Josh and Brynne Foster

Friday, January 17, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Living in Rexburg during winter is hard ~~sometimes~~ most of the time. I’m totally fine from October through December, but when the holidays are over and I’m staring at another 3-4 months of cold, snowy weather I get discouraged. Luckily, my dear hubby is so great about helping me find ways to stay warm and enjoy the winter.

As most of you know, we like to hike! We like to be in the mountains and enjoy nature. Well, most of our hiking opportunities hibernate with the bears for winter. However, there is a short trail that is really easy and accessible (parts of it are paved!) that we’ve hiked probably 8 or 9 times because it’s only about 20 minutes away and it offers beautiful views. It’s called Cress Creek trail. So, a couple of weeks ago we decided to try and hike the trail even though it’s January and it was about 15 degrees outside.

We got ourselves a nice dslr camera for Christmas and so we’ve had a wonderful time learning about photography and taking pictures in manual mode. So we brought our camera with us. My goal was to find color where the prominent colors outside were white, brown, and green. I was also trying to find beauty in the details. Josh was all about the landscape on this trip. Anyway, without further ado, here are some of the pictures we took.

You can see the brown, white, and green I'm talking about. It's not the prettiest time for photos but still looks nice.

Loved the detail on this one.

Orange moss/lichen on a branch.

Shimmering snow. You can see the wind turbines in the distance.

Not much color, but the fluffy golden texture on these is nice!

A slight bluish tint to the berries.

A reddish/orange leaf holding on.

Blood red berries! I was so happy to find these berries bursting with color and life.

Here's the creek itself! It's naturally heated so it's running all winter. The green plant is watercress. Another beautiful color!

I loved these red branches.

We met a few friends on the trail.

Josh captured this gorgeous picture of the water and the vivid green color. You would think we took this picture in July!

Sun flare.

Rosy cheeks.

Cold, but happy.

Mission accomplished! I went home appreciating the beauty around me. A little slice of heaven on a hike.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

'Tis the season to be be jolly and joyous!

We had a lovely Christmas! It was a little weird because I'd never had one away from my family, but with the madness of getting married and all last year, it was really nice to slow down, enjoy the season, and have a white Christmas with just the two of us. Here are a few photos from our Christmas.

Sleepy Brynne

Josh has patiently waited for his new iPad! This is one happy guy. Please note his Grinch jammies.

An amazing gift from my awesome parents! I think my face shows just how much I love it!

Of course I need the movie!

I keep my handsome husband looking classy!

He knows me so well. This is The Lord of the rings extended edition blue ray set.

An awesome calendar from his parents!

Then we got busy cooking!

Sometimes I like to pretend I'm on a cooking show

Carving the honey baked ham

We made a few of our family favorites. Slush punch from Josh's.

Crescent rolls from mine! They came out a little burned and were not as tasty as my mom's but they were still really fun to make and even more fun to eat!