Thursday, September 23, 2010


Wow!!! It has been a while since I last posted, and I must apologize.  Life has been busy, and the internet has not been my friend.  I would try to post and have it ready, and the internet would wig out on me, so no posts.  Hopefully it will work well this time, and you can get the up date from the past year.



Colby is off track right now and started work with the forest service.  He really enjoys this job (duh!!! its all riding horses and being in the mountains! his fav thing) He especially loves it right now because he is camping, and the elk are bugaling all around him at night.

So Colby is the BEST husband in the WORLD, and i just love him so much.  This day there was a fire out by the INL and the sky was so crazy looking, (I didn't know there was a fire, and thought there was a tornado comming, one of the boys at the apartments heard me and Mel talking about it, and corrected us that if there was a tornado, we would have green sky with egg shaped clouds.  Thanks Mr, for claming our fears!)

We took a ride up to the upper lakes with our friends the Cahoons.  They are so much fun, and we had a great time.  That is except for..... the drama with catching the horses, then getting them in the trailer (the horse i am riding caused trouble, almost stomped Colby in the trailer, ran away, upset the other horses, Colby went to trade horse trailers and the horses were tied to the fence and one of the colts in the corall got his head stuck in the fence and panicked and pulled the fence out of the ground and scared our horses again, we had to catch my horse and Jill (colby's mule) again. FINALLY we were able to get going and had a wonderful time (except I had to ride the wild horse which was scary, so Colby had to lead me the whole time....fun times though)

We had some fun times this summer mowing lawns with Dusty and Lanae.

Colby bought this plant for an extra credit project for his botoany class.  We named it points.  Points has done really well in our apartment (which is surprising because our window in our apartment is like really small) Colby was finally able to re-pot points because it was growing so big and fast.

Sabra and travis took us on  a ride up to Warm River Springs, and we had SOOOOO much FUN!!!! 

We also went to Mesa falls

And Colby is starting to really enjoy little kids, especially his really cute nieces! (I love watching him the little kids he is so funny because he isn't quite sure how to play with them, but he really wants too.)

Colby was able to do a little antler hinting this year.


I looks like a lot of fun.  Wouldn't you say?
I went home while Colby was antler hinting and explained to my nephew Dawson where Colby was.  He walked out side and picked up the antlers out of my Mom's flower bed and told me he was hunting like Colby. It was so funny, he could hardly lift the antlers, but he wanted to walk around with them.

I was able to graduate in April with a bachelors in Horticulture with an emphasis in floral design.  Shortly after graduation I started working full time at a flower shop.
This was part of my final project.  My wedding flowers group made the peice behind me as the  entrance peice to our floral show.  I am holding the boquet I made  for my final project.  We had to find a structure and use it as the foundation of a bridal boquet.  I used orchids and bany white garden roses, and small crinckle pit leaves all glued on to a decorative ball made out of sticks.  I wanted it to be more drapey and garden-styled held with a thick ribbon, but I forgot to change my ribbon before the show...Ooops! It was fun though.


Colby had some stressful classes and projects too.


I love this picture of Colby with Autumn because he wanted to play with her, but was afraid to get too close.
Now he loves playing with Autumn and isn't afraid to pick her up.  It has been good for him to have Dusty and Mel close with Autumn.  Hopefully this training with Autumn will help him when we have kids.


After Christmas, Colby couldn't to wait to Snowmobile.  He was trying to repair his seat in the house and I walked in the room and found this.....

Thursday, March 04, 2010

We went to visist my family Christmas night. It was so fun. Dawson, had to open every present, and played in the wrapping paper like crazy. My nephew James didn't quite know what to do with his presents, so Dawsy had to help teach him how to play with it all. It was pretty cute to watch.


Because I had to work Christmas eve, we spent Christmas eve night and Christmas morning at Colby's house. WE had a lot of fun together opening presents.


Of course with winter, comes snow and snowmobiles. Colby fixed up his old Tigre in hopes that I would drive it, but I only like to ride, not drive, so his hopes on that one didn't turn out. But he is glad to have it running none the less.

Grandma and the kids warming their toes

Colby really loves this big cat

We went Christmas tree hunting and it was so FUN!

Colby's cat had kittens

We celebrated Halloween with punkins, (mine is the small one, colby's is the big one)


And my parents came to visit with my sister in law Heidi and her cute kids Dawson and Brittlyn. They are so cute and so fun. Dawson had to ride in Colby's big truck to get dinner, then he sang and sang his favorite country song. While the fam went to my sisters concert, Colby and I played with the kids at a park.



We celebrated my birthday



Last fall, we also got to go visit my family during harvesdt before the Park closed. It is always fun to see the corn chopper at work, and see how our feilds change so suddenly after watching them grow all summer.
For those with a tender heart or weak stomach : CAUTION This is Colby teaching us how to skin the chicken


We didn't get any elk or anything huge like that on this trip, but Colby did get a chicken



These Leaves were so pretty. I loved the color and the texture, and how the spots on them made them look.




We found the BIGGEST tree EVER. I just can't beleive how BIG it was. I thought it was the coolest thing.






So I want everyone to know that Mel and I go hunting with our husbands. It isn't always the easiest thing, but we have fun together. While hunting isn't really our thing, spending time with our husbands is, and during hunting season, if we want to see our husbands, we must join them in the mountains or become widows to the season. (I know March isn't really hunting season, but I am a little behind on my postings...)

Well, I don't have time to be blogging, but I don't want to do homework, and blogging is fun, so....blog WINS!!! I decided to change my background to something more springy, and I found one that I liked, but somehow the cute sidebars aren't popping up and an old background is showing up. I am pretty illiterate when it comes to blogging and doing cute things, and so I don't know how to fix this problem (hopefully it will work its self out).....

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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This is a contiuation of our trip to st. George, Ut

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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I just want to wish my Brother Josh a Happy Birthday!!!

Saturday, January 09, 2010



The Rocks and hills there were really cool looking


Susie and Kim at the memorial site


All of us girls at the site, you can see how tall it is


You can see there have been many memorials dedicated to this area. This spot, I beleive is where they buried most of the people as possible, but they were spread out over a large area, so it is hard to know exactly.

THis is the Grave Site Memorial


The Medow Area where the Massacre happened.


The memorial for those that died


Susie and Mom (Kaye) at the memorial overlooking the Medow.


Mariah Susie Mom and Dad and Kim. Behind us is the Medow where the Massacre took place