Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Baria Family Bonding

So for Memorial Day weekend we Barias have a tradition of taking a little family vacation. Okay, so this is only our third time doing it, but we had to come up with new traditions now that most everyone is out of the house, we no longer have the Aerostar, and no longer drive to Utah all together each summer. This time we headed down to Sunriver, OR for the weekend and had a great time. Not great weather, but a great time.

Here is part of the clan going rafting down the Deschutes. It was actually the perfect weather for hitting the water, but that was right before it started hailing!!



Here is a good action shot of us so that you can tell we were really working hard and truly becoming one with nature.



The next day we took a quick jaunt down to the beautiful Crater Lake. Here are Aaron and I at the top of the lake... before it started hailing.




The last day of the trip we came home via Silver Falls State Park. It's this really beautiful park where you can hike to TEN different water falls! The whole clan hiked to the first one.



Here is a great shot of just the two of us.



The end.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Changing your Name

I saw this on a friend's blog and thought it would be fun to do:


HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
2,034
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?



It actually tells you the statistics of both of your names too! I thought I would do a little comparison with my maiden name since I was always so proud of its uniqueness:


HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere is
1
person with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?



Can you believe I went from the ONLY one in the country with my name to one of 2000?!?! And Aaron wondered why changing my name was so much to swallow at first. I know, I know, it's so hard for me to feel like as much of an individual, but I am doing my best!! I went from having the 75677th most popular last name to the 10th most popular. So in reality I should feel pretty cool!! Let's see how cool Aaron is:


HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
1,145
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?