I love to see the temple....

This last week Dean's mom, Geraldine, invited me to come along with her and Boone and Shalese (Dean's siblings) to her sister, Karen's house and attend the Oquirh Mountain Temple open house. I had never been to an open house so i decided that it would be fun to go. It was actually a hard decision to make cuz it was the first night away from my husband! We have been married for almost nine months and it was very hard to leave him. But i did have a great time with my family....My favorite part was seeing the Oquirh temple and doing a session in the Draper Temple. It was my first time going to the temple without Dean, it was sad not to see him near me but i had such a warm feeling cuz i know that my Heavenly Father is looking out for me and blessed me with an amazing husband and family. All i could ask for in this life is for my husband and family to be happy and healthy and i feel very blessed to be where i am. I absolutely love the temple!!! (if you look closely at angel moroni's underarm it is blackish cuz he was struck by lighting!)



We also visited the largest open pit mine...they mine copper, silver, gold and something else that only Boone can say:) (cuz he is super smart!) Anyway....this pic is of me by the tire of one of the dump trucks! crazy huh!!! And another fun thing we did was swim in Karen and her friends swimming pool in their backyard. it was so fun!! and i know that someday i would like one in mine!!




here are some late posted pics of boating....Dean and I successfully got up together on one wakesurf board, but couldn't after that! Shalese captured me when i was screaming, my face looks so weird, i dont know how i got my mouth to go sideways like that. we had so much fun and I just LOVE summer!! im going to be so sad when it starts getting cold...

R.I.P MARTHA.....

I'm kinda late posting this but tragically one of our chickens were murdered! one night dean and i were late getting home from softball and as we were walking out to the barn to close the door on the chickens we came upon feathers everywhere!! and all i could say was "oh no!!" the other ones were safe in the coop but dean found martha the next morning and her head was bit off. We have heard that minks and skunks do that cuz they like brain! i was so sad! i got so attached especially to martha but i guess that is just part of the circle of life... so i hope martha is in heaven with endless bugs, food, and dirt to dig up.

so, Dean and I have been really lake hungry. all we want to do is go boating so we did the next best thing and went on some wave runners. It is so much fun when you two ppl on one. Dean and I went over this huge boat wave and flew off of the machine. my family was watching from the shore and they said it looked so neat. too bad no one grabbed a pic i guess it happened too fast and i just love this pic of my 'baby sister' maxee she was so funny....we are really excited to go on saturday with dean's sister and her family cuz we just LOVE BOATING!! (we are excited if you can't tell kirsten!!)

We had a good fourth of july, we just did whatever we felt like in the moment. we went fishing then we went to Lewiston parade, rodeo, horse races, softball games, then we took a nap and went to my parents and shot off fireworks which was great cuz my crazy older brother bought some illegal ones that was just as good or better than Logan's fireworks! it shot up but a couple of them kind of went up and back down so they looked like a golden shower was falling on us! it was so intense!!!! We hope that everyone else enjoyed their holiday and remembered the true meaning of it and the gratitude and pride we need to show!