The day after Christmas, Bree and I joined my family in snowshoeing up Holbrook Canyon.  The snow was kind of packed down, but we had a fun afternoon together.  I did, however, learn that Joe (my dog) is a total wuss and is afraid of heights.    There is a section in which  narrow side-less […]

  We did a lot today.  We woke up and went to see the old North Bridge where the “shot heard around the world” was fired.  Note that it is no longer the same bridge, which was a little disappointing but whatever.  It was also interesting that we were the only tourists under 65, aside […]

Bree and I are spending Fall Break leaf peeping in Boston this week.  We came with the intention of spending most of our time on bicycles.  In the name of cost-effectiveness, our bikes are… well… awesome?  Anyway, here are a few pictures of the trip so far.  Almost all of these were taken from the […]

This year was my first year riding Lotoja.  Surrounding this race is so much hype and so much excitement – it actually becomes somewhat intimidating.  Well after all was said and done this year, I can truly understand how big a deal people make it.  By the end of the day I was so fried […]

Living within an hour of the Utah Olympic Park, we have access to all sorts of community “lessons” in various winter sports.  Ski jumping is the first in what will hopefully be a long series of pathetic attempts at random winter sports. The course started with basic jumps into a pool – without skis.  Being […]

The seconds are ticking until LotoJa.  Scary stuff.  As one of the few training rides we have left, though, we rode the Cache Valley Century up in the Logan area this weekend.  Bree, Kirk, and I headed up Friday night after work and spent the night at Kirk’s sister Susan’s house.  She was so hospitable […]

School starts again tomorrow.  Crap.  Not excited.  I’m going to have 19 credits with such thrilling classes as Discrete Structures, Parallel Programming, Computer Systems, Scientific Visualization, Computer Design and my glorious thesis.  On top of that I’ll be trying to fit in 20 hours of work per week.  What am I doing to myself?  Anyway, […]

This week, we took off for a quick camping trip with some friends. But first, a mountain bike ride up to Secret Lake.  It was so beautiful… This would be the part I walked my bike down… And on the way down, two big moose! Then we headed over to camp.   It was so […]

We headed to Denver this weekend to pick up Ben’s new car.   (Well, new to us).  Poor Ben has been driving to work in the Celica with no AC all summer. We were also excited to get to take our new Nikon SLR along with us so we can start getting it figured out. But […]

We went “cramping’ in Bear Lake over the 4th of July weekend.  This is my family’s version of “roughing it.” The Matheson family cannot vacation without a ski boat, water skiis, a large dose of sarcasm, and about thirty pounds of junk food, and we were true to form this trip.   My dad is […]

We made a quick trip out to Ohio over the weekend so that Ben could visit his extended family in Ohio (it’s been more than ten years!) and so that I could meet them.  The rest of Ben’s family spent a little longer, but we decided to spend what time we could manage to get […]

Well the couple that does things strikes again.  This time, though, I had no clue.  Bree has been planning a “super-awesome-date-night” for over a month now, but wouldn’t tell me what it actually was.  It turns out it wasn’t actually a date night, but more  so the entire day. She finally told me the night before that […]