Memorial Weekend

Memorial weekend didn't start off very busy. Tyson had to work Saturday so we couldn't really do much. Although we ended up going to Chili's for dinner so that we had something to do. And then on Sunday he had to teach in Priesthood so we couldn't skip out on church. After church is when all the fun started. We headed out to Minersville to decorate Tyson's grandparents and relatives graves. While we were out there I got a call from Bailey and she said they were going camping. Tyson had wanted to go camping for the longest time, so we jump right on that idea! We finished visiting with Tyson's family and then got everything thrown together and we were on our way down to Mesquite. We ended up going out to Whitney Pockets. We had hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner and left over Key Lime pie from lunch earlier that day that Tyson made for his family. 

 Grandma and Uncle's grave

Camping

 Monday morning we got up and ate breakfast. We had sausage and egg burritos that was so yummy. Food always seems to taste better when your camping! We packed everything up and didn't realize it was only like 8:30 am. It was getting hot though so we didn't really want to stay! Right around the corner was a dam that I didn't remember ever going to see so we decided to look at it. It was more like a retaining water thingy. But pretty cool.

 We stopped at my parents house to see what my dad was doing. Of course he wasn't doing much just work around the house so we headed up to Mesquite to hang out with Abigail.
We went to the Rec Center to go swimming but it was kinda cold and Katelee didn't really want to do anything but sit on the edge and put her feet in the water. We then went up to the splash pad because we thought it would be warmer. It wasn't...

Tyson is so good with Katelee

After showering we went to Junior's house for a BBQ. And then went to Josh and Bailey's to watch the Bachelorette. We had such a fun weekend and it was fun to be able to be with both of our families.

Thanks for the pictures, Abigail!

I'm thankful for all who serve and have served our country so that we can enjoy our freedom! 

Eye Surgery

Tyson had eye surgery on May 3rd. He is so happy to finally have someone do something about it. All the doctors he went to in Cedar wouldn't do anything. They just give him eye drops and send him on his way. He finally decided to go down to St. George's Eye Institute and within a month the problem has been solved. He had some stones in his tear duct. Your tear duct is suppose to only be like a millimeter but these stones were like 2 and 3 millimeters. It was causing his eye not to drain properly. He now has a tube in his eye and will get it taken out in June.

They put him under so he was totally out of it but there wasn't anything really funny that he said. He just asked the same questions over and over. Let's just say I repeated myself a couple times that day and a little the next day!

We got the stones, but for some reason we can't find them anymore. I think Tyson lost them!!! I was going to put a picture of them on here so you would understand a little bit better, but I have looked in all the possible places I can think of and no luck! 

Eclipse 2012

On May 20th was the solar eclipse. Kanarville, UT was supposed to be the best place to see it, so we headed down there to watch. We tried to get the cool glasses but every where we went they were all ready gone. So instead Tyson got some welding lenses out of some helmets at work. Tyson also looked on youtube and found out that you could make a box that reflects the sun. And also use a mirror. So being the adventurous person he is he made both of them and THEY ACTUALLY WORK!!! :)

The start

A little chunk our of the bottom

I stole this from Naomi but I didn't get any pictures of the box. It really is just a shoe box with some paper and tin foil!!!

Getting closer...

The pictures were taken with welding lenses on the camera so this is as good as we could get it!

Fancy mirror thing Tyson tried. Look close you can see the shadow

Tyson's shirt is the best. Someone noticed that the sun made circles from the shadows.

Naomi and Kyle being.. Naomi and Kyle!!!

Baby Ashlynn

Tyson had an eye appointment in St. George so we were half way home and decided to keep going. He has to have surgery but on a good note, we finally got to meet Baby Ashlynn. She was born on Tues, the 17th.  So excited to finally have her here!

Fair 2012

Saturday morning we headed down to Moapa Valley to go the Clark County Fair. Tyson wasn't able to come down till late Saturday night so we broke the sabbath and went on Sunday also! After a stressful week for us it was fun to just relax and do what we wanted!

Jared's Steer

Auction

Tyson and Shem rode the bull to see who would stay on longest. Tyson had 12 seconds

Shem won with 14 seconds.

Father and Son

Josh got Tyson and I ride tickets this is us on one of the rides. I only took this one picture that day.

Lehman's Cave

Easter Weekend we went out to good ol' Ely, Nevada. Tyson's sister lives out there while her husband is working in the mine. Ely is bigger than I thought it would be, but still a pretty small run down looking town! About an hour away are Lehman's Cave. It totally wasn't what I was expecting but pretty darn cool.  There were tons of things hanging from the ceiling and some growing from the ground. All of them are made by water. (I didn't really get how they were made but, it takes a LONG time for them to come back) They mostly look like icicles hanging from the ceiling and growing up from the ground. That is how I would explain them! Or you could google it if you really wanted to know what we went and saw!!!

The picture is supposed to be turned... Sorry.

These things are called shields

I don't know why this picture turned but where there is a tiny piece from the big piece (in the middle) is where someone broke it off and now its growing back. (If that makes any sense! Sorry!)

They made a hall way just to the right of that but before that was there this is where they had to come in through. The lighting makes it look pretty cool tho! 

This water is from last spring (2011)

Angel wing

I don't know why this one turned either.

On the way there Tyson saw this and was amazed. So on the way back we got a picture. 

When we got back to Ely, Cobe and Brent made dutch oven and it was so yummy. We played cards and then went to bed! It is always fun to be with family and hang out! Thanks Tanisha for letting us come and visit you!

21st Birthday

For my birthday Tyson worked all day and I stayed home and watched TV. Not too exciting. Once Tyson got off work we went and ate a Applebees and his parents came along with us. Kyle and I have the same birthday so we went over to Naomi's and had ice cream cake.

Sunday we went to Naomi's to watch conference and she made pancakes!

Birthday Presents, still waiting on some scriptures that were ordered a month ago...

My mom was going to come up Tuesday but I was going to be going down on Wednesday to help Abigail clean. So I told my mom not to come up. On Thursday we went to dinner at The Purple Fez (I think that's what it's called). Abigail and Walter bought me dinner. It was pretty yummy and then I brought the extra ice cream cake down so that they could all help me eat it! 

I am officially legal to do just about anything now!