UNR Alumni Diving Reunion!!

September 16 was the big meet where the Old went up against the New!!! Sami Rose put together an alumni diving meet/ reunion. It was so fun. Girls came from Colorado, Oregon and California to compete. We competed the 3 m and the 1 m. I was very nervous at first being up on the 3 m for the first time in 6 years. It was scary. During warm-ups I decided I didn't want to compete the 3 m and just stick with the 1 m. I told Cody, who was one of the judges, that I wasn't going to do it and he said i would regret it. So, of course I had to toughen up and pull out what I use to do. I am so glad that I was able to get up there and do what I use to do. It was such a great feeling to get back on that board, have the roughness of the board tear up the bottoms of my feet and fly through the air to end up ripping into the cool refreshing water! Loved every minute of it.

Candic, Me, Jessica, Trisha and Sami after the meet celebrating our victory against the current UNR diving team.

Sami, Jess and Me on the 3 m

Sami, Jian Li (best diving Coach in the world, Me, Jessica, Chris, Candice and Trisha. We all met up and ate some amazing Chinese food and played games. It was so fun to get together with some of my best friends. We spent so much time together, encouraged eachother, and supported eachother through thick and thin. I will always have a special place in my heart for these girls.

Me, Jian Li, Trisha, Candice, Jess, Sami, and one of the swimmers. Jian Li was one of the best coaches I have had. She taught me so much about life, following your dreams and heart, pushing yourself beyond your limits, and learning who you are. I may not have won any championships in diving but I put my whole heart and soul into it. Jian Li still talks to her girls today about the importance of having heart just like I had heart and a good attitude.

Of course Cody came and supported me through the whole thing. He was one of the judges and may have been a little bias toward the Old compared to the New. Diving will forever be a part of my life. :)

Celebrate Labor Day in Virginia City

This year for Labor Day we wanted to do something a little different than the usual hang out and BBQ. Geoff came into town and we all went up to Good Ol' Virginia City. We have always lived so close to Virginia City and have visited the old town many many times but I have never really learned the history of VC. Virginia City originally known as Old Virginny Town was the first truly industrial city in the west in the late 1850's. Gold was found in 1859 by Pat McLaughlin and Peter O'reilly but Mr. Comstock claimed they found it on his property and is now a legend in Virginia City. Because of the high quantities of Silver and Gold President Lincoln wanted to use the goods to help during the civil war. Because of his desire to use the gold and silver he declared Nevada a state in 1864 although it didn't have enough civilians in the state. This caused a huge boom in Old Virginny Town and it turned into Virginia City and was the largest city between Denver and San Francisco. The investments that came out of Virginia City helped fuel the building of San Francisco. Virginia City was a very prosperous city with 30,000 residents. Many of those made their fortune due to the Comstock mining. Now there is one main street lined with 1860 and 1870 that recreate the feeling of the old Virginny Town.

Getting ready to go up the windy road to good ol' virginia city.

Cody crammed in between Trumann and Maxxwell.

Taking a ride on the train around the Comstock mines.

Maxxwell is in love with trains and was so excited to go on the train ride and through the tunnel

The Civil War re-enactment

The train engineer

One of Megan's crazy faces

Dad running the show... as usual.

Simon, Megan, Wyatt, Annacy and Maxxwell on the train ride.

Megan, Dad and Mom watching the Parade.

Ezra, Brian, Geoff and Annacy

Dad, Wyatt and Amber

Cody taking Wyatt, Megan and Ezra on a wild ride.

Geoff, Simon, Annacy, Jami, Brian and Cody

Jenny, Amber, Wyatt, Simon, Megan, Annacy and Maxxwell on the train!!

5 Years in the Making!!

September 3 we were able to celebrate our 5th year wedding anniversary!! I can't believe time has flown by. We were able to go to Fort Bragg, California and explore the Red Woods. We left on our trip not knowing where we were going to stay or what we were going to do when we got there. It was just going to be a spontaneous adventure. We finally got into Fort Bragg about 10:30 at night after driving through the windiest road I have ever driven!!! All in all we had a great trip spending time with eachother and exploring the northern California coast. The only thing we were not satisfied with was it was not crab season so we weren't able to get any crab. :(

Climbing the rocks and exploring the beach in Fort Bragg.

This seaweed was HUGE!! I had never really touched seaweed or held it. It was extremely heavy and felt like rubber.

Glass Beach. In the 1940's the community used this beach as their dump. They would bring all their trash and push it into the ocean. It wasn't until the 60's when they realized that throwing trash into the ocean probably wasn't such a good idea. They tried to clean up the ocean as much as possible but there are still remains of the trash. The beach is made up of different colors of broken and smoothed glass. There are also a lot of petrified trash that looks like rocks. It was pretty cool to see.

Spark plugs and trash embeddded into the rocks.

Glass Beach

We did some exploring and tried to take a hike around the coast but the trail wasn't really well marked so we just walked and made our own little trails. :)

We were at the top of a cliff and Cody saw this huge star fish in the water. We hiked down and he climbed in the water and pulled him off the rocks.

We got to have a private sunset Sea Kayaking tour. We were able to see seals, sea birds, and a sea lion was following us for quit a while. He was huge and would scare me every time he would come up out of the water!! It was absolutely gorgeous.

The drive to the Red Woods was about 3 hours north of where we were. That was a little longer drive than we had thought be we decided to just do it!! We went down the Avenue of Giants and was amazed of the beauty of all of God's creations.


This tree is a famous drive through tree. I have always wanted to drive through a tree. We had a great trip just being with each other celebrating our 5 happy years of marriage!!