~ ZeKe tUrNs TwO ~

Our nephew, Zeke, turned two this May. For his birthday, they had a family birthday party at Riverton Park.

Our niece and all our nephews were there enjoying the park...

Hennessy

Riley, Albert's baby

Scott

And Zeke, the birthday boy! 

It was looking like it was going to be a beautiful day...

(my FaVoRiTe part of spring is seeing the trees in bloom!)

But then the weather started taking a turn for the worst...

And it started to rain. Bad.

So the party was moved to Caleb's parents house. Where Zeke opened his presents...

And had birthday cake...

Happy birthday Zekey, we love you so much! :)

~ LaBoR DaY wEeKeNd ~

For Labor Day weekend this year we went with Caleb's parents to visit Anut Penny and Uncle Mic. They live in Alpine, WY. which is about 30mins. outside Jackson. It is so beautiful there! Every time Caleb and I visit, we never want to leave. If the view from your backyard looked like this, would you ever want to leave?

I rest my case.

We rode 4 wheelers in the canyons around the Gray's River for a few hours each day we were there.

The scenery was beyond breath-taking...

The company was fabulous...

 Us

 Caleb, Tim, Mic

Penny and Mic

Tim, Caleb, Penny, Mic, Katelyn, Debie

Caleb's cousin Shantel and her husband Trent

 

Shantel and Trent's daughter Katelyn. She was my little buddy while we were there, we did everything together!

And the food was divine...

 Huckleberries

Wild raspberries. These things were EVERYWHERE. Everyone got sick of me stopping every five minutes to chow down on these suckers.

When we weren't out on the 4 wheelers, we had a lot of fun visiting with each other.

On Monday, Caleb and I took a little detour over to Jackson before we headed home.

We felt like crying as we were driving away from it all and we can't wait to go back again! Thanks Anut Penny and Uncle Mic for letting us stay with you, we had a blast!



~ HaPpY biRtHdAy To mE ~

Fall break = time to catch up on the blog...

A couple of months ago, it was my birthday,

August 24th.

For my birthday every year, I go camping in the Unitas.

It's pretty much my favorite place in the whole world.

This was at the camp spot we always stay at. Someone carved this huge bench with a chainsaw. It was so awesome! Hopefully it will stay there for a few years!

Caleb made me a fabulous cake in the dutch oven.

We spent most of our time riding around, finding places like this...

Pretty sweet huh?

And when we got home, my mom and dad gave me this for my birthday!

I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet, but I can't wait to see what awesome things I can create now!!!



~ 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! :)