Picture Overhaul Part 4, Finally up to Date!

I thought I was all caught up, but as I was looking through the files on my camera I totally missed some pictures!

Here we go! 

We have been doing A LOT of this since we moved into our house. This was the first stump the Dude pulled out. In all we have pulled out 10 stumps.....if I have counted correctly.

My parents came to visit for the 4th of July. The first thing they want to do when they get here, is make a trip down the road to the local dairy. Reed's Dairy is the best! Their huckleberry ice cream is my absolute favorite!

He thought I had tried too many attempts at taking his picture at this point.

We went to the Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus park over the 4th of July as well. My camera died after like 4 pictures, and do you think I brought a spare? Think again.

Picnic in Yellowstone Park! We did this with the Dude's parents when they came to visit too, we like picnics.

We made it to one rodeo this summer, the War Bonnet, it has been around since 1911!

We went to Bear World with the Dude's parents.

We saw a bull moose when we drove by our friend's cabin in Island Park!

If you come visit there are two places we might take you, 

1: Reeds Dairy 

2: The Rusty Lantern (this place has some good burgers!!)

My family had a little family reunion in August. Bowling was on the agenda, followed by Good Wood, delicious fall off the bone ribs at that place.

We ended the evening with a round of croquet.

Pure cuteness!!

We got to go to the Ogden Temple open house. Very neat experience!

My brother's family came to visit over labor day, my niece zonked out on our walk.

We went to the Idaho State Fair with my brother and his family.

We saw a Watusi!!

This my friends, is a doughnut hamburger, we didn't quite realize we had ordered this, it was only strange when you thought about what you were eating.

Our neighbor took us shooting with him the last week in October.

Okay, now I believe I am caught up! Whew, that was a lot to cover!

I have some recipes I need to post that I tried out, I will try to get to some of those posted very soon.

I should also mention, with observance of Veterans Day tomorrow my gratitude to our military men and women, past and present. Thank you for the service you offer to our country. I am proud to be an American, and what you guys do to help our country makes me even prouder to be an American. God Bless our Troops. 

Pumpkin Carving

I am posting this from my tablet, I think I need a keyboard....

Anyway,  I post this from the tablet because someone forgot to bring their camera to the pumpkin carving....ahem...

So the few low quality pictures I did get are on this here handheld computer.

Every year for as long as I can remember,  my family has carved pumpkins for Halloween.  To be honest,  I'm surprised we do this,  my Mother does not really like Halloween.  This is the one thing she does like about it,  she even has started growing the pumpkins for the event. Lately, someone in the family decides they want the pumpkin seeds, and have the dreaded task of sifting through the pumpkin guts to get them. 

I love family traditions.

Here are the pumpkins from the evening:

She Had a Birthday, Shout Hooray!!

My WONDERFUL Mother had a birthday last Saturday. I wanted to publicly wish her a Happy Happy Birthday! 

I am so blessed to be her daughter. She is beautiful, inside and out. 

The best friend any daughter could ask for!

I love you, Mom.

I ran out of time to blog before her birthday or even on her birthday, and I even forgot my camera to document the special event! To make matters worse I am a week late due to catching some nasty head cold/flu, yay for me! 

I didn't want my Mom to think I forgot about her though.

I hope this year is a wonderful year for you, Mom with lots of good memories.

Picture Overhaul Part 3

So let's see, I believe we left off at the beginning of this year. It appears I didn't take any pictures in January (I am kind of getting bad about taking pictures, and I don't like it!).

Moving on to February.

We celebrated the Fro's 26th birthday, we are getting old little brother.

The Dude and I went to Oahu and a quick stop at Disneyland for our 8th Anniversary this year.

Pearl Harbor was a very, very amazing and reverent place to visit. 

The whole time I was there I thought of my Grandpa. 

I would like to thank all those hard working men and women, who sacrifice so much for our country's freedom. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed.

We of course went to the Dole plantation just so we could get a dole whip ice cream!

Now, don't be fooled by this...interesting looking bus...you must try Giovanni's!

They make some of the best shrimp scampi I have ever had! The dude loved it so much we ate here twice.

We got to explore the Laie Hawaii Temple grounds. 

I love Hibiscus flowers.

This was home while we stayed in Hawaii.

It was $40 bucks a night for this grass shack with the hard board bed.

Totally worth it though with this beach no more than 20 feet outside our door.

We went to bed every night to the sounds of crashing waves hitting the shore line, you can't beat that!

We went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. The dude has not stopped talking about snorkeling since. It was amazing!

There was more to our trip out to the Island, but some one, who shall remain nameless, forgot the extra battery for the camera....

And to sum up Disneyland, there is no happier place! 

Unless you get dumped with rain while there...that will put a little damper to your happiness. But the wait time for the rides was well worth the weather!

Not only did the Fro have a birthday this year, he graduated from the Utah Fire Academy! Way to go you!!

We got to go watch the fire games that they put on before graduation takes place. This is the Fro in full uniform, I believe he was the fastest to put on the whole uniform.

By the end of the program there were 6 who graduated.

Way to go guys!!

And a giant shout out to the woman behind the scenes of my brother's success!

She is amazing!!

And look at the cute baby!! 

I love them.