Our summer so far

 I have been a terrible blogger lately.....I don't have much time these days, and now that girls camp is over things will die down a bit.  But even though things are always busy, summer has been awesome!  I want it to slow down a little bit.  Here are some pics to show what we've been up too :)  Of course lots of horse riding, my life would not be complete without that!

 Daisy has her first litter of pups!  5 beautiful healthy little doggies! :) I just love them!  I love to hold them and snuggle them.  The day they were born was quite the day, we thought we only had 3 but 3 turned into 5! and we thought we had a dead one!  NOPE it was alive! Daisy has been such a good mom!

 We got to go to the Payson temple open house, which I loved!  It is one beautiful temple with exquisite detail! I can't wait to go now that's its dedicated!

 Kades boy trip to the boulder

 We got to kick off the summer parades at Scandinavian Days! Lots of fun, lots of people! Lots of otter pops from Power Plus!

 Got to go see the first test ride ever on Brandons boat that he's been working on with Bo.  Runs like a champ! :)

 I'm going to miss Dallas so much now that he's gone! :(  He just loved coming to see the puppies! He even had us bring 2 puppies up to their house the night before he went into the MTC so he could hold them :)

 We got to do lots of fun things with Dallas before he left.  And we got to go to Lagoon with Power Plus and the family!  It was fun, its been so long since I've been to Lagoon!

 I loved Wicked, well I guess it kinda freaked me out acutally!  :)  We just missed the new ride by a few days, but wicked was pretty awesome.

 So......lots of crazy weather these days!  When I was coming home from youth conference I basically had to slow down to about 30 mph or less because the road was a sheet of ice from hail.  There has been a lot of hail this season! I wondered a few times if my windshield was going to shatter!

 These 3 are the property welcome greeters!  They're quite the trio

The puppies are HUGE! I love their little faces!

 Whitney has been my little summer buddy! We have been doing 4-H together and she is doing so well!  Her skill is improving a lot.  She is catching onto things fast.  She's so fun to have around, she makes my life so much better!

 We've been working hard on horse knowledge and she took 1st place on her test!

 Sarah has also been joining the horse fun! she stared to come with Whitney to her horse lessons so she could learn too.

 I took Whitney to her first horse show and she did awesome! :)  It was so fun to watch her.  I was having flashbacks of when I was a kid!

 Those faces........

We finally moved this little buddy (Ombre) over to the property so we can continue his training more often and so the girls can work with him.  We'll that's our summer so far in a nutshell! :)

Happy Anniversary!

 Our anniversary was on June 4th. Crazy how fast 10 years can go by! It feels like yesterday and it feels like I've been with Kade forever!  Life is good!  With all of the business going on, we managed to take a little time and get away for a couple days.  We went up to Daniels Summit lodge.  It is up in between Heber and Strawberry reservoir. What a beautiful place!  The mountains are gorgeous right now with all the foliage.  The lodge was a perfect get away because it has a restaurant that does breakfast lunch and dinner, so we didn't have to go find a place to eat, we just stayed at the lodge the whole time and then drove to the lake the next day..... but then again, this is our kind of vacation........a place where there are NO people :)

 

As I've mentioned in posts before, I'm so grateful for Kade, he is my rock. I don't know what I'd do without him. Life is a roller coaster but the cool thing about roller coasters is they go up and they go down and the momentum all along the way is what keeps it interesting and exciting!  You've got to go down to be able to go up, and you've got to go up to be able to go down! :)  Its awesome to be married to someone who is amazing through both the ups and the downs.  Someone who puts their Heavenly Father first and loves the gospel.  That's what life is all about!  I'm grateful for this life I get to live, and all the joy and sorrow I get to feel!  Its wonderful! :)