Boston

Hello everyone, for Jared's 12th birthday we are in Boston! How fun is that????

We went down to SLC on Monday, on our way there we stopped in Ogden at the Hill Air Force Base and swam with my uncle Cameron and his family at out hotel. Here are some pics of the Air Force Museum, it was pretty cool!

We flew out Yesterday(Tuesday) and flew for most of the day. We got to our beach house at about 9:30 pm. We didn't take any pictures, but you get the idea...



Day three... today... we just had a free day, we went shopping and we went and saw the Avengers movie, it was AWESOME!!!


we relaxed...

We walked on the beach:

this is the back porch of our house! AWESOME!!! it has been SO nice to have a whole house to ourselves instead of being in a cramped hotel room! It's actually quite a bit bigger than our current house! I even have my own room!

we wrote each other's names in the sand...

this IS Boston in the spring so it IS raining a lot! it has been raining almost non stop since we got here! But because of the humidity it's still pretty warm! which is why i'm in shorts even though the sweatshirt doesn't make sense!

it's never too cold for them!

my Mom and Dad on the beach

We saw a lot of cool animals...

do you see the hidden object? (you'll know if you do!)

yep, you guessed right! a stingray! we actually saw several that were dead

here is what the underside of it looks like!

a closer look reveals... a crab1 we saw lots of these! this one is dead, but there were a lot of live ones

a teenie little starfish!

a big clam shell and the starfish!

a bigger crab

lots of crab!

Well...i'd better run...

Salt Lake City ~ The best Halloween EVER!

We are in Salt Lake this week for fun. Today has been amazing!

This is what {the organ} looks like from a distance.

     First, we went to a Organ Recital in the Tabernacle, well afterwards, the performer, Brother Unsworth came up for questions. I wanted to ask him some questions so we went up. Well, we talked for a little while and after learning that I was learning the organ, he asked us if we wanted to look at the {giant} organ up close. Of course, I had to say yes! Pretty soon he asked if I wanted to sit on it and then if I wanted to play it!!!! I got to play 2 hymns, oh boy. That thing is massive!

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The beautiful Salt Lake Temple

After this we were able to go and do baptisms for the dead in the Salt Lake Temple. It was super cool! I love the temple.

All about my life for this semester!

My life has been pretty busy of late. So many things seem to be going on!

• The calves are doing great and are so fun! We let them out into the pasture today and they loved it! They are such goofballs! We are weaning them in a few weeks too!
• I am taking another class from Williamsburg Academy. It is an amazing political literature class. We are reading some pretty cool books! There is a lot of writing involved which I am pretty bad at, but, it is good practice!
• We got the geldings sold! Yeah! they were really nice and everything but what were we going to do with two more horses?(Race horses I might add!)
• Bailey is pregnant with one baby now! Yeah! It is a colt if you didn't already know. I am so super excited! Our best guess is it will be a palomino! I love those! They are so pretty! The only problem is we have a huge family reunion in California 3 days after she's due, so...yeah. I think I'm going to talk Kristen into keeping her while we are gone(whether she has foaled or not)!
• Fanny is doing good...still really fat and still need ridden...
• Last tuesday we canned 150 quarts of peaches with our very best friends in Dietrich! It was a long day, but super fun! 50 of them were ours too! We had one for dinner today! Delish!
• We made a bunch of plum freezer jam today! We have two trees at the land that we pruned and sprayed in the spring and we are just getting the fruits of our labors!The jam is so delicious! And we have lots more still to make.
• We bought two boxes of pears to can today!
• When our apples come in season we want to make apple sauce and apple butter. We also have lots of tomatoes that we are probably going to can too! I am soooooo excited!
• I am doing a home study for seminary, starting a year early, it doesn't count toward graduation, but it is still really good!
• Jared and I are doing Jr. High XC for Richfield. It has been good, but hard! The races are really challenging, but they have gotten easier as we have gone along. We only have one more meet! YAY!!!

Me at the finish of my first race

Jared at the finish of the same race

Our little team after the race.

• I have started organ lessons in twin! I love them! they are so much fun! It is really hard and way different then it seems! But it is a good challenge! It is amazing how different the Organ really is from the Piano.
• All four of us have started participating in a handbells choir! It is so fun! Right now we are working on some Christmas songs for our Christmas Concert.
• I am still working hard on the piano. I have really improved and really enjoy it. The classical music on my playlist is music that I am either learning to play, or, I already can play.
• Jared and I are going to a local Commonwealth School in Twin. I am taking an Economics and Biology class and Jared is taking a American History class and biology with me. The history class is the same one I took a couple of years ago. Both of my classes are really fun! Handbells is also in the morning the same day of class in the same building. We have to leave at about 7.30 am on Fridays to get to Handbells before class and then we get home at about 5 pm! It is a really long day but so worth it!
• I haven't been sewing lately...my sewing machine was in the shop for a week because it stopped working and I have been trying to study more than sew! But, I did make a skirt last week with my mom's machine. We lost our camera cord so I'll show you some pictures later. Oh, I also made a super cute bag in July, I'll have to show you sometime...

I'm sure that there is something that I'm forgetting but, this is all I can remember for now. Enjoy the rest of General Confrence!!

Fun with our cousins!

Friday night we were able to spend the night at Kristen's house!!! Mom and dad where able to go to SLC!!

On Friday we got to their house at ten(in the morning!) and we played outside all day!! Breck was soooooooooo exited to WIN a rope from Sid the contest was like this: Sid took the "horns" off of the Jake steer(special roping dummy without legs) and told him that if he could rope it 5 times just the horn "spot" then he could have the rope, after about 15 to 20 minutes(maybe longer!) he got it!! He was really exited. Then we roped the Jake steer some more and went and watched a movie and went to bed...Oh, and Casey came over and roped too, I ran the shoots and rode Chex! This happened before all the other "ropin stuff" occurred. While we roped I got sunbrned REALLY bad!

SATURDAY!!! I was invited to go to the ropin school in Hagerman with Sid and Breck! It was so much fun! And Casey even let me warm his horse up!(Thanks Casey!) It was a looongggg day...but fun! I played with "the girls" a lot(Katelyn, Kayla, and Kylee) and Katelyn brought her friend Ariel too! Lots...let me rephrase that...TONS of fun! Besides maybe Kaylyn(sp?), (she didn't turn as many as Breck did though). Other then that Breck(the only kid..and is 8) was the best header(headers rope the head and heelers rope the hind legs) there! Good job Breck he is REALLY good! Kylee ended up coming home with us and Breck ended up with Casey! And when we got back Michelle was at their house!(I act like you know all of these people). And I practiced setting Mate(Mater) up for showmanship! And I put sunscreen on about 10 times...no sunburn from Saturday!

And yes, lots of driving the toro and 4 wheelers! And no...we didn't play rugby. Oh, well. Maybe next time! And Hank had a blast, with Cody and Crash and Miss Foxy Roxy!

Sorry, no pics.

Happy Confrence Days!!!!!

These last few days we watched conference(like all of you) I really enjoyed it I liked Pres. Uchtdorf's talk it was really good I have lots of notes from him, I also like Elder Stevenson's Talk I LOVE Conference. I hope everyone enjoyed Conference.

Utah trip

This weekend we went to Utah. We went to a museum, temple square, to and Aunt Joyce's house, went to byu football game and saw Danielle Blevins(our cousin). On are way there we, got a flat tire on the freeway. We had to stop for about a half and hour. And got to watch the cars going by. But over all we had a good time. Luke and Caleb got to go to Grandma's house.