Chav gone hunting

Sept 9, 2011
Chav left for 20 days to go guide for BTO again this year...definately miss him! Thankfully I got offered a job at Dixie Regional Medical center right before he left!!!!! :-D so between school projects, clinical hours, and orienting for this new job; I've been at the house to sleep and eat...and that's about it.

I hate this time every year when he leaves, but it's true what they say: distance really does make the heart grow fonder.

Fun in the Sun!

July 2011:
By some miracle we both found time in our busy schedules to hang out with eachother (Kyle and Kylee Treece). Kyle and Chav knew eachother back on the mission, and we've really enjoyed living so close to them. Saturday we went to Quail Creek and hung out for the afternoon...

gotta love the crack on the left and the "white-boy" on the right

Redd Reunion

Finally to JULY...catching up via BLOG is time consuming.

On the way to Blanding on July 1st about 45 minutes into our journey my windsheild broke...30 min later...pulled over...:) so far so good.

Saturday, we headed up to the Holliday cabin, and hung out at the pond, shot guns, and ate lunch.

Sunday morning all the Redd's got together again and played Minute to Win it, and then watched a video that showed grandma and grandpa redd at the last thanksgiving they were both alive. I loved being able to hear their voices and see them since I never had the pleasure of meeting them.

the Redd family has no idea how much I love all of them. It means everything to me to be apart of a family that despite all their differences, have remained close with eachother. All the grandkids are growing up, and now there are great-grandchildren, and still 90% of the family was at the reunion...that is just amazing to me, and I am so glad I get to be apart of it.

Sunday night we played poker.

Everyone is accounted for, except the WINNER...haha that would be me.
Unfortunately, I get really competitive when playing poker...so my apolozies go out to my fellow players...next time, I'll control my self better.

Happy 4th of July...Monday we all attended the parade.

WE LOVE going to Blanding for the 4th and we LOVE spending time with the Redds.

Where are we??

After mason and lexi's reception on saturday, we hit the road heading back to st. george due to us having to pick up horses in the morning and head to Albion Idaho.

We arrived to st george around 2am, and were back on the road heading north by 930am.



"uh...we could really use a dodge about now."
the whip we took to make the long journey.

Chavis' boss asked Chavis to take two of his horses to this horse Vet in Albion, Idaho. "Albion Idaho" typed into GPS...total time 7 hours and 45 min, "Oh, we'll definately be able to drop the horses off by five, then eat and relax til morning," I thought. And you would've thought that with two GPS devices, and four eyes capable of reading street signs we would've made it to our destination on time...but NO.  Oh no that did not happen. There's a mountain that divides albion...and the GPS apparently had NO knowledge of the side we were supposed to be on. Between my TOMTOM and the Dodge GPS, we traveld in, through, and around Burley ID; all over people's private farms (because GPS picks up DIRT roads, but not paved roads that run parallel .25 miles east), and through this small town...


MALTA- pop 177

Me being the person I am had the mother of all swear words just boiling inside me waiting to escape (to my future posterity...this may suprise you that I ever swore...but I was young and careless back then)...but I held them in until Chavis got too close the a pole at the gas station, and F... :(  "Was that necessary?" Chavis said. "Uh yes..I've been holding them in all day, one was bound to slip out eventually."

so after driving on dirt roads for an hour and a half, and being lost for FOUR hours, we finally found the Vet, and were able to drop off the horses.

Unfortunately, at ten pm on a sunday in a town with one gas station that is closed on sunday...we had to drive 30 min back into Burley to eat nasty dinner at diary queen at eleven o'clock at night.

Thankfully we stayed in a cute little hotel, and businesses opened up monday morning.

don't be alarmed, the shadow of the tree branches would cover
my entire face.

I have the picture of the liquor store because we ate lunch across the street at eleven, and there we 3 different trucks that pulled up to this store, and just sat and stared at it for a coulple minutes each...apparently they had sundays that were worse than ours...they all thought if they wished hard enough it would open before their eyes.

We also found the old Post office...it's the only post-office we've ever seen without the USPS logo on it.

This pic is on the way back to the VET to load up one of the horses.

turns out albion's a really nice place when your not lost

Sad, that the horse we didn't bring home had to be put down...and horses scare me...but I really grew to like this one after we got lost together.

Heading home...6 hours to go.

Mason & Lexi's BIG day

July 23rd we made the long 5 1/2 hour drive through the reservation and ending up in Blanding to attend one of Chavis' best friend's weddings.

The wedding was held at a small park in monticello, and Lexi did such a good job picking out their colors...the entire event looked GREAT!!

We're so excited for Mason and Lexi to be hitched!!! We hope they LOVE being married, and can't wait to hang out with them soon!

WORK PARTY

June started off by saying "goodbye" to Jace for 2 years...he left on his mission to the Denver Colorado North mission.

Mid-June, we headed up north to go to Lagoon for the PDI work party. I must say it was so nice being the only couple that didn't have kids: we just did whatever we wanted the whole day.

We did TONS of people watching, and then we took a snooze at lagoona-beach before lunch.

We stood in line for the Spider..which about 30 minutes into our wait we realized that the ride wasn't very cool, but we figured we might as well finish since we'd already waited 1/2 the time...following that mediocre ride, we headed to wait in line at the Wild Mouse...also equally lame, and painful. That ride just jerks you all over, and with only one bar...only the bigger of the two is secured into the ride...so not me.

It was really fun getting to spend the day, just the two of us...especially seeing how we may not have many more summers with JUST us :)

NEW SHOES

I LOVE what Chavis will do for me...I was so excited when we got our new "sliders" I just had to take a pic, and as corny as it was, he joined in :)