Deer Creek

We were at the lake last night and here is Isaac trying a back roll. Looks like more of a back to front roll. Takes a really good crash though. Dillon landed a sweet back roll. Sorry Dillon, I didn't get that one on film.

The Reezen

I had to post a picture of the new bow that I just bought. It is a Mathews Reezen bow. It has a 30" draw and is currently set at 70 lbs. The bow is rated at 340 feet per second. I am way excited to get out and fling some slivers at something.

Zions Trip

We have really good friends who invited us to go to Zions with them. Kyle Kinateder had some work to do on a model for a resort down outside of Zions. They gave us a two story cabin sweet cabin to stay in for the night and free food at the restaurant. It was sweet. The next day we went into Zions and did the 4 mile hike up to the look out point. 4 miles doesn't seem that far till you learn that it is all switch backs up a cliff.

Lake Powell

Jessica and I loved our week at Lake Powell. We even made it up to Rainbow Bridge which I have been too since I was like 12. I really is amazing.



Other then water skiing and wake boarding my dad and I found some time to drown an anchovy or two, and I caught this nice striped bass. They are always fun to reel up.







Here is Jessica on the back of the house boat indulging in the sun, a little water, and a..... science fiction book?


No one could compete with the Bear and I in the pits. We whooped Scotty and all his buddies.

She Just Won't Stop Staring

I don’t know if I have ever had such a tortuous week here at Nu Skin Enterprises. All day long I can’t get it out of my mind. There are endless people who are constantly reminding me, I mean at least every fifteen minutes there is some one that steps into my cubicle to remind me, and then every time I walk past the cafeteria there she is staring me down, almost laughing in a way, saying you weren’t even ever close to having me. So here it is:

You see I am #1. There are four teams left in the tournament, and my bracket has sky rocketed to the top of the chart. But this isn’t any old March madness bracket. No this is the Nu Skin corporate bracket, and this year Nu Skin decided to do a little prize for the winner. This year they are giving away a brand new scooter, and with Villanova upsetting Pittsburg it has moved me right up to the top with 101 points.

How exciting right? No, actually it’s not exciting at all. It is torture. I kind of wish my bracket would have fallen apart way back in the first round. I think I should have been one of those dorks who put Utah and BYU into the Final 4. At least then I wouldn’t be kicking myself knowing that I was one pick away from a brand new scooter. You see even though I am at the top of the charts, I can’t win! I so stupidly picked Wake Forest to meet North Carolina in the final two. Wake was suppose to be my dark horse, but ended up being a little pony as all of you know since they fell in the first round to Cleveland State a 13 seed. So it is hard now that everybody here at Nu Skin now knows my name. It is hard to see the company wide email saying “Royce King is number one with only four teams left.” Yeah I am at the top, but I am like the only one of the top three who doesn’t have both their final two still planning to put their shoes on the court this weekend. I am the only one of the top three who knows that there is no way that I am going to win that scooter. I keep praying that Connecticut pulls out the victory and then they say sorry we are going to disqualify you for your illegal recruiting moves. And then nobody advances and UNC wins and I win the Scooter. But that is just me dreaming. Really I just keep on kicking, repeating “What was I thinking?”

1 YEAR!!!

1 Year !!!

Jessica and I had our 1 year anniversary on the 18th of this month. We took the weekend off and went up to Jackson Hole. We had a beautiful blue bird day on the famous Jackson Hole Mountains Ski Resort.

It is an amazing mountain to ski and has a tram that goes up nearly 4000 ft to the top of the Tetons.

Jessica didn't believe me when I said "We are going to move here some day." What an awesome place. I could get away with putting deer antlers everywhere.

So everybody keeps telling us that our blog is boring and that we need to update it, and Jessica keeps telling me her computer is on the fritz and doesn't have time. So I am doing some updating.

We are finally in our new house. After 7 long months of building and after finishing 7 houses we are moved in and loving it. It is a great feeling to know that we built our first house which we hope to make a great home.

Our new ward welcomed us in great by asking us to talk about the 3rd Sunday of being in the ward and now have given us both callings. I got assigned to the young men’s, and Jessica is a visiting teaching coordinator.

We had a wonderful Christmas break and we were able to spend some great time with family skiing, eating and enjoying great company. We even made it up to my dad's property to cut down our very first Christmas tree.

My brother Ben and his wife Krystal with their 6 month old boy Dayton came to town for the holidays. It was wonderful to see them and get to know Dayton. He has grown a lot in his first 6 months and already has a huge personality. We love them and wish they didn't live in Buffalo. That is really far away.

We have been blessed this last year. Our first year together: we got married, I graduated from college, we both got good secure jobs and we built a house together. We can’t wait to see what the new year has to offer us.

This was our first home together.