Why even bother?

This is just a fun little post to throw in. Why is it when your bed is not made no one wants to play in it, but the moment its all made and the pillow's are in place its like a light turns on and it becomes a jungle gym. It doesn't really matter as long as I get to see that sweet sweet smile.

16,000 SF

June 19 & 20

I never thought this day would ever come. Instead of celebrating father's day in the normal way, bbq, cook-outs. We choose to let all the fathers come to our house and help lay sod. Let me just thank everyone who came up to help. We started Friday at 5:00pm and got the side and the front yard done around 8:00. Then Friday night Josh checked the weather like he had been doing the past 3 weeks in hope's we could lay the grass. We found out that the storm that was suppose to hit Sunday may be hitting on Saturday around 9am, so at 5:00am Josh and I went outside to start on the back and the other side of the house. Soon after more and more people started to show up. We were completely done with the sod, garden, stepping stones and the sprinklers at 2:00pm just in time to see it start raining. What a welcome relief to have the grass in. That dirt before hand is a complete killer. A few more weeks and we can finally go out and play on it.

I think we had around 14 pallets total delived on Friday, Saturday we had to go get 3 more pallets and 15 more rolls
The semi was loaded full, I was nervous when I saw all that grass I thought it would take us a week to get it down.

another final grade, and the skidster (spelling?) unloading the pallets in different places

look at all those packers, I was the tucker, the one on my knees making sure it was in the right spot.

the front yard is done. You guys rocked!

Saturday it was lunch time and time to feed the crew. Nothing like a little burgers and dogs on the grill to surpress those men's apetites

back yard, and down below the rock wall where the fire pit is

nice little stepping stones out to Blaze's dog kennel. This should help with not making a trail in the new yard.

my most exciting part, I have never had a garden. Yes we had one growing up and I helped, but I am so excited to try it myself, we even went and got the compost from twin rivers dairy before the grass went down so I am completely ready to plant.

last but not least the final part of laying the sod. Making sure the sprinklers are ready to go.

Riding for a Reason

June 6, 2009

Many of you know that a year ago I took up cycling and have loved it. I train all though the spring to get ready for the Little Red Riding Hood. This is an all women (2,600 riders) ride which raises money for cancer research. Having had a sister go through cancer and make it through all the treatments, I figure I can make it 80 miles for her. It started Friday night in Wellsville where Josh, Huntyr and I went to pick up the packet and have dinner at their Hawaiian Luai. It was a fun atmospher with all the people from all over the US, Canada and even some from France. I was shocked. They have all different miles you can ride. The 80's ladies got to start at 8:30 so of course I was there bright and early saturday morning by 8:00 just to get all ready to head out.

You start in Wellsville and then head to Mendon, Cache Junction, Newton, Clarkston, Cornish and Lewiston where they serve you lunch. I was only able to stay there about 20 minutes then I took off for the end. Through Lewiston, Trenton, Newton, Benson, Logan (10th west) then head back to Mendon and then finally back to Wellsville. 80 miles in 5.5 hours, I beat my goal from last year by 2 hours and only stopping once. There were so many times I wanted to stop and call Josh to come and get me. I remembered all those times I'm sure Kandi wanted to stop doing Chemo Treatments but she kept it up.

Thanks to the awesome support team I had for this race, it was awesome to finish my goal of 80 miles and see everyone at the finish line waiting, what a support team I have. love you guys. For a few more pictures and more details, visit my sisters blog http://kandikorner.blogspot.com/

Quick stop in Lewiston for Lunch, my mom and I, just chilling.
I had my lunch, but man couldn't hardly even eat anything except those oranges and bananna's

Made it to the finish line

My sister Kandi and I

you can't tell but I'm bending over so Huntyr can drink out of my camel pak, he loves to drink from that straw

Last of the Catch up posts

May, 2009

This is the last of my catch up posts. Our life lately is revolved around yard work and my biking and since I have no pictures of me on my bike just yet, you get to see the yard instead. We have our curbing done and our firepit in. In the next week or so we will be laying our sod and hopefully we will finally have some green for Huntyr to play on....I can't wait to get rid of the dirt!

A few shout outs to the companies who helped so if you are need I recommend these guys. First is the concreate and stamping we got done for the firepit. TW Jensen Construction. Tim did an awesome job and was incredibly fast, and of course married to the best gal ever :). Next was our curbing. Buzz Co Curbing and he did excellent. He was easy to work with and I'd recommend him to anyone. Thanks to both companies for a job well done.

Curbing off the deck "before"
our rock wall "before"

The amazing job on the firepit, man I can't wait to use this

curbing around our rock wall

curbing down both sides, leading to the firepit

Memorial Day - Bear World Yellowstone

May 2009

After working on the yard for every good day we had in May it was time to have a family day. So we headed to Rexburg and spent the day at Bear World. I'm pretty sure I liked it just a tad more than my boys. Huntyr kept calling it "bear woord' but I think he liked looking at all the animals. His favorite part was the train ride and feeding the fish, and the "stupid goose"

Welcome to Bear World

1 in 6 million elk are born white, pretty cool
This is the stupid "Goose" more like a Swan but does it really matter to a 2 year old? Huntyr kept getting mad because he was eating the fish food.

Huntyr feeding the deer

We spent lots of time on the train ride

The mighty grizzly. I would have loved to see one stand straight up.

you drive through the park right where they live and walk around. You are told to keep your car moving at all times and the windows up at all time. We might have snuk a few pictures with our window down.