Fair Time in Carey

Wow Fair time finally came after all summer working on Vanessa's project. She was so excited and I was a nervous wreck for her :) I guess I remember being in 4H and all the work and the judging and the sale and was double worried for her especially being mom :) Vanessa had such a great time she loved it. She could have showed her sheep all day if they would have let her ha-ha. She placed 12th over all in quality that is just awesome out of all the sheep so that was the place she got to sale her lamb. It was a lot of fun.

Fish Creek kids RULED this year in quality. They won in the sheep, pig and beef Yahh to those kids. We figure it must be all the grasshoppers they ate :)

Vanessa showing her lamb during fitting and showing.

Vanessa loving on her lamb "butch" a few days before the fair

she loved to snuggle and love on him it was so cute

This is her after she sold him...she got in a cuddled him for a few minutes whispered something in his ear and got out and got her potato chips to share with him...that lamb ate everything she fed him he really loved pop tarts though. I thought she'd be a crying wreck after she sold him but after she got out of the ring she said "that was hard work, mom how much did I make!" I was floored but proud of her. She knew he had a purpose.

Vanessa and Butch just before going into sale ring. I was a nervous wreck for her she was excited.

Vanessa, Butch & Natalia.

Natalia loved holding Butches lead rope she would get mad when Vanessa had it. She just wasn't a fan of when he would nibble on her toes or her hair.

What a great experience we had in 4H this year. Vanessa is already excited and talking about next year. Trista is also excited since she'll be old enough for clover buds (she can show but not sale her lamb). Should be an interesting year lol.

Pioneer Day Parade

Every year Carey does their annual Pioneer Parade in July. This year it was July 25 and since the cheer squad is new to Carey I decided lets do the parade here (since they did Hailey parade over July 4th) so most of the girls on the squad are from Carey anyways. So we did it. We took all Natalia's bday luau decorations to decorate the float and ended up winning 2nd place. Yahh! so our cheerleaders are going to get a party with the $$ they won.

Girls are loving cheerleading. Practices start next week and I think football starts in Sept-Oct. should be fun.

This is only part of the girls from the squad that could make it. Doesn't Trista look thrilled (on the far left) Vanessa was loving that she was the top :) she's going to love that part lol.

Natalia our little cheerleader and Tiff (assistant coach) yep we road on the 4-wheeler on the way back man she was heavy after awhile lol. She loved waving at all the people.

This is how Natalia was before she even started the parade. It was so cute. She was the hit :)

The girls getting ready for the parade to start

Ryan was a great volenteer and drove the 4-wheeler for us and even got into the spirit and wore green to match us and the float :) He did great. He got the girls ready for the parade while I was gone early decorating the float. What a super daddy.

10th Anniversary

So we weren't sure what we wanted to do for our 10th anniversary for so long then we just decided how much fun it would be to take the kids camping in Yellowstone since its only like 4 hours from us. We couldn't go long because of the fair being so close but I got lucky and had a break in school that week. I was determined this time to make it to the upper loop since I had never been to the upper loop even after all the times I have been there. The kids were so excited and we couldn't wait to show them lots of fun things.

Us girls in front of Old Faithful ya it was the last thing we saw on day 2 and the girls actually had to wait to see it which they weren't thrilled about and Vanessa said "that's all that is boring" kids.

Seeing a bunch of the mud pots, etc...the girls faces were so funny at the smell they weren't fans but thought they were so neat. Natalia as you can see was so thrilled she crashed lol

Natalia and I if I look freaked I was you should have seen where Ryan told me to sit for this picture ya not fun on the edge of a rock with a waterfall behind us but the picture did turn out good.

Natalia, Vanessa and Trista all smiles

We all thought this was neat that the steam from the hot springs were soooo hot they were melting the pavement.

Ryan and Natalia eating lunch at Mammoth. Natalia's first time trying kiwi she loved it.

Wow we just can't believe its been 10 years since we got married. It just seems like yesterday we swear but in other ways it doesn't. We look at the kids especially Vanessa and wonder where the almost 9 years of having her has gone (she'll be 9 in Oct). It has been an awesome 10 years though and I love him more than ever.

Our beautiful girls so excited about seeing everything

The elk that we saw right after we got into the park

Our first family picture after entering the park. there were elk on the other side of the river yep the girls were soooo excited. Even though we see them at home they were even more excited here. What a great vacation. We also got to see Ryan's step sister Jeanine who works there and meet her new boyfriend. We had a great visit with them.

Death in our Family

Trista digging the hole while daddy and Vanessa watch

So early last spring Ryan took Trista and Vanessa fishing and Trista caught a Bass and she was so excited. When they got it home and Ryan went to clean it up SURPRISE it was still alive. Well Trista didn't have the heart to kill it so guess what her and her daddy had a bright idea to put it in our fish tank. Yep! we no longer had any little cute fish after that night. We soon learned that Bass eat everything and even try to eat the fingers that are trying to feed him. Well after a year one morning Ryan and I woke to him not being alive. Trista handled it so well I was proud of her. She decided to bury him in front of the flag pole and insisted to dig the hole herself. Poor thing there are so many rocks she did great though.

Though we are sad that "Hungry Hungry Hippo" (Trista named him because he eats anything) is dead we are excited we can again get fish.