Horse Pics

 I've been wanting to do some fun, cowgirly, horse pics for a while now, because I get these crazy ideas, AND I LOVE my horse, AND he's pretty much part of the family! LOL (Kade would disagree).  So Cassidy and I went down to the farm and did some.  The "stink weed" is in full bloom and really pretty so we thought we would take advantage of that! And the rainbow in the background was a nice bonus that we hadn't planned for!  Now I have some pics with my good ol faithful stead :)

Golfing

 I'm playing a bit of catch up with my blog, since I've been running around so much.  I feel like this week has kinda settled down a bit.  So as you all know (those who read my blog :) I went down to South Texas to be with Kade for a while.  I flew down there on July 31st.  It was nice to be with him again.  As time went on, we were trying to figure out rides home, because we didn't have a car there, Kade had dropped off the car when he came through from California and he had ridden with Aaron.  It ended up that there would not be enough room for Kade and I to ride home from Texas together so I planned to come home with Aaron on the 18th(because he had to leave early for school).  I had planned on that for about a week and then there was available space for Kade and I to ride together!  I swear things change so much with this job!.....you never know what to plan on! LOL  But since I had been planning to go with Aaron that whole time, I decided to just stick to my plan, that way, I could go home and get things ready for Kade to come, and he would only be 2 more weeks! So thats what I did.  We left on the night of the 17th (Friday) and drove straight through (24.5 hours!)  YUCK!  It wasn't that bad actually but I was so ready to not be driving anymore! 

Well, now on to the pictures!  Before we left, Kade had promised Aaron a game of golf, so we made it happen.  It was fun for me because there was a golf cart......I love the golf cart, but I HATE golf!  I think it is such a BORING sport! LOL  

 I happened to catch the golf ball right as Aaron hit it! I couldn't believe it, especially since I wasn't even trying too. 

 I was surprised at how many critters were running around on the golf course! There were ducks, rabbits, and these funny little squirrls!  They were all playing with each other so funny! They would wrestle and pounce!  haha!

 And when we would get close, they would scramble back into their hole, but only seconds later, their heads would pop out and they would begin to get brave! 

Nice swing Aaron! :)

This and That

 I met a really neat friend out here, her name is Rakel.  She is one of the wives out here in the office.  We have a lot in common, and when I say in common, I mean we are both going through the exact same experiences in our lives right now, pretty cool.  So we have hung out quite a bit since I've been here.  We went shopping the other day together and we went to the pool and we went and visited this Bird Sanctuary place.  It was pretty much the ONLY thing to do, besides shopping, or driving an hour to the beach, so we thought we would check it out.  It was a really neat place! Very unique.  I guess people hold weddings here and they happened to be setting up for one as we were there, but they assured us that we would not be in anyones way.  We walked through the gardens......but there weren't any live birds! HMMM.....a bird sanctuary that doesn't have any BIRDS???  Interesting :)  But it was still really cool! Still fun to see something new. 

 Outside the bird sanctuary.  There was a 1/2 mile trail that went all around the sanctuary so you could see the different (statues) of the creatures that roam the land around here.  So we walked the trail and it was......HOT! Too hot!

 There was a lot of nature things to see, but no birds! So funny to me!

 Kade and I have been having a lot of fun lately living the hotel life.  Sometimes we start to go a bit crazy!  We've had a lot of crazy moments......hmmm, that's unusual! :)  Its fun to see him make faces through the peep hole when he gets home.  We even have a code knock so that I know its him before I get to the door.  I try to have dinner ready for him right when he gets home because its always so late anyway......and I think he likes that.....judging from the picture above! 

We have this bathroom door that does NOT lock no matter how hard you try, it just won't lock.  And sometimes you think you have locked it, but NOPE its not locked! haha!  So there have been some funny instances with this bathroom door! A lot actually!   LOL  One day  I snuck in on Kade to scare him when he was in the shower........and I was SUCCESSFUL!.....he was very scared! :)

We all live in the same complex of extended stay units so we are all really close, which I love!  And  Aaron and I play Uno at LEAST once a day...haha! Yesterday, I beat him 6 times in a row and he had to play until he at least won once, and he finally won, and then acted as if he was the champion of the world! hmmmmmmm :)

My next door neighbor is one of the guys in our office out here and his wife went home, so he has the dog still.  I told him I could watch her for him cause she just sits in the hotel room by herself so I thought, we could keep each other company.  It only took her about 30 minutes and she felt right at home! haha! She jumped right up on my lap and snuggled up while I was on the computer (right now)! Funny dog!



South Padre Island!

 On Sunday, we decided that it was time to visit South Padre Island!  It was a lot of fun!  I didn't want to leave.  This top picture and the one below are NOT my pictures, I took them off line so that you can get the idea of the location that we where at.  I obviously could not get photos from the air...hehe!  But it kinda gives you a better idea of what the island is like.  Its bascially on the very south end of Texas by the boarder of Mexico, and its a huge island the runs really long and skinny north and south, along Texas.  There is a HUGE bridge that connects Texas and South Padre Island, which is pictured below.  Its a huge resort spot.  There were some residential areas but mostly vacationing.

 Big...long...bridge that connects Texas to South Padre Island.

 This was before we left, in the back of Aaron's "GANGST-A" car! LOL! Its been so nice being with my other half again! :)  And......he still has a hard time taking a normal photo!  I would be a little worried if he actually smiled decent.....something might be wrong with him!...its funny how I have accepted his crazyness as normalness now.....

 This was pretty much the best shot I could get of the bridge and island in the distance from the car.

 This is Rhett....preparing for the photo below....he had to hurry and do push-ups so that his arms looked bigger in the picture! hahahahaha! 

 What do you think? Do his arms look bigger! LOL

 Before the beach:)

 At the beach.  Its a pretty popular resort spot.  I didn't realize this until we got there.  It was pretty crazy that we found a parking spot really easy right across the street from the beach.  We found a nice little spot on the beach and just hung out and played in the ocean!  I LOVE THE OCEAN!  Kade said, "It kinda feels like we are back in Hawaii again hu!"  It did kinda feel like that only Hawaii's water is more blue I think and Hawaii is just gorgeous!   I feel like even though there were a lot of people, it didn't feel crowded, like when we walked across the street there were never really any cars coming, which was kinda strange to me. 

 We kept telling Aaron to take his shirt off while he was swimming but we could nevr get him to! Haha! We gave him a hard time about being so white :) ....but he laughed right along with us.

 It was a lot of fun watching the boys play a little football, well I guess it was just catch.  They would take turns throwing the ball to the group and the guys in the group would try to catch it.  I loved this shot of Kade! Way to be aggressive!!!

 haha! I thought this one was funny too.  I think that competitive Church blood is coming out :)

 Kade's turn to throw.

 There was some craziness that went on!  Some collisions and great dunks.

 I told them to flex.......Some did, some did NOT!  Jeez KADE!!!!

 We stopped at this shopping place that had a big shark as the entrance.  It was huge!....and we were just a couple of little bites in its mouth.

 Aaron holding onto the teeth.

 South Padre entrance.  It seemed pretty popular to get a picture by it, since a lot of people were stopping.  This was on the way back and no one was there when we got there, but right when we were done another car full of people came to get their pics done. 

Kade was nice and took their pics in the hot sun.

 Having fun at the beach.

 This is what I truely look forward to in the summer is being able to have fun new adventures with Kade, seeing new places and making new memories.  We have really grown fond of the beach and have had lots of beach time, but we love it!  And it never gets old!  I feel like I lost a lot of my tan being home for a month, I didn't really take anytime to lay in the sun when I was home, but that's pretty much how it goes, I get tan in the summer and white in the winter :) But I guess there's nothing wrong with that!!!

After South Padre Island we were headed home and we were realizing how HUNGRY we were! haha, so we decided to go home and make Nacho GRANDE's!  We put rice and beans, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, salsa, cholula, and JALEPENO'S!!  Kade was cutting up the jalepenos and I was cutting up the rest of the veggies, and I had no idea how many he put in.  He put TWO in the pan, with the seeds and everything.  The funny thing about jalepeno's is you never know what kind of batch you've got, wheather they are hot ones or mild ones.  THESE WERE HOT ONES! HAHAHA!!  The food was delicous, and very spicey! We were all sweating from the spice but poor Aaron seemed to be EXTRA sweaty! I couldn't stop laughing.  In the middle of watching the Olympics, I would just bust out laughing because I could'nt help it. It was just funny to me that we were all so hungry and the food tasted good, but we were DIEING WITH SPICEY HOTNESS! haha!  Good times!!!!!!!!!!

More Adventures at Home :)

 Well, now I'm in Texas, really close to the Mexican boarder.......yikes! But I am so glad to be here with Kade! I have missed him so much!  We have been apart for a month!.....TOO LONG! I flew from SLC to Dallas, TX and then connected and went to Corpus Christi, and then Kade came and picked me up!  He texted me as I was waiting to get my luggage and said that he was just outside the doors of the airport.  I went outside when I got my bag and looked around and saw him down the sidewalk a ways.  He was just smiling at me!  I felt like I hadn't seen him forever and it has only been a month! For me that was a long time.  I feel bad for wives that have husbands who are away from them :(  I gave Kade a big, long hug and a nice big kiss....and it felt good! :) I love that boy so much!

 Well now that I'm here I thought I would catch up a bit on some pics that I took during the later part of while I was at home.  The above picture is of my nephew Carson standing by the pond at our family cabin.  He's so funny.  My brother and I and his kids took a drive up the mountain one day to fill up some water jugs at the spring, and we just hung out at the cabin for a few hours.  I took Shilo and she LOVED the water.....of course!

 Such a pretty place!

 Another angle

 I really love mountain flowers, well, I love any flowers, but theres just something about the wild ones on the mountain that are so pretty. 

 My other nephew Trevy

 I caught a really funny picture of Shilo running to me. She's crazy! She kinda looks like a scarey wolf!

 We took a drive up over from the cabin to see the damage of the Seeley fire.  It was sad.  There is a lot of just dead, burnt, mountain land now.....:( And a ton of flash flooding has happended too.

 This was at Benchs pond.  The sky was beautiful!  And all the rain has made the mountain so green! I love it!  We let Shilo out to run with Trevy and Carson while they rode their bikes down to benchs pond from the oil highway.  She actually didn't make it all the way before she wanted to get back in the truck because she was so tired.  She had played so much in the pond that when they wanted to ride bikes, she was excited to run along with them but just couldn't last the whole way :)

 Another scenic pic of around the cabin

 My dad and I got to ride a few times while I was home and it was a lot of fun.  My brother happend to stop down one day and I told him that he needed to ride smoke to see if he liked him :)  This picture was BEFORE Smoke threw me off!....yep, thats right, he threw me off one day, because he was wanting to be back by our mare(that was penned up and going crazy from being separted from him).  So he started crow hopping, and freaking out.  He got me off the side, and I got hung up in the stirrup with my spur.  When I finally came loose, Smoke stepped right on my hand and took off.  I had blood all over my hand and didn't know if it was broken.  But I didn't care about my hand.....I WAS SO MAD!  I walked back to the round corral (which was where Smoke was....by the mare).  I walked right up to him, led him in the round corral, and made him RUN and RUN and RUN somemore!  And then, when he wanted to stop, I made him KEEP running until he was dripping with sweat!  And then...........I got on him and ran him somemore :)  I don't think he will be acting like that again!  After I tuned him up :) we went home and cleaned out my hand.  I have had it X-rayed and it is not broken! Thank goodness!....because it is my right hand, and I sorta need that....A LOT! hehe  Its just really sore, but I am able to use it a lot more now! I even cut some hair two days ago and it was ok.  I just can't unscrew lids,  or twist things very easy.

 All of us girls (except Amy and Kylee) went out to lunch and had a girls day.  It was a lot of fun.  We ate at Jason's Deli, which is really yummy. It has a lot of natural and organic choices......just my kind food! YUM YUM!  It was fun hanging out and I got to see my cute little nephew again too.  He is such a chunk! I love chunky babies :)

I love my Shilo dog! She's been a great little buddy to have around while I've been home. But I'm not worried about her now since I will only be gone 4 weeks, she is in very good hands, with Gus and then when Bo takes her. Bo said he is going to take her hunting fox's, which she will LOVE.....I hope she still wants me as her owner when I come home! haha!

 I got to hang out with my fun little buddy CASSIDY!  She's so much fun to be with!  We were in good earth so I could get some snacks. 

 I got to go to the temple with my mom.  It has been a while since just me and my mom went, and it was so nice.  I love that my mom and I have been able to hang out a lot.   The day started out kinda rainy but ended up like this....beautiful.

I love the new reflection pool that they have built down at the temple! It is so pretty!

 This is my hand on day 3 after Smoke stepped on it! Dang horse!  It did get a little more puffy than this, but it is doing really good now!

I let Shilo ride up front in the truck with me if she is clean and if I have a towel for her to lay on.  I love this picture.  She was sleeping and had just woke up.  What a cute dog I have! :)