!

Super (lame) bowl

2008-02-04T08:16:00.000-08:00

So Taylor and I got invited to watch the super bowl with some friends, and since I didn't even know who was in it we just decided to pick a team and roll with it. Obviously we made the wrong choice, but made some funny shirts and had a good time. (sorry about the picture, it is from a phone)

Christmas shweater times

2007-12-27T13:44:00.001-08:00

Sadly this is the only picture I really have since I didn't have a camera, but we had a little cheesy christmas sweater party at our house and it turned out really fun! Also I got a camera for christmas so hopefully I will be better at updating this thing!!

2007-12-15T19:22:00.000-08:00

Soooooo, I can't get my digital camera to work, so it may be a while before I start posting stuff again. :( sorry guys

GOOD NEWS

2007-11-07T23:55:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to update that I am almost positive I can come down for Thanksgiving! Can't wait to see everyone

stitches!

2007-11-01T14:57:00.000-07:00

Yay! Melanie got stitches, again! I cut my hand on the broken glass on my back door. SMOOTH. Thought you would like the graphic pictures

halloween #2

2007-11-01T14:26:00.000-07:00

Oh dear. Taylor wanted to change his costume again for halloween. Dollar store special ...fbi agent!

I was the same old boring thing. WOW our lives are exciting

Little Cottonwood Canyon

2007-10-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

Taylor and I did a little bit of climbing and hiking and checked out fall time up the canyon.
Rambo, is that you?

Happpy Halloween!!

2007-10-28T21:12:00.000-07:00

We got dressed up this weekend for a friends Birthday/Halloween party.
Taylor was a freaky skeleton. Seriously. Really freaky. We spent about an hour on his makeup!! I was a pirate but I had a mustache.??? Obviously I didn't spend as much time on my make up as he did.

Taylors B day

2007-10-28T20:38:00.000-07:00

T Taylor's Party went well! Everyone showed up and we all hung out and went to dinner. This is him and his friend Jake from high school.

2007-10-27T15:02:00.001-07:00

just trying to figure this out

Happy Birthday!

2007-10-20T14:49:00.000-07:00

Today is Taylors birthday and he has to work till ten, so I'm throwing him a surprise party tonight with some friends. love you Taylor!