Let the memories begin!

This past week I spent it at my in-laws cabin up in Island Park. So. Much. Fun. Sadly Richard could only come up for a day because he had finals. Gotta love school.... Anyway, here are some of the fun memories we made!
This is the view from the back porch. It is absolutely gorgeous here! The windows of the kitchen are just behind me, so every meal, this is the view. Love it! We would also sling shot marbles from the porch. We're getting pretty good!
Here is the docks that we swim by. That little boat is dad's and he loves it! The dog is Kia. She belongs to Richard's eldest sister Jess. Kia was a lot of fun. She would run up and down the docks playing with her sticks.
Here little Ryker is playing with Grandma, mom, and Kia. This little guy makes everyone smile! We often would sit here to enjoy the view to use the sling shots. Grandma loved her sunshine!
We also spent most of the week riding four wheelers with the grandkids, which is super fun. Ryker was ready to go and lookin rockin while he was at it! He could hardly keep his head up! :)
The one day Richard was here he took me on the four wheeler after he had taken a shower from swimming. (scary as heck. He goes so fast you can hardly hang on!) His hair was still drying. When we got back he looked like this. I had to get a picture I was laughing so hard! He had wings in the back complete with a party in the front! ha ha!
We were able to get a cheap little tube to pull behind grandpa's boat and the grandkids loved it! Look how cute these girls are!
Richard had fun on it too! ha ha love the face! :)
We spent a day in Yellowstone park and as we were driving we came across traffic. Low and behold it was because a buffalo was coming up the street right next to us! This is taken in the car. The window make it glare, but it was cool!
There was another one on the other side of us trying to catch the first one. So funny! So many people. We played the license plate game to see how many of the 50 states we could find. We found all of them except 5 throughout the one day! Crazy!
Grandkids walkin with grandpa! Had to get a picture it was so cute! The two girls have matching outfits and hairdo's. They are cousins, but they looked so much alike! And Ashton in his orange. I'm pretty sure that is the only color he wore all week! :)
Here is Jocelynn and I at one the waterfalls we saw. The kids were so fun. Didn't want to do hardly anything without aunt Jalina. (That is how joce pronoun's my name. so cute) It is nice to be loved by so many kids! It definitely made my week! It is great to be an aunt!
Here is the rest of the fam! Wish we could have had all the men. We all missed them, but they all had to work. Good husband's providing for the family. (mom is taking the picture.) All in all we had fun together for this little reunion. I definitely married into one of the best families ever! I am one extremely lucky girl! :)

Lagoon awesomeness!

This last weekend, a couple of friends as well as Richard and I, decided to take a trip down to Utah for some fun! We drove down in Steve, (our little brown car) with everyone and their stuff in it. With Richard and I in the front, Jason, Spencer, and poor Britney squeezed in the middle in the back the entire ride, was pretty cozy, but we had a lot of good times! Saturday morning, we got up early to start off the day! We got to Lagoon at 10 when it opened and stayed until we couldn't walk any more. (which apparently is only 8 hours long because we left at 6) Of course my crazy fun husband likes to start the day with a bang! We went on the Samurai first thing. oh the spinning. For those who don't know me as well, I have really low blood pressure and an extremely weak stomach to go with it. I have to warm my stomach into the crazy rides so I don't have to sit out the entire day after throwing up or passing out. :) oh the joys of my life! So I sat out of this one and took pictures. sadly it wasn't my camera so I can't show you the only three pictures we took the entire trip! I know sad day. I will get better at that I promise! To continue this fabulous journey...I made a deal with my husband (his absolute favorite ride is the samurai and tried really hard to get me to go on it) if he would let me warm up my stomach on a few smaller rides, I would come back and do the samurai with him. Sadly by the time we got back to it, the lines were forever long. So I never actually got to ride it. (I'm kind of okay with it) Some of my favorite moments are with my former roommate and one of my best friends, Britney Davidson. Richard does hilarious things all the time, but I tend to laugh harder when Britney is there to laugh with me. (she is one of those people who have a very contagious laugh) There is a ride there that is in the shape of a dragon. Very fun by the way, but at the entrance there are two statues in the shape of lions. Being my weird self, I started rubbing his curly head like it was buddha. Richard says, "Don't touch the dragon! It's bad luck!" He then proceeded towards the ride as the line had moved at this point. Britney then mumbles under her breath, "You're right cause it's not a dragon. It's a lion." I started busting up because I hadn't even caught the fact that he had mixed up the animals. Plus the fact that she was really saying it to herself, it made it funnier to me. :)
After a full day of rides and spinning, along with queasy stomachs and headaches, we headed home for burgers and stadium of fire fireworks. At the very end of the day we watched Transformers. It was really fun with all of our friends and hope to do something like it again next year!
Almost immediately upon arriving home after a 4-5 hour drive, Richard wanted to go to his family cabin where his parents were at this time. Mind you, it's an hour drive! I convinced him to take like a 10 min nap before leaving again. We were both exhausted. So we drove another hour and got to swim in the lake and go boating with the family I got to babysit for in Idaho Falls. (Richard is there cousin so much of their family was there in a cabin next to us) It was a blast. The next day we headed back into town. On the way, Ricardo wanted to stop by his work in St. Anthony at the theater he often works at, to watch Transformers 3. (it was good by the way, but I still like the first two better) After an exhausting, but incredibly fun weekend, we were able to sleep well that night. We are hoping to do it again soon! :)

Recent Happenings

So a lot has happened that I haven't gotten around to telling about. For Richard's birthday he got a Rugar 22 gun. (yeah happy birthday right?) So he decided to take me shooting. Didn't make a single target I'm sure, but I got plenty of pictures of Richard shooting. We don't need to see my terrible skills... plus he just looks so dang good doing so. :) But I can officially say that I went shooting. Not one of my favorite things to do but I did it!

Looks like he knows what he's doing right? ha ha! Anyway we also recently went with the family to Lava Hot Springs. So fun! It's a half pool, half water park. some of the slides...well I refuse to go on them. Richard of course tried to make me go so I threw in a twist and said he had to go on the third platform. There are three different towers there and are extremely high. He was suddenly afraid. But he got Andrew and Roger (brothers-in-law) to go with him. He did actually go off the third one just the one time with Andrew, but we were too late for the picture. But we did get one of them going off the second one which is really high as well. I still never went on the slide. :) We sure had a lot of fun though!