Moe's Valley

Last weekend was my friend Bridget's birthday so we had played in St George. We stayed at a friend's condo Friday night and on Saturday went climbing again at Moe's Valley. It is so much fun! Who would've thought wimpy little Sheralee would someday enjoy rock climbing? I really do love it now though. It's addicting. We got some pretty cool pictures so here is a little taste. Casey and I also started a climbing blog called Cedar Kids Adventures. :) So far all we have is some pics but we'll work on it later. I'll put a link for it under my friends and family section to the left.

The picture below is Bridget climbing our V1 project and Tommy (Casey's roommate/best friend) showing her where to put her feet. We finally conquered this one! Yay! :) She is a fun friend to climb with and use our newly acquired climbing lingo. "Definitely Doable" is our favorite. This is me attempting another V1. I haven't topped it out yet but hopefully soon!

Casey is an incredible rock climber!

Tommy on a cool problem called Gription. It's a V9/10....pretty sure I'll never be able to climb that well but it's cool to watch!

This is a picture of my trying to Dyno. Apparantly this is what my face looks like when I am extremely focused and trying to do some hard core rock climbing moves. :) ha ha. And no, I didn't quite reach the top. So close though! Next time...

This picture of Casey was actually taken on a different trip to Moe's when I wasn't there, but I decided to include it anyway because I just like it..... :)

Cross Country Skiing at Bryce Canyon

My dad made a new family goal for the year 2009 that we will go on some sort of outdoor adventure at least once every month. A couple of weeks ago our family, along with the Mike Heap family, went to Bryce Canyon to try cross country skiing for our January adventure. I loved it!! It seems like lately I've been able to try so many cool things that I've never done and now realize that I love to do! I am the luckiest girl. But anyway, skiing was so much fun despite Mason's attempts to tip me over. :) Ok so that actually probably just added to the fun of it. I loved just hanging out with my family! The view was incredible as well. Nature is just amazing!! Here are some pics to give you a glimpse of our fun little adventure.

Mason's attempts to tip me over had a very high success rate. It definitely helps that I am naturally such a graceful and coordinated girl. ;-)

Lots of Stuff!

I missed posting for a while and it's been an eventful time so I've got lots of random pictures and stuff. It's been a fun couple of weeks!
First of all we'll go back in time to Christmas Eve with pictures of the Heap family party. We had our traditional prime rib dinner followed by a musical showcase featuring the cousins and a truly inspiring impromptu performance by Dad, the Littlest Jingle Bell, Grandpa Wallace reading Luke 2, etc.

On Christmas night the girls came to my house for a sleeping party. It was a fun filled night of face masks, Jenga villages, stretching exercises, and lots of giggling!

The next day our family stayed at the Holiday Inn in St. George. This has been a tradition we've had since I was probably 6 or 7 years old and I love it! Something about staying in motels just makes me feel excited. Aubs and I were laughing this year as we reminisced about the times we would go when we were younger and would swim hours on end pretending to be mermaids. One year in particular I remember swimming before dinner for a few hours, then after dinner until the pool closed at 10, and then waking up at 7 to get a few more hours of swimming along the bottom of the pool before we had to leave. Our eyes were so bloodshot! After Holiday Inn we drove through Zion on our way to the LeFevre family party. It was so incredibly beautiful in the snow!!

Monday was Cams birthday and we went to Salt Lake to see the Christmas lights, visit the Planetarium, and go to dinner. It was really fun especially because I got to see Casey again!

We were trying to pose like the characters in the Nativity scenes behind us...Casey and Cam got pretty close but my face just doesn't move that way I guess. :)

Monday and Tuesday night we got to stay at the Graf's cabin and it was a blast! We went snowshoeing to a beautiful waterfall and went sledding down the road on Flexible Flyers. You get going pretty fast! It was awesome. :) We also tried jumping off the balcony to the snow below and had some pretty good snowball fights. The snow was beautiful and the cabin is beautiful! Thank you to the Grafs for sharing with us!

Well I had fun anyway.... ;)

Finally some bouldering pictures! These were taken at Moe's Valley in St. George. Casey got me a chalk bag for Christmas and I got my own climbing shoes!! So fun. :)

Well that's pretty much what I've been doing in a nutshell. I've got more that I'll post later but I am rather sick of uploading pictures and typing so it will just have to wait! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!