Camping Trip July 2017

Our first camping Trip of the summer. This trip was just my husband and I since my daughters were at their dads for the weekend. It was a lot of fun with just the two of us. 

Jason and I in our tent. We got a new tent recently and it was nice to have a lot of space in our tent. It's also an Insta tent, goes up in a couple minutes.

Bandannas are great when you're camping and can't wash your hair.

Jason and I went for a walk and found a log to sit on to eat a snack.

We walked for 25 minutes and was going to walk longer after our snack but the thunder came roaring and lightning flashed and we were caught in a downpour and got soaked. I told Jason that we're making memories. We had extra clothes and I was thankful to put dry clothes on. 

Sedona Trip

Jason and I had a great time in Sedona, Arizona for our wedding anniversary. It was fun to celebrate with the best man I ever met. Sedona is beautiful and we plan on going back next year.

We stayed at the Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock. 
It was a great hotel. I loved it there. 

We had a nice view with a little balcony.

On this lookout in Flagstaff you can see the road in four different segments.

Owls living in the garden department of a Lowe's

One of the parents.

Another parent.

One of the babies.

Lowe's employees provide fresh water.

This is the baby owl who turned its neck when we walked to the next isle.

The second baby. 

It was a neat experience to see real live owls. 

According to one of the Lowe's employee this set of adult owls have had two other set of babies before this current set. I think it's great that the owls could have a home and that Lowe's takes care of them and provides water.

Homemade bread

For Christmas my husband Jason bought me a red 6 quart KitchenAid. I made cookies Christmas day and a couple more days. A few weeks later I decided to try out making homemade bread in my new appliance.

This batch makes two loaves.

I let the bread dough rise for 1.5 hours.

It doubled in size.

I kneaded the dough on my counter and then put the dough in two bread pans and let rise.

I covered with saran wrap.

I let bake for 25 minutes.

This is how the bread turned out.

I added a thin layer of butter on top.

I let cool for a bit then it was ready to slice and enjoy.

I made this bread and a several days later I made two more loaves but with some wheat flour added in.

They part wheat and part white bread was very good as well. My girls enjoyed the white bread the most. My husband loves both varieties. 

I used a recipe from Iheartnaptime for homemade bread. 

Here is the link...

http://www.iheartnaptime.net/homemade-bread/

Christmas 2016

This was our tree this last Christmas. My daughters loved it because it is a pre lit tree and you can have it white lights or colorful lights or both. I preferred having it on white light but my girls would switch it to colorful. Either way it was very pretty.

I loved our tree topper. Our tree is 7.5 feet tall and the ceiling downstairs is only 8 feet high. I made the Santa tree topper work.

It was fun to decorate our house inside and outside. I really enjoyed it being our first Christmas as a family. Jason and I go married in June so Christmas Eve we were married for six months. We loved spending Christmas together.

We opened gifts then go ready for church. Church was at ten o'clock in the morning. We had a great day. 

This was before church. I was wearing a cardigan that Jason bought me in Hawaii. He was wearing one of his new ties he got for Christmas. 

I bought us matching shirts for Christmas. Ha Ha! 

I love my awesome husband!

Our Hawaii Trip

Jason In December of 2016 went to Honolulu, Hawaii. We had a fabulous time and made many fond memories.

My fabulously wonderful husband Jason! I sure love this man!

The water is so pretty.

Here is my husband being silly...

He was happy to rent this Dodge Challenger. 

He really enjoyed driving it while in Hawaii. 

We liked these pine trees that look liked they were breeded with a pineapple.

We went to the Honolulu Temple and did an endowment session. 

It was beautiful.

After the session in the temple we walked around the visitors center.

Around the globe you have Book of Mormons in many other languages.

The main reason we traveled to Hawaii is because of Kymberleen. She graduated as a Radiology Technologist in the army. She is stationed and working at Tripler Army Medical Center. I am so very proud of Kymber! She will be there for three more years. 

Jason, Kymberleen and I. We were so happy to spend time with Kymberleen. We went to dinner one night to at a Mexican Restaurant. The next night we went to the movies. Wednesday the day of her graduation we helped her move to her new barracks. We did some shopping afterwards. We bought gifts for our girls at home and my mom and Jason's mom and step mom.

You can see from the above pictures how pretty the water in the ocean was on Tuesday. This was Thursday. It was cold, windy and rainy. We enjoyed some time at the beach anyways.

There was a man swimming in the ocean.

Panoramic view...

Goofy Golfing Night

 Jason took Kindsey, Kendree and I to Golfland to play goofy golf. This was in April, just one month after Jason and I met. 

It was fun having the girls spend time with Jason. 

 Jason and Kindsey

Kendree

These were taken on April 28, 2016