Goodbye Summer Campouts!!

I love camping in the summer! I love the outdoors, hiking, being up in the canyon, the camp fire, eating good food, and getting away from home . We have been camping a few times this summer up AF canyon and Jollys campground up Spanish Fork canyon. We have so much fun just hanging out around the fire, and playing games all night. And the food!! We have bbq's that are amazing, and tons of snack food, we are just eating the whole time!! I don't even mind sleeping in a tent, even though I am terrified of bears the whole night. I wish we would have gone camping more this summer, because I miss it already!

Ryan's little obsession

Ryan has loved hunting for as long as I've known him, but I think his obsession has gotten worse over the years especially with him working at Cablelas. This year Ryan wanted to try something new and he put in for the archery hunt. Since the season started he has been obsessed! That's all he will talk about, he comes home and tells me all these stories and uses his fancy hunting lingo. And most the time I have no idea what he is talking about, but I try to be supportive (to some extent). I know he loves it a lot because he wakes up at 4 am on his days off to go! He has bought all this fancy equipment, and shoots arrows in my backyard all the time. He has even got my brother obsessed, they go together all the time. Then they will come home and be so excited that they even saw a deer. You really can't be around the two of them when they get started talking about it. Ryan recently had a incident where Ryan and Cody went hunting up the canyon. My brother wasn't being to safe and left his arrow on his bow and Ryan ran into the arrow and it punctured his leg pretty deep. He had to go to the hospital and was walking around on crutches for days. And the only thing he was upset about was that he couldn't go hunting for a week! He was counting down the days to go again. He hasn't shot a deer yet, and he's been really upset about it, but I know he has a good time anyway. Now that the archery season is almost over he's already talking about duck hunting!

The Gardens

This was our first time to the Gardens at Thanksgiving Point! We were starting to wonder why we haven't been before because it was so pretty and definitely not what we expected! They have a ton of flower gardens(obviously) and the place is soo big there is so much to see! We went when it was really hot so we didn't get to see everything, so we still might go back this year:)

Bear Lake!

I use to go to Bear lake all the time when I was younger but its been awhile since I went back, so I was really excited that we planned our summer family vacation there. We rented a huge house with all my family from my moms side. It was really nice to spend time with family and all my cousins are so much fun!!! Bear lake is really pretty the water is soo clear and the beaches were awesome! We spent a lot of the time on the beach playing games in the sand or we were on the boat tubing. Ryan and I were so worried about getting burned we were obsessive with the sun screen (especially Ryan) so we didn't even get that great of a tan :( But we had a great time anyway. On the last night all of us went to a dance because we were all bored. We thought it was going to be pretty lame; but it turned out to be so much fun we danced for hours and even Ryan busted a move. Hahaha!!

Pittsburg Lake

Ryan has been wanting to go to Pittsburg lake all summer, and for some crazy reason I finally caved!! The hike up there was insane! It was uphill the whole way, and I thought I was going to die!! But once we got up there it was worth it. The lake and the mountains were so pretty! We went up with Aaron and Jessica and it was fun to hang out and fish. Everyone caught a fish except for me of course! We spent the whole day there and on the hike down everyone kept sliding and falling down the steep trail, it was hilarious we were all laughing the whole way down!

July 4th weekend!!

Every year I look foreward to the 4th of July. I love the barbeques, the fireworks, and hanging out with friends and family.This year we had a pretty busy 4th of July weekend. On Saturday we went and saw fireworks in Provo with Mindy and Parker. We ended up getting a good spot in the hospital parking lot!Lol! Then on Sunday we went out to dinner and did fireworks and sparklers in the backyard at Chase's parents house! Monday we went to the Provo parade and had a pool party at Ryan and Alyse's place. It was a great weekend and I look foreward to more summer fun!

Lehi Rodeo!!

There isn't much going on in little old Lehi but one thing that is a pretty big deal around here is the Lehi Roundup Rodeo! We go every year and it's always a lot of fun. They have the same thing and jokes every year! But we always enjoy ourselves anyway!