Keepin' It Real Tag

Ok, Ranee here's your pictures...it's kind of scary! It makes me realize how not clean my house is! Get Real Tag...the rules are you have to take a picture of all these things right now and you can’t do anything before you do, like straighten stuff up or fix your hair. Then tag five people.

1. The Fridge

2. My closet

3. The sink..this was right after dinner, so there are still dishes!

4. The toilet...whose seat is currently broken. I just bought a new one today, but I haven't had a chance to ask Christian to fix it yet.

5. My favorite pair of shoes...reef sandals. They are the most comfortable sandals you can own. I have a pair and so does Christian and we both love them!

6. What my child is doing right now...running around half naked...the boy's an exibitionist! (I'm not sure on the spelling)

7. My favorite room...the dining room. It's about the only place we always are together

8. Laundry pile...I will have you know that until Christian got home, I didn't really have a laundry pile...I finished all my laundry today...go me!

9. Self Portrait

More Salt Lake pics

Here are some more pictures from our trip to Salt Lake that my sister sent me.

Papa and Carson after dinner one night

My sister and I

The usual up close cheesy picture

Carson and Jason waiting for Papa ready to fire

The kids (minus my brother Kyle)

Playing with the "big strongs" as Carson called them

Riding the carousel with Auntie Butts. I love how she seems to appear to be enjoying the ride more than Carson!

A look at the courtyard from our balcony

The girls

Trip to Salt Lake City

Every year, my dad has meetings in SLC, Utah, and it's kind of evolved into a little family vacation. All of my family was there, except Christian. We were so sad he couldn't come...he never gets to party with us, but thankful he let us go...he's the best! My dad goes to meetings pretty much all week :( while everyone else goes and plays! Carson and I flew to Salt Lake Monday so we could hang out with everyone and got back last night. The flight to Salt Lake was pretty rough...just ask Carson...he puked as we were landing in Denver (where we made a connecting flight). We had so much fun, and as usual, got totally spoiled by mema and papa! We got to eat out at some of our favorite places, shop, shop, SHOP, see a movie, swim, and just be with family. It was so much fun! Here are some fun pictures from our trip!

squirt guns

playing animals with mema and butts

Watching the cool water display in the outdoor mall. It shot out water to music and there were tons of kids and adults running around in it. It was fun to watch.

Carson and his suitcase that mema brought him full of prizes. He would take it EVERYWHERE we went. If we went to my mom and dad's room, it came with us. If we were going to go somewhere, it came with us. By the end of the trip, he was pretty good at manuvering it. I guess we know that he can handle his own carry-on when it comes time to go to Hawaii next year!

The last night we were there, the company that my dad purchases all his inventory from put on a really nice dinner and then entertainment. This year, they had Leann Rimes come and sing (it was a different night and we ended up not going), and a comedian/magician. These are some pictures after the dinner out in the court yard of the hotel. The flowers were so pretty! My sister has some more pictures that I'm waiting for her to send so I can post them...she had some that for some reason...I didn't!

Camping

This weekend, we went camping with the young women in our branch and did some pre-certification for the actual girls camp that is in August. We went to some people in our branch's land in Maywood, NE, about 45 minutes from here. We had a good time. We helped do girl's camp stuff, cooked yummy food, had s'mores, went fishing, rode horses, and went for a walk. Carson was absolutely in heaven!! He got to be outside, play with some other kids (our YW president has the best kids and they love to hang out with Carson), play with glow sticks in the dark, and got to collect ALL the sticks he wanted!! We had a really good time, but I'm glad to be back in a real bed tonight!! Here are some pictures from our trip:

Setting up our tent

Carson, Rulon, and Scotty hangin out in the boys' tent

The Young Women (yes there were only 3)

Carson and Rulon waiting on dinner

Fishing

waiting...

Changes

Two weeks ago when my mom was here, we decided to repaint Carson's room and the baby's room. We did Carson's walls white with one tan accent wall to match a new bedspread I had found to go in his room. On Sunday, Christian helped me take down the toddler bed Carson had been sleeping in and move in a queen size bed that had been our guest bed. Here's some pics of the whole process. I still don't have most of his decorations on his wall, but it's coming, and some day we'll purchase a headboard for his bed, but for now...I love it and so does Carson! Here's the transformation!

Random

We got a package from my mom yesturday that had some pictures from when she was here so I thought I would post some. For some reason I didn't take any pictures on my camera, so I had to wait unitl she sent me some.

Before "go juice" aka diet pepsi...

...after diet pepsi!

Buddies

Okay, I said that while my mom was here we had some pretty nasty storms where the tornado sirens went off...well, this is the weird green/gray sky I was talking about...and no this is not just the way they printed off the sky was really this color...yikes!

COWBOY UP!

Weekend with the Grandmas

We had a really fun weekend with Me ma Asay and Me ma "Dorty", Christian's mom and grandma. They came Friday afternoon and left this morning. We were sad to see them go, but had fun with them while they were here. We took them around town and showed them some of the places that Christian works, had fun sitting around talking, and eating. Once again, Carson was totally spoiled and loved having them here. He really enjoyed hearing stories about chasing cows before bed each night. It was all in all a great weekend!

Hanging out on the deck

What a cute little cowboy!

Mema Asay and Carson

Playing at the park

Four generations!

Riding the horse

Being cheesey!