Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! Hope yours was as fun as ours! We even recieved the "Funniest Costumes" award!

Summer '12

So… I should be doing homework right now… but updating my blog sounded much more appealing, so here it goes! I know I have slacked all summer… and fall, but I will try and catch up our boring lives! To start off this summer, we remodeled a mobile home. I don’t have pictures of the remodel done, but hopefully will have it up in a week or so… don’t count on it. We had to totally redo all of the sub floor, plumbing, and the master bathroom. Now it is so nice, and we love living there! One weekend my mom and I went to a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Scott who lives in California. It was so fun to see him be so surprised, and enjoy his birthday with the family. My favorite part is the glasses! As most of you know, we had some fires down this way this summer. Since Brett is a volunteer firefighter, he got called out on some of them. On the Maple Canyon Fire, we got to tour this helicopter, and Brett thought it was so cool! One thing that we always like to do is go on 4-wheeler rides. These aren’t very good pictures but some of the only ones I had from riding this summer. My most favorite thing this summer, was this car at the car show on the 24th of July. This will be my car someday! The last thing I have pictures of is my Grandparent’s 70th Wedding Anniversary. Now they are both 90 years old as well. WOW! They are such good examples to all of us, and have left such a great legacy! I love them both so much. Aren't they so cute? Well that about sums up our summer, and pretty much life to date. Hope all is well with everyone!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to our Little Angel Hailey June! We love you and miss you! Can't believe it has been a year!
 
We will be together someday!

Spring Time!

I know it doesn't feel like spring anymore, but as I was looking through some pictures, I found some of a hike we went on in the early spring.

We are very photogenic... or it was just very bright outside!

Brett being the protector!


Brett thought that this tree looked cool coming out of the rock, so he made me pose...

...then he decided he could pose better!

This was me attempting to rock climb up this rock.





This is after I conquered the rock!





One of my favorite things about Spring is all of the baby animals that are born. Every year I start going crazy and tell Brett that I want a baby lamb, or a baby calf, or even a baby llama (because they are so cute) whenever I see one. Well this year my brother in law's mare had this adorable little foal. She has so much spunk, and is so cute that I think I want a baby horse now! ;)

Cake Pops!

WARNING: Do not read if you have an empty stomach. May cause uncontrollable drooling and/or cravings.



So last night, Brett wanted to make something... but I didn't know what to make... until I remembered Cake Pops. I've seen them done a couple of times, but I have never attempted to make them before. Well looking up recipes, I realized that we didn't have everything we needed to make them... so they were postponed until tonight. But. They were so worth it. They were fun, fairly simple, and soooo delectable(using both meanings; delicious and extremely beautiful). You can find the recipe I followed here. Hope you have a fun time! :)

Grandma Lever

Here is my sweet Grandma. I love this woman soooo much!



On April 1st, my Granmda Lever turned 80. We had a wonderful time with all of the extended family on the Lever side celebrating her life, and her wonderful legacy. This past year, my grandma has been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. She has been trying to fight it, but it has kept progressing. The doctors figure that it will take her life in the next 3-6 months or so. This woman has been such a strength to me in my life. Her example has extended to anyone that has ever been around her.
During the summer of 2010, I had the opportunity to spend the summer living with my Grandma as I worked in Taylorsville. That summer was one of the best summer's I have ever had, and it was all because of her. I feel so blessed to have such a magnificent example and friend in my life as my Grandma Lever is. I have never heard her say anything ill of anyone, and her attitude about life is truly amazing. She is always giving compliments, and telling everyone how much she loves them. But that's just the kind of person she is; a true saint, and a disciple of Christ. One day I hope that I can be just like her.

Life.

If you recall from my Valentine's post, Brett got me the Cala Lilies. Well when the cala lilies get too tall, they just start bending and breaking at the stems. They had looked sad for quite a while, and one day I finally had enough and trimmed them up. There were so many flowers, that I decided to take them up to the cemetery and liven Hailey's grave a little bit. I would still like to get up and plant some flowers to brighten it as well... hopefully when school gets out. On Monday, it will be 10 months since I got to meet Hailey here on Earth. What a blessing she has been to me, and she is definitely not forgotten. Her influence has penetrated deep into me and changed my life forever. I love you, and think about you all the time baby girl!

A cool VUE!

One day when I was driving, I just happened to look down and notice that our odometer on the Vue was about to turn into 123456. On the way home from school, I had to stop at the farm road, about 3 miles out of town, so I could take a picture. I thought it was pretty cool! :)

Spring Break!

This year for spring break, Brett and I took the whole week off to go spend time with family down South. The first little while we stayed in Beaver and visited my parents. The high school musical was going on at this time, and we were able to go watch my little sister Melodie, which was enjoyable, and she did such a good job.

After Beaver, we headed down to Logandale to spend a few days with Brett's oldest sister Annalyn and her family. We enjoyed our visit, and Annalyn took us on some adventurous walks and hikes.

We hiked up to this plateu one morning, and the view was very rewarding even though the hike was tiring.







Brett thought that we were lost, so he decided to try and bum a ride off of a train. ;)



After the plateu hike, Brett and I headed to a ghost town called St. Thomas. This town was covered in the early 1900's by Lake Mead, but now is uncovered. We didn't get too many pictures here, but you can still see some of the foundations, and it was really neat to see.



After Logandale, we were able to spend some time with Brett's brother Matt in St. George. This was good, because Matt is going to be moving up to Sanpete, as he was just hired as the North Sanpete head football coach. We are so excited that he got this, and now all 6 of the brothers will be living in Sanpete!

We really had a spectacular time visiting family during the week off, and it was a much needed break for us.

Volleyball!

Volleyball has been my favorite sport... ever since I started playing my freshman year of high school. Anytime I get a chance to play, I JUMP on the opportunity because I don't get to as often as I would like. Luckily for me, there is a womens league here in Sanpete that is so much fun to play in. My sister-in-law, Briana, got me hooked up with her team, and I had a blast this year playing with the team. We made it pretty far in the tournament and placed 3rd.

Brett was such a good sport and came to every game to watch me play... even though he really probably didn't want to a lot of the time. One night he even snagged some pretty good pictures. :)

Little bit of cuteness!

Living in Wales, we have the opportunity to be by most of Brett's family. Along with this, we get to tend nieces and nephews quite a bit. One day we were tending some of them, and this little sweetheart came in wearing "Risha's shoes." I couldn't help myself and had to take some pictures. Enjoy!

Valentine's...Way behind in blogging!!

I am so far behind in blogging that I really don't know where to start, but then I look, and I really don't have that much to blog about... I guess we're really not that exciting of people :)

This year for Valentine's Brett got me these beautiful flowers.



Cala Lilies are one of my favorite flowers, but I'm really not a big fan of flowers... because they die. Well Brett and his ingeniousness (I don't think that's a word) got me these cala lilies that were in a pot, so they wouldn't die. He is so thoughtful and sweet. :) Love you honey.

I also begged him to take me to the Valentine's Dance this year, since we have never been to a date dance together. After much persuasion, Brett kindly agreed, and we made our way to Ephraim for the dance. I had a great time, and it really had been a while since we had danced (Brett's a good Swing Dancer). The pictures aren't the greatest, but it was still fun! :)