Catching Up

Obviously blogging has taken a drastic slowdown over the past few years and each year I think that I am going to pick right back up. Well.....we will see how that plan goes. I will just do a long catch-up post and then attempt to stay current. This may work this time, who knows! Snowboarding with Jenna my SIL

Sewing Away

Youth Conference

Jesse Graduates College (one of the best days of my life!!)

Week in Oahu, Hawaii with Jesse

Family Reunions in Las Vegas & Utah

Watched the Olive Kids for a few days

Finished the Basement!! Hanging out with my Cute Neice's Miranda & Ames

Girls Trip w/ my Mom to St. George to Eat Some Good Food

Hanging with Jesse

Many YW Activities With My Talented YW

California Trip For My BBFITWWW's Wedding and Some Family Time

Thailand!!! (I will do another post for this one) Thanksgiving, YUM!!

Goals for the Year

Every New Years I make goals for the year and here are this years:

* Finish "To Do" Drawer
* Travel to 2 new places
* Hike the Y
* Cook at home 6x's a week for a three months
* Compete in 1 triathlon
* Have 6 mo. savings
* Learn two new skills/hobbies
- SLR camera
- Crochet
* Do 10 pull ups
* Do 20 push ups
* The continual - lose weight!!

Knitting As of Late

It is winter and I have been knitting away, this is what I have finished so far:
My new Niece's sweater, Mary Jane booties and two pairs of pink booty socks





Pumpkin Sleep Sack for a friends baby photo shoot



These I didn't knit but I did sew them

Camping Again

Since we have all this camping gear and we have been bitten by the camping bug we set out for one last camping trip before it was too cold. We went up behind Timp and found this cool little spot amongst the aspen trees. We brought our guns, skeets and targets for a little morning shot out.





We went up Provo Canyon and ended up out at Spanish Fork Canyon which was beautiful to drive. The road has lots to be desired but we made it eventually. Utah has soo many beautiful areas and I have discovered I haven't seen all that many of them. I think I will have to get out some more.

Camping In Moab

Jesse and I went camping with our friends over the summer in Moab to do a little off-roading and relaxation. Since Jesse and I have only been camping once since we have been married we needed to get our own camping supplies. We got a two room tent and some stakes.



The weather was of course HOT but it made playing in the river that much better. We did a little, okay a lot, of rock crawling and dune racing with our rented Razors.

We found this waterfall and dammed up area that was prefect to float around in the afternoons when it was too hot to do anything else!!


We had a crazed chipmunk chew through our lovely new tent to chew through the lid of a hot cocoa container. Then he didn't know how to get back out and pooped all around our tent in a panic, yeah super happy with that one!!

On our way home we stopped at Goblin Valley to see all the cool rock formations. It was too hot to spend as much time as we wanted but fun what time we did spend there.

Neices

It is seriously the best thing in the world to be an Aunt. You get to spoil your little neices and nephews and play with them and rile them up then send them off to their parents when they get cranky and tired. I was checking on my online album and saw some cute pictures of my wonderful neices
Cute Miranda slurping up the spaghetti!!



Ames chowing down on her BG (Baby Goat)

Charlie's Hair Cut

Natalie comes over and helps me clip Charlie every few months but this time it has been a bit longer. So he was quite hairy for Charlie!! Natalie suggested we give him the "Lion" cut that is typical of a Water Dog which I have never done on Charlie because I think it makes them look silly but I was feeling adventurous so we printed off a picture and had at it!!



He is soo little looking when he has no hair so now he looks even tinier!! He seems pretty happy about it though but I am sure the other dogs are snickering behind his back~~ I know I was the whole time we were clipping him!!