Graduation/Going Away Party

Here are the pictures from the family party. There are some of the boys (big boys and small boys) playing football and climbing the chimney. As promised the pictures of the famous pink/purple cast. Oh and Pailey with rice crispy stuck on her lip. She really liked those. There is also one of Katelynn. She's a hard girl to take pictures of, she was all over the place. Lets see what else. I tried to get pictures of everyone, but some people escaped with out one. And I always forget to get pictures of Daren and I together, oh well. There is the picture of Hayden's head, that might be kind of strange, and needs some explaining. I promised him I'd show LaRaine. So you can barely see it now, but I guess he wanted his hair dyed like a checker board so Shelly gave it a try. Well the red ran into the bleached areas and just turned his head orange. He really hated it, so they shaved his head to get rid of it. But the bleach had dyed his scalp too. So he still had a checkered pattern, just not what he was expecting. He was not very excited about showing it. All in all it was lots of fun and I got to see all my neices and nephews except Wylliam was one that escaped with out a good picture so I don't have proof that he was there. It was really great to see everyone and we'll have to do it again, if any thing so Madison can go down the slide. She was really bummed she couldn't climb the stairs and all the big boys were to scared about hurting her to piggy back her up there and send her down. There you go, thats the update of our lives. I guess I should get back to packing before Daren comes home and finds out how little I've done today.

Graduation Luau

These are just some pictures from my graduation luau. My friend Cassidy put the whole thing together for me, inviting friends, professors, and Daren's family. These girls are my best friends here in Pocatello and I can't imagine taking classes without them. The cute little girl is Daren's niece. And the whole gang playing Rock Band. We think we're a pretty cool band. Well the only one where everyone takes a turn playing and singing. Then there is Daren blowing up my five foot graduation monkey. Don't tell him I posted this or I'll be in big trouble! Okay maybe not, but no calendar appearances *cough* LaRaine *cough*. And then one of me with my cool graduation dog that everyone signed.

Hiking at Cherry Springs

We went hiking with Bear a couple weeks ago. Bear really enjoyed swimming in the spring, but I think it was still a little cold. Daren said I was just being a worried mom, but there was still snow on the top of the hill. Daren also thinks he found a good fishing spot, but I'm not sure he's going to have time for much fishing before we go.

Our Zoo Trip

We went to Tautphaus Zoo this weekend with Daren's brother Sean and his family. These are some of the pictures we took with his nephews Skyler and Andrew and Sean's wife Crystal. Ignore the funny faces, we were making animal sounds in some of the pics.

Rodeo and Charley Jenkins

We went to the Dodge National Rodeo on Wednesday night. Afterwards they had a concert by Charley Jenkins. It was lots of fun. The picture is of the top scoring bull rider (on Wednesday night anyway). He scored a 91. The rest are of the concert and the video is of Daren's favorite Charley Jenkins song. We also had a blast swing dancing to some of his songs. We're a little rusty, but I think we did pretty good for dancing in the sand of the arena. We really enjoy his music. This is the second concert of his we've made it to. That's just another one of the many things we're going to miss about moving (No more Charley Jenkins, unless he goes on tour in the mid west instead of just around here). One day we'd like to go to all of the nights of the rodeo, but at least we made it once. They had some really good riders there and I've never seen that many roping teams actually catch. The rodeo clown was also one of the best we've ever seen. He was quite the dancer and had some seriously funny jokes.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's said happy birthday and to all those who sent texts this morning. And also to everyone who's sent a card. I really appreciate it, I still think its fun to get mail.

Spring Break in Closing

Well, Spring Break is over. I have few remaining free hours left. We ended break kind of the way we started it. We had a BQ at Chris and Cassidy's house Friday night. It was lots of fun with lots of good food. Saturday the five of us went out clay pigeon shooting. That was also a lot of fun. However, future warning to anyone who meets Melissa, beware when she has a shot gun. For a girl who's never shot anything before she hit every still target we gave her and came pretty dang close to the moving ones. Daren did great as always. Its sad was a good shot he is. I'll never catch up. I didn't do to bad, but as my arm gets tired my aiming goes down the hill. My arm is sore from all the shooting. Today Daren had a store meeting and then came back home and slept the rest of the day. I've spent the day just catching up some unfinished homework. This next week offers a challenge. I have two tests Tuesday, one on Wednesday, and a huge project to turn in on Thursday. The semester is coming to a close and I'm under a lot of pressure to finish up with my classes and my senior thesis project. I'm still hoping to defend and have it published before the end of the semester. So with lots to do, we hope everyone is doing well.