"I Love to See the Temple"!

This post is a continuation of my last post, because.. I can ;)

On the last day in Utah, but certainly not the least, Tuesday morning (July 8th), before stopping at Cabela's of course, we went to the Mount Timpanogos Temple! Our goal is to go to a session in all the Utah temples that are right there on our way to family, which include Logan (check), Brigham, Ogden, Bountiful, Salt Lake (check), Jordan River, Oquirrh, Draper, Mount Timpanogos (which is now a check!), Provo (check), and Provo City and Payson when they get finished! We have a lot of work to do!

But anyways, so we went to the temple! And it was beautiful!


After we got out there was seriously no one around that could take our picture, so we took a few selfies trying to capture the temple and ourselves :)

 And then someone came out that I asked to take our picture!

And she did an OK job, but I think the selfie is still my favorite! ;)
And before going to Cabela's we ate at my personal favorite fast food restaurant (Because I don't like fast food!), Popeyes!


There's chicken under those fries somewhere!

When I was writing about the temple, I got the idea to create a whole new post about all the temples we have been to, so that is why this continuation...

Because our real goal is to go through as many temples as we can! We make it a point, that if we are traveling and there is a temple there or on the way, to go through it if we can! And we have been to a few...

Provo

Rexburg

Logan

Salt Lake

...plus the Mount Timpanogos pictured above, and the temple we go to the most often, and the funny part is we don't have a picture of, the Twin Falls Temple! :)

Until next time!

SUMMER!!!.. Is half way Over!

Sooo,, Sorry about the title a few posts ago.. "First comes love, then comes marriage". At first I thought that the title might make people think we were announcing, but then I decided naaa people wont think that! But, you did! Haha it was one of my most viewed posts and lots of people told me they thought we were announcing! So sorry! If we were to announce, I probably would have added "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes.." But anyways.. not announcing! haha
 
Here it is July 10th and I can not believe how fast summer has gone!! It's practically half way over :(
So this post isn't anything too special, just a few things we have done this summer, so far.
 
First of all, Tommy had really bad allergies for like, I can't even remember how long we let it go on! (Poor miserable guy!) When we finally decided it was allergies, he tried Claratin, which worked for a little while, then tried Alavert, which didn't help, and finally tried Zyrtec, which also didn't help. So since nothing was working and the guy was miserable, we went to the allergy doc and Tommy got tested.


YUP!! ALLERGIC!!           ^

The test straight above the little arrow I made on the pictures caption, bottom of column 6, is where they inserted the most toxic serum they could come up with. His body reacted to it, but not that bad. And to the grass serum they inserted, his body reacted significantly more because it "viewed" this toxin way more worse than the most toxic serum they had. So he got some Prednisone, nose spray, eye drops, and told to take two Zyrtec, and it definitely helped! He's a lot better now!
 
Next fun thing we did. The Drive-In's we have here either both got shut down or one of them got shut down, I'm not for sure. But they opened it back up again for the summer, and since we had never been to the Drive-In in our truck, I decided to take Tommy on a date June 27th, the night it opened back up to watch Maleficent, because a Drive-In is way more fun in the bed of a truck! We got there almost an hour early because I figured there would be a lot of people, and the place was packed! So it's a good thing we went early! Now, our truck is pretty big and kind of hard to drive, so it was really funny the looks we got when we were backing in to the spot we wanted. The people next to us thought for sure that #1. we were not going to fit, and 2. that we were going to Hit them! But we didn't, and it was snug"ish", but we fit :)

Sporting my HS Softball sweats!
And.. we may have wedged in a little bit, but we got a good seat!

Our layers and layers of blankets bed :) And the cute guy in the bed!

And of course my favorite picture we're looking at ourselves on the screen instead of at the camera..

Oh, there we're lookin'!

 The last adventure for this post is our trip to Utah! Our niece was getting baptized so we went down to Utah for that, and stayed for the 4th of July and for a few days after. For the night of the fourth we went with Tommy's sister to the Provo temple grounds to watch the Stadium of Fire firework show, which was a pretty awesome fire work show! (And which I won't post any pictures of because we all know that we try and try and try to take an awesome picture of the fire works,,, and none of them work out! Haha) And plus Carrie Underwood was there singing "Independence Day"! She was in the actual stadium performing, so we didn't get to see her, and didn't really hear her performance until she sang "Independence Day", which is one of my favorite songs she sings! So that was pretty great!

This^^is a Fantastic picture!! ;)
We should have taken a picture when it wasn't so dark so Tommy could have kept his eyes open! ;)

Monday morning (July 7th) we went to Seven Peaks for a few hours and then had a fire that night to roast mallows (which I didn't take any pictures of because once again it was too dark!)




Don't mind my husband not smiling!.. It's a rare picture where he is actually smiling.. a real smile! :)

Are you sick of seeing pictures of just me and Tommy posing yet??! Haha I like to take pictures but I really like to be doing the fun instead of photographing the fun, so sorry it's mainly just pictures of us before the fun begins, cuz then the camera aka phone gets left behind!

Roughin' It, In A.. Cabin

This weekend we went "camping", in quotations because I don't consider it real camping when we stay in a cabin.. but it is pretty nice (especially compared to our last camping trip)!

Every year (since last year) we have gone up to Pine with a couple friends that Tommy works with and their families and stayed in one of their cabins. And we went again this year so I guess it's becoming like an annual thing.. But anyways, this cabin is close to a reservoir so of course we had to go fishing! So Tommy and I got up at 5am to leave Twin and make it to Pine in time to get good fishing in. Before we left, I made sure that we would be done fishing before it got too hot, and was assured that we would... So I wore under armor spandex under my pants and a long sleeve shirt under my hoodie and coat. I was suited to go fishing in the cold, which it was kind of cold that morning. So we go there and fished in the boat for awhile and it sure got hot faster than the weather said it would! So not to long into the trip I was stripping my hoodie and coat and spandex (it's ok, we were in the middle of no where-no one was watching ;) ), but I couldn't strip my long sleeve shirt because I didn't have anything else to wear in it's place so I pulled the sleeves up as far as I could. So now I have an awesome tan line just a bit above my elbow, because my shirt wouldn't roll any higher! Needless to say, we did Not leave when it got hot.. we were out there until about 3 or 4pm, and I was about dying of heat!! And on top of that, I wasn't catching Anything! I caught two fish that whole 8 hours!.. it was kind of not fun.

Tommy caught quite a few bass.. He's quite the bass fisher!

But we finally left and headed to the cabin, got showered and went to a little restaurant in the woods to eat lunch. When everyone else got up there we ate dinner and played in the garage which has a pool table and ping pong table. The next day, Tommy got up and went fishing early in the morning (Surprise!) and we made breakfast, German pancakes, bacon, fruit, and orange Julius, for everyone. Through out the day we went golfing, but not real golfing just driving (the balls)...



I'm used to hitting a baseball so it was hard to get the golfing position and swing down,, But I finally got it, sort of

...sitting in the natural hot springs by the river...

These are also from last year.. When I say natural hot springs, I really mean natural.. we were sitting on rocks and leaning against the grassy/muddy bank

...four-wheeler and dirt bike riding...

Pretty dang CUTE!!

This is from last year when it was raining on our trail ride, this year we got lucky with not rain, but not so lucky with lots of dust!

 ...fishing, and chilled in the garage again (we do that a lot up there, and I got pretty good at ping pong and pool!).

We found Tommy's Drive! (his real name is Charley, hence the Charlie DR)

The worst thing that happened was when we went fishing again at the reservoir, I somehow accidently knocked one of Tommy's million fishing poles he had off the boat :/ I was able to grab it with my pole but the wind was blowing like crazy and pushing the boat farther and farther away from the pole and I was stretching as far as I could to keep it hooked on my pole but it became too much! And down the pole went.. :( I was kind of in trouble for awhile.. so that wasn't very fun either.. I just didn't have a good time fishing this go round!

It was a fun trip, like always, but we didn't have the most classic thing of camping.. a fire!! So I was pretty sad that we never had a fire, but we had our days filled with so much fun that there was no time for one!

Well that is our summer so far, and it's barely June! Bring on the rest of summer! :)

"First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage"

Many people find this confusing when I try to explain my half siblings, half sister.. So in case of any confusion I will clarify real quick.. My Mom and her first husband had four kids (my half siblings because I am from a different Dad). They then got divorced and that husband had another daughter (Shi), which is my half-siblings half-sister because they share the same Dad.. So we have no relation, but I just consider her my sister, along with all my other siblings... No "half" needed :)

Ok, so that being said, I just explained because it was that half sister of my half siblings ;) that got married, which brought this whole post about!

Tommy and I were really excited because my siblings were coming up to Twin for the first time to go through the temple with Shi to get her endowment out. They came up the night before to go to her graduation and Tommy and I got to watch the kids! Five of them to be exact :) We took them swimming in the pool of the hotel they were staying at.. we were the cool Aunt and Uncle that night ;)


We sure have cute nieces and nephews!!

As we headed down to the pool in the elevator, a guy riding with us looked at us wide eyed when we got in and said "Wow! You've got a bunch of them!" Haha and Tommy instantly replied with a straight face and voice.. "They're not ours!" Haha! We definitely would have had to start early and not taken anytime in between, having the oldest being 8 and all of them being very close in age! :) It was a good laugh though and I loved Tommy's instant response of ultimately saying.. Heck No! haha We had a good night and did pretty well watching that many kids for not being parents, I'd say! The next morning we went and ate the continental breakfast and swam with everyone again before going to the temple. After the temple we went to Gerties, because you can not come to Twin and not eat at Gerties! And before they left, we went to the falls because once again, you can not come to Twin and not go see the falls!!

It was a fun weekend with the family up in Twin!

This is just a cute picture of one of my nieces taking after her momma, being a hair stylist :)
Yes, she did put that towel around my neck as a cape herself!

The next weekend I went to Utah for the actual marriage of my half-siblings half-sister ;) But sadly this time it was only me, my great husband stayed home to work.. Dang work!

 

We went up to Utah the day before to Play and for the luncheon. Two of my sisters, one brother in law, two nieces, one nephew and I stopped at Boondocks to party! It was fun driving the go carts, batting in the cages, and playing arcade games all day!

 

That night after the luncheon we got to the hotel with everyone else at 10pm and swam until 11pm when the pool closed. Except, the father of the bride (if you know him, you will believe this :) ) convinced them to keep it open for what ended up to be about two more hours! So with 5 of us siblings there we had a lot of talking and laughs!



Almost all the nieces and nephews

I Seriously Love my Family!!

It was a great weekend and would have only been better if Tommy could have been there, and was a beautiful wedding!





Base Jumping

School is out!! And it is summer!! I am almost done with nursing school, just one semester left until I graduate! But since school has been out we have been busy and busy enough I haven't had time to post, so now it's catch up time!

I wish this post was about me base jumping, but unfortunately it's not.. Someday!

I have lived in Twin Falls for almost three years now (in August) and have never watched a base jumper actually jump. I see them all the time getting ready to jump as we drive by, but like life is, we are always in a hurry and can't stop to watch. So when I saw on FB that a base jumper/biker dude was going to jump to spread the ashes of a Vietnam Veteran who's dream was always to base jump the Perrine Bridge, I was excited to go watch and finally see a jumper actually jump!

When Case and I got there, there were a bunch of Vietnam Veterans in uniform and a bunch of biker guys also in "uniform" ;) flying flags on their bikes.

 



After waiting for a long time, and watching another base jumper jump (it was awesome!!), the base jumper finally started walking across the bridge to the middle, where he jumps. It must take the jumpers a long time to get ready to jump because I was holding my phone up, ready to video for a long time and he still wasn't ready so I put it down. I was wearing long pants and a long sleeve shirt because I didn't think it was going to be that warm, but standing there got really hot so I rolled my pants up and started to mess around with my shirt deciding to take it off or not (I had an undershirt on!), and some one says there he goes! When they said there he goes, I was thinking he was climbing over the railing getting ready to jump (because that's what the other guy that jumped today did, and he even held on there for a minute leaning off the railing).. So I hurry and stop messing around with my shirt, pick up my phone and try to get it zoomed all the while thinking please don't jump yet, please don't jump yet.. and low and behold my phone was on picture instead of video, so instead of taking a video, I was taking a bunch of random pictures of the canyon trying to figure out what the heck! And all the while I was doing all this, and while I was thinking "there he goes" meant he was climbing over the railing, the jumper had gotten on top of the railing, jumped, done a front flip, spread the ashes and was finishing his fall before I could even look up.. "There he goes" meant.. There he Goes! I was so mad and bummed that I had missed it all!! And I didn't even get a good video, let alone a good picture :( So it was a cool event, if I would have saw it.. :) But at least I can finally say I have watched a base jumper jump!

So besides the bikes, this is the only picture, of anything, that I got! This is when he was walking across the bridge to the middle, to jump. One of the guys took a flag to the middle and flew it while the jumper jumped.. that was pretty awesome!

Gone Fishin'..

Caution: LOTS of fishing pictures in this post!!
 
If you know my husband and his Dad, you will know that hunting and fishing is what they do best! I was never really a fisherman before I met Tommy. We went every once in a while when I was little but I don't ever recall catching anything! But now that I'm married to him, I'd say I'm a pretty good wife to get up at 5am to go fishing! Not really the thing I would love to be doing at 5am! So in the summer time we go fishing A Lot! Like pretty much everyday that he has off, and even some days after he gets home from work. I've gotten a pretty good hang of it, and it's pretty fun.. when I'm catching fish anyways!
 
This weekend, we packed the truck and Tommy's Dads boat with all our camping and fishing stuff to go fish CJ in Bruno. I was excited because I love camping.. like real camping.. in a tent! And that's what we were going to do this weekend! We fished Friday evening and then came back, set up camp and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows over a fire (one of the best parts of camping!) When we first got there, I was expecting a nice grassy camping area, but it wasn't at all! It was all rock! We pitched our tent on the only tiny patch of grass there was around! And it was on a slope so all through the night not only did we have rocks in our back the whole night, we were sliding farther and farther down in the tent.. I did not sleep very well at all and it was not very fun :( I guess I'm not as young as I thought and as I used to be!, so next time I'll plan on taking an air mattress :) Saturday morning we got up and went fishing again all day! But it was good weather, so as long as it's nice outside, I have food, and am catching fish.. I'm happy!
 
At CJ we mainly fish for crappie (pronounced croppy), but also caught a few perch, blue gill, and bass. But crappie are my favorite to fish!!

"I caught you a delicious Bass!"
-Napoleon Dynamite

First catch of the trip! :)

The biggest crappie I have caught,, ever!

The tiniest fish caught

Caught at the same time.. Mines bigger ;)



The biggest bass I have ever caught, except for the one I caught and accidently dropped back in the water before I got a picture :/



Tommy put two hooks on his line and caught two fish.. He's Lucky!

 Hope you all enjoyed the loads of fish pictures, that probably all look the same, believe me, before I was a "fisherman" I thought the same thing.. If you've seen one, you've seen them all ;) But I've had a change of heart, and I now can even tell which fish is what!

Lucky for you I probably won't post anymore pictures of fishing (at least not this many) because there are too many trips! But just know that that's what we do all summer.. FISH!