The Boulder Mountain!!!!!! Wahoo!

This past week Kade and I were able to take a week long vacation down to the Boulder Mountain. It was wonderful! I have so many pictures, so I thought I would post the scenic ones first that I took. I will post more later. Kade's family always goes to the boulder in June. Its kind of their family reunion sort of thing. Its Kade's immediate family that goes. And boy do we have fun! We arrived on Sunday evening and stayed till Saturday afternoon. Monday, we went fly fishing to lower bowns lake where Kade tought me how to cast the fly reel pretty good. The beaches are so beautiful! Tuesday we went fishing to upper bowns lake in our float tubes, I sure love the float tubes! Wednesday we hiked into calf creek falls, very beautiful! Thursday it rained, so I was able to hang out with Edward(twilight) in my tent all day long! I have't started the series because "Im not reading these stupid books"...........hmmm, well.........Im sort of hooked now! hehe! So I really didn't mind the rain on Thursday at all! Then on Friday, it was great weather so the whole family went and played danish ball. That was a good time too. And ofcourse all of the fun campfire stories are great. Oh....hehe, one of the nights, Kade and I were in Cody and Shannons trailer with them playing a game, while the rest of the family where singing outside around the campfire. Well they were our radio station......we would stick our head out the door and put in a request.....and they would sing it.....everytime! It was great! :) The Church's are always a hoot!
This was Calf Creek Falls! Absolutely Amazing! I didn't want to leave!

Another angle of Calf Creek.


The cactus blossoms were breath taking also.

This is lower bowns lake! The fly fishing was great and the view was awesome. And so was drawing pictures in the sand! I will post some more pics of the Boulder Mountain trip soon!

Where Did That Come From!!!?

Rain Rain Rain! Oh my gosh! Today Kade and I were at Costco getting some groceries and when we went in the store, it was kinda cloudy but the sun was shining. We were probably in there for 30 minutes or so. When we came out, it was just lightly sprinkling. We looked up and saw a huge dark rain cloud and within about 10 seconds, it started to down pour like no other! We took a mad dash to our car! We had to still load all of our groceries into the trunk, so we were both just scrambling to get the wet groceries into the trunk, all the while we were laughing our heads off! I had just got ready for the day, showered and straitended my hair..............not for long! My hair has natural curl and it was soaked!!! Kade yelled to get in the car so I wouldnt get more wet, but I felt bad making him run around in the rain, so I helped get most of the groceries in the trunk, then I climbed in the car, while he ran the cart back. When he got in the car, I just laughed so hard! It looked like we both had jumped in a swimming pool! Kade had water running off his nose and face! Wow! That made for an interesting grocery shopping trip! hehe!

Happy 4th Anniversary!

The big 4 year anniversary has come and gone. It was a wonderful weekend. Our anniversary was on the 4th of June which was Thursday so we just had a whole weekend of anniversary time together. On Monday(the 1st of June) Kade brought me an envelope, and it said, "Open this when you get home from work on the 4th of June"! Hello!!!!!!!! Anyone who knows me, knows this was a very hard thing to do, and I just wanted to rip it open every second all through the week! And anyone who knows Kade, knows that he did this on purpose knowing that it would drive me crazy! Well the 4th came and I openend my envelope. I found the most wonderful letter that Kade had written me along with a weekend adgenda! He had planned what we would be doing the entire weekend and had it all written down. It was so cool because you could tell it had been very thought out. We ended up doing a lot of things, just around here, like horse riding, fishing, "visited our engagement spot", Stayed in a cute little lodge, watched movies, and just hung out all weekend. I am truly amazed at how awesome my husband is. I feel so blessed to have him. He is my everything! I couldnt have asked for a better life! I love you babe with all my heart! You are the best ever!

This is the little lodge/house place that we stayed in. We also stayed there a while back, for Valentines Day so it probably looks familiar. If anyone wants to stay here, it is so awesome! I highly recomend it! Its very inexpensive and it is right next to Fairview canyon, just a few minutes away from some good fishing! It has a full kitchen that you can cook in, a very adorable bathroom, and ofcorse the loft/bedroom area! We watched movies in bed and on the love sac, and ate dark choclate the whole weekend! Awwwwwww! Nice!!

The bathroom

The kitchen

I love mountain flowers. They are some of my favorites! I just love that they are natural.

This is Kade fishing, yup, out on a log, where he could fall in anytime! I was kinda hoping he would fall in, cause it would have been hilarious! But ofcorse I would hope that it was just funny and not dangerous! hehe!

Sunrise

This is me, a little entertained with my camera!

During our fun weekend, Kade took me for a ride up the mountain to where he had purposed to me. Five years ago, he took me up the canyon after dinner at the olive garden and asked me to marry him on this rock. This rock has a bit of a history behind it. This is where we first kissed. So a year later when he asked me to marry him, he told me that this is were he had first comitted to me, and now he wanted to commit for eternity! Only when he asked me, it was in the snow! He had put rose petals down the path to the rock and there was a picture of the manti temple all wrapped up and 2 dozen roses. So I really like this picture, it reminds me of that special moment:)

Part of Last Weekend

The ending part of our weekend was up at Huntington Lake. We took my mom and dad up there with us to fish, and my brother and two of his boys came up too. This was Kade's tiger trout that he caught.

I love this picture of my mom and dad. My dad made a little spot for them to sit down with some pine limbs. So they just hung out underneath this tree. It was so cute :)

My brother Cameron.

Our Memorial Day Weekend.......

Kade says: Hmmm, we are never going to finish this dang garden! hehe!

Our Memorial Day weekend consisted of a few different events. On Saturday, we planted a garden at Kade's parents house. It is a big family garden that we all chipped in on. As you can see pictured above, Kade and Ty are wearing very expensive, brand new, LOVE-IT-Gotta have it, coal miners hats. They dug around in the storage area in the basement and managed to find these beautiful hats. I really almost couldnt get it off of Kade! He wanted to wear it the whole day!

Just another adorable pose!

We also went out to the cemetary with some lilacs to put on the graves. These were some of the flowers we took.

And another shot of the lilacs! I love flowers!

Kade and I at the cemetary.

This is all of us by Shara's grave (Kade's sister). We also put flowers on Aunt Erlene's and baby Rachel's graves. Its nice to go out to the cemetary to honor your loved ones and remember them! We also went over to my parents house and went out to the cemetary with them. We ended our wonderful weekend with a trip up the canyon to go fishing, which I will have to blog about later:) But for now, I must go to bed, it is way past my bed time! (Its really not 9:29, its almost 11!)

Grandpa Cook's Funeral

Grandpa Cook passed away last Wed. He is my dad's father. He was a great man! He has so much family who loved him! It was a beautiful day, and it was so nice to see all of my family and extended family. You can't help but feel all the love that people show when something like this happens. It really brings you close together. The funeral services were so nice. Everyone who spoke and took part did so well. You could really feel the spirit. I love all of the flower arrangements that were given. My grandpa had sheep most of his life, so the flowers above have a little sheep camp wagon in them.

This was my grandpas cowboy hat.

My grandpa served in World War Two so this is the flower arrangement that my family got for him. I love the flags, I love red white and blue! I love what the flag stands for!

My immediate family. My siblings, and my mom and dad at the cemetary.

At the cemetary the American Legion presented my dad and my uncle with an American Flag that was draped on the casket, because they served in Vietnam. It was so neat to see, it just brings tears to my eyes. I love patiotism and I love this country. Lots of wonderful men have died defending this country!

We love you Grandpa! We will love you forever!

Mom and Dad.

Fishing for FHE!

Last night for FHE we decided to go to Strawberry Reservoir! What a blast! We caught so many fish! And they were all huge!!! I love love love fishing when you are catching them left and right! We only kept one because you can only keep them if they are 22 inches or above. But thats ok, that just means theres always really big fish in there! We both caught the same amount of fish so the bets we made of out fishing each other were void! Thats ok!

I liked this sillouette of Kade.

Here's the lunker! Kade cought the one that we kept! He was a real fatty! Kade was pretty excited!

Just me reeling in my fishy.

Yeeey!

This is our double catch. Kade snagged his first and I was reeling in at the same time, so I thought I'd better just hurry and reel in so I could take a picture of him, but then I snagged one too! So we were both reeling our fish in at the same time! It was so much fun! We were laughing so hard.

Its kinda fun when you find treasures!

I would be really scared for my life if I were that crawdad! That big tounge wouldnt be very pleasant coming right at you!

Awwww!

I love this pic! Poor little fish, so deceived!