Helena Happenings...

Holly brought Avery, Layne and Kyler here when I first moved to Helena. We went hiking and just hung out at my house. Allison was here too... it was so good to have some familiar faces!! :)

at McKenzie River Pizza Co.

Allison and I on the top of Mt Helena

Kyler sleeping with his Grizz jersey nearby

Avery and Layne hiking Mt Helena

hiking Mt Helena

I am lucky enough to live across the street from Spring Meadow Lake. It is the perfect little lake to run around and it is really pretty. You can see Mt Helena in the background.

I made it a goal while the weather was still warmer to hike to the top of Mt Helena every week, so here are some pictures of me hiking. I LOVE the views from the top. The trailhead is only a couple of miles from my house and this mountain has SO many trails on it. I love this town. :)

Playing catch up

First on the list... I turned 29. Yay.

At least my parents were visiting me in Helena so I wouldn't be alone for my birthday! :) Aren't they just fabulous?! Thanks for coming Mom and Dad, and thanks for everything you did for me while you were here. I love you both lots!!

Allison was here the weekend before my birthday so we celebrated a little early.

Photos

So, I feel kind of silly posting these, but I won a photo shoot from my friend, Michelle, and I think she did a pretty good job... here are the results...

to see more of Michelle's work check out Michelle Andersen Photography.

Helena!

My new home. :) Its pretty here. Really pretty.

My house is pretty too. :)

Do you know what you can do with a LOT of packing paper?

This is what my kitchen (in Helena!) looked like once I started to unpack... I decided to just see how big the mountain of paper could get.

The pile started getting very large and I realized I didn't really want to leave it there, so I had to move the mountain to the garage....

I had been talking to Allison about all of the paper and she had the brilliant idea to use it as a prank on someone. Too bad my packing paper is in Montana and the people we know are in Utah. .... but wait... Carrie (my lovely sister) was moving at the same time and has the same kind of mountain of packing paper. We took it (thanks Carrie) and filled, yes FILLED, Katie's room. Katie is Allison's roommate. It turned out pretty good... a nice prank, if I say so myself. Now the paper is safely in some boxes in Allison's storage, ready to be used again. Look out. :)

Moving time

Goodbye house in North Salt Lake. I will miss you. I will miss my little yard. I will miss my little deck. I will miss (LOTS) the swimming pool and hot tub. I will miss my cute little house. Isn't it a cute house? :) TONS of packing paper and 98 packing boxes later the house was empty and I am off to Montana!

Goodbyes

I have some great friends and co-workers in Utah and I'm so glad that got to get together with a bunch of them before I left. These first pictures are my farewell party for work. Instead of the usual drinks and appetizers at a bar, I chose to have my party at a park with families. It turned out great. I worked with some fun people in Utah and I will miss them - thank goodness for AGM. See you all in Texas! :)

...Allison isn't a co-worker but she knows some of them and I wanted her to come with me. :)

These pictures aren't part of the farewell party, but we had another party of sorts during my last week of work. It was our end-of-project BBQ where we serve the entire Tax Commission a yummy BBQ lunch. We held our Run for Families of FSMA at the same time.

One of my co-workers, Beth, planned this fun lunch at Red Butte Gardens. We've been talking for a while about going there and we finally made it happen during my last week. We got a few of the ladies from work together and had a picnic. It was beautiful!

What a surprise!! (ha!) Allison through a going away party for me that last week also and so many of my closest friends came. Thanks so much Allison for planning that! I loved it. These are some of my favorite people in the world. (not all of them, just some) :)

Love this group! Allison, Kara, me, Candice, Mindy, Becky and Lindsey. Thanks girls!