Baptism Day

We had such a great day today at Rian's Baptism. It was so fun to see her and have a bunch of family and friends here.

Farm Girl

Rian is now old enough to help out her dad a lot.I think she looks so cute out there.

Timeline

I have never put on any pictures of the progress of our house. It looks different even today. Monday they pour the basement floor and will start framing Tuesday or Wednesday.

Cousins

Saturday was Laurens Baptism. It was really fun for everyone to get all together. I had fun with the camera afterwards at their house.

Crime Fighters

I have a funny story. It revolves around sad events, but this particular instance is really funny to me. Brians aunt who lives through the field here, has been robbed twice in the past week. They took a lot of stuff and kind of trashed the place a bit. Anyway, we have all been a lot more observant with strange cars and things lately. Especially since the first robbery happened in the day.The day after the second time, at 6 am Sunday morning, we here this pounding on the door. Brian runs up to answer it. I could hear Uncle Calvin say "will you come with me" Brian races downstairs and grabs his shoes. I asked him what was up and he says he thinks he has somebody. Off he ran and climbed into Big Red(Calvin's Rhino type thing. You know the side by side 4 wheeler type). Brian was still half asleep.
To make a long story short, the fastest they can go is about 30 mph or something. So they are driving all around town looking for this car he saw that was really suspicious pulling into their driveway slowly then left and going slow. They finally see it pull into someone else's driveway. Brian tells Calvin to hurry and Park behind him so he can't leave. Brian jumps out and yells at him to Stop and What are you Doing? Come to find out, it was the newspaper man! They scared him to death. I really can't stop laughing about it now because I can just picture them in Big Red interrogating this poor man. His backseat was full of newspapers. I was nervous though while they were gone because I wondered what if they caught them, and it was really the people doing it, then what would they do? How could they keep them from running away while one tried to get the cops, or what if they had a gun or something? Anyway, I think it is a really funny story even thought the whole reason for it is pretty scary.

Apolo

So, I think this is pretty darn cool. Apolo lives near Brians work. He runs the Jordan River trail just like Brian. He runs it the same time of day as Brian. They see each other quite regularly and say hello and wave. In fact, Apolo has seen him enough now that he recognizes him. I keep telling Brian he needs to ask him if he wants to join a running group and I will drive up everyday to participate;)

Its Great to be (almost) 8!

Rian turns 8 this Sunday!In preparation for her upcoming Baptism, we took her picture. These were taken in the orchard by our soon to be home. (they are digging today!!!!) I also have some I took in another place that I just LOVE but I am using those for her invitations so I am not posting them until I send those out.

mmmmmmmm

Vacation

Sounds funny but Im homesick for Panguitch today. Kim and Carl own a house there and we use it when we want to get away. We went down Saturday and had to come home today since Brian has to work tomorrow. I was going to stay down there until we learned we had a few more items of paperwork we had to get to the guy working on our construction loan. (this is the second go-round. Long story). It was so nice to get away and NOT think about house stuff. It started off great as we were able to stop in Koosharem and go to Suzanne's wedding. It was wonderful to meet her husband and I just loved her colors. Blue and green. Everything was so pretty. There was sadness on Sunday when we learned that Aunt Shelly passed away. She was such a wonderful lady and always so, so happy. Mom and dad stayed with us until Tuesday. We had such fun hiking our favorite trail Willis Creek on Monday. We went over 6 miles total and the girls did it on their own! We love that hike. We had yummy hamburgers and went 4-wheeling and motorcycling. Tuesday we hiked Bryce canyon. In the afternoon after mom and dad left he took Rian and Kenni on another 4wheeler ride while I stayed home with a book while Shelby played and Graci slept. a couple fishing trips, and a quick jaunt over to Cedar Breaks. We love it down there since there are so many fun things to do. Graci also learned how to ride her bike! She kept saying "my bike is so stupid". It was pretty funny.