Grant County Fair 2012!!!

I love the fair! Good (but not so healthy) food, entering things to try and get first place, seeing all the animals, going through the commercial building to get the free stuff, and lets not forget the rodeo and demo derby!

 Harper has a mini trashcan/pencil holder the ML water was giving out. best freebie ever!

 This year, Adyson rode and elephant, way over priced and she didn't even get to pet it, but she had fun!

 Looking at the animals. Harper was surprisingly fine with them all, and even pet some, including a horse! She would point to the animal and say DAH!... aka get me closer to see what this funny thing is!

 Spencer got free tickets to the rodeo from work, so we left Harper with the grandparents and took Adyson to see the cowgirls. Before the rodeo started, they were doing mutton busting, and Adyson said she would do that.... maybe next year! 

We love the fair time and all the food! We ate way too many space burgers and elephant ears! (btw- the lions club "lions ear" was SOOO good!)

Rodeback Reunion 2012

July 26-29 in Longview Wa

As usuall, it was lots of fun and I had a great time seeing family and catching up. Also as usual, i need to get the pictures from mom, so no family pics yet! will be added soon

 ^ all the pictures above were of the photo scavenger hunt. so much fun! i am missing a few, to get those from my aunt. some of the tings we had to do were.... make a pyramid, ppl on sholders, symbol with our bodies, air guitar, act like chickens infront of kfc (pic coming soon!), planking on stairs, person in a tree, picture infront of the big squirrel, and much more ....

 Adyson got "sparkles" in her hair by my cousin Katelyn.....shiny ribbon....

 this is my cousin Kaden, one of Harper's favorite people at the reunion

 what would a reunion be without the peanut m&m toss from grandpa?!

We had so much fun! Thanks Aunt Jenny for planning a great reunion! Things we did that I don't have a pic of.... lots of crafts, family slideshow. everyones picture with their # that they came in the family (we're at 90 so far!), and the dog tags we all got, cookie contest, (I got most unique with my red velvet cheesecake cookies), eating some good home cookin, mingling with the fam and much more..... cant wait til next year! and hopefully i'll have a better camera! those reviews i looked at lied! lol

GRADUATION!!

BYU-Idaho graduate with a Bachelors in Communication degree.

It finally came, the day finally came! Spencer graduated from college! I am so proud of him! He did it! Its been a long hard four years, but he did it! We are so proud of you and can't wait to see what life has to offer now!

see that white sash/stole on Spencer? Well he had his mom make it up, (bc byui doesn't make/provide ones) and hid it through graduation, and after he gave it to me as a gift. I forgot what he called it, (supportive/honorary sash?),  but he wrote a note on it for me, and gave it to me. It was awesome!

and of course we had to dress the girls in BYU-Idaho shirts....hopefully future students.....a mom can dream can't she! Hopefully i'll get the better pictures from my mom and mother in law and i'll add those to the post later.

The next day we woke up early, checked out of our last rental in Idaho, and headed to Moses Lake. We love our new place and so far Spencer loves his new job. Its been great to be with family again and to have good cooking again! lol, I'm not so great in that area. That wednesday, (25th) we had a little congrats party for Spencer. We had chicos and a little cake for him and had family come help celebrate!.... Now we just see whats next in life!

4th of July

Well the 4th of July this year was a little unexpected. On the 3rd we got the news that the job Spencer had fell through (which we kinda expected....didnt hear from them in a while). We had kinda been preparing for this and so Spencer contacted another place in Moses Lake and they said he could have an interview when we move back. Well , we kinda needed to know what was going on, and it was the 4th the next day and then the 5th was my dads bday and my nephew was being born......so we hurried, loaded the car up, and took off at 6pm from Rexburg to Moses Lake. We got in at about 5:30 AM and all took a much needed nap.

4th- We just had a mellow day. Slept in, did some laundry (wasn't ready when we left so I had a garbage bag to wash, lol), had a bbq with Spencer's family, headed back to my parents to watch the fireworks from the house and light off some small ones with the cousins, and a little later Spencer and I made a stop out at the Baker/Jones Fireworks show at their house. No joke, this show rivals the city show!!! And Spencer and I even got hit with a firework! Its that awesome! lol

5th- My dads birthday and also Kazen's birth day. The girls and I, along with my parents and my sisters girls,  headed to Spokane to meet Kazen! Sorry I really don't have the greatest pics, and I don't have a pic oh me and him, my mom has them on her camera. It was a long day, but worth it to see the little guy

Birthday boys

6th- Spencer had an interview and got the job hes worked there before, so we kinda new he would get it!) My mom had a friend who was maybe going to manage a house for another lady, so we tried our luck and asked her. Turned our she wasn't going to, but gave me the address and lady's info to maybe talk to her. So we left the kids with my parents and headed over to the house to check it out. Turns out she was there, we got a tour, talked to her, and later that day got the place to rent for a year! AWESOME! heres a link to see pics. we are supper excited! Later that night we went to the Kings house for some s'more making and Spencer and Adyson tried out their pop up camper they got. They had lots of fun!

7th- that was kind of our lazy day. My parents and I took all the girls to home depot to do the kids craft, which was a moving van. Crystal and Josh came home with Kazen so Spencer was able to meet him. We were able to fill out the lease for the house, and just spend some time with the fam. 

 all in all, it was a very fast, fun filled trip! Got a lot done and cant wait to move back in less then 13 days! Heck more excited for Spencer to graduate on the 20th!!!! WOOO HOOO

Crafting and gardening....

I've been trying to find different things to do with the girls/for myself and this is what we've done so far... (besides swimming in out tiny frog pool and running through the sprinklers, lol)

 Last time my mom and dad came to visit, Adyson sweet talked my mom into getting her an unfinished birdhouse. I finally got around to getting paint for her so she finally painted it (with a little help from me). She is so proud of it! The box is my project. My sis in law gave it to me probably over a year ago and we also picked out the paper that long ago too! I finally found some time and crafty-ness in me to finish it. I am using the box to hold the girls' blessing dresses in it. I love the paper I found. You cant tell but the gray leaves are actually a little shinny. On the glass I am going to use my moms cricket and put the word "blessing" on it or do that etched glass effect on it and have blessing be the plain glass.

 We went to the farmers market a while back and Adyson and I picked out these pretty flowers to plant. I have no idea what they are called, but they have lived the longest out of all the plants I've ever owned. I always seem to kill the plants I have, but this time I am paying more attention to them! I really wish the mini rose plant Spencer bought me last year lived. Maybe... its at my parents house in WA. Cant wait to have my own garden... hopefully it will stay alive!

Now its time to pack.......