We hiked to a waterfall up by Aspen Grove, and I got a HUGE reminder of how out of shape I am!


Steven got an elk, maybe this year he'll draw out on Monroe.

We went
camping on Anabella mountain over the 4th of July. We saw a lot of wildlife, and totally enjoyed being away from things. It's what our family looks forward to each year. We went fishing a few times, and even caught a few fish.


Wesley catches a fish Utah Lake (He's got some style!)

We had a cold start to our baseball season. I hope we don't have the same kind of weather this year. We've had games rained out, but this last season we had games that were snowed out, in MAY!

My dad helped coach both the boys teams. They both did great. Jesse's team took 2nd place it state.


I can't wait to start it all over again, except all four of my kids want to play this year, this is gonna get crazy!

Happy New Year!
Okay so it's 8pm on new years eve so it's a little early, but hopefully I'll be asleep by midnight. Yes, I said asleep. I FEEL SOOOO OLD! What am I doing sitting here at my house in my P.J.'s on new years eve and it's only 8 o'clock. No parties, no friends over, not even anything good on TV. How did I get so lame?
Well here's hoping you all have a much more exciting new years than me.

Okay, so I go to get into the tub today to soak away all the stress of the holidays. I fill up the tub, and try to turn it off when the stem in the handle breaks. So this means that I can't turn off the water, and Steven is up on some mountain somewhere hunting. Could these crazy things ever happen while he is actually reachable by phone, of course not!
So picture me sitting in the tub (note: for my sake and yours, picture me in the tub fully dressed) the tub is full already, and I am frantically trying to turn the water off and it's not working. I'm thinking,"what am I going to do, the tub is going to overflow! (It hasn't occurred to me to pull the plug yet, duh!) I haven't finished shaving my leg yet!" Finally I realize that I should pull the plug, and I try to finish shaving my leg, but the tub is still getting fuller. What to do? Oh yeah, get out of the tub idiot! That helped tremendously. So here I am with one leg only half shaved, and more stressed than when I got in to de-stress! Just lovely. By the way thank you to Dave next store for coming and helping me to get it turned off.

We had a great Christmas. We were able to talk to my little brother Joel, who just left on his mission to Chili. He told us to call him on Christmas Eve at 8 o'clock, but forgot to mention that he meant 8 o'clock his time, so we called at 8:00 our time and it was midnight there. So we had to call him back on Christmas day. I felt so bad thinking of him sitting there waiting for us to call and no one does! How sad would that be? so we got to talk to him on Christmas day and he sounded so happy, it was great to hear his voice. We got to talk to him just over a week ago when he flew out, and then again yesterday, so now it's going to be a long wait until Mother's Day.
I was glad for the "White Christmas" but I'm thinking enough now. (For those of you that live out of state, we've gotten about three feet of snow in the last week.) I'm now ready for Spring and Baseball again!

We said goodbye to all of our puppies in Christmas Eve. It was a relief and it was sort of sad. Steven did most of the work with them this time so I think I am the only one who is sad about them being gone. We thought we'd give them a bath before they went to their new homes, all this accomplished was making my house smell like a wet dog, no I take that, five wet dogs, and all the puppies smelled worse than when we started, and they were cold. They couldn't stand up or walk in the tub either, they just kept slipping and face planting it in the water. It was sad but funny. They were so cute and I hope all the people who took them home will take food care of them, and love them as much as we did.