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| Much like in 2014, we were blessed to visit friends and family across the country and get outside quite a bit in 2015. At the beginning of March, we enjoyed touring southern Utah with Shaunda's brother, Ryan. | |
Ryan, Shaunda, and David in Zion National Park |
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Shaunda and David in Bryce Canyon National Park |
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In April we visited Dinosaur National Monument with David's brother Nathan and sister-in-law Lisa. |
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The petroglyphs at Dinosaur National Monument are spectacular. |
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Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park |
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Trying to not get bitten by mosquitoes at 11,000 feet in the Uinta Mountains of Utah |
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Druid Arch in Canyonlands National Park |
An old mine car in the La Sal Mountains |
Hanging out near Moab, Utah |
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Four-wheeing with Shaunda's law firm near Moab, Utah |
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Dinosaur track near Moab, Utah |
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Hiking the Grand Mesa in Colorado with David's brother Nathan and their mom, Peggy |
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Rock climbing at City of Rocks in southern Idaho |
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| We spent Thanksgiving with Shaunda's family in Simi Valley. |
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| With Shaunda's family at La Brea tar pits. David wishes mammoths still roamed the earth. | |
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| An old Air Force One at the Reagan Library | |
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| Shaunda's family | |
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| For Christmas and to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary, we spent a week in Tulum, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula. Our primary activity was scuba diving in the cenotes, which are freshwater sinkholes. We did 8 dives in 7 cenotes with a guide who was cave certified. | |
Shaunda & David giving the "OK" sign in Gran Cenote |
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| Diving in the cenotes was like exploring the opening of a cave, except we were flying instead of walking through mud and scrambling over boulders. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the cenotes to be beautiful, peaceful, and relaxing. Below is a video David filmed of our dives. | |
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We also visited the Mayan Ruins at Coba. Here's a time lapse of all the tourists climbing a pyramid. If you look closely, you might even see us. |
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| Enjoying a white (sandy beach) Christmas | |
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David is serving as the assistant director of Open Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm that provides affordable legal services to lower and middle income people in Utah. OLS continues to grow and gain recognition from both the local and national legal communities. David is also working on a medical device startup that came out of a program from his time as an MBA student at the University of Utah. His team is conducting a clinical study to determine if their algorithm for analyzing EKGs can predict who will develop atrial fibrillation after a major surgery. Shaunda continues to pay the bills through her work at a small civil litigation firm. She is currently preparing for a three-week trial in May.
Please stay in touch. Our basement apartment is available for you to stay in when you visit us. We wish you all the best in 2016! | |
Created January 2, 2016 |