Xenotreaching!

For graduation Jeremy got me a pair of sweet hiking boots. They were accompanied by a metaphor about embarking on the next part of our journey in life. Leave it to my husband to be so poetic. And also use it as an excuse to buy himself some new hiking boots too. :)

With these new purchases sitting in our closet, we knew we needed to make good use of them while summer was still here. So we planned a small hike up North Menan Butte...also known as "R Mountain." We invited Tyler on our adventure and boy did we have a blast. 

Our sweet boots

Starting the hike

I'm super excited!

The beautiful view from the top

The 3 Amigos

Probably my favorite picture ever...the boys were trying to get tan (which was obviously needed) and to be the most hardcore they turned their shirts into do-rags. They were the most stylish guys on that Butte!

I'm sure the title "xenotreaching" is probably confusing to most. Let me try to explain. We started making fun of all the words that people have started shortening (like "ridic" for ridiculous.) Then when Tyler and I started to climb this structure thing we were talking about how treacherous this was. This lead to the new shortened word "treach" that we used to describe every scary thing we did. The "xeno" part came from a sign we found that said something about the rocks or bacteria on the rocks...but it used the word xenolith. Obviously we were more focused on how cool the word sounded than what it meant. Somehow after that, the word xenotreach was born. So....

xenotreaching: verb; doing treacherous things on anything related to the word xenolith.

Maybe all the sun or the exercise got to us but either way, we had a blast!