Cute Colin

Colin is my youngest sister, Kaylene's son. He is so freakin cute!

He is so cute when he see my cats. He follows them around trying to pet them and loves to shake their mouse toys.

This is him trying to convince Balou to come closer so that he can pet him.




I have also learned one thing about little kids when he is around. They just don't ever seem to get the whole kissing thing and every single one of them seem to do it differently.

He keeps his mouth open and just waits for you to get close.

I don't think that Balou really knew what to do when he tried to give him a kiss.



Okay, we also had to get some embarrassing pictures of him too.

This story starts out with a little bit more information about Colin. He likes to smell flowers. He wanders over to them and sniffs them. Using this information my brother, Josh, convinced him to sniff a stinky pair of his shoes. Since then, Collin is wary of being told to sniff any shoes. We did convince him to try them on though. lol.

What can I say? Orange is my favorite color and the shoes cost $6. Totally worth it.

Kudos and Complaints

I just finished my second test for one of my classes for this semester. I am exhausted. It is so hard to deal with going to work and then going to school. I can't wait for school to be done for the semester. I'll get to take a break for a few months, go on vacation, and breath.
I do have to take a minute to tell everything the good new. No not pregnant. ha. I have three cats and am very happy with them right now. The good news is that Fielding had a second interview with ARUP today. He has been trying to figure out what his next step with work should be, especially with his PTSD. He went to his interview today. While touring the facility and learning more about the specific day to day operations, he became more and more excited about the job. I think that it won't matter if he gets this specific job or not. He says he's going to reapply. Hooray! Good job babe!

True Love

Okay, so I have figured out one of the mysteries of life. Opposites attract. Not just in personalities, but in body temperatures too. My mom is always freezing and my dad is always warm. Jeniece is always really warm and Taylor is always cold.

Fielding and I seem to be the same temperature during the day but at night we are complete opposites. He always stays cold. I burn up. The weird part is that my feet always stay cold. the other night Fielding was nice enough to give me his socks. Okay, so it was probably beneficial for him too. He hates it when I put my freezing cold feet against his legs. But I guess so long as he is willing to share his socks with me we'll be okay. =)

Trash the dress

Last summer Jeniece introduced me to 'trashing the dress'. Which essentially means that you go to a location and take pictures that have the potential to ruin your wedding dress, but provide a setting for some amazing pictures.

These pictures are from the International Peace Gardens down the street from my house. I love the umbrella that Jeniece brought with us.

The second set was at the Great Salt Lake. We started on the beach and moved into the water. You'd be surprised how long the walk to the water was. I do have to give Jeniece kudos on the second shot and I even remembered to point my toes. =)

Walking into the water, I had to pass a lot of gross flies an I was worried that they were going to ruin the shots somehow. Jeniece had brought a stool with us to help set up some great shots. It was so hard to stay on that stool and I kept slipping off.

The last one was our 'artistic' shot. We had bough a pair of cheap sunglasses and spray painted them silver and found some foil stuff that was fun. I don't know that it turned out that great, but it was defiantly a lot of fun.

Bang, Bang baby

Okay, so while Jeniece and Taylor were out having fun in California, I went out shooting with some friends from work.
It's the second time that I've gone with them, and I have to say that I feel pretty tough when I go. Mostly because guns are dangerous and if you act stupid bad things can happen. Luckily, the guys that I go with are REALLY big on the not being stupid part.

I wasn't the only girl there though. One of my co workers, Danny, was there with his girlfriend and Nate's fresh RM's girlfriend was there too.

I kept making Eva (eh-vah) try and shoot different types of guns. And Ellen is tough stuff. She was willing to shoot one of the guns that scare me.

She shot the WWII rifle that Nate brought. It can hold either two or eight bullets, is heavy, looks like it kicks like a mule, and after the final bullet is shot the clip pops out.




The 'kick' everyone thought was so smooth. Are you kidding me?

Ellen shocked when the clip popped out after her last shot.

It was amazing fun and makes me consider taking the concealed weapons permit class, but I think that there are still some things that I need to consider before doing that.

Getting things together

I don't know how anyone does it. You seem to have all of the time in the world to work and play during high school. You even seem to find time to spend hours on end with the your boyfriend or girlfriend. Everything changes when you get married though. You seem to have more things that need to be done than hours in they day. I'd like to say that I have it all under control, but every so often it sneaks away from me and I end up stressed by things that are my 'to do' list.
Fielding and I are both working on getting back to school. I'm in my second semester back at school and have found that it is no easy task to balance work, school, and personal time. I think that I'm going to have to cut back on credits next semester so that I can accommodate some work courses.
Fielding in the meantime is trying out one class to see how it goes. I don't know what the plans are yet, but I guess we'll just have to figure out where to go when we get closer.
Outside of school, we're getting really excited about our summer vacation in Havasupai. There are so many things that we are excited for.We bough me an AWESOME new internally framed hiking backpack. It is my favorite color -ORANGE!
Granted to say that there are some other items that we want to buy for the trip (camera lens and shoes), there is one major thing that we need to work on before we go...FITNESS. We have to make it through a twelve mile hike before we get to our campsite. We're trying to eat healthier and Fielding is hitting the gym. It's killing me! Not because I don't wan to be healthy, but because I like food.
Oh well, I guess that that is everything. If you're interested in joining us for the trip, just let me know. =)

International Peace Gardens 2008

Thanks Jeniece!!