Showing posts with label Hadi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hadi. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend is seriously one of my most favorite weekend of the year. (why yes, I do have a lot of favorite weekends) ;)
We always go camping with family. Easter weekend kinda kicks off the camping season for us. I love it. Our school district always has spring break the Thursday and Friday before Easter. Long weekends are always nice! (It does help that both of us are currently in the Education field).

On Thursday morning we started packing and getting ready to go. We didn't actually leave town until 5:00PM. Seems like we had a million little errands to run, but we finally got out of town.

We went to Piute Reservoir. We packed up the truck and loaded up Bruce and hit the road.
We set up camp (with some great helpers) and had a fabulous weekend.
(oh wait, I forgot one tiny small detail - on the way Bruce had an accident. Diarrhea everywhere. Poor Dustyn. Poor Bruce. Poor noses.)

Bruce got some burrs in his paws so Dustyn let Bruce lay on his lap (not that Dustyn had any choice in the matter) so he could get them out. His fur is so matted from the trip. Guess it's time for Bruce to visit a beautician. :)
We did some fishing and caught two fish. We had quite a few more that were almost in, but didn't actually make it.
Everyone else obviously caught more than we did.
We cooked some fish.
Roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.
Spent lots of time by the fire.
(it rained a lot)
We played in the fire a lot. (Not in front of the kids, of course)
I love being an adult. lol
We played with Bruce.
He smelt like a wet dog. Ew.
Wish you could see how big he really is. But you would have to see him in person.
 We rode 4-wheelers and froze to death while doing it. (it was raining)
We played with the kiddos and some silly bunnies that came by.
We loved hanging out with family.
Admired the beautiful scenery.
(that is our camp on the other side of the lake)
Good times, good times.

I love me a nice vacay.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Guess who is turning FOUR today?

That's right! It is my Hads birthday!
(i am really trying to post pics - but blogger is hatin' on me)
Happy Birthday Hads! I love you and miss you lots!

Hads got a new birthday haircut!  I can't wait to see it!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

r-r-r-random!

* I have been able to come up with so much to blog about lately, until I sit down.  Then it's gone.  Long gone.

* My sister's blog is having issues.  Somehow the email that she was using to post is no longer associated with her blog.  Weird.  She has Z.E.R.O. access to her blog.  (since it was private)  And blogger is not so great in the area of support.  We can not find a place to contact them. At. All.  Lame.  When we type in the blog name to see what email it is associated with...  nothing.  She never gets the email.  So, so frustrating.  If anyone has any idea, we are totally open to new ideas!  She would LOVE to have her blog back again.

* Dustyn had been sick.  No fun!  I hope he gets feeling better.  And I hope he stays away from me!  :)

* We have bought so much candy lately!  WHY?  We never buy candy, but don't worry, we have a butt load now.  Funny enough - I probably still won't eat much of it.

* Last night I made pistachio brittle.  It is pretty good, but the nuts taste burnt.  I tried a new recipe.  I should have stuck to my old one.  Oh well.  I also made English Toffee.  It tastes pretty good.  I have only had a small bite, but it was good.

* It has been THREE (well... maybe two) years since I have made Candy at Christmas.  Sad, huh?  We did however make a TON of suckers last year (Heather - Lollipops . (:  )  I am hoping to get a lot more candy made and some ginger snaps for neighbor/friend gifts.  I hope it actually happens.  *think productive, think productive*

* My most favorite Christmas album during the Holidays is this one!  I listen to it every year ALL month! I love, love, love it.  I also love Hilary Weeks Christmas Album .  I have not been too impressed with Faith Hill's Christmas album .  But any Christmas music is good Christmas music!  Wait!!  I can't forget Relient K.  I love them too!  I love Christmas Music!

* I LOVE that they have pomegranate 7-up this time of year.  I love it, so, so good.

* I also love the Candy Cane kisses.  Good thing they are seasonal!  (apparently I am craving lots and lots of candy!)

* My super cute niece, Hads, is turning FOUR tomorrow!  Can you even believe it?  I can't. I can not believe it has been four years.  JaKell was pregnant at the same time I was pregnant.  Time flies.

* Every year we get a new ornament.  This year we bought our ornament at Disneyland!  (Since that was the most exciting thing we did all year!)  If my camera was charged I would recap all the ornaments, just for you!  I just might.  Soon!

* Every time we put up our tree it gets smaller and smaller, I swear.  We just have one of those small 6 foot trees from Wallymart.  You know, the ones that have a 2 foot stem on the bottom, so really, the tree part is 4 feet...  maybe.  I laugh every year.  I do love our tree though.

* Thanksgiving was great!  We spend it with my dad's side of the family.  We ate a lot of good food, played a lot of fun games, and visited with a lot of really cool people!

* One of our favorite games to play is Boxers and Briefs.  It is seriously one of the best games ever.  We love it.  Last year we got it at Wallymart for like ten bucks.  You can see how much it is now.  C-R-A-Z-Y!  I can not believe that.  I almost want to sell mine, but it is far too fun.  Oh yes, Arianne, believe me...  we are soooo playing it on New Years!  Wooohooo!  Seriously though.  So fun!  If you can get your hands on one for under $140.00, do it.

* I am suppose to be folding laundry.  But I guess that can wait, right?  :)

* What is your all time favorite Christmas movie?  Ours for sure is Elf!  We could watch it over and over again!  Seriously, the best.

* Have you heard enough about Christmas?  Ha ha!  I am sooo excited!  Wooohooo!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Catch up . . . C'mon. Hurry.

Here are some pictures from the big Dotson reunion at Gooseberry! It was loads of fun. Dustyn snapped a few photos so I thought I would share!  Most of these are from the talent portion of the weekend.  It's the only portion that we have pictures of!  :)  (And yes, most of them are very blurry - we have been struggling with that lately.  :)  But we try to not use the flash at all, so it gets tricky without a tripod.)

First we have Gabriella and Sharpay.  They are hotties,  huh?
And here we have Gabriella again.  Stunning.
Here we have the absolute best performance of the night.  I can't even explain it.  It was so funny and I have not laughed at hard in YEARS.  Oh my.  There is a video of it somewhere.  I would love to find it.  Little Miss C was so serious while her sisters were having so much fun  It was so funny.  You just had to be there.  :)
Here is Little Miss C being so serious and being a fabulous singer.  She is such a cutie.
Here we have the cast of HSM again.  Garbriella, Sharpay, Troy and Taylor (maybe.  Someone more up with HSM could help me out here.)  We were very lucky to have them there.  Seriously though, CamRee did an awesome job singing her song.  She sang one song all by herself and another one with the kids.  It was so good.  She is going to be a star someday!  :)   (Oh yeah, and in case you weren't sure, this is my niece CamRee, Brynlee, and HadiLee and my nephew Tryen)
Another picture of the High School Musical Hotties.
Here is our special guest that came and gave a spectacular performance.  So much talent!
This is actually a photo Dustyn took over Labor Day weekend at Fishlake.  I thought it was cool.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Cam. Try. Had.

We had a lot of fun while the kids were down for a few days for our family reunion. (more on that later)  My dad and I took the kids to the dairy.  They were completely goofy and silly.  But a lot of fun.  I got a Lemon Yobert which was really sour.  I tried and tried to get them to taste it.  Of course CamRee was the only brave one.  At first.  I was down to my last bite an I finally got Hadi and Tryen to taste it.  They wanted more.  But, it was all gone.  It was quite funny.

I tried to take a few pictures of them in the car, but CamRee loves the camera and kept getting in the center of my picture.  Silly girl! 




Afterwards we went to Grandma and Grandpa's House and played Chet's Wii.  We went bowling.  It was pretty funny.  They got pretty excited, as you can tell from Tryen's reaction.  Then we tried our hand at baseball.  They are awesome Wii players!