Swimming!

This summer we have had the chance to do a little swimming. We've been to the kiddie pool a couple of times and out to Dave Rael's a couple of times. The kiddie pool is fun, but hard cause you can't exactly get in with the kids. Rael's has been fun. I'm not much of a swimmer, but it is nice to get out to of the heat (and even nicer that we don't have an audience there). Hailee absolutely loves the water and has no fear. I wasn't sure how much she would like it, but she is a fish just like her dad. In fact, yesterday Becca and I took the kids down to the kiddie pool and she didn't want to get in the little tube... So, we played as much as we could that way. Fortunately, we didn't have to play that game for too long before they kicked us out. I guess the construction guys knocked the power out or something. The whole town was out so the water wasn't circulating in the pool and they made us leave. We went home to smolder in the heat. Luckily, it wasn't out for too long and I was able to turn the air conditioner and fans back on!

Also, I have crossed over to the dark side... I started reading Twilight lol. It is so good though, I am not sure why I held out for so long now. I could hardly put it down and didn't get anything done at all! For those of you who are still holding out, give it up!! It is definately worth reading!

Camping!

Hello everyone! Time has just been flying! I keep waiting for things to slow down and they never seem to. Craig has been off since Saturday. He goes "on call" tomorrow so he had Monday and Tuesday off. It is nice to have him home, but I can't seem to get anything done when he is home, I don't know why that is. Oh well, we'll take him being home and catch up with the house later this week.

Monday afternoon we headed up the mountain for a night of camping. It is so much work to go up! It almost doesn't seem worth all of the work for one night. It was really nice up there, minus the mosquitos! Becca brought the kids up and stayed up there. We set up the tent for Becca and the kids and everything, but all ended up in the camper by midnight... I wouldn't have stayed out there by myself either! Becca and Breanne slept on the bunk and Brac slept in the big bed with Craig, Hailee, and I. It was quite a party.

I just can't believe the bugs up there! The mosquitos were awful. I pretty much sat in the camper with Hailee the whole time. The moths were another story! Becca, the kids, and I were all hangin in the camper after dark. Well, we made the mistake of turning on the little lights while the door was still open... the camper was full of them in like 30 seconds. Well the little creatures absolutely freak Becca out, so that was pretty entertaining. Brac started calling them "freakys"; so we spent the next little while tryging to get all of the freakys out. Breanne even started calling them "freakys," it was pretty funny. The next morning we got up and fixed breakfast. Then, Craig took Brac fishing while Becca and I cleaned camp up and snuck in a little nap. We all made it down safely after lunch. Hailee is not so much fun to camp with at her age, so I am not sure how soon we will be trying it again. I suppose it wouldn't be so bad if the bugs weren't so thick. But, it was a camping trip we won't forget anytime soon, I even got home with some "freakys" in my cooler!

Takin' it easy

We have just been taking it easy the last few days. Over the weekend we went and watched the parade in Byron. It was a pretty good parade for Byron. Hailee was more interested in eating her flag than anything, but that is okay. That afternoon we went to lunch with Lorraine and watched Payton play baseball. There was a little league tournament here in Lovell. We got to watch Jacob play too (Craig's little brother). After that we came home and took a nice nap!

Sunday we went to church, took a nap, and went to Burlington for a visit. Becca made fajitas, they were so good! It is always nice to go visit in Burlington. Sundays are always great because we have a better chance of seeing dad, he is so busy with the farming lately.

Today Hailee and I just hung out. We fixed lunch for mom, Becca, and Eric since they had to clean at Oren's and Val's today. Then, we got a little bit of cleaning and laundry done before it was time to start dinner. Craig has been on a diet for the past month and a half and likes to eat dinner around six. He has lost almost 20 pounds, so the running and eating earlier has definately paid off! Nice work Craig. Now I just need to start running and maybe I could loose a pound or two...

Wild Week

Wow, it has just been a wild week. We have been busy busy, but we've been having lots of fun. For the 4th we had lunch with Craig's family and went to David Rael's that evening. Dinner and fireworks at Rael's was so much fun. I was a little worried about Hailee and the fireworks... She went to sleep not long before they started, so I put some earplugs that they had passed out in her little ears and she slept through the whole thing! I was glad. After we got done there we went back to Winterholler's so that Craig could light off some other fireworks with Leanne and Jacob. They had such a great time, Craig was just like a kid again!

Saturday Craig drove up the mountain with me and dropped me off at the family reunion. I was grateful, I didn't really want to drive up by myself with Hailee. He didn't stay so I rode down with my mom. It was nice to see some people that we don't normally see. The mountain is so green this year, it is just gorgeous! I love the mountain and hope that we get a chance to go do some camping this year.

Monday was our 2 year anniversary!! It doesn't feel like it's been that long at all. I rode to Billings that morning with mom and Lorraine. We were home by four. So it was a quick trip, but I had a good time. Craig and I had planned on driving up the mountain for dinner, but they had some things go wrong at work and ended up working late so we didn't go. We all just went to the grocery store and hung out. I was okay with that since Hailee and I were both tired. We drove up the mountain tonight to eat dinner at Bear Lodge for our anniversary dinner (a day late). I've had better food, but it was better than cooking myself so I can't complain! Anyway, that is a little about what we have been up to.

A little history

Hello everyone. We are kind of new at this but we'd like to give it a shot. I suppose I'll start with a little bit of history. Craig and I first met not long before he graduated high school while I was attending school at Northwest. When he started school at NWC we got a little better acquainted :) We dated for what seemed like forever and finally got married on July 7, 2006. That's right our two year anniversary is coming up here in just a few days!!

We added the cutest little girl, Hailee Jo, to our family on November 30, 2007. She is such a blessing in our lives! We are having so much fun watching her learn new things and grow everyday!

I guess we'll give this a try

Hi everyone. I guess this is the cool thing to do, so we are going to go ahead and give it a try. It looks like fun, so hopefully we can get it figured out.