Playing catch up

Trying to update my blog so just doing a few random photos.

Makell wrestling with her cousin Haylee


Makell holding her first cousin on the Cook side. Tye James Cook


Just because :)





Halloween in Rupert


Halloween in Fallon..special thanks for the costume from a great friend

Moving

Yes, we are moving!! Things were going great here in Nevada but Jared got a great job offer that was hard to resist so we are moving to Plymouth, UT which is about 10 miles north of Tremonton. Jared will be working for Cargill animal nutrition as a sales consultant. We are really excited for this new adventure but are having a hard time leaving our great friends in Nevada. Utah...here we come.

Pack Trip

On July 27-30, me, Jared, my three Sisters, Brother, Brother in law, and Dad were able to go on a pack trip up to Bear Creek, Colorado. It was a tradition for my family when we were growing up to go there once a year but since we all went off to college we hadn't been able to go in a while, so luckily we were able to go this year. We were bummed that my mom and sister in law didn't go but they were life savers and baby sat the kids.
We left Monday afternoon (our intent was early Mon. morning) but as usual that didn't happen. We only rode in that night about two miles and made camp before it got too dark. And with only a few little mis-haps. Jared's horse was a little excited and kept rearing up--no big deal until he reared up a little too far and was a little too close to the edge and Jared had to jump off and reign him back down. But remember he didn't fall off, he jumped off. And then Ashlie's horse was deathly afraid to cross little tiny trickles of water and wouldn't walk nicely across but decided to leap as far as she could all the while trying to give Ashlie whip lash. So incidents that were a little nerve racking at first but now we can't stop laughing about them.
Tuesday morning we packed up our things and packed up the mountain another six miles and made a permanent camp for the next two nights. The day before we were leaving to head home, a few horses were out grazing and three were hobbled and two were not and those two decided they were done with the pack trip and ready to go home so they took off back down the mountain. Jared instantly took off after them on foot but only got about a quarter of a mile before he realized they were long gone and so me and my brother saddled up and went after them. All the while we were having flash backs from a few years ago on one of our pack trips of him and me chasing a pack horse up the mountain that was loaded with our stuff. We had to chase him for probably four hours. So we were hoping this was not a recap of that because it was close to dark. Luckily, we caught up to them after about 20 minutes but they were dead set on going home.
Then the morning we left we got all packed up and were just starting out on the trail and one of our pack horses got spooked and started bucking and tossing our stuff out everywhere. We all had a good laugh watching him and reloaded our stuff and headed home. We fished a lot, ate great food, got rained on (you can't have a pack trip without getting rained on), laughed a lot and we can't wait to do it again.

This is one of my favorite places to go. It is SO beautiful!!








Us girls had a blast hanging out together






I think Jared was wearing his back pack in case he got launched :)





We had some good laughs--sorry Dad, I couldn't resist




The whole crew







My Favorites--just happened to be taking pictures when the pack horse went crazy



Sorry this post is so long, it was just such a great trip and too many good photos to choose from

George Strait and Bear Lake

On the 17th of July, me, Jared, my brother in law and his sister, and all my sisters met up to go the George Strait concert in Salt Lake City. Needless to say it was AMAZING!! By far the best concert I've been to. Julianne Hough and Blake Shelton opened for him so that was just another bonus. We had so much fun and thanks to Jared's sister for watching Makell for us.




And then the next day we went with Jared's sister and her husband and brother to Bear Lake. We had a great time with them relaxing in the sun

Girls Camp!!

Last week I got to go to girls camp in Mammoth Lakes, CA. It was so beautiful there and I had so much fun!! Jared took Makell to Idaho so his mom could watch her while I was gone. I am so grateful to her and also Jared's sister for taking such good care of Makell. It was much easier being at camp for a week knowing she was in such good hands. We were able to go rock climbing, canoeing, mountain biking (which turned out to be kinda dangerous for some girls) but still a blast, we practiced some archery, went hiking, learned more cheers and songs than I will ever be able to get out of my head, had some great spiritual meetings, and got to know some 13 year old girls VERY well. I made a great new friend (Mary) who I laughed my head off with pretty much all day long. I sure hope I can go back next year.





YEAH I made it to the top!


Me and Mary ready for our great biking adventure


None of us would starve in the wild if we had a bow :)


I loved being with all these girls and had a blast!!

Colorado Trip

Me and Makell were able to go home to CO to visit my family for a couple weeks. We had so much fun seeing everyone. All my sisters were able to go home at the same time so it was a great get together. Makell loved playing with all her cousins and aunts and Grandma and Grandpa and she stayed very busy helping Grandpa drive tractor, irrigate, feed cows, and midnight drives to shut off water. Our visits there always go by way too fast but we sure had a blast. And on our way home we stopped in Utah to visit my Grandma and we went to an animal museum and Makell ooohed and aahhed over all the animals pointing at everything she saw. Everyone was laughing at how amused she was. We had a great time there also. So the whole trip was awesome until the way home. Me and Makell had been driving about three hours and I started feeling sick and long story short we spent six hours on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere making friends with a bush because I had the flu and couldn't drive anymore. Thankfully Jared and his brother came and rescued us and got us home safely. Thank you again to them!! So needless to say that was about the worst day of my life!! But Makell was such a good little girl, she just climbed all over the car and tore it to pieces but she was happy. So we are home now and recovered and ready for our next adventure....girls camp :)

Makell had so much fun swimming. She got so mad when I took her out. This is her cousin Haylee.








There was always something going on so I think we wore these two girls out :)


Makell loved playing with all her cousins

Garden

We were finally able to get our garden planted last weekend. We borrowed a little tractor with a rota-tiller on the back and Jared was in heaven driving that little thing. I think he rota tilled our garden at least 6 times for fun. Makell loves playing in the dirt and she would shovel dirt with her little plastic shovel and dump it all over herself. A few times she would stomp on our plants but for the most part she did pretty good entertaining herself.