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

Another celebration of Shawn's birthday

Ok so we had like 4 celebrations of Shawn's birthday, but I had to include them all in the blog. This is the last one though! So the top picture is me and Shawn posing. The one just below is Logan waiting to blow out the candles.
And Logan got to blow out the candles for his Uncle Shawn.

Mark's and Shawn's birthday

We celebrated Shawn's and Mark's Birthday together, since they are just a week apart. Khyl and Danielle drove down from Reno to spend a few days with us, so we were all together this weekend. Here is a picture of me and Shawn.Mark got a ton of ties and missionary stuff since he will be leaving on his mission within the next year.

My mom made this blanket for Shawn with pictures of Powell on there. What a thoughtful gift!

Shawn loooooves home canned peaches and pears! Guess what? He got a box of them for his birthday! yum yum!

This pictures didn't turn out at all, but I wanted to get this one of Candice sleeping! She just had a baby so she's got to be exhausted, but I don't know what Shaun's excuse was.

Khyl and Danielle brought their dog Timber with them. She is one friendly energetic dog!I took a few pictures all around the room so you could everyone that was there. We will start with Dad.

Danielle is holding baby Jaxon!

We had three

The birth of Jaxon Lee Halbert

Jaxon was born on May 15th around 8:30am. He was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 20 inches long

Here is his Daddy holding him.

Here is his Mommy holding him.

And here is his Uncle Shawn holding him.

Funny/cute pictures of Sabian

Here is a cute picture of Sabian laying at the top of stairs hanging her paw and head over the top stair. If you look closely you can see that her head is on top of her other paw.

So one morning as I was leaving for work, I just noticed that Sabian had her nose through the bars of the stair railing and I thought it was hilarious and cute at the same time. So here are the pics.

I got a close up of this one.