Rodeo

So every year we go to the Strawberry Days Rodeo and of course it's not a good rodeo without one good injury. This year Sam was the injured one! You see Jory in the picture above---well, he's from Rexburg so he automatically thinks he's a cowboy and feels that it is responsibility to REPRESEEEEENT! So he shows up in wranglers, boots and a hat every year. Well, as he was on his way down the bleachers he stepped right on Sam's toe! He didn't even realize he'd done it! I'm sure he just couldn't feel it through those 2 inch thick boots he had on. The next thing we know Sam's toe is bleeding all over.....of course Sam doesn't say a word or even complain cause he's a cop and he's tough like that.

















I love the picture below of Ben, Lauren and Kenzie (Lauren's little sister). And let me just say right now that I'm sooooooo sorry that I cut baby Cason out of the picture (Lauren--don't be bitter---I didn't do it on purpose!). Anyway, the reason I love this picture so much is because it's pretty much the last smile on Kinzie's face for the night. Being from California and never being to a rodeo she was a little horrified when the calf-roping began. Don't get me wrong---she's not a PETA member but she was pretty tender-hearted regarding how those cows were treated.
































There's nothing like a good stand off between a bull and a clown! Remind me to tell you all about the time when I was 12 years old and convinced my dad I would be the next world champion barrell racer and he bought me a great new horse and everything.....yeah, as you all already know----that didn't quite happen....but kuddos to my dad for letting me try out a dream! Or you could ask my dad about the time I was in a jr. rodeo and got bucked off a steer, kicked in the head and got a concussion----and then I asked my dad to give me a blessing and he just laughed. He'll deny it but it's true!

Here's a cute picture of Nikki and Brendan and below of Jed kissing on me. Jeez---he's so mushy!

Homemade Rootbeer

A few weeks ago we were out at Jed's parents for dinner and the subject of homemade rootbeer gets brought up. Jed and Lesa and Chad all went on and on about how good the rootbeer was that their mom and grandma use to make! So then they get this GREAT idea to go find the old bottles and pot and capper thing you use to bake the rootbeer out in the barn. So the next thing I know Jed is loading up the truck with all this stuff and we're bringing it home. So for the next two days he cleaned all the old glass bottles (about 75 of them) and then they sat on my kitchen counter for two weeks. Well most of you know I'm a bit of a clean freak and especially an anti-clutter freak so I had completely lost my patience for Jed and his grand idea to make homemade rootbeer at this point. So I did the only sensible thing.......I called his sister Lesa (knowing her same sentimental feelings towards the rootbeer bottles and equipment) and told her that if she didn't come help Jed make the rootbeer this week and get the bottles off my counter I would throw them all away when the garbage man came on Thursday! That's all it took------Lesa was there the next day and the rootbeer was made! Now any of you are welcome to come have a taste of this fine rootbeer but I've been given strict instructions that none of the glass rootbeer bottles are to leave our house! I also have to warn you that my mother-in-law Jeanne and my sister-in-law Marie and I have decided this homemade rootbeer is an aquired taste (meaning we think it has a disgusting flavor from the yeast you put in it)....but we don't say that around Jed or he gets really bitter.

San Antonio

This week I went to visit Jed in San Antonio.....he was there on business, and I was there for fun! While he worked hard all day in his meetings I laid by the pool, worked out and went shopping! Rough life I know. The boots above were outside of a huge mall that was AWESOME! Jed got to Texas on Wednesday but I didn't fly in til Thursday night. Our plane actually landed about 15 mintues after the San Antonio Spurs had won the NBA championship! Needless to say the city was CRAZY! The best part is that as we were landing there were fireworks going off everything. Well, since I was on the plane and didn't realize the Spurs had won I simply thought the fireworks must be just for ME! I thought "that Jed---he really knows how to make me feel special....arranging all these fireworks when I am landing!" You'll see in the picture below I'm congratulating Tony Parker when I arrived.....I know, I know, I'm so sweet.


















Here's a picture of us the first night out on the town. We had gone to dinner with Trey and Justin---Jed's co-workers. They are young, crazy guys who like to have a good time and love to tease me about mutli-level marketing because they know I hate it. They kept trying to convince me to just sign up with them for this latest and greatest MLM that just came out. I finally told them that I would sign up with them as soon as they gave me their home addresses so I could send the missionaries to their house ----that pretty much ended that teasing!

Below is a picture of the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio. It is such a fun place!!! We went and had dinner right on the water at a great restaurant called Boudros. They had the best homemade guacamole I've ever had! Not to mention their prime rib was to DIE for! Needless to say we ate WAY too much and could hardly walk down the rest of the Riverwalk---THANK Goodness is started raining so we had an excuse to end out little walk before we both exploded. Although---as soon as we got back to the hotel Jed pretty much puked up his entire dinner which was more traumatizing for me than him because all I could think is "oh great! Now he'll never want to go back to Boudros if we ever come to San Antonio again!"

Baby Season!!!

So I thought I would post some fun pictures of my friends babies. The picture above is the newest member of the group! Chase Victor Cameron. He was born Friday at 9:59pm to Chris and Jen Cameron. He weighed in at 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. If you know Jen and Melissa's family at all you will see that he looks just like the Coates family!! Too cute! We were all pretty worried about Jen because of her health problems but she was a real champ and is doing great after her c-section and blood transfussions. I didn't take any pictures of her last night---even though she looked great---especially for having a baby only 2 hours earlier, I thought I would be nice and wait to take some pictures of her and baby later (mostly out of fear that she would try to get even with me at some point!) Below is the proud papa Chris.
















The other night we had a little bbq at our house with a few of our friends...the Andersons, Moons, and Brutsch's. Well, the Moons have a little 3-month old cutie named Boston and the Brutsch's have a 1-month old cutie named Cason. So Brooke went and put Boston down on his blanket in the living room so she could eat and a few minutes later Ben put Cason down so he could eat. When we walked into the living room after diner this is what we saw (picture below)!!! Ben had put Cason down right next to Boston----mind you we have plenty of room in our living room so they didn't HAVE to be this close together. We all started laughing as Ben said "WHAT? I put them next to eachother so they could get to know eachother and become friends!" Jed and I love it when our friends come over so we get to hold and love on the little cuties!

The Big 3-day Event!!!

So the big 3-day event-----Ashlee's Wedding (Jed's little sister) is over. Jed and I and the rest of the family have been joking/complaining all week about the fact that it lasted 3 days!!!! Thursday night was the wedding reception in Logan. I drove up with Chad and Marie because Jed was out of town. Between traffic and construction it only took us 3 1/2 hours to get there and a mere 3 hours to get back!!! Oh and did I mention that we hit a deer while driving home through Logan Canyon in Marie's Honda Civic. Not such a great memory of the weekend! The picture above is of the happy couple and all the nieces and nephews. See the cute little blond girl to the right of Ashlee---her name is Cambry and let me tell you---getting her to sit still and smile all at the same time pretty much took 10 adults and one crazy camera lady making donald duck noises to make that happen---but hey---the end result was worth it! I also have to mention that Ashlee is holding baby Autumn--she's only 2 weeks old and sooooo sweet. It was a serious fight all weekend as to who got to hold her---the men were the worst about fighting to hold her!!

I love this picture of all the brothers and sisters---don't you think my husband just looks HOT in this picture?! and how about the picture below---what a STUNNING couple!! These pictures were all taken on the second day of festivities....Friday night, which was the reception in Payson.


















Don't you just love this picture of Brocston!! I love his little suit and of course he's got some gum that his FAVORITE Aunt Nalani gave him! He has been able to chew a piece of gum for hours since he was about 18 months old.

And last but not least we have the third day of wedding festivities----the wedding at the SLC temple and the wedding luncheon at Bioggis. The wedding was beautiful and the luncheon was GRUBBIN! Below is a picture of the "Cool Table". Needless to say---we're happy for Ashlee and Will---they're a great couple. We're pretty much all weddinged out for now though!