Yeah for Family Visits!

The other half of my family came to visit us this last weekend (except for Jalia, the only one who has missed out on both of the visits). It was a lot of fun! Kelsey and I played America's Next Top Model for a little bit.

Grace worked on scaring Dalan the whole time, he never managed to scare her back ;)



And the boys competed to be the bravest on the swings.


Then we picked lots and lots of raspberries and ate Dad and Kelsey's pizza. We had a blast! Who's next to visit us?!

Little things

These pictures are taken around the farm at various doors.

It may seem silly but I love the fancy door handles on the old barn doors.

It makes me want to put fancy knobs on everything.

I think I might . . .

The Scartlet Pimpernel

Dalan and I are taking USU 1330, Arts Symposium this year. We already took a visit to the Fine Arts Museum on campus. Which Dalan didn't really enjoy, even though we were our guide's favorites. No for real. She chose our art projects as her favorite, calling them/us minimalist, I was so exited. I wish I could show them to you but we didn't get to keep them.

Anyway. Monday we went to watch the Scarlet Pimpernel. It was great!


I wish I had pictures of us dressed up all classy . . .but I didn't get any :(
I'll have to take pictures of the building next time we go too because it is so gorgeous, right along with the costumes and their voices.

Strolling down Memory Lane

This is the snake we found on our last night in Nebraska.

He was huge! I am very grateful that this was the closest a snake had ever come to our house.
We think he was living in the horse trailer.

I will have to sneak a picture of the snake that I saw by our Honeyville house just the other night. It was comparable to a worm.

It begins.

Now that we have fast internet it is time for me to catch up with all of the blog posts that I couldn't put up in Nebraska. There are so many I have no idea where I want to start, but I do know that I still want to post them :)

I'm starting here. This is one of my favorite sequences of pictures of Dalan roping.

I had them printed for Dalan's birthday.

And will soon have them up on the wall :)

I can't wait.

Have a good Labor Day weekend!

Proof

I feel like some of you may need some evidence that all my stories are true. That I did infact help Dalan and Pepper move 900 first time Heifers and all their little babies from pasture to pasture every 4-6 days. Here is the Ranch horse I used. Ol' Grey is what Dal and I called him.


He was like riding a barrel.


I really should have picked a smaller horse.


And here it is. A picture of me on Ol' Grey getting ready to go to work :)

Big City Vacation

Dalan took me on vacation the beginning of this week. I loved it. We went to Salt Lake City and explored the Gateway, Temple Square, IKEA and a BEES game.

I love this picture. Dalan is shaking his head no very very fast. Props to my camera for the clarity, I thought for sure it would be blurry.

We sat on the grass behind right field and we were right in the action for quite a few Home Runs.

This is our view.

The sister missionaries were very nice and took a picture of us in front of the temple. Walking around the temple was very relaxing and beautiful.
And . . . as a side note. I am blogging on our own internet connection and it was crazy fast. Loving it.

Honeyville Home

Here I am sitting in our hotel with the fastest internet I have had in so so long. It is amazing. Wednesday is the big day for us to get internet at our house :) I can't wait to catch up on my blogging. So much to show everyone.
It has been so hard waiting to share pictures of our new house! So here it goes.

This is the front door leading into the living room.


This is a side shot. Here you walk into the laundry room. It's perfect. (Don't mind our lawn at this point, soon we will do something with it I'd imagine)

The kitchen. I love the space and the Hickory cabinets.

This is our living room! We love the big windows.

And this is our room. And our new bed, which we absolutely love. It is a lot more comfortable than the Nebraska bed and also the bed we have at this hotel.
Come visit us!

Insanity

So . . .internet here is a bit ridiculous at times and I have not been able to blog for a very long time. Courtesy of my insanity (as Dalan told me today) I was able to finally get this to work! Here are some random pictures I have taken over the course of this internet famine.

Is this what being a mom is like? Babies climbing on your head and never leaving your side? I think that is what I remember us doing to my mom.

I like this baby frog on the turtle. I have a better one, but I'm not going to push my luck.

Here in Nebraska we are being taken over by grasshoppers, mosquitoes and dragonflies. I really like the dragonflies though. For two reasons. One. They eat mosquitoes. Two. They are so pretty and occasionally sit still long enough for me to take pictures :)

Like this little guy. Again, I was giving up hope on the internet and I didn't select the very best pictures . . . that is probably why it worked. Still I am so exited to be blogging and share some new pictures!
Wish me luck.