Grey's River Camping

Every year(well we try every year) to go camping with my mom's side of the family, sometimes it works out, sometimes not. This year it did because my Grandma and Grandpa are getting older and we don't know if they will be able to get out and go camping with us anymore. So we all went and had a great time. Jackie and Marshal(her boyfriend) hauled up my granparents trailer and then my uncle brought them up. We didn't go up until Friday night, but everybody else went Thursday morning. We went up to Grey's River, which is straight up the canyon from Alpine, WY.

On Saturday we went for a hike up to Barstow Lake. You drive to the trail head then you hike a mile and a half to the lake. It is a really pretty hike.

Some of us lazy ones need a ride.(Like Jaren)

Jaren getting bored on the way back. (he will probably kill me if he sees that I put this on here.)

Here is The Whole Family, ok it's not the whole family, but most of everybody. It's funny because we had 7 cameras set up to take the picture automatically so that everybody could be in the picture. We had a great time, it's good to see the aunts and uncles and cousins that you don't get to see all the time.

Bear Lake

Brooklyn

I thought that these pictures were so cute of Brooklyn and how she can fall asleep anywhere. They are just random pictures that I took. The first picture she had an ice cream cone in her hand.

This one we were eating and thank goodness Jaren has fast reflexes because he had to catch her before she fell. Then I just had to take a picture.

I guess I need to put her down for a nap sooner than lunch time.

Rigby Reunion

This year Dustin and Tara held the reunion at their home in Moses Lake, Wa. We got up there late on thursday. Friday we went to the Moses Lake Aquatic Center. It was a lot of fun for all of us, big and little. They had this thing called surf'n'slide, where you could learn how to surf. It was a lot of fun. Callie, the pictures of you and Shawn are right here if you want to copy them. They are the the fisrt two on the surf'n'slide.

On Saturday we went to a Combine demolition derby. It was the highlight of the trip. Where they held the derby was in a small town called Lind, Wa, better known as redneckville USA. I made that part up, but just to give you a glimps of what I mean, while we were sitting there watching the derby the announcer announced "Make sure you have a designated driver for the ride home." I don't know about you but I have never heard anybody announce something like that before. The derby lasted 4 HOURS. We paid $12 a person to get in, only to find no seats, and the seats we did find you counldn't see the combines, you either had to sit up really tall or slouch down because of a huge post that ran across the top of the fence and it was exactly at your eye level. So we found a great place to stand the whole time. The girls had a great time playing in the dirt. This event was quite exciting. They had the first 4 heats with the combines then while the combines were trying to get fixed to run in the last heat they had grain truck races and pickup races. The grain truck races just consisted of any truck that could hold grain and they just drove around the arena and if you got passed then you were out. Last year I heard a girl won! The pickup races weren't that exciting until one of the trucks tipped over right in front of us. It was pretty cool, then they got about 7 or 8 men and pushed it back over and he finished the race. We were ready to go after standing there for about 3 and a half hours so we left right before it ended, we didn't get to see who won, but we wanted to get out of there before the other 5,000 people decide to leave too. We didn't get too many pictures because we forgot our camera back in Moses Lake so the pictures that I took were with my phone. So here they are. If you want to see more pictures go to http://www.lindwa.com/lind'sweekend.html

Right before the derby we went to a waterfall called Palouse Falls, which only is a waterfall in the spring but boy does it put out some water! We could've walked around to it, but we didn't have enough time. Some people stand right over it on the left side.

Thank you Dustin and Tara, for the great hospitality that you showed everybody. You guys are awesome! Hopefully we get to see you soon!

5 years and counting...

It has been an amazing 5 years. But I think for every 5 years you add 10. It feels like I have been with Jaren for FOREVER! Well I wish I could say we went somewhere wonderful, but we didn't. My mom came over that morning and she demanded that she take the girls home so we could do something. So I went to work with Jaren for the remainder of the day. But since we didn't decide until later it was too late when we finally got in the car to go somewhere. So we went over to the lake and ate at the Bear Trapper Steak House, then we went and rented a movie. We rented P. S. I love you. Oh my gosh! I have never cried so hard and so long over a movie before. Good show though! Anyways, I cannot imagine being without Jaren, I love him so much. I am so excited to spend the rest of eternity with him. I love you Jaren and Happy Anniversry!

Crafts

Here are the crafts that I made in my house, there are a lot more but I never thought to take a picture of them. Some of the things that I have made that aren't on here are a magnet board, window magnet board(top part window w/vinyl on it bottom part magnet board), Family Home Evening magnet board, name boards, bookshelfs, we also made an entertainment center but I don't know if I want to make another one, I can put a picture on here of that if someone is interested. I can't think of everything, but I will try to get those pictures on here of those things that I mentioned. If have any questions about prices or anything else feel free to comment and I will try to get back with you. So pretty much you can do anything! I posted the fonts and the vinyl colors, scroll down to the blog archive and just click on them and it should pull it up.