Baby Blessing

Our nephew was blessed on the 16th and it was fun to have the family all together for the weekend!

Tommy's brother and sister from Utah came down and spent the Saturday and Sunday with us! Saturday night we had a fire and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows!

That night we watched the Boise State game together and played cards!

It was an intense game! Boise didn't play their best

 
Sunday we went to the baby blessing and lunch afterward!

Ted and his kids

Eating pictures are great! Haha

It was a great weekend spent as a family!

One Day Bear Lake Visit

Last weekend we were able to go to Bear Lake for my nieces baptism! We were planning on going to Frightmares at Lagoon on Friday but they were only open from 5-11 and for the same price that we could be there from 11-11 on a Saturday! So we decided it was too far of a drive to pay the same price for only half a day when we could go for a full 12 hours! So I let Tommy go hunting on Saturday morning since it was the opening day of sage hen hunting before we headed down to Bear Lake that afternoon.

Spent a good 2 days down in Bear Lake, or like 1 day since it was 2 half days... but it is always worth the drive! No matter how long the stay!

We LOVE These Girls!! <3

My goal is to post at least one post every month... so the last two posts are my pathetic efforts for September! :/

Fair Time

I don't have much to say about these pictures except we went to the Gooding and Twin fair with these two and it was an absolute blast!!

Although we didn't get a good picture!
*The night these two broke the exciting news to us!!! Woohoo!!*

And my photography skills at the Gooding Rodeo!

And at the Twin Rodeo... We had some beautiful sunsets!!

Party All Night and Day!

Yesterday Tommy and I had a pretty fun packed day! We started the day off with, well the real party actually started Friday night with dinner and a late movie with Jake and Blaike! (We're getting too old to stay out that late!! 😉)

And then Saturday morning the party continued at the Idaho Army National Guard Battle Buddy Run at Dierkes Lake! Woop woop! This was an obstacle filled 5k put on by the national guard, and it was so much fun!! It took some convincing to get Tommy to sign up with me but you had to have a buddy so I wasn't giving up on him ;) so we started off riding in the back of an army tuck thing- the kind you see in the movies where you just sit on the sides and it's covered with canvas, and it's a good thing we didn't ride very far in that thing cuz we only went maybe 50 yards and I was getting sick!

When we stopped we were getting yelled at to get out so be bailed off the back while there were gunshots and fog going off and ran to the first spot where we grabbed  a "riffle" (play riffles) and ran down to the lake where we had to jump in! Just the shallow part-but up to like my thighs, and run through that while keeping our riffles up. And then we ran to the sandy area and had to low crawl through a maze under bobbed wire while holding our riffle up out of the sand-so we had to crawl on our elbows (owie!) And all the while they were yelling at us to get lower and hurry up and keep their guns out of the sand! Then we ran to the next station which was the drill sargaents! So more yelling at us to do push ups, low crawl some more, more push-ups and to get out of their face because we discussed them ;) next station was a little farther away but it was the gas mask station!! :( We had to put on a gas mask and run up the steepest part of the trail and back down....least favorite for sure! Those gas masks were horrible! You put them on and take one breath and they suction to your face and take away 30-40% of your oxygen.... ok moving on! Haha ran to the next station where we had to carry a 5 gallon bucket of water to the next point and back, not too bad. Next was throwing a three hook into 1 of 3 tires and dragging them to us then dragging them back, next was carrying a box full of something up some stairs and back down- then we had to run back up the stairs to the next station: throwing a grenade into a bunker, which we did in the first try...go us! ;) Next we shot paintballs at like 6 hidden targets, that was really fun! Next station we had to pick up like a 70lb log and put it on our shoulder and do 20 squats, run it down to the next point where there was a dummy down waiting for us to assess him and load him on a sled thing, strap him in, and drag him back to the starting point of that station all the while they are yelling that he is dying and that we are going to miss the chopper! And the dummy was heavy! Like 150-175 lbs, so not a light flimsy dummy-he was a real humans weight! Last station was repelling across a little canyon, pulling ourselves across the cable. And then we ran to the finish line where got our dog tags! And water! And that was the race! It was super fun though!! I'm really excited for next year, now that I kind of know what to expect! And our only battle wounds were our elbows and knees getting torn up from crawling on the sand... that really hurt! And my shoulder where I had the log setting is really sore, feels like it's bruised... so we didn't come out too bad!

Race Complete!

Not real..... ;)

Next on the agenda was to go get showered and ready for the day and hit some open houses!! Yay! We hit three open houses and then took a break for lunch out at Chobanis company party. 

My favorite thing on Chobani! <3

And then hit up two more open houses! So fun going to look at houses and find one that we like or get ideas for what we like and don't like!

And to top the night off we headed out to Gooding for a birthday party for Janice! Had a wonderful BBQ, cake and icecream, visiting, games, and good fun family time!

Camping 2016

On Friday, July 22 we headed down to Bear Lake for our camping trip with my family!! Camping all weekend with no interuptions! Just 3 days of family in the woods! :)

We got up to camp Friday afternoon and started our campout with elk tinfoil dinners for super! And of course roasted marshmallows and smore's! We also celebrated my nephews 22nd birthday so we had cheesecake too!

Saturday morning, after eating berry colossal crunch (my favorite cereal) with MARSHMALLOWS!! (Even Better!!) we spent the whole day chatting, laughing, playing games and just hanging out with everyone! So much fun! And then started helping out making dinner for the night-dutchoven ribs and potatoes! (Good job Er!) oh and cherry and peach cobbler (Good job babe!). So yummy! And of course more roasted marshmallows and smore's! (You can't go one night with out those!)

Sunday morning we did a big breakfast all together and had omletts... they turned out good, but were really hard and time consuming to make on a camp chef and kind of a fail! But the last two omletts we made, out of like 13, did turn out! (Good job again babe!) We just relaxed until about 2 or 3 and then started heading out :(

After getting cleaned up we went up to Jed and Tricia's for the twins and Tally's birthday parties! And celebrated with them until it was time for Tommy and I to head home since we had to work the next morning :( Dang work gets in the way of everything!

We didn't get any pictures of us all up camping :( I really sucked the whole trip getting any pictures! This was about all I got the whole 3 days :(

But it was such a fun weekend with everyone! We never want to go home after visiting!

Happy Independence!

Happy Independence Day!!

We kept this years 4th low key, but who says low key can't be fun!!

I started the day off with an hour and a half of Zumba!! While Tommy went golfing with Jake. We had planned to go out to Jake and Blaikes later that evening for dinner and fireworks, but Tommy called me around lunch time and said they were going to cook some hotdogs for lunch. So we actually went out for lunch, dinner and fireworks... never a bad thing!! Can't get enough of you guys! ;) But seriously we never get sick of spending so much time with you!!

So we ate "lunch" bacon wrapped, trager smoked hotdogs and jalapeno peppers, ended up being around 5! And then watched Ride Along 2... or more like Blaike and I watched Ride Along 2... Tommy was sleeping and I think Jake was dozing off too. And we also watched Sisters when Tommy and Jake went to get fireworks!

When they got back we ate dinner, delicious tritip that had been smoking on the trager! (We never skimp on food when we hang out!!) Oh and these cool drinks that didn't really turn out haha! (The blue kind of disappears in the red)

 And ended the night with a fire, fireworks and smore's!! 

Low key-but SO much fun!!

~Boise Trip~

June 24th we took a trip to Boise for the weekend! Tommy and Jake went earlier in the morning to go fishing and Blaike and I drove up later. We did a little shopping and went to dinner while we waited for them to get home, and then went to Pie Hole when they got home for some pizza!

They went fishing the next morning while we went shopping again! Our first stop was the farmers market...A.maz.ing!! When the boys got back we went to the habbit for a delicious burger and fries and then to subzero for icecream!! We may have also went to krispy kreme since the hot and fresh light was on and got some doughnuts ;) 

What can we say, we had a lot of places we had eat at! 

Next stop was walking around the village and playing in the arcade! Seriously that was the funnest part! Best arcade ever!!

And on our way home we stopped at the real Pie Hole in downtown Boise for the real Pie Hole experience! Which this may have to be a new tradition upon going to Boise-the pizza is cheap and so yummy!! Getting out of our comfort zone-not once did we eat at Texas Roadhouse!

Such a fun trip to Boise and the next one is already in the making!!