Weekend of fun!

I have to admit that it can get pretty lonely and boring being a hunter's widow. In fact, Nick is out hunting right now. Oh, well! At least it gives me time to post new entries. If Nick were home all the time, you'd never get to hear from me. I got to have Nick home this last weekend and I was so sick of being in the apartment so I treated Nick and I to a fun weekend away from home. I was originally going to surprise him with a trip to Alaska but the flights were full so I took the second best place in the world (where I've always wanted to go) and we went to England instead!!!

Okay, so maybe we didn't actually go to the England across the ocean but we stayed at the Destinations Inn in Idaho Falls in their England suite. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of our way cool room..

When you walk into the room there's a drawbridge that we had to walk up to get to the rest of the room.

We had sparkling apple cider waiting for us. Yummy!

This was the coolest part of the whole room. First you see a regular bookshelf...

...then it opens to a secret passageway...

...which leads to the bathroom! So cool!

We drove to look at the temple across from the river. This is close to the spot where Nick proposed to me.

The next day we were going to go to the Tautphas Park Zoo, but they were closed. What in the world?!? We noticed this huge pumpkin patch on the same road, though so we decided to stop. It was so awesome! I've never been to a pumpkin patch before. We found some really good pumpkins to carve and don't worry, we'll be sure to take some pictures once they're done.

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins!! They probably had about 10 acres of just pumpkins!

We stopped in Blackfoot on our way home and went out to dinner with my mom and dad. We went to a Mexican restaurant called El Mirador. Yum! I would definitely recommend it. Make sure whatever your order is "al a creme".
We both had a very enjoyable time. Who knew a trip to England could be so fun?

The weekend wasn't over yet, though. Nick had church meetings all day on Sunday so I spent my time finishing up some projects that I started at Enrichment last week.

This is my countdown calendar for Christmas. It's on the back of a cookie sheet with cute magnets for each day.

See? Underneath the magnets are fun things to do for the day. Too bad I got a non-stick cookie sheet, though. My days are already falling off. I'll have to see if I can find some better glue to fix it.

And this is my nativity. Isn't it cute? I think so.

Doing these projects makes me wish it was Christmas already and it's not even Halloween yet. I guess that's probably a good thing, though because I'm nowhere near being ready for Christmas. There's so much to do! I look forward to all of it though!

Halloween Party

We had our annual Halloween party a little early this year. It was a lot of fun. We all brought a scary dish for dinner and roasted hot dogs, bobbed for apples, ate donuts on a string, decorated cupcakes, and just enjoyed ourselves.

I couldn't convince Nick to dress up but I went as a butterfly. What do you think of my makeup job?

Farewell Summer

I know summer has been over for a while but I wanted to post some more pictures of our fantastic summer to give it a proper farewell and get me ready to welcome in the upcoming holidays.

For the 4th of July Nick and I went to Driggs to spend time with his family. He's been wanting to take me to the hot air balloon festival ever since we got married and we finally made it this year. We got up extra early and drove to the fairgrounds to watch everyone fill up their balloons and get them ready for launch. It was really impressive to see the whole process.

Nick got this picture on his cell phone and it was one of my favorites.

It was really cool to watch the balloons float right over us.

I really enjoyed the balloons and would highly recommend it to anyone.

We went fishing at Chesterfield Reservoir and had no luck, so we drove over to Toponce Creek and Nick tried his luck there while I took some pictures of nature.

For Nick's birthday in August he chose to go up to Pack Saddle Lake. We borrowed my Dad's 4 wheeler and Nick's family joined us. We rode the 4 wheelers down in and roasted hot dogs on the fire. We enjoyed fishing and then a little bit of swimming. Not too much swimming though. The water was freeeezing!!! and I'm not talking about "cold at first, but you get used to it". I mean it was like "go in for 30 seconds and come out numb." Ouch! We had fun anyway. We made good use of the fire warming up after the swim.

Look at all the little fishy's!

Cousin Billy and daughter Larissa (she out-fished everyone) , and Nick's Dad

We went 4 wheeling up Blackrock canyon while we were still borrowing my Dad's 4 wheeler and I'm not sure I've never seen so many wildflowers in my life. It was so pretty!

What a stud!

Have you ever seen a mountain goat in Swan Valley? Me neither. In fact Neither Nick or I had ever seen a mountain goat in the wild at all until we saw this big guy on our way to Driggs a few weeks ago. It was pretty cool to stop and watch him for a little while. He didn't even seem to care that we were there.

This is my new toy. Isn't it pretty?? This is my first gun. Nick was pretty excited when I decided to finally get one. I decided to go with a shotgun because I like to skeet shoot and I'd kind of like to go bird hunting someday. I've actually had it for about a month but last weekend was the first time I took it out and shot it. So far I like it and I'm sure I'll like it even more once I get more used to it.

Well, that pretty much concludes our summer. Although we had a ton of fun it's kind of nice for it to come to an end so we can have some relax time before all the frantic (but very enjoyable) holidays start. Happy fall to everyone!!