Flaming Gorge!!!

 FLAMING GORGE

I love Flaming Gorge. I don't get to go every year for one reason or another and when I do we usually go in July, around the 24th. This year, however, we went on Memorial Day weekend! I turned out that it was just my Uncle Danny's family, my mom and dad and Heather and Josh and then Kyle and I. It was REALLY windy the whole time we were up there too but it was still so much fun :)

This is my dad's little beater boat. Actually, a long time ago, it used to be Uncle Danny's, LOL. Anyways, my Dad still gets it to run so that's good. You can't put more than 4 people in it - it gets really bogged down otherwise. Its a fun little fishing boat though. Even though you don't want to be on the water when it's stormy - which we were, yikes!

 We went on the Dam tour because Kyle hadn't ever been on it, plus it's free and it was something to do when it was cold and windy. Kyle wasn't that impressed with it though, hahaha.

 He did almost have his hat go over the edge though. It is a LONG way down. (He doesn't like heights so it made him slightly nervous)

This is at the bottom. I was trying to get the fish below in the photo but it didn't turn out, bummer. The fish are seriously huge though. I can't imagine they take very good though, being fed on fish food all the time. 

A lady offered to take our picture since she saw me trying to do it my self so we said yes. She got some good shots which was good because apparently my battery on my camera was basically dead at that point. 




Um, I forgot to turn this one.....ooops ;D

Here's my Daddy with a good view of the Dam behind him. 

 And here's my honey, staring at the water and daring those fishies to take a bite of his lure, heeheehee.

 This is us looking super freezing because we had to jump in the water to help get the boat off the water on a particularly rough day.

I love camping! I'm so glad we've got a few fun trips planned for this summer. I love being with my family and having fun.

Kick-off to Summer!!!

 Well, to kick the summer off, Kyle and I went to a demolition derby!!! I got Kyle the tickets as part of his anniversary present and we went and had a ton of fun! :) We had chili cheese fires too to complete the experience and our seats weren't half bad either. (We actually sat next to this nice old couple and the lady was super nice and joking with me the whole time, it was awesome)

 This was one of the more awesome shots I took with my camera. It was kinda crazy trying to take pictures and yet watch with my own eyes at the same time. I did get a couple good ones though.

There was even one girl who participated in this demo derby. She actually had her car rolled over when another car slammed into her.

This was by far my favorite car/truck - the Cookie Monster one. :) I love the eyes :) Unfortunately, he didn't do to well in the heat. He broke down fairly soon. I think this was the first time I had actually seen a truck heat in a demo derby. I have been to several derbies before bu they were always cars. Anyways, it was a perfectly fun way to kick-off our summer! :)

One Year of Wedded Bliss :)

 I can't believe that one whole year has gone by since I married the love of my life. Honestly, I just can't believe that much time has passed already. But, it's been absolutely amazing :) We wanted to do something special for our very first anniversary. Kyle planned most of it and since I am a girl who loves surprises, I told him not to tell me what he had planned. :) 

He didn't tell me either. He told me to take Monday and Tuesday off work and that was about it. Then, after a leisurely breakfast on monday morning, we got our stuff packed and got in the car. Kyle had told me it would take about a half hour to get where we were going and so I was guessing we were going back to Armstrong Mansion in Salt Lake City. That's where we spent the first night of our Honeymoon. However, when we got in the car we started driving towards Morgan. Now, at this point I was like, ok, we're going the back way to Park City. And we were in no hurry. :) No deadline, I love it! 

Well we stopped at many places along the way. We actually went through Morgan and up past Little Dell Reservoir and into Salt Lake through Emmigration Canyon. It was way nice! I've never been through that canyon I don't think. I've put some pics up of us doing different poses. The one complaint was that it was VERY windy and the wind made it quite chilly, as you can probably tell from some of the photos. :)

 There was a monument on top of Big mountain and I hid behind it to get out of the wind :)

 It was still very, very windy. :) But it's a beautiful view into Salt Lake Valley. This is the view the Mormon Pioneers would have had actually when they came to Utah.

 Me next to the Mormon Pioneer Trail sign.

 When we came out of the canyon what did we see? Why the Zoo of course!!! LOL I had forgotten that the Zoo was at the mouth of this canyon. So, Kyle and I decided to go to the Zoo because neither of us had been in soo long. I'll just put a bunch of animal pics in here now.

We saw the Elephants almost right off (we did see some monkeys before). I love the pic of Kyle standing next to the big elephant. And the baby elephant to the right was super cute. :)

This was a really good shot of the Rhino through the glass. 

I though so anyways. :)

They are so tall and this is how they get fed. I thought it was way cool to watch them pull the hay out with their trunks. Their trunks really are their hands!

 

The baby monkey was just too cute!

 "Timone" playing peek-a-boo with us. :) Plus a baby giraffe!

 The peacock was showing off for us. Or... maybe it was for the girl peacock that was hiding around the tree......;)

 Kyle is about the same as a female gorilla!

I fall a little short, hahah. 

Oh! I forgot. I got Kyle tickets to a Demolition Derby this month as part of his Anniversary present.

 Hahaha he's totally cheesing this one up.

 This bigger part of his gift though was a Camp Chef!!! He's been wanting one for when we go tent camping. It just so happens we'll be using it at the end of this month when we go up to Flaming Gorge. However, I had the idea before I knew that! :) He also got me a beautiful sunflower necklace but I haven't taken a pic of it yet so maybe I will put one up later.

 Here's just a random pic of us. :)

 Later that night, after we went to Rodizio's Brazilian grill for dinner (YUM), we went up to the capitol building and walked around and took some pictures. Kyle was stalling because as I later found out, the hotel was putting rose petals and sparking cider and hersey's kisses in our room. My husband is way too sweet to me but I love him!

Awwww... We're so cute. LOL. You all are probably getting sick of
 reading this.






Ok, so the next morning we went to the Gateway and walked around while we were waiting for the other surprise Kyle got me. Kyle had an engineering moment at the Discovery Museum :). 

Then we went and got a Couple's Massage!!! It was amazing. We had a sample of hot stone massage thrown in too and I was so relaxed afterwards. :) He's the best husband ever!!! After that we went up to Park City and had some lunch and just wandered around the outlet mall for a while before heading home. It was a very fun and relaxing get-a-way for us.

I'm so happy I'm married to Kyle. I seriously couldn't have asked for a better husband!!!

Our Garden!!!

Kyle and I have been working on getting our garden in since last summer and now this spring we finnally have one planted!!! Yay!! I'm so excited to see how well it does. This was a pretty huge project too because we didn't originally have a plot for a garden. We had to tear up all of the sod ourselves and that was basically all we were able to do last summer. Well, we did till it and we did put in railroad ties on two of the four sides before it started snowing. We finished putting in the railroad ties on the other two sides this spring as soon as the ground thawed enough.

 

Then, because we now have Leo, our puppy, we decided we had better put some sort of fence around the garden otherwise we wouldn't have and kind of garden once Leo was done playing in ti, LOL. So we bought some hog panel and some T-posts and put up a fence. We even made a gate that clips to the chain link fence and swings quite nicely if I do say so myself.

 

There's my honey tilling the garden to soften up the dirt so we can finally plant!!!

 These are our nice rows we made. :) We're going to try planting quite a few varieties of things but there won't be too large of quantities until we figure out what will grow well and what we like the best. Then maybe we'll have to change what we're planting. We're gonna do two full rows of corn but we're going to plant them about two weeks apart so we can have corn all summer long. Yay!!!

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Ok, so I was wanting to paint something one day and we had a ton of rocks on the side of our house and I thought, perfect, I'll paint those. I had seen on Pinterest that someone had done this for their garden and I thought that I would steal their idea and do it for my garden. I had a lot of fun making them even though I might have made a spelling mistake.... can you find it? I also had to add three more rocks that aren't shown here. 

 

Here's the finished product with the rocks all in the garden. If you look closely, I don't know if you can see them here, we even have some plants up!!