Manina and I have been wanting to hike Kings Peak for a while now. We put a date on the calendar at the beginning of the summer, and have been doing lots of hikes to get ready. Here is our trip report: Day 1: To Painter Basin We got a later start than we wanted …
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Hike to First and Second Hamongog
Just north of our house there is a hike that has been on my list for a while. So on Saturday, we decided to cross it off our list. It’s a difficult out-and-back hike just over 7 miles long with 2500+ ft. of elevation gain. Here’s our Gaia GPS data. When we proposed this as …
2019 AF Canyon Half Marathon
Manina has run the AF Canyon Half Marathon before, but this time was different. It was much more personal. You see, our dear sister-in-law Annie was recently diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. Annie just had surgery this week to remove the tumor and is currently going through physical and occupational therapy trying to …
San Diego Girls Getaway 2019
What a great and very quick getaway. It was fun to celebrate Sister Johnson’s birthday in San Diego and then to spend a day running, snuggling babies, shopping, eating and a catching a quick movie with one of my faves. I am lucky to have such great people in my life. via Instagram
Young Women President
Manina is now the young women president in our ward. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the day-to-day operation of our church, let me explain. A ward is a congregation, usually about 400 people and it’s usually geographically bound. Here in Highland, it’s basically our neighborhood. Most members of our ward have a …
Coach Manina and the Snipers
Manina volunteered to be Katelyn’s Jr. Jazz coach this year. Coaching 8th-grade girls recreation-league basketball takes a special kind of crazy, but Manina really worked hard at it and got the most out of her team. Manina inherited a team that went completely defeated last year — no wins all season long. Manina set up …
Manina’s 41st Birthday
Manina had quite the jam-packed day for her 41st birthday. It started out with her girlfriends Hannah Stayner, Penny Bergeron, and Emily Hunter taking her out for breakfast. When Manina came home, we had a quick birthday song and gave her a new bike: a 2016 Trek FX 7.2 WSD. I was pretty proud of …
Kauai: Travel Tips
We had a wonderful time in Kauai. We loved the beaches. The catamaran tour was unbelievable. The hikes we did were lots of fun, and so were the surfing lessons. But, there was still plenty of other things worth remembering and a few things to do differently the next time we get a chance to …
Kauai: Catamaran Tour
We had booked a helicopter tour, but Manina felt uneasy about it after hearing stories from her friend Hannah Stayner, who had thrown up several times during the hour-long flight. So instead we looked around for some boat charters for a Na Pali coast tour. We eventually chose Catamaran Kahanu because it wasn’t a booze …
Kauai: Beaches
Kauai has some amazing beaches. We visited many beaches and were amazed at how few people were on the beach with us. Sometimes we even wondered if we were trespassing on private property (we weren’t) because we were the only ones there. Here are some of the beaches we visited, from the north end to …
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