Our Family Tradition

Dec 19,2009
I'm yet again a little behind. It is my little families tradition to head to Salt Lake for a day of play and see the lights. This time we thought it would be fun if we took the train to SL. Huntyr has been so into trains lately he loved the idea. We drove to Odgen loaded onto the Frontrunner and then headed to SL. Once we got there we just rode the trax where ever we needed to go. Which included clear to Sandy to eat at Joe's Crab Shack. I love seafood so it was a good move for us.

It was a very long day but so fun and very exciting for Huntyr. We did manage to find a Santa at the Gateway. Never knew that Santa was missing so many teeth :). He was nice though and was very sweet to Huntyr so I guess that is all that matters. We ended up letting Huntyr play at the Discovery Gateway Center which was fun to watch him get all excited over all the fun things to see and do.

At Dark we made it to Temple Square, my most favorite part is the Nativity that they have set up outside with the story they tell. Its such a great feeling of peace when you are on those grounds.

Burgers for lunch on the Front Runner

Discovery Center

A kitchen all his size, he made Josh and I carrot soup as he called it, yummy!

Waiting for the Train in Sandy, brrr its cold!

There were so many people yet it was so peaceful

The ride home, and we are sooo tired.

Jimmy, Dierks and Brad

September 19, 2009

Didn't know how much I liked these men until I actually seen them in concert. Wowsers, they were smokin, mmm Hot lets be honest :)
It was so much fun to spend some time with friends shopping, eating and going to the concert. These are my great friends that I went to High School with, and we have had lots of fun and stayed close ever since and I truly admire each of them and their friendships. Thanks ladies for a great time, I'm sad to see our concerts be done with.

The concert was so fun, they played and played, I had no idea that Brad Pasley could play the guitar like the does, he is so dang good. Deirks was the main reason I went I mean look at that face, need I say more. I had no idea who Jimmy Wayne was but he was actually really good. The concert was so fun, it started to pour with rain but I don't think that bothered anyone one bit.

Brad
Dierks

Jimmy

all us girls!

Mandy, Amelia, Tara, me and Tana

Calling

Sept 12th, 2009

Saturday night we received a call from one of the counselors in the Bishiopric asking if Josh and I could meet with the Bishop on Sunday morning. Josh was panicked about what new calling he was going to get. I was positive the job was for him so I wasn't worried one little bit. They had just called a new Elders Qurom president and also needed a new Scout Master. However, while we were sitting in the Bishops' office the counselors kept looking at me and I thought "why are you looking at me, its Josh you want" To my disbelieve the calling was for me. I am now the 1st counselor in the YW presidency and honestly I couldn't be more excited. I had so much fun at Girls Camp with these young girls that I was thrilled to now be apart of their world. Wish me luck!

Digital Photography

Aug 2009

I've decided to try my hand at photgraphy an though I'm a total amature I'm just trying to find a perfect camera to buy. A guy at my work does photography and I'm trying to convince him to sell his camera. He has thought about it to the point I brought it home one night to try out. Here is all I could come up with.

Toby Keith and Trace Adkins @ Usana

August 22, 2009

Five of us girlfriends got together and decided we would purchase the Mega Ticket, which was 3 concerts in the summer for a pretty incredable price. July we seen George Straight, Blake Shelton and Juliann Huff. The concert in August was Trace Adkins and Toby Keith and then September will be Brad Paisley and Derks Bently (mmm, can't wait for this one :). Anyway it seems since we got the tickets we have yet to all go together to them. This time Tana, Amelia and I went and Josh came with us because of the extra tickets. He has been to other concerts where it was just him and all the girls and we have always had a blast. This time was no exception. I'm so glad my girls love my guy, makes it easy to all play together. Thanks Ladies for a rockin time, and to Josh for putting up with all our crazyness..

Tana and Amelia - love my ladies!
Josh posing with his girls!

We had so much fun and so many laughs, never lauged so hard!

Bear Lake, Sun and Fun

August 2009.

I am a full-time working mom so anytime someone invites us to go anywhere I am game for taking a day off work. My cousin Mandie had called and asked Huntyr and I to go play at Bear Lake with her and her kids. It was an all time blast! No work, no hubby's and no stress. It was so relaxing just to lay on the beach and enjoy ourselves while the kids played in the sand. I didn't have to worry much about Huntyr as he doesn't like the water so the beach with his bucket and shovel was the great love of that day.

The best picture of Mandie I could get - she is going to kill me for this :)
Wylie and Lyndie, they are so cute!

Huntyr just chilling "bear"ly off the beach

Quake Lake, Montana

July 24th,

I can't begin to explain the feeling you get when you visit Quake Lake. For those of you that don't know this was a massive earth quake that happened on August 17, 1959 at 11:37PM. I can only hope that the people who lost their lives that night were fast asleep and didn't realize what was happening. At the visitor center we visited it said it took less than one minute for 300 feet of rock and debri to have buried what was underneath it.

28 people lost their lives in the quake that night and hundreds of others were left without homes and vehicles and transportation out of the area. Homes that were upstream from the quake were washed away in the flood waters of Hebgen Lake. It really is an awesome place to visit but one that leaves you with an eery feeling. My grandparents were camping at the campground at this time and it took 5 days for help to get them out because the road had been destroyed.

Here is an excerpt regarding the quake.

Aug. 17 1959 at 11:37 p.m. At that time, the Red Canyon fault and the Hebgen fault, both in the Madison River area, moved simultaneously and triggered an earthquake that measured 7.5 on the Richter scale. That earthquake forced a massive landslide that screamed down mountains and hills at about 100 miles per hour. Tons of rocks and earth crashed into Madison Canyon. The results were catastrophic. The force of the slide caused a flood and high winds swept a giant wave downstream. Five people died in the flood alone. The landslide killed another 28 people. It also dropped the north shore of Hebgen Lake 19 feet. Cabins on the shore washed into the water as huge waves crested over Hebgen Dam. Three sections of Highway 287 fell into the lake, the dam cracked in at least four places and hundreds of campers were trapped. The landslide eventually stopped, essentially damming the Madison River and creating Earthquake, or “Quake Lake,” a 190-foot deep, six mile long lake stocked with German and Brown Trout.

Over looking where the slide had happened.
Remember this boulder, it slid from the other side of the mountain and landed here. The information in the center said that it never rolled or broke any part of rock from its body it was still all intact, so they knew it slid all the way to were it sits now.

Here is the rock and where it landed. Below is the mountain where it came from. Keep in mind they are on opposite sides of the highway. It was an impressive distance for sure.

My Family!

Josh and Huntyr standing next to the boulder

John and Joann (Josh's parents)

Josh and I

Kandi and Rogers

The slide area

This is a reminder for me of the lives that were lost, you can see all the tree's that were once here now buried deep in the water.