~ NeW bBq~

HeLLo!

:)

You don't need to tell me how incredibly behind I am on blogging. Trust me, I'm aware. :) I'm hoping that now that it's SuMmEr and I'm off work (execpt for tutoring and teaching summer school)for a couple months, I can catch up! So, I'm kind of going out of order here and starting with the most recent stuff and working backwards. Why? I'm not sure, I just feel like it, and I do what I want, gosh! ;) So here goes...

Caleb and I got a grill from his parents when they got a new grill about 4 years ago. It wasn't exactly in the prime of it's life when we got it and last summer it passed away. Tragic, I know. Really it was sort of tragic because we LOVE food cooked on the grill. There's just something about food being cooked outside with fire that makes it uber delish. Plus since Caleb is the King of the Grill, it saves me from actually having to cook- SCORE!

It finally started trying to be summer time around here and it has been warm enough to actually go outside, so Caleb decided it was time for a new grill. I didn't get a picture of our old grill before Caleb took it to the dump, but here's the new one. We've pretty much BBQed every night since we got it!

I'm sure we will be enjoying tons of BBQed meals this summer and for many summers to come!

~ wiNteR 2010 ~

Caleb and I forgot to take pictures of Christmas (horrible I know), so we only have a couple pictures of us from Christmas time.

We used this picture for our Christmas cards this year.

We saw the cat hat last year after Christmas on sale at Target for like $0.50, so I decided to buy it, because it's hilarious (obviously). Pepper was actually surprisingly good while we were taking the picture, but I'm pretty sure he didn't enjoy it much..

Snow isn't quite as enjoyable as it was when I was a kid, but we try to enjoy the snow as much as we can while it's winter time (since it's practically winter for 6 months in Utah).. Since Caleb and I don't ski or snowboard, we mostly have fun by throwing snowballs. This is Caleb throwing snowballs at our next door neighbor while he was trying to shovel his driveway.. Our neighbors love us, I'm sure...

Winter should be over in about two more months, and we hope time goes fast because we're both getting cases of spring fever!

~ HaLLowEeN 2010 ~

I know that Halloween was forever ago, but this picture is for my mom. She wants to see the awesome witch hat I got at Gardner Village at their annual Witches Night Out festival and I keep forgetting to show her, so I figured it would be easy to just put it on the blog. I have to dress up for work, so I wore my awesome hat and went as a witch! Easy enough costume for me. :)



~ dEeR hUNt 2010 ~

Caleb goes deer hunting every year he draws out.

His age group has a lot of hunters in it, so he only draws out about every other year. So far he hadn't ever gotten a deer. The deer hunt in Utah is at the end of October, so sometimes it's still warm but sometimes it's already snowed, depending on the year. This year the weather was horrible. It was FREEZING cold and rained and snowed every day of the hunt. He was only able to go out 3 (half days) out of 5 days because the weather was so crappy. On the very last day, right as it was getting dark, he had a good shot at a spike, so he decided to take it.

As an animal lover, it is sometimes hard to be married to someone who likes to kill them (well, deer at least). But I was actually pretty excited for Caleb because he had gotten his first deer!

~ iT's BeEn A wHiLe, LeT me TeLL yOu WhY ~

I'm totally aware that it has been a LONG time since I last blogged. Not that anyone reads this, but if you do and you have been wondering if we have fallen off the face of the planet, we haven't. There's nothing exciting I can blame my absence on.

Work has been crazy!

At the beginning of the school year, the 6th grade teacher that I aide for was MIA for 6 weeks. Her husband had heart surgery and she took work off to help him recover. SO, I was the substitute for that time. I did win this though...

After the 6th grade teacher came back, things went back to normal for a couple of weeks. THEN a math teacher in our middle school left, SO I became a middle school math teacher for a month. I have a huge soft spot for all the middle school kids at my school because I was their aide when they were in 6th grade. I was even the 8th graders 6th grade teacher for a half a year when their teacher left. Today was my last day as their teacher because they hired a new teacher that will start after Christmas break. I have to say that I am really going to miss those middle school students. I loved seeing them every day! I am pretty excited to see the 6th graders again though, so I guess I can't be too sad.

So, now that life is back to normal (at least for a little while I hope!) AND I'm on break until Jan. 3rd, I can catch up with my blogging!

We'll be seeing you soon!



~ 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!



~ThRee'S a ChArM ~ HaPpY anNivErsArY~

September 15th was our anniversary. This year it was our 3rd. To celebrate we went to dinner and on the 16th we went and saw Gary Allan in concert.

Caleb's brother Albert and his fiance, Devan, enjoyed the concert with us.

Gary Allan has the most amazing voice ever. Caleb and I have been to a concert of his before and both times he sounded BETTER live than on his cds, which is a hard thing to do apparently because I've been to a lot of concerts that sounded like crap. He is also very enjoyable to watch (for me anyway) because he is so gorgeous. :) It was very fitting for Caleb and I to celebrate our anniversary at a Gary Allan concert because we have always listened to his music together. I guess you could say we fell in love listening to his music, but that would be cheesy....

For my birthday and our anniversary present, Caleb got me a new wedding band. Which is beautiful, by the way. However, extremely difficult to take a good picture of, so if I ever figure out how to take a good picture of it, I'll post it!

Caleb is the most wonderful husband. I could never hope or dream of a person better for me than Caleb. We are so happy together and enjoy every day we are able to spend together. Here's to many more years of happy anniversaries!

... and we lived happily ever after! :)