Summer Fun!

The past three weeks have been full of doing fun summer things. We are soooo sad that summer is coming to a close. It is our favorite time of year. Our corn crop was extra plentiful this year! As many of you know Jared has another garden a few blocks from our house where he grows tons of corn and of course a few other things. It keeps us very busy, but we love to eat and freeze it for the winter. Garet really loved it! I think he ate more corn than I did. We probably had corn about 10 days in a row. Yummy! The kids have nick named Daddy the "Corn Machine". His family will eat straight corn for dinner, so Jared can eat 5 or 6 ears at a time! Wow, I was a little shocked when I first married into the family:)

We were able to go to the Davis and Weber County fairs and the horse pull. The kids loved all the animals and Camille thought she had to dress up as a cowgirl for the horse pull. She has some white cowgirl boots that she just loves. All she needs is a hat and she'll be set!

Jared was in the Xterra triathlon again this year. It is a 750K swim, 12K mountiain bike, and a 5K trail run. He did great and beat his time last year. The night before the race, Xterra has a bunch of family activities down in Ogden, so Camille decided she wanted to run in the "Kid's race". Our friends, the Button's, have a litttle girl, Breelyn, about the same age as Camille, so she was in it also. She was so excited and even got a number and a medal at the end. It was great fun to watch her.

Jared has been building bunk beds for Camille and Garet the past couple months. It has taken quite a while due to the busy summer, but they are finally finished. Here are some pictures of the work in progress. He is so very talented. I feel so lucky to have such a great guy as MY hubby! We are going to move them in tonight, yippee!

Last night while I was mowing the lawn and Jared was working on the bunk beds, the kids were playing on the swing and slide that Jared also built. Anyway, they played for over an hour just doing silly things together. Here are some cute picts of them being superman, and having fun!

Camille and Garet love to sit at the piano and play. Camille pretends like she is the teacher and teaches Garet about a song. It is pretty hilarious to listen to them. They are such good friends and I love it!

Uintah Trip!

Almost every year we go in the High Uintah's with Jared's family. His parents have horses and we pack the horses and spend time fly fishing and enjoying the mountains. I haven't been able to go for a few years because of babies (pregnancy, nursing, etc.), so this year I was determined to go even though I am 6 1/2 months pregnant. We ended up taking my family(Cable's) up to Rock Creek. Jared and I, my parents, Kaydi(little sister), Mary(cousin), and Randy(Uncle) went. We packed two horses and brought one to ride. We left on Thursday morning and came back Saturday, so it was kind of a quick trip, but a lot of fun. I'm glad I went:)

Packing the Horses (Jared is an expert! He is so great to take us "city folk" with him.)

At the trailhead

On the trail. We hiked about 6 miles to a meadow called Corduroy, which is where we camped.

We made it!! Just resting after lunch!!

Fly Fishing in the Rock Creek River. There is no place on earth like this place. You can seriously catch a fish on almost every cast. I've never been fishing anywhere else besides here and I can catch at least 20 fish in 30 minutes. Jared even puts two flies on his pole and catches them two at a time. It is amazing! My sister Kaydi thought it was great. I think we all caught lots of fish. Yum, Yum! We had fish for dinner both nights. It is the best fish you've ever tasted. I can't even describe it:)


Eating fish. Jared's family fries the fish in a pan with oil with Salt and Pepper and we added some garlic salt and then you hold the fish by the tail and the head and eat it right off the bones. Delicious!! It looks pretty weird, but I'm telling you, you've never tasted anything quite so delicious in your life!

My brother, Jake, is on a mission in Fiji and for some reason they have contests to see who can suck both eye balls out of the fish through one socket. He says the eye balls are the best part. Pretty strange if you ask me. So, my sister Kaydi, and cousin Mary decided they were going to try the eyeballs! Yuck! They said they didn't taste so good:(Of course the boys had to knock down a dead tree. It was quite fun to watch them!


Wranglin' the horses. Twice a day we had to hobble the horses and turn them out to eat in the meadow. Randy and Jared bringing them back to tie them up. Rodeo!!
Packin' up camp. Oh, so sad to leave this beautiful place. Hopefully we'll be back soon!

A little bit about me!

I've been tagged by my Aunt in-law Angie. It's weird to call her that because she is the same age as me, but anyway, I don't really like talking about myself, so I'll try my best:)

Three Joys

1. Jared, Garet, and Camille
2. Camping in the mountains
3. Water-skiing

Three Fears

1. Talking in front of people (I would much rather play the piano/organ than speak in sacrament meeting).
2. Spiders, I am terrified of them.
3. My kids growing up to be teenagers (can't they just stay little forever)!

Current Obsessions

1. Checking my blog for comments! It's so exciting to read the new ones.
2. Keeping my house clean; this is a never ending one.
3. Tracking our spending. Jared and I took a money mastery class that our ward offered and "tracking" has proved to be a very empowering principle!

Three Facts

1. I am the oldest of six kids (5 girls/1 boy); therefore I babysat all of them when I was 10 years old, when my mom or dad needed to run errands. I was a very responsible child.
2. I was a camp counselor at a girls summer camp in Maine the summer after I graduated high school. I taught water-skiing, and got to go on some awesome trips with the girls. It was a great experience!
3. I love to be active; hiking, running, biking, swimming, walking, gardening, etc. (being pregnant during the summer has made this a little difficult:)

3 other people to tag:

1. Penny A.
2. Holly S.
3. Ashlie C.