We had a visitor...

First of all let me just say that this little thing looks cute in this picture but not so much when it's running around your house!  Yesterday morning I was sitting in my living room and saw something out of the corner of my eye run across the floor.  I thought maybe it was a big bug and then I saw it again and realized it was one of these beauties.  Of couse it led to me screaming for Raymond to come help...but it had already ran under my oven and we couldn't get it out.  So we went to Walmart and bought a bunch of traps and set them up around the house.  I was so bummed this morning when I woke up and we didn't catch it.  But tonight when we got home it ran into our living room behind our TV.  Raymond being the manly man he is got some gloves on thinking he was going to catch it with his hands (I don't think he realizes how fast they are but I wasn't going to tell him because I was having fun watching him try!)  He was trying to get behind the couch and was all over the place...but me being the ingenious person I am put a barricade in front of the hall going to our kitchen with a little place to run through that had a sticky trap and just like that he was caught! I was pretty proud of myself and I can finally go to sleep tonight without worrying about our little mouse! Hopefully it was the last...but we left the other traps up still just in case....our neighbors have had 3 in the last few weeks! Just thought we'd share our fun experience! Hope you all are great! :)

The Birthday Month!

September is a BUSY birthday month in our family! My sister Kelsey, two sister in laws...Aimee and Mary Kate, my Dad, our niece Emmie, our nephews Trenton & George, my birthday...not to mention I have a lot of friends whose birthdaya are in September, and two of my best friends just had baby girls!  CONGRATS to Leigh and Jillyn!
SO instead of making a bunch of Birthday posts I decided to do it all at once!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We love you guys!  My baby sis Kelsey turned 16 this year so it was a big one for her!   All my siblings and I went down to Cedar to surprise her! It was so much fun! Minus the fact that Raymond couldn't be there...
When we got there she was upstairs and my dad was telling her to come and help him with something...of couse she wasn't too excited to come help but when she came down and saw us she ran over to Brit and gave her a huge hug...then she saw Ryan and I and started crying saying "What are you doing here? How did you get here?"  It was so worth it to go see her for the weekend...I think she's a little lonely being the only one at home now. :) But she had a big Sweet 16 party that night with one of her friends who had just turned 16 too...there were 70 kids in our backyard so it was a crazy night but so much fun! We didn't take too many pictures on my camera but here are a few! Love you sister!!!

Ryan, Aimee, and my mom...we weren't allowed to stay long at the party! :)

WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Summer Fun!

We had such a great summer! We got to spend a month visiting our family and friends! We loved our vacation but by the end we were ready to be back home and out of a suitcase! I guess that was the trick to finally making me excited to come back to Wyoming! :) We went to panaca for the 24th of July...I wish I would've taken more pictures but here's our cute nieces and nephews at the parade! Love them!

Robert & Travis!

Sarah with her kids!

Katelyn and her candy!

                         They were loving their suckers! :)

It was a lot different going home with Brittany not there...she's loving being in Provo though!We got to see Brit on our way back home...what a cute waitress! :)  Ryan & Aimee come back from Alaska soon! Can't wait to finally be able to hang out with them!

Our trip was so much fun but now it's back to work! I got the job I wanted in Kindergarten and I'm really excited! Can't wait until November to come back to visit! :)

San Francisco...

 We absolutely loved our trip to San Fran! The weather was beautiful!  We stayed right by Union square and Chinatown.  It was fun to be close to everything and walk everywhere!  It was the perfect trip!

So this guy got so mad at me cause I took his picture without giving him money yet and kept yelling at me...oops! :)

Boudin Bakery...yummy!

On the ferry over to Alcatraz...

We of course had to ride the cable cars...

and almost ran over a car because the cable car driver wasn't looking...

This was the best picture I could get of the Golden Gate bridge, it was foggy the whole time we were there...

 Ghiardelli Square...

My absolute favorite part of San Fran was going to see Wicked! Raymond was not thrilled at all to spend almost three hours in a play but he ended up loving it!

Thanks babe for the wonderful "honeymoon"!

Visitors!!

We finally had people come up and visit us and we had such a great time having family here! Raymond's parents came first and we took them to Sinks Canyon, the Shoshone days Pow Wow, and Martin's Cove.  Raymond has ancestors on both sides that came across so it was very special for his parents to be there. 

Love this picture with Raymond and his mom!

My parents and Kelsey came the next weekend for the 4th of July.  There's a Pioneer Museum in Lander that has some really neat stuff and Kels was having a blast! She didn't like the drive here too much though! She told us the only way she'd come and visit again was if we had a baby or got a horse! Ha!

We had a picnic up sinks canyon, it was such a beautiful day!

I didn't get any pictures really of the 4th but it was seriouslly the best 4th of July we've been to! One of the local dentists who's a member puts on a huge firework show put to music and tells the story of our founding fathers and it really put things in perspective for us of why we really celebrate.  We are truly blessed to live in this free country and I'm so grateful for those people who sacrificed so much for our freedom!

We always love people coming to visit! Any takers?? :)

Date Night!

Sometimes we have to be a little creative with our date nights here in beautiful Wyoming...we needed to do a little grocery shopping and passed the seafood and saw that King crab legs were on sale for 5.99 a lb. (it saved us $23!) I was so excited and Raymond has only had crab once before so we decided to have an adventure!  Raymond grilled them with lemon, garlic and cilantro and then we dug in!  It turned out so yummy! The only problem was that we didn't have a cracker so we used scissors and our hands...we were a mess but it was worth it!

The finished product...

On another note, I've been trying to be more positive about being up here lately because we'll for sure be here again at least one more year.  (We have a family moving here to teach from Park City and I'm praying that we can be friends!)  I've learned though through this past year that when you are looking for the positive you'll find it and we truly live in such a beautiful place!  Raymond and I are sometimes in awe of how serene it can be here...usually I don't have my camera and this isn't the best thing we've seen but here's just a teaser of where we live!

Love those wide open spaces! But both of our families are coming up and we're so excited to  finally have some visitors! Remember our door is always open! :)