Blast to the Past

We've had a lot going on lately with school starting again! With Nate and I both working full time and going to school full time we like to spend every possible moment together not leaving much time for blogging. Besides being on the go all the time takes a lot out of you! Now that I'm done sharing my excuses.....

We did a lot of fun things to send the summer out with a bang. So now that it's fall and cold and rainy out I figured I would take a blast to the past and remember the good old times, not so long ago, when it was nice and warm!

First things first,
My mom has a close friend who lost her husband to a car accident a couple of months ago. She was in awe at how many people came to support her and her family at the funeral and some really neat things were said about her husband. She mentioned to my mom after the funeral how sad it is that we don't more to celebrate people when they are alive. After hearing and thinking about that, my mom decided to throw my dad a Surprise Birthday Party. Boy was he surprised!! After my dad changing his mind many times about whether he was going to go into work or not that day (we were hoping he would so my mom could get stuff ready at home), he decided last minute to say home and work!!! So thanks to my amazing husband, we were able to get him out of the house by sending them on random errands. Thanks for your help babe!

We started it with his family







Then about an hour and a half later we had our family friends, people from the ward and his work start showing up!







The yummy food....









It was so fun surprising him!! With only his family there in the beginning he thought was it! But little did he know that after they started leaving, the next group would start coming. And they kept coming and coming!! We hope you had a good time dad!

To show how Red Neck my family is we were introduced to Demolition Durby by a family in our ward almost 10 years ago! We have gone every year since. We have now added Nates family to our tradition within the last 4 years or so. We go to the Salt Lake County Fair Durby and have some pretty crazy stories from all of our trips. The worst part of all is that we can't wait until next year when we can go again!!

Walking around with Brynnlee before the Durby





Yes, that's a tire!



It's hard to tell but the truck in front is on fire and the man in the green jacket is trying to get it out with a fire extinguisher. They came up with a new rule this year that after 3 fires your disqualified for your own safety. This poor guy had back luck and ended up being disgualified for to many fires!




We finished off the summer by spending Labor Day at Flaming Gorge with Nate's family. We took Jason and Lexi with us because dad graduated that same weekend in Washington from School and Sami wasn't up to watching them all weekend. I think they had a lot of fun. We learned while we were there that Chloee is 99% fish. She didn't care what she did as long as she could do it in the water. She probably spent 80% of the time swimming around! Nate's Uncle John has a boat that he brings up and lets us all take turns playing on it! Thanks for sharing your boat and all your fun toys with us! It makes is so much fun.

Going on a little boat ride to the rock!



Hanging out at the rock




Nicholas jumping from the rock


Nate's jump/belly fop


Nate and i


Jason had his birthday while we were up there. I made him some cupcakes and we brought up some gifts for him to open.



Nate and Brynnlee


Chloee playing keep away - She's not very good at sharing with other dogs!



Duke finally gets a hold


Duke somehow ending up with it


Crawdads the kids caught


Jason and Lexi with they crawdad


Going Fishing with Grandpa Keith


Camp


Nate, straping on wake boots to give it a try for the first time!


Just after getting up, trying so hard to keep his balance!


Nate Successfully riding his first wake!! He actually did pretty darn good considering he's never done it before. Way to go BABE~


Jason, Lexi, and Kyler on the tubes - Jason and Lexi have never been boating before but they had a blast! I think Jason outrode everyone on the tube. Everyone would get off to switch it up, except him!






Freezing after tubing


One of the only times Chloee was out ouf the water our entire trip. She looks so tired but you'd be suprised how much energy she still had left!!!




We had a a busy summer but we were able to get a lot done and have quite a bit of fun! Thanks for all the good times babe!