I graduated!

 8/5/17  I graduated! Master of Science in Zoology with a minor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. 

Mom came down early, and we took her on some trips to springs, canoeing, and mt. biking. Then dad came, and we did some more springs, and went to some unique places for dinner including Korean bbq and the Yearling which has traditional deep south and cracker food such as gator.

Guyser Glacier Elopement

7/10/17

"let's get married before the glaciers are gone" he said
"okay!" she said

Guy-Kayser Elopement. 7/10/17 Reynolds Mountain summit ridge, Glacier National Park, Montana, 7,516 ft a.s.l.

Believe it or not, Elisha and I got married in Glacier National Park this summer. It was a last minute thing, with just 10 days between engagement and wedding. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful wedding up on a mountain ridge above Logan Pass. My buddy Lucas presided over the wedding, and he did an absolute amazing job. We did a unique wedding feature, where we put snow together to build a snowball (a unity snowball, we called it), and then we threw it off in the cliff. 

We wanted it to be a small wedding, and so only our close family (our parents and Elisha's brothers) and the bridal party (3 friends each) came.  We had the pre-wedding dinner at Aunt Lesley's house in Kalispell. A yummy bbq. And then the wedding dinner was on the shores of Lake McDonald, where we had ribs and other bbq items.

Elisha and I spent our first night as a married couple at the Hidden moose lodge in Whitefish, and then spent 3 more days in East Glacier. We did some great hikes including the Dawson-Pitamakin loop and Cracker Lake.