My Jewelry...

Okay, so I started making necklaces and bracelets several months ago and I have enjoyed it very much! I am thinking of making a small business out of it by selling the jewelry that I make. I was hoping to start selling soon so that you all can buy for Christmas. I just need to get started on making some new pieces. I will keep you all updated.

Here are just a couple pieces of jewelry I have made. I made the pink and brown one for my mom for mothers day and the pearl necklace for my mother in law for mothers day. I wish I'd taken pictures of all of the jewelry I've made but I didn't.

Labor Day weekend

I spent Labor Day at Nana's house with, of course, Nana, Uncle Larry, Scott, Andrea, Logan and Addison. Isn't this a cute picture of Addy and her mommy?Logan and his daddy went swimming. Logan loved slam dunking the ball.

Baby Jaxon

I kind of went crazy on these pictures of Jaxon. We were all together for dinner and FHE and I just had to take pictures of this cute little guy.Jaxon and Grandpa Halbert.

Jaxon and his Daddy

He loves to suck on the otter pops. I think it feels good on his gums because he is teething.

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Shawn and Powell

This is just a random picture I took of Shawn sleeping. Shawn sleeps with this blanket every night. My mom made it for him for his birthday and it has pictures of Powell on it. Shawn and I miss him very much!

Candice's Birthday

Shawn and I gave Candice a necklace and bracelet that I made, which she is wearing in this picture and the one above.

That bag is totally Candice! She loved it!

My Birthday with the In-Laws

I got spoiled, just as I do every year.

Doesn't Shawn just look so excited to be there.

Check out this awesome cake! Yum yum!

Here is Logan posing for the camera.Aren't they such a beautiful family!

Cute little Addy

Nana and baby Addison

My Birthday/4th of july

Okay, so my birthday is in June but that's how far behind I am on updating our blog since we didn't have a computer that worked properly! But thanks to Scott and Andrea, we now have a computer and I can finally keep our blog updated. They gave us their old computer and it works great! Thanks so much Scott and and Andrea!!!

We started a new tradition on my side of the family last year or the year before. Every year for the 4th of July we drive up to Payson to see the fireworks. The weather is soooo much cooler. While we were there we went to a park and celebrated my birthday and ate food. This year we invited Candices family to come with us. So Candices mom, Kerri, came along with Candices sister Chelsea and her husband Greg and their two kids, Abby and Maggie. So I got a few new cute shirts!

Here is the newest addition to our family, Jaxon! My parents first grandbaby. Isn't he such a cutie? Jared and Candice did good! =)
Here we all are waiting for the fireworks. Here I am, the dork with the glow bracelet thingy.
This is with the flash on...
And with the flash off

Silly Sabian

Since we don't have any children, I've got to blog about our dog Sabian. This picture was taken some time in the summer. It was raining really really hard so we all (me, shawn, and sabian) went out front as a family to watch the rain. This is a picture of Sabian walking in the rain with her eyes slightly closed. I thought it was so cute, I just had to take a picture of it.

We have been blessed...

Some people may call it luck, but I would say we have been blessed. So at work this week, we had a United Way meeting. At the end of the meeting they put everyones name in a drawing. Well I won a box of girlscout cookies. They were the Do-si-dos (peanut putter) cookies. I don't much care for peanut butter, so I let my department have half of them and took the other half home for Shawn. He LOVED them! If I would have known he liked them so much, I would have saved the whole box for him. =)

Anyway, on Friday last week, they had another drawing for anyone that donates some money to United may. For every dollar that you donate, you get a ticket that you write your name on and put it in a jar. That drawing was for 50% of all the cash that is collected. So I decided to donate $10.00. They took donations between 11:00am and 1:30pm. Well out of everyone who donated that day, my name was picked for the 50% of all the cash that was collected. So I ended up winning a total of $193.00. I was in total shock! I couln't believe it! My first thought was, we can go grocery shopping! But, then again, Shawn's breaks sound and feel like they are going out. So we might just have to use the money on his brakes. So I feel very blessed, to have won the money, because we could really really use it.

Family Reunion

On our last night at the reunion we went to this cool place called Goblin Valley. It was the neatest place. We got there around 8:00pm and it closed at 10:00pm. We played a game called flashlight tag. So all of us hid all over goblin valley and a couple people were supposed to go find us. If we got found we had to go to prison, which was in the middle of the place where there weren't any rocks. In order to get us out of prison, someone in hiding had to flash us with their flashlights. But there were people guarding the prison so it was hard to get away.

Mark had a quad accident. He split open his cheek and the hospital super glued it shut.

Here are some random pictures I just took of everyone. You can see the hotel that we stayed at in the back ground. Khyl brought Timber with him. It was so fun having her there with us. She is one energetic dog!
Ok so she doesn't look so energetic here, but really she is!

We had a very friendly baby deer come around our Hotel we were staying at. He always came around during meal time. In one of these videos Candice is petting the deer and in the other Timber is wanting to play with the deer.

Bryce Canyon

The boys are at Priesthood right now so I am at my parents house for the next couple hours. I am finally able to update our blog a little. Here is more of our Family Vacation in June.

Here are pictures from our hike at Bryce Canyon. This was a very very hard hike! There was no shade and it felt like it was all up hill! But I did make it through another hike once again (barely). This is the very beginning of the hike. We started on the top and worked our way down.

Our next camp site

The next night we stayed at a campsite about a half hour from Zion National Park. And guess what??? They had showers and real toilets that you could flush!!!! I was so excited to take a shower because we had been hiking all day and we all stunk really bad! As much as I love camping I also love being clean!

So right behind the bathrooms at this campsite was a fenced area with horses. The darker horse was very friendly. He let us pet him and I fed him some grass. He would just eat it out of my hand. The light brown horse was very shy and would not come close enough for us to pet it or feed it.

Did you notice how I'm wearing a jacket in June!?! It was just a little chilly at night and early in the morning.

I guees someone had an itch! ha ha!

Hiking at Zion National Park

We went on a beautiful hike at Zion National Park.

We saw several reindeer on the trail.

This was a hard hike for me, but look, I made it to the end! I was so proud of myself! Of course the end wasn't really the end. We still had to turn around and go back. It was my favorite hike of our trip. It was nice and shady for the most part and it was pretty and we saw lots of deer.

The Grand Canyon

Since the only time I can update our blog is when I am at my parents, I don't exactly update very offten. But beleive me, I've got alot to update!

In June we went on a family vacation to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon and then finally to our final destination, Cainveille, Utah. We had our family reunion in Cainville at a Hotel and met up with the whole fam there. Cainville is a very very small town in the middle of nowhere.

Dad, Mom, Shaun, Brandon, Mark, and me all drove up together. So our first night we camped out at a camp ground near the Grand Canyon. It was nice during the day, but I froze my booty off that night. It was so much fun camping! It brought back so many childhood memories. We went camping a lot when we were kids. Here is our our campsite.Look how close we are to the out house. It was the cleanest outhouse we have ever been in. It was clean and unscented. And it was nice and close to our campsite.

Here is where we had our campfire and ate food.

So the next morning we got up and went to the Grand Canyon and spent maybe an hour there. We just went on a small trail, about a quarter mile, and took pictures. Here is a picture of a butterfly on a flower that I saw on the trail.

Me taking a picture of myself with the Grand Canyon behind me (and my brother Shaun making a weird face)Pictures of the beautiful grand canyon