Oooohhhhh Spooky!

We had some fun and spooky Halloween festivities this week. Last Saturday we went to a party with Alex's brother and wife. We were cavemen and we looked pretty much amazing! Alex and I went to DI and found Alex an awesome grandma nightgown that was leopard all over. We cut the sleeves off and made the bottom and all jagged. It looked so good! Then I borrowed my costume from my sister in law. It was a leopard dress and I had some GIGANTIC hair! Sorry no pics we forgot our camera, but some people at the party had one so if we get some from them I will put them up.

Then last Sunday we carved pumpkins with my family.












All of our pumpkins ----------->











Pretty spooky!








Me and Alexio with our pumpkins, ya no big deal!

So just an update with what has been going on with us... Alex is in school and only has a couple more weeks until Thanksgiving break. Then a few week after that he is out for the end of the semester! During the winter semester he will be doing his internship and is really excited to do that. He is finishing up his grad school applications and we will hopefully know where we are going by the end of the year. Alex is doing so great in school and working so hard I am so proud of him! Then I am still working at the school and nannying for the same family after school that I was during the summer. I am not really doing anything else, just working on Christmas presents.

Yee Haw!!!

We had the first annual family rodeo this past weekend. It was a ton of fun! My dad, brother and me team roped. Here's me and my brother roping together.

We then went on to the ribbon roping. This is where one person is on a horse and ropes a calf. Another person is on foot and runs to the calf after the first person ropes it. The person on foot gets a ribbon off of the calf's tail and runs to the finish line. My dad and mom were a team, then Jordan and Devan were a team, and me and Alex were a team. My dad and mom won this event with the shortest combined times.

We then went to chute dogging. This is just like bull dogging only we don't have to bail off a horse, we just hang onto to the steer as they are coming out of the chute. This was really fun. Almost every one got in on this one, even me, but I had a ton of help getting the steer over!

Alexio

Jordan
Dad
Devan
Me
The last event was the money calf. We taped different prizes on the backs of the calves. We let the calves go in the arena, then it was a free for all. You chase a calf down to get the prize. Alex and me got a gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse!

The rodeo was great and we are really excited to do it again next year. Also Brittany couldn't do the rodeo with us because she is pregnant!!! After two years of not being able to they finally got it! We are so excited, she is due in April!

A Month of Adventures

So I tried writing this ginormous post last night and when I was almost all done it disappeared! So needless to say I was very frustrated.. so here I am trying this again, but this is going to be the very very condensed version.

My brother had a rodeo down in Panguitch, Utah that I went to. It was a week long rodeo and it was tons of fun! We went to most of the morning and night rodeos so we didn't have a lot of free time, but we did manage to go to Cedar Breaks National Park. While I was having fun Alex was finishing his last week of school. This was our first time apart since we got married so it was sad, but I guess there is a first for everything.

Alex and me went with my brother, sister, and brother-in-law down to Utah one weekend. We went to Hill's Air Force Base, Lagoon, and Timpanogos Cave. My sister has most of these pictures so here are just a couple that I have of the Air Force Base.

This is a B-19 Bomber wheel, pretty big uh!

I had my b-day and Alex surprised me with nice night together, nice dinner, and even a chick flick!


We went camping with Alex's family and ended up having to come home a little early. Alex's brother brought his motorcycle and every one was trying it out and riding it. So it was my turn to try, but it was too big for me to get started. Alex pushed me to get started and when he let go I lost control and went barreling into the trees. I couldn't stop until a tree stopped me. So I ended up going to the hospital. Luckily nothing was broken. I had hit the handle bars when I crashed and hit my chest really hard. I also smushed my pinky and leg, but I don't know how that happened. So I don't have a picture of my chest for obvious reasons, but here is my leg and hand.

My pinky took the blunt of it on my hand, but I had a few scratches on my other fingers

My leg was still swollen in this picture, so don't make fun of my fat leg :)

Alex and I braved camping with my family the next weekend. We went to Mackay and Challis to see the Ghost towns there. They were so neat! We are going to make it a tradition to go every year because there is so much to see and we didn't even see it all.

This is the Dredge. They used it to mine gold in the river. It was huge, five stories tall! Even back then they mined over 2 million dollars with it!

An update for what is going on now is that Alex is on 7 week break so he is working around the complex. He took the GMAT this week and he did great! We will get his official score hopefully soon, then we can start to apply to grad schools. I am so proud of him! He will be going back to school in a couple weeks. I started school at the elementary school last week and it has been a crazy beginning, but it is getting smoother and smoother. I am still nannying for the family a couple hours a day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Yes a week late, but the 4th of July!

So we had a really great Fourth of July! It was really nice because both Alex and I had school and work off on Thursday and Friday. So we went up to Alex's parent's house starting on Thursday and helped them start to rebuild their shed which got blow over in the big wind storm about a month ago. So it started out like this:

and ended like this:


Still a ways to go, but it is coming along. So that is pretty much we did on Thursday, Friday, and some of Saturday. We did go to the Ashton parade on the fourth. Here are some of our favorite things from the parade. Of course Smokey the Bear:


This is like the only actual float in the whole parade and it was freakin' awsome! It was really big and sparkly:


Then this one is really cool! You have to click on it to make it bigger for the full effect. It is from Baxter's Funeral Home. It is a guy pulling a glass box with a coffin in it. Alex says that they still use it sometimes for the older people that die. It was soooooooo cool!

Then we went down to Idaho Falls and met my sister, her husband, my brother, and a girl that he brought to watch the fireworks. So we went like four hours early and staked out our spot, played games, and just talked. We were really ready for the fireworks to start. So they finally did and we come to find they are being set off right behind a tree. So we couldn't see anything! So we just had to move even though we had been there ready for four hours! But they were really cool. We spent the night at my parents house because we were having my dad's birthday party the next day. So we had a really fun fourth of July weekend!

Umm...so ya...

So it had been pretty slow around here, but things have picked up quite a bit lately. It's been almost a month now, but my brother graduated from High School. He will be coming up to school here starting in the Fall and staying at our complex so it will be pretty fun to have him right across the street from us.

(Alex, me, Jordan, Britt my sis, and Devan her husband)

Alex and I have gone camping a couple times. This is the first time we went camping and right after we went four wheeling so we are pretty dirty.

The second time we went we went with my family and it rained the WHOLE time we were there! We went up on a Friday and it rained hard core that night. Then on Saturday we were in my parent's trailer the whole time because it rained seriously all day. So we decided to go leave and go down to my parent's house and "camp out"

Our garden is growing really well! We have corn, beans, peas, radishes, and squash so far. We hoping to get enough to can some, but if not my mom will be able to help us out. Alex and I went to my brother's and my dad's rodeo this past Friday. My brother did calf roping and then my brother and dad did team roping together. It's pretty cool seeing my dad out there doing rodeo because he is usually out there helping instead so it is really neat seeing him actually doing it. Next year while my brother is on his mission I will hopefully be roping with my dad next year so I am really excited. Then this week My brother has State High School Rodeo, so Alex and I will be going and watching him.

Alex is still working hard at school and doing really good. I am very proud of him! My job at the school let out for summer at the beginning of the month, so I had to find a new job. I had a job lined out, but that fell through so I was on to looking for another job. Amazingly it only took 1 day after school let out to find one. I am being a nanny for 6 kids and I love it! The mom is there sometimes, or sometimes I am there alone with all the kids or some of the kids. It changes everyday. It has been a really opportunity. Then when the school year starts back up I will probably be working with a couple children in the kindergarten. So that is a little bit of what has been happening with us.

Do you see anything yet???

So last night for FHE Alex and me planted our garden. At our complex there was this plot of land that was growing nothing, but weeds so we decided to use it and plant ourselves some veggies. Alex borrowed his parents tiller and tilled it all up so that we could use it. We planted corn, beans, peas, radishes, carrots, squash (for Alex). We also tried some peppers and lettuce. (We will see about these ones.) We are going to also plant some potatoes (of course) and some onions when we get some hopefully this week. We will see if anthing actually grows. Both of us grew gardens with our families when we lived at home, but this is the first time we are trying it on our own. Hopefully we will see something sprouting in about a week!

It's About Time!

So we finally had an eventful weekend after what has seemed lifetime! Yes we have done something here or something there every now and again, but we finally had a fun packed weekend!

After school and work on Friday Alex finished up some homework before we started our weekend. We decided that it was time that we went together, just the two of us for a little get away. Since we live where we work it is hard to have time just to ourselves so we decided to spend Friday night in Jackson where we went on our honeymoon. We were able to stay at the same bed and breakfast that we stayed at on our honeymoon as well. It was sooooo much fun to go back, relax, and walk around all the shops.

We also walked around this little labyrinth at St. John's I think hospital. We timed it and it took 4 minutes and 15 seconds to walk around all the corners and all the way around it.

Of course we had to take pictures by the famous antler arches that are on the outside of the park.

We headed back to Ashton (where Alex's parent's live) on Saturday afternoon. We got a new tent that goes in the back of our Avalanche so we set that up. (It took us like an hour and a half to set it up. It was crazy!)

Then one of Alex's friends got married so we went to his reception and then we went and played poker at another friend's house after that. We spent the next night in Alex's parents house because on Sunday morning Mitch, Alex's brother, called from his mission in South Africa for Mother's Day. It took us almost an hour to get a hold of him because the number that he gave us didn't work, but we finally got a hold of him and got to talk to him for a while. After we were done in Ashton we went down to my parent's house in Shelley to visit my mom for Mother's Day and eat dinner. A lot of my family was there and it was fun to visit with all of them.

So it was a very eventful weekend and I loved it!!! I think things will start to pick up now that summer is here...kinda. We are planning a camping trip with my family to go out to these ghost towns some where out by something. So we are really excited!