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Over the river and through the woods...

Each general conference we usually take a four wheeling trip.  This year we decided to just spend it at the cabin.  For my dad's birthday we got him tiger trout to plant in his pond at the cabin.  It has been a RiOt!!  It is so much fun because you don't have to wait long before you catch one.  The kids love to catch grass hoppers to fish with.  It's also neat to throw dog food out and watch the fish go nuts over it.

If you haven't noticed, Ryan is obsessed with fishing lately.  That's all I hear about.  It's fun seeing him so passionate about something.  He is in HEaVeN up there.  I love it!

Ryan helping Jayden and Alex

Otis and Kash

Helping me with the horses

I love this picture!  What goof balls!!

Natalie is in the process of potty training Otis and so when he finally says he needs to go, he really needs to go!!!

Sittin around the camp fire

I don't know if Kresta was doing that on purpose???

 These are just a couple of thr probably 100 we took! They loved pulling faces

I have so many pictures of him picking his nose.

This is on the new road Kory and Karl have made for their new rock business.  If you need landscaping rocks, let me know!

                                                

                                           

                                                     

                                               This is what Alex's hair looks like when he wakes up

                                                    

                                                  

Vegas with the girls!

No BoYs AllOwEd!!  

We went to St. George and Las Vegas with just the girls.  It was so much fun!  Kresta's mom lives down there in a beautiful house and was out of town and let us intrude!  The highlight of the trip was Little Mermaid.  It was so AwESome!  I've never been a really big play person, but this was so freaking fun!  The special effects were just out of this world.  My favorite part was when Ariel saved Eric from the ocean!

We randomly wore the same colors!

Emma, Bryn, Liz, Brek, and Gracie

Baby Ruby

Brek and Emma at the play

Emma, Brek, and Gracie

Gracie, Brek, Bryn

Gracie, Rielee, Liz, Mom, and Nat 

Treasure, Bryn, Emma, Brek, Kresta, and Alicia

Emma, Gracie, and Treas

Skuttle and the Chef 

King Tritan

Urcella

We went to Las Vegas for one of the days to shop for furniture.  We didn't come back with any furniture but Natalie showed us a way cute store.  We bought SOOO much!  It had a community dressing room which was SuPeR awkward!  There was a bunch of other girls in there dressing at the same time and they had thongs on and afterwards the twins were telling Kresta, "Mom, those girls had SERIOUS wedgies!!!"  haha 

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The Three Amigos

Tanja and I were able to just go back for the weekend to Louisiana and see Sister Hughes go through the temple.     It was kind of weird going back down mEmOry LAnE!  It was like we were back on the mission again.  It was super fun.

The group that went to the temple

 Sister Hughes was baptized last year and this year she was able to go through the temple.  It was so neat to be able to witness her go through the temple all in white and get sealed to her husband who had just passed away right before we started teaching her.

One of my favorite mission moments was when Tanja and I were teaching Sister Hughes and she would never pray for us at the end of the lesson.  We decided that we would just call on her and shut our eyes and stay quiet until she started to pray...we were all on our knees and she said the prayer.  We were all so excited that we ended up in a DoGGy piLe on the ground!

When we first arrived in Dallas we went to the rent a car place and we got into this car and it had a gps system in it and I said, Wow! You really got a nice car for us!!  We were heading out and the guy at the gate was checking all of our information and realized that we were totally in the wrong car :)  We had to turn around and park the car and go find the other car we had rented.

We got to the hotel late but the next morning we were able to have breakfast with the Malone's, Sister Hughes, Dean Williams and his wife and his mom Terri, Sister Swanson and her husband, and Sister Moses.  It was so much fun!!

The temple session was really good.  We were nervous for Sister Hughes and how she would react.  For the most part it went well but there were some funny parts I will not blog about.  Tanja...I'm sure you are laughing right now if you are reading this :)

Eliza, Sister Hughes, and Tanja

Dashey, Laurel, and Miranda Sparish

Sister Hughes and Dean

Worn out from a long day at the temple

Tom Olson a guy who we both taught

The Green Family.  They were one of our favorites!

Dean was able to arrange for Tanja to go sKyDIvInG this time.  She was a pro.  I could hear her the moment she jumped out of the plan screaming!!  I was like, "Dean, do you hear that noise???"  Sure enough, it was Tanja.  We were laughing sooo hard.  haha.  She cracks me up.