Christmas 2009

Teresa and Dustin came up for Christmas. That is pretty much all I can remember, (I know, posting things a year and a half later is not good). I am sure we had snow on the ground and that we played lots of fun games. Here are some pictures of our Christmas Tree. It was full of character, that is for sure.

Food Storage

the store room


All those boxes were full of food
Each year my mom goes through our food storage and decides what items we are low on. Then we go to the case lot sales and purchase the things we need. This year we really didn't have much time that we just put everything in the store room without organizing it. Finally in November I had time to start working on it and dating all the food. It took a few days but we were finally able to make the room look nice. :) I always love the satisfaction I get after accomplishing that task and how great it looks! Here are some before and after pictures. More to come.


Oh, how beautiful!

Halloween

Catherine and I practicing makeup styles

For Halloween this year I dressed up as an 80's Punk Rocker with my co-worker Jamie. We had a lot of fun goofing of at work (I mean sitting at our desks, working) and being backup singers to Mindy who was dressed up as Hannah Montana (yes, the 80's mixed with present day). We didn't win the work costume competition but we had a blast!


Having fun

Jamie and I

Rock it!

Straw Maze

The whole maze crew

Nate and Andrew Roach came to visit for Fall Break (only a Utah thing). Teresa, Dustin and Kylee came also. We went to the "Haunted" Straw Maze in Rexburg, Andrew got lost from part of my group. As he was walking he heard us talking and dove through the bales to catch us and he ended up getting stuck. We saw his arms and we thought it was one of the workers trying to scare us until we heard his voice. Nate and I tried pulling him through the bales. Danny and Brittney had found his legs poking out and were trying to help push him out. It was hilarious! We ended up going through the maze twice and also going through the kid maze. That was really hard, let me tell ya. Later that weekend we all went swimming and had fun playing games. It was a really fun weekend.


the maze giving birth to Andrew


Andrew lets his Snuffles drive

Pigs/Piglets

Lots and lots of apples

I went with my parents to feed apples to Danny's pigs. The black one is named Batty and the other one is named Spot. I had a lot of fun playing with them. Batty tried eating my shoe and Spot knocked me down. It brought back a lot of fun memories from when I was a kid playing with my own pigs. After feeding Danny's pig we drove to Archer to the Dye's house. Richard Dye has a pig farm. He is who Danny got his pigs from. He had tons of pigs! I was able to hold a cute little one that was only one week old. His mom started squealing for him and he started squealing back. It scared me and so I whipped my head back. My mom happened to catch a picture right at that time. I will post it for you. I decided I wouldn't mind growing some baby pigs again. They are so cute!


This is the baby pig, and the scary picture from the story



Petting the Piggies

Picking Apples

Danny had way too much fun with the backhoe


It was so hot by the fire!

One Saturday Danny, My Dad, and I went down to the Westover Ranch to help with some projects that needed to be done before winter. They ripped out the shrubs in front and burned them. We also put in some culverts. When we were wrapping up for the day we realized the apple trees were full of apples. We couldn't reach the one's up top so Anne and I got backhoe and Danny operated it so we could get some of the apples on top. Yes, call us hicks, but that's how we roll in Idaho!!!


Getting ready to go up

Me and Anne

Did I mention I hate heights?

Rodney Atkins

Our tickets. I don't know why but it keeps loading at this angle

The Man Himself ( =

Molly Potter and I went down to the Blackfoot Fair to see Rodney Atkins and Reckless Kelly in concert. Molly's car doesn't have working AC so we rode down to Blackfoot with all the windows rolled down. You should have seen our hair when we got there! it was so tangled! We had fun people watching, walking around and taking lots of pictures. It was such an amazing concert and I love Rodney Atkins even more! The concert was on September 11th which made all his songs about America even more meaningful. By the time it was over I couldn't hear anything because it was so loud. Of course I was wearing my cowboy boots and Molly bought some at DI to wear. After the concert was over we went to visit Samantha and Rob Mendez in their house. It was great catching up on things.


My Hair after the Drive

What?!?

The ice cream cone eating man makes this picture

Happiness

New York

Playing

Calvin


William

I had so much fun in New York! I love visiting my family and New England is so beautiful. I played with Calvin and William and Natalie taught me some fun recipes and we went to some garage sales. At night we watched Firefly and played Monopoly and Life. I dominated at them a few times, but Karl had a way of usually winning. I had so much fun laughing and being silly. I wish they all lived closer! While I was there Karl and Natalie took me to a biker bar for lunch. Yes, it is true, a real biker bar! it was very weird but we had heard it was in the top 10 best food places in the United States. It was not very good at all! i think I would have preferred McDonalds, but the experience was cool. Oh, the name of it is The Dinosaur BBQ. Also Natalie and I went to a really cool Enrichment where we learned all about using our wheat storage and tons of things we can make with wheat including chili and meat loaf. It was exciting to learn tons of different things. We went to an Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse. I was neat watching the video about why it was built and learn about all the boats and things. Thanks for the amazingly fun trip!!! I miss them all so much!


On a Lock at the Erie Canal Museum


Arrested

I HATE AIRPLANES!!!

My brother Karl had a free flight he had to use by September 16th so he offered it to me to go to New York to visit him and his family. I was able to get the time off work and fly out for a week. Well, if any of you have ridden in a car or flown with me you know that I am a very nervous traveler. I hate riding in the car or flying on long trips! I go crazy, call me a baby but I do! While flying from Phoenix to Philadelphia I kept falling in and out of sleep. All of the sudden I jerked awake because someone was screaming really loud. I was freaking out because I thought maybe the plane was going down. I opened my eye's and realized that I was the one screaming! Yes ME, in my sleep! I couldn't believe it! everyone was staring at me and some people were getting nervous and freaking out themselves. The man next to me had also been sleeping and when I jerked awake so did he. He had been sleeping with his arms folded so as he jerked awake he smacked me and his friend next to him. He then asked what was happening and I had to tell him, and everyone around me that I had had a nightmare. He let out a big breath and told me I about gave him a heart attack because he thought we were dying! then he told me that was the loudest scream he had ever heard. Boy did I feel sooooo HUMILIATED! I could not believe that I had screamed in my SLEEP of all things. Needless to say, the rest of the trip the people around we kept giving me weird looks and sometimes whispered about me and pointed. I think they were all a little nervous riding with me after that. We had a pretty rough landing in Philly and the overhead compartments were shaking really loud. A man sitting in a seat in front of me turned around and said, "good thing you were awake for that one. I would hate to have heard that scream." and everyone around us laughed. I was so glad to get off of that flight! Needless to say, I don't think I will EVER sleep on an airplane again. Or in a public place for that matter!!!

Photo shoot

My friend Dana is Majoring in Photography and she did a photo shoot of me to practice. She is AMAZING at taking pictures and such. Thanks Dana! If you would like to look at her Blog here it is- http://aspirephotog.blogspot.com/ She does a FANTASTIC job and I would recommend her for any photo needs you might have.

Provo (P-Town)

Some pretty flowers at Thanksgiving Point

Catherine Stewart and I drove down to Provo one weekend for our old roommate, Michelle Hudsons wedding reception. We stayed at my Grandpas house with my sister Teresa. We went and spent the evening Jet skiing with my cousin Andrew and his friends. We had a blast! The best was trying to knock the person behind you off the jet ski. I had blood blisters for weeks on my hand from holding on so tight. It was really fun and the water was just right. Catherine and I managed to come away with only a few really bad bruises. That night we played the most awesome game of Quelf with Nathan, Andrew and friends. On Saturday we had lunch with our friends Joe and Erin. I was able to visit my aunts which was fun. That afternoon Erin took us to Thanksgiving Point to tour the Gardens. She has been internshiping there for the Summer. After that we went to Michelle and Stephens receptions. It was beautiful and they looked so happy. They had a fairytale theme that was so cute! I was able to see my friend Daniel there and catch up with him. Sunday we went to church and went to Roaches house for a while. Andrew took me on an awesome motorcycle ride around Provo. I had been having a few car troubles the week before we left but he made it there and back safely.

Pictures from Thanksgiving Point

Erin, Michelle, me and Catherine

Michelle and Stephen Sitton

Andrew and I