Sunday, July 19, 2009

Camping Trip

After our Indiana trip, we decided to go camping for a few days in the Wasatch National Forest. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought we would have. We got there Friday afternoon and set up camp. Then sort of lounged around the campfire until bedtime! The next day, Michael and Ben wanted to take Toby exploring... so we went around the other campsites with Toby in tow. Michael remembered when reserving our campsite that the Provo River was not supposed to be too far from camp, so we set off looking for it. Toby had a blast! We finally found it and stayed in the river for about an hour before heading back. Then we made and painted some camouflaged dart guns. It's crazy how time flies when you aren't paying attention to it, or don't have a clock to remind you of the time... before we knew it, it was time for dinner and the campfire again! We stayed up playing cards and talking and then left for home the next day. Hopefully, we can do this again sometime this year before the summer's over!

Our sweet tent!

Ben grilling some hot dogs.

Toby wishing he could eat the hot dogs...


Spray painting our camouflage dart guns.

Some of the final products...

Guarding camp.

Michael's bow and arrow that he found.....

The campsite was absolutely gorgeous... we were even able to see some moose walking through!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Trip home...

On our trip home, we decided to stop at Chicago. It was one of our favorite cities by far. Kinda cloudy, but still awesome!






Next Stop: Kansas again.... no pictures needed!

Next Stop: Iowa. We actually hit a HUGE storm coming home through Iowa and Nebraska. It was really cool when the lightening struck... it pretty much lighted up the whole sky! Kinda scary...




Next Stop: Nebraska. It was raining soooo hard, we couldn't take any pictures and we actually had to stop because we could no longer see the road!!! Crazy!

Next Stop: Wyoming. Bleh... no pictures necessary either... nothing too special. Although we were very very excited to see the mountains start to pop up everywhere around us!!!

Overall, it was an awesome trip, but it took us over 37 hours to finally reach our destination! We were sooo glad to be home and in our beds!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Lake Day

We visited Lake Monroe a couple days before we had to leave. It was pretty fun watching Toby and Lacey duke it out in the water! Toby is quite the little swimmer!

The whole family minus mom.



We had a great time while in Indiana. Michael's family was sure nice to put us up for a couple weeks. It was great spending time with everyone. Aubrey and Evan are growing sooo fast! Although it was really humid, the weather was really nice for the most part!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Toby and Lacey

Michael's family also owns a dog, a standard poodle, Lacey. While we were there Lacey and Toby had quite the friendship going.... :) At least that's what Lacey thought... She's just a puppy and was always wanting to play with Toby! We finally realized what a patient dog Toby is! :)

Lacey's favorite place to be.... hehehe

They were good friends by the time we left :)

Friday, June 26, 2009

Roadtrip Bloopers

We were all definitely really tired during the trip.....

Toby was a sweetheart, he slept most of the way there. :)




By far, Toby's favorite place to be while traveling!

Roadtrip Day 1 and 2

First Stop: Colorado. It was actually gorgeous! We stopped at a rest stop for me and Ben decided to take some pictures!






Next Stop: Kansas. By far our least favorite stop on our way to Indiana.... :)



Yup... still looks the same! :)

Next Stop: Kansas City, Missouri. Actually a really cool city!




Next Stop: St. Louis, Missouri. Our favorite city of the trip. It was really cool, a bit on the humid side... :)






Next Stop: Illinois. I slept the whole way through Illinois... so no pictures! :)

We finally arrived at our destination 31 hours later. Longest trip I have ever been on!!!! We were definitely ready to stop.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Roadtrip!

Usually every year we take some sort of trip for my birthday. But this year, because I'm getting my eye surgery, we thought in order to save some money we would take a roadtrip to see Michael's family. So we embarked on our journey the morning of the 24th, with Ben and Toby in tow. :) Indiana here we come!!!!!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Our Wonder Dog!

Toby started playing with a soccer ball... and absolutely loves it!!!  He's pretty much flying! :D

His ready stance.
Almost...
Look how far off the ground he is! :)
The soccer ball is pretty deflated....
My favorite: The Wonder Dog!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Happy Birthday Ben and Becky!

It was Ben and Becky's Birthday this month!  Becky on the 15th turning 21, Ben on the 27th turning 15!  We don't usually celebrate it... but we had a little bit of strawberry shortcake to celebrate!





Monday, May 25, 2009

Locks of Love

Almost every year, I cut my hair for locks of love. I figure... since I grow hair like there was no tomorrow, I might as well share with other people. So while my mom was here, I had her chop off my hair!!! :) It's always a little emotional, no matter how many times I've done it. This will be number 7 since I was 17!


Before my haircut and at Becky's Graduation.


After!