~ RaSpbErRy dAyS ~

I love me a good town days celebration. For some reason I am just addicted to them. Pretty much if any town gets together and mentions booths, food, entertainment, rodeos, or fireworks, I get pretty jazzed. My most favorite town days shin-dig has to be Raspberry Days at Bear Lake. So for the first weekend in August, Caleb and I went with my parents to the cabin to enjoy the festivites. We spent our time wandering around the craft fair, watching fireworks, spending time with family (each other and Grandpa and Dixie)and taking a relaxing boat ride. Here are some pictures of our adventures...

Our relaxing boat ride...

Ignore my blinding white legs. Some people were just born white okay?

While on our boat ride, I saw this in the water in the distance...

And I thought to myself, "That's wierd... I don't really remember ever seeing seaweed floating at the top of Bear Lake before..." Well we got a little closer, and this is what it turned out to be...

A huge, disgusting school of huge, disgusting fish. I'm not kidding, there were tons of them and they were hidious.I'm glad I wasn't out on a tube ride when we came across these guys because I probably would've had a heart attack.

Watching the firework show...

Caleb and I sure did enjoy the fireworks, even if they did only last 10mins. Caleb was a sport for taking these pictures with me. His dad accidently hit him in the face with a board at work the day we left, so he had a nice little fat lip to show off. He's still pretty cute anyway right? :)

~ cErAmiCs ArE sTiLL cUte, jUst LooK aT tHis MoOsE ~

Our room at the cabin is done in light green and tan with moose all over. We are slowly buying and creating things to decorate the room with. The latest addition is this cute ceramic moose that I made, with the help of my wonderful mother of course.

What a cutie right? He'll look so cute on the shelf in our room at the cabin. Thanks for your help mom! :)

~ gArBaGe? ~

One day, a few months ago, Caleb and I were on a walk in a neighborhood near our house. While we were walking, we came across a house with a bunch of stuff out with their garbage can on the curb. There was TONS of stuff. A bike, laundry baskets, an entertainment center, etc. But what caught my eye were 3 huge pictures. Caleb nearly DIED when I told him I was going back to get them out of the garbage because I knew I could turn them into something AMAZING one day....

Here's what I came up with for one of the pictures.

Before...

This is what it started out as. It's a pretty big picture, just the inside without the frame is 35in x 35in. I had Caleb spray paint the frame black and I covered the map with a piece of fabric and ribbon and hung pictures on it. It's supposed to be like a "family tree."

After...

I know it doesn't look TOO super amazing now, but it will once it's on the wall. It's going in my staircase, with all kinds of stuff around it. I'm thinking it's gonna need some vinyl lettering above it or something for sure. When I get it hung up, I will definatly post some pictures because I'm sure it's going to be awesome!

So, the moral of the story is, never be too prideful to dig stuff out of a garbage can. :)

~ GrAnDpa GeTs A NeW dEcK ~

Since pretty much the only people who actually read this blog (besides my mom) are my aunts, my mom asked me if I could post some pictures of Grandpa's new deck at the cabin so they could see it since they both couldn't make it to the cabin this summer. So here they are Aunt Connie and Aunt Debbie!(and mom too..) Enjoy :)

The old deck ripped off! The old deck was so rotten that when my dad and Grandpa were tearing it up, Grandpa fell through the floor! (Luckly he was fine, just a few bumps. It about gave my dad a stroke though!)

Just about done...

My daddy, the handyman, hard at work! :)

All done!

Look at that beauty! :)

Grandpa gave it a nice coat of sealer and it looks awesome. Plus you can walk on it now without the fear of death in every step!

~ cALeB's FaMiLY rEuNiOn ~

I swear, it's somewhat impossible to find time to blog. I don't know exaclty what I'm spending all my time doing, but apparently it makes me far too busy to spend time blogging. Oh well! Today I have some down time because I am taking care of my sick husband, who is napping at the moment. I feel obligated to take really good care of him because I'm the one who got him sick. We are having a case of the stomach flu around here. My dad got it and gave it to my mom and me, and of course I had to give it to Caleb. I just hope his family doesn't get it now. What do ya do?

Anyway, at the end of July, Caleb and I got the chance to go camping at Tropic Reservoir in Southern Utah for a few days with his parents for his mom's family reunion.

A lot of prep work goes into a successful camping trip. Cleaning the trailer, packing and loading the trailer, and cleaning the house (it just has to be clean before I go on vacation, I have problems) take up the majority of the time, luckily I don't have pictures of all that boring stuff. I do have a few pictures of the fun aspects of getting ready, like making tons of beef jerkey, homemade graham crackers (delish), and of course making your tackle box pretty...

I added some vinyl to my tackle box just because :)

Then we were off!

We spent our time doing pretty awesome stuff...

The majority of our time was spent on the 4 wheeler, going everywhere you can imagine. (Yes, I also put vinyl on our 4 wheeler, I just can't help it...)

We also spent a lot of time fishing. Caleb's Uncle Mic found the best fishing spot on the whole reservoir and gave us the perfect recipie for catching fish (a worm and 2 mini marshmallows). We were catching them left and right. I had a riot. Caleb had a lot less fun I'm sure, because he spent most of his time baiting my hook and taking the fish off. But as you can see, I did let him fish a little bit...

Tropic is about 20mins. away from Bryce Canyon, so Caleb and I spent one of our days as tourists. What a beautiful place! We hiked down Sunset Peak and got quite the workout on the way up, and took a TON of picutres. We spent about a half a day there, but decided that you can only spend so much time looking at rocks and headed back to camp.  

No camping trip would be complete without a lot of eating. The family reunion meals were mostly dutch oven pot lucks so we spent almost every night cooking something up in the dutch ovens.  

Smores may possibly be my favorite thing in the entire world, so I never miss the opportunity to have one. Caleb's mom found these huge ENORMOUS marshmallows at Reams and they were so incredibly messy, but so incredibly yummy.

All in all we had a great time. We always have a blast camping. We're glad that Caleb's parents took us with them and can't wait until next year when we get to go again! :)