Girls Night Out!!!!!

So a lot of the wives did a girls night out at Orange Mango! LOVE THAT PLACE! MM MM!!! And it was so so fun, we were all laughing so hard! We talked about kids, husbands, wedding rings, and the boot that got put on Tara's van that night:( Seriously..........those boot companies make a killing! And I'm sure they sit there and watch out the windows, just waiting for someone to pull in, so they can make some money! But, it was still a FUN, very much needed night! Thanks everyone!

Our Hike :)

Ok, so I am posting a lot but I am so behind in blog posts!!! Its terrible! This was our hike that we went on a couple weeks ago, when we were moving to Fayettville. We decided to take a detour to Petit Jean State Park, which is very beautiful. We took a couple little hikes to see some nice scenery:) And it was very hot! But it was worht it. We went with our friends Chase and Janessa. Janessa is my good friend that I met out here, and we have a lot of fun together. We were being the little mermaid in the picture above, when she is on the rock! Ya, we're crazy!
This waterfall is beautiful. I wanted the people in the background to leave but there was always someone in the pic. If someone left, someone new was there! jeeez!

Chase and Janessa! What a beautiful background too!

There was a really neat cave that we went in too.

Kade is pulling faces again....of course!

These were the turtle rocks! Before we saw the sign I said, "These rocks look like turtle backs!" And then there was the sign LOL!

A Couple More Tee Shirt Dresses :)

Again, these are'nt the best of pictures but you get the idea. And I like polka dots, what can I say!!! LOL!

My Tee Shirt Dress!

K, I think this is a terrible picture to show you my little creation but you can at least see it :) I was kinda in a hurry and I didn't have Kade here to help me take the pic:( So, my friend Janessa, has all these brilliant ideas....(I'm serious, she is so creative) and this was one of them! A Tee Shirt Dress! So I tried it and I totally love it! Its so comfy and you can wear it around the house and still feel cute :) I just took a T-shirt, cut it off, sewed a black peice of knit fabric to it, and sewed some printed knit fabric to the bottom! I'm going to make a few more because they are so comfortable and they look cute with flip flops:)

My Visit to Utah!

Oh boy! Where does time really go?? Before you know it, something you are looking forward to, is coming and then it is gone! I was able to come home for 10 days and hang out with my family and Kade's family and it was so fun and so good to see all of them! I don't fly too much but I really really love it, and I love the window seat! I had to snap a few pics because the wheater was so good! This was over Oaklahoma.

While I was in Utah I got to do many things that I have always loved, and I DIDNT get to see everyone that I would have liked to:(! Time just flys to fast! But like I said before, I got to see my family and that was the best part! Oh, and I got to eat CAFE RIO!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmm!!! I got to go running on my favorite old T road! I got to ride my cute little horse Classy, TWICE!!! I got to go paint my moms kitchen (which looks soooooo cute!), I got to do friends and family's hair (which is fun to catch up! Cause I miss everyone!) Got to shop (a little), I got to go to the Ute Stampede Rodeo!, and I got to hang out with all my siblings and have a yummy, Sunday turkey dinner! Mm Mm! And I love the mountains even more now that I don't have them here in Arkansas! :) I really want to tell all my family how much I love them(both sides)!! I really have a great family! They are all so awesome! It was so nice seeing all my neices and nephews! One of my little neices cuddled up on my lap and fell asleep! Awe! I loved it!
Horse riding! Oh, it was so nice to go riding again! Thats a part of me that will never die:) And I got to try my dad's new little trailer out! Not to shabby!

My dad and I went to the new arena in Mt. Pleasant, which is so very nice! And close. We also got to ride, another day, up in the North Hills, and thats always fun becuase there is a great view! Where we went, you can see 8 little towns at once, across the valley! Very cool! Too bad I didnt get pics of that. Its always fun to go ride with my dad, becuase thats what we have always done together.........thats what we do best! When I was little, I don't think he realized how much I shared his love of horses until one day, I got sick of waiting for him to be done with work so we could "go ride", so I just went without him and started doing it myself. I think after that is when we really started riding together! Cause he knew my heart was in it!

New paint! It was fun hanging out with my mom too! We always sit and chat and hang out! She has this cute little barn that is so old, its been on our wall since I can remember. And I actually still really really like it. I think its still so cute! So we decided to paint the kitchen colors to match the barn! I should have taken a before picture, but the walls were just a plain cream color everywhere. So we broke that up a bit and put some camel and red. It turned out so cute! And I know my mom is going to have so much fun enjoying her new kitchen!

The door was getting to a sad point in its long lived life. So we painted it too! And it is happy again!

Ute Stampede baby!!! Wahoooooo! I think this event is one of the things that really make a summer feel like a summer if that makes any kind of sense at all! You know, like the 4th of July celebrations, etc. The Stampede for me is one thing that makes my summer complete! hehe! silly, but true! Our family goes every year and it is seriously one of the best rodeos you'll ever go to! They have a sky diver (video clip below) jump out of a plane to bring the flag down into the arena! It just gives more of and honor to our flag(for me) to watch it for a long period of time, come out of the sky! Amazing! And they also have the best entertainment throughout the rodeo. This year for some of the main enteretainment, they had motor cross stunt men! Oh, so cool! They were doing all kinds of tricks, including backflips on their motor bikes! And of corse I loved the barrel racing and the trick rider that came.

Night view of all the fun.

Just getting started!!!!!

My cute/beautiful/fun/adorable niece came and stayed at my moms with me for a couple days and helped me and my sister paint! We all had fun doing it. And it was really fun to see Cassidy and my sister and just hang out with them. Cass and I bought ring pops because I havent seen them in FOREVER! So I thought it would be fun to get a pic with our treasures. I told her this is the only bling I better see on her finger for a VERY long time! hehe!

The movie clips below are of the motor cross riders and of the sky diver with the flag! Enjoy! It was sure fun to see all of you! Can't wait to see you again in a couple months!

A Very Good Day!

Wow! This summer has been such an amazing summer! I never would have guessed that we would have the opportunity to baptize this wonderful lady, Pamela! She is our newest friend! And she has blessed our lives so much! This is a crazy story! Crazy meaning, wonderful! So, Kade was out knocking doors one day (for work) and he had already met his goal for the day so he was feeling pretty good about his sales. Well he ran into Pamela. He started talking to her about security systems and mentioned that we were from Utah. She immediately said, "Oh, are you mormon?" He told her that he was. She started asking him questions and come to find out, she had ordered a Book of Mormon off a commercial back in 1989. So she has had this book for quit some time now. Kade told her to go get her Book of Mormon, so she did. She had some misconceptions about the church, which he talked to her about. He started marking places for her to read, and she really started to feel the spirit, which Kade identified to her. She was so happy and excited to start reading. He also set up a time with the missionaries so they could start teaching her. The missionaries came the next day which was a Tuesday and Kade and I also set up a time to come visit her with the missionaries the following Sunday. So we had multiple visits with her on Sunday evenings with the missionaries, and the missionaries also continued to teach her on Tuesday nights. So this has been over a period of about a months worth of time. We also took her to church, which she really loved! She was so ready to accept the gospel. And we have had so many spiritual talks with her about God and Jesus Christ. So she accepted baptizm and she asked Kade to baptize her, so he did today!!!!!! And she asked me to speak at her baptizm! What a great experience! She is such a wonderful person that will always be our friend forever!
Pamela has a wonderful sense of humor! Along with all of the spiritual talks, we had some gut splitting laughs with her! She would get the missionaries laughing so hard that sometimes it was hard to stop! She wasn't quit sure about the suit that she had to wear to be baptized in and then when we wanted pictures with her she said, "Oh, you know what I'm going to look like??? A raisin in a bowl of milk!!!!!" Haaaaa!!!! I was laughing so hard! She is so funny and such a joy to be around! I'm so grateful that we got to have this experience and feel the joy that comes from sharing the gospel!

Water Games, Shaving Cream, Tug of Wars and Fun!

Ok, so this was a blast!!! Last night for young womens, we had water games, Shaving Cream fights, and Tug of Wars! Not to mention musical chairs with shaving cream! It was so much fun and the girls got very into the games so that made it even more fun! I'm going to miss my girls and the other leaders :( My time was short with them, but I feel like we all got really close! (There is a movie clip at the bottom that is so funny of the Tuala sisters playing muscial chairs, getting really into it!! I laughed and laughed at those two!)

A little Charlies Angels going on.
This was the princess waves, and crowns a top our heads! Oh and notice my outie belly button!!!



Sister Tuala, (Young Womens Pres) is spraying her daughter's head!

Getting ready for the musical chairs, before we were all covered in the mess!

Tug of wars!!

K, so this was a really fun game! Instead of duck duck goose, we played dribble dribble drench! And yes, I got drenched a couple times! But it was definately worth it!

Sister Swanson got me so wet, I looked like a drowned rat!

But it was fun getting everyone else wet!!! :)