Summer in St. George

Wow I finally figured out again how to fix the background and text of my blog. I just looked at it for the first time since my last post and saw everything was messed up and I haven't posted anything about our summer. I am a horrible blogger! So here is our summer in St. George quick version. We moved to St. George end of June from Vernal and things have been great. Colton started school end of August and is working hard in his classes. He works for a handicap home called Danville where he works 10 hours shifts 3 nights a week. He has a lot of time to do homework since he can't sleep. I'm working full time at Advanced Physical Therapy and love it. A lot of fun people and a lot to learn being there. We are living with my dad right now in his basement in Hurricane so we travel back and forth a lot but saving money which we need. I believe that is about it. I like my pictures to explain things more than me cause I don't like to make an effort to read very often so I won't make you :).

This was our moving crew when we moved down. Bailey drove my dad's truck and trailer up to vernal and helped load all our stuff up and clean my house. Colton's family helped us load while there which was very helpful, all those big strong boys. Bailey and I cleaned my whole house and finished up the packing all day Saturday while Colton had to work. It was a lot of work getting out of there. We borrowed Ben's dad's huge horse trailer from Roosevelt to haul down too. So we left with two trailers full of our stuff and my car. Kirsten, Colton's sister, came along for the ride too from Roosevelt. We picked up Ben and Kallie in Orem to help in St. George. We got to St. George and unloaded half our stuff the next morning then headed to the lake, Sand Hollow where this picture was taken. It was a long drive, a lot of gas money and lots of laughs. The lake sure paid off in the end. In the picture we have Kirsten, Ben, Kallie, me, Colton, Rachel, Bailey and Jenna.

Next we had the fourth of July at my mom's house. We had a few activities and good homemade ice cream.

Stef and Trev eating some homemade ice cream made by Dale

A little bit of laso golf.

And of course the fire works which I'm sure nothing good could have come of this firework being lit and made by Bailey and Trevor. They are not a good combination to be doing things.

We were just the audience for all of it.

When we moved down I was the only one with a job. The plan was for Colton to stay in Roosevelt working until we found him a job or school started which ever came first. Well he lasted a week and called and said I don't want to be here anymore. So we decided to have him quit and come down hoping all would work out and he would find a job. The second week he was here Bailey took him to California with him to work installing synthetic grass for the week. They stayed with Bailey's girlfriend Rachel's family. Rachel and I drove down Friday night to meet them and bring them home. So we went to the beach Saturday!

This is at Laguna Beach with Shaun, Summer, Bailey, and us at the beach. Rachel was doing hair stuff that day with her mom.

There was a spot on the rocks where water was shooting out so I sent the boys out for a picture, then they got in trouble with the lifeguard cause it wasn't safe.

This is us. I love the beach and laying out. My favorite summer activity.

We decided to buy earwax candles and clean out our ears of ear wax. Not sure if they really work but it was fun to do anyways. This is Bay and me getting our ears cleaned.

This is how they came out in the end. Don't think that it is really wax from our ears but well pretend.

Now it's Colton and Rachel's turn.

We had a park night with my mom and fam. We played a little football, played on the big kids play ground, as they call it, and some wooffle ball. Chris and Colton headed back to the vehicles.

Our wooffle ball game. I'm sure my team won. My mom bought a wooffle ball pitching machine. It works pretty well when there isn't a lot of wind. Sometimes we had a few problems hitting off it.

Stef Westbrooke, Trevor's girlfriend, had a birthday. We went to lazer tag and had some birthday cake to celebrate. All the fam and a few friends.

Stef and her birthday cake.

Rachel and Chris also had birthday's this summer. We celebrated by going to the batting cages and a little fiesta fun, fun. We had Sunday dinner at my dad's for Rachel's birthday. My dad works Sundays normally so it was even better it was on her birthday to have Sunday dinner with him and Deanne. She turned 20 and Chris turned 24.

I forgot the candles so we used matches. I don't recommend them. They really don't work well if you have a lot of them to light.

My two friends I grew up with on my street got married the same weekend this summer. I don't have the pictures of Jessie Wegkamp yet but here is Danielle Brown. Her husband's name is Matt. I'm a bad friend and don't know their last name.

Two of my best friends at Dan's reception. Morgan and Whitnie.

The Washington county fair was in August so we went and checked it out. None of us wanted to really ride cause those rides are nasty and too spinny, but it was still fun to walk around. Let me tell you the fair is what brings out the white trash of the city. You find many interesting people there. Maybe we are white trash cause we were there but hey nothin wrong with joining in right?

Our last event was the Dixie Round Up! I haven't been to this since before high school. We use to go every year when I was young. I always had three dreams of rodeos: to ride in the mutton bust, be a rodeo queen and a barrel racer. Ya as you can see none of them ever come true but they were good dreams. We had a lot of fun even though the seating was horrible on the hard cement stairs squished in with tons of people. Bad on the back but good on the heart :)

Rachel, me and Colton. Don't worry we got our Rodeo hot dogs and candy while there.

Dad and Jenna. Bay couldn't make it due to work in Escalante.

Great night!

This sums up the way my mom and Dale felt at the end of almost every weekend and day this summer. This was a sunday afternoon I believe.

When we moved into my dad's we didn't realize we would be gaining two new children too. My dad isn't home much so we get the responsibility of his two dogs. We love them but they can sure be a lot of work sometimes. Guess it is preparing us for kids one day and hopefully our own puppy soon.

This is Cody. He is a German Shepard who is about 12 years old. He is a sweet heart and very lovable. He likes to lean on you to get you to pet him and run between your legs. He is not a small dog either. He can't hardly see and can barely walk some days but we love him. You can usually find him in this spot. His favorite spot to hangout.
This is Jake. The fattest Golden Retriever you will probably ever see. He loves to be petted and fed. He is happy when he can just be in the same room as you usually. He loves to come sit in my room with me while I clean and watch tv with us. He has nasty furry toys he plays with that he whips himself in the head with all the time He thinks we should love his toys just as much as he does.