24

Holy wow I thought it was huge that I turned 22 well big news people my hubby is 24 he's almost a quarter of a century!!! He had a bigger birthday than I did. He has this place he is in love with The West Desert! It's out past Tooele by Dugway Proving Grounds. It is his favorite place to go camping but it isn't fun unless you have the big toys to play with ;)

So I'm fired, I can not be trusted to take a lot of pictures... but in my defense it was an intense trip.

 

It started on Friday Curt and I met his dad and step mom at their house loaded all the stuff from our truck to his dad's big "Bertha" truck! We headed out to the desert to set up camp. Curt was helping his dad and they sent Trudy and me down the dirt road on four-wheelers to meet my parents and munchkin to lead them to camp. Trudy has never been on a four-wheeler by herself so she was leading and it was a good thing too because she caught a soft spot in the sand rolled the four-wheeler on top of herself! Luckily she didn't get hurt too severely she has some bruises and a few scrapes but overall ok. We got back to camp and Curt said "it turned out to be an expensive trip" he accidently ran the truck into a stump and blew out the radiator. Oops! So then his brother had to come rescue us the next day. My brother's drove 40 miles the wrong way and had to meet Curt's brother in Rush Valley so he could give them a ride the rest of the way so they didn't get lost again. My parents also tipped a four-wheeler over, they are also ok thankfully!

So when Joey came to our rescue we packed up his truck with our stuff and hooked up to the trailer, we got back to Magna (Curt's dad and step mom's house) at about 10:30pm then Curt and his dad went to pick up a trailer to tow Bertha back to the house. They got back out to the desert by 1:45am and it took them 30 minutes to load the truck up and it barely fit, then they didn't get home till 4:30am it was a late night! But a fun memorable trip! Happy 24th babe!!!

22

I am 22 holy cow! I swear it was just my birthday!

Well it wasn't a huge day it was a Thursday so nothing too fun.

Curt did take me to Chili's for dinner which I love that place p.s. :) Curt had to work and I didn't, so I stayed home and did dishes exciting right? I did go over to my sister-in-law's house, after the 3 hours of dishes I did, and hung out with my darling nieces til Curt got off work so we could go to dinner.

I got a fun game called Fluxx, some fabulous cushy mats, a weekend at my mother-in-laws condo (which we used in March for our anniversary), a gift card to Claire's, a new white board calender (which I was in desperate need of people) Curt got me a cribbage board, princess bride, and A BRAND NEW SMART PHONE! I kind of really enjoy that thing but I feel bad for it, it doesn't get used to its potential.

Another year old I don't know about wiser but definitely older :)

One more thing HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE!!! I miss you! (I tried to post a cute picture didn't happen imagine cute picture of us together)

P.S. The half asleep picture in Curt's shirt is because he had to give me my phone at 7am before he went to work!

Camping!

One of Curt's and mine favorite summer activities is camping! We love being in the out of doors, enjoying nature, and four wheeling all over! We had a great weekend, we spent Friday night up Blacksmith Fork Canyon we were supposed to have some friends come up and stay with us but plans fell through and they didn't make it up on Friday night, so Curt and I played in the river by our camp, played a few games together and went to bed earlier than we do at home. Curt's friend was coming up to meet us Saturday morning to go fourwheeling all day, so we were up at 8:30am to make breakfast and then we went all over the back trails in Blacksmith for hours! It was a blast! Such beautiful views, we went to Old Eprhaims Grave (which is a giant slab of rock, in tribute to a giant bear), and 3 or 4 other trails. The boys shot a pine hen and we saw lots of sheep being guarded by two dogs.

We enjoyed spending time together without any distractions. Yay for the simple joys in life!

Happy 24th

Happy 24th!!!

Usually the 24th is a big party and sleepover on the parade route in Salt Lake. We arrive on the 23rd and hang out, play games, and munch on snacks until the early hours of the morning. Sleep through the marathon (sorry if you're a runner in it) and get woken up by the parade later on.

But the city has started getting grumpy and being mean about people camping out and making all these crazy insane rules... Anyway... breathe... Moving on. Anyway needless to say we didn't want to deal with that again so... We had a giant sleepover at my mother-in-law's house the night of the 23rd, we stayed up till the wee hours of the morning like usual. Had omelets the next morning then hiked up to Doughnut Falls up Cottonwood Canyon, then went to the Days of 47 Rodeo that night :)

Monday night most of the adults stayed up till 2:30am I fell asleep on the couch at about 1 (I had a sore throat). Then we had make your own omelets, muffins and fruit the next morning. Then we all got ready to go to on our hike.





The weather was perfect :) just overcast enough that we stayed cool. Then as we got back to the cars it started to down pour so we ate our lunches in the cars.

Then we all went our separate ways and Curtis, Nan and I went to get ready for the rodeo.

Monster in the closet

We had a monster in our closet this morning but Curt was already gone to work so I left for work hoping it would stay put till he got home...

 it didn't...

I tried to show it to him and he said there's no such things as monsters. I told him we were turning our house upside down till we found it and disposed of it!

I climbed on the bed for protection...I looked to my right and there it was on the wall! So I snapped a picture, for proof, then recorded his death! Granted I mostly filmed sheets because we missed the first time... But I love my hubby so much!!! I'm glad he is brave!

The monster in our closet/moved to our wall

Kids say the darnest things No.6

So as I just realized I did leave out one of my Kids say the darnest things. At Curt's Grandpa's funeral and as I did post the girls were being silly as usually. Which if you missed you can see it down a few posts.

But the story I left out was... my 5 year old niece Kate was standing by me and she was just staring at me. She then turned in front of me and put her hands on my hips like feeling she was feeling my width. She proceeds to pat me a few times, then comments, " Aunt Aerika you're big........ like there's a baby in there.... I said "No Kate, no baby." Just then a pregnant lady walked past and I whispered "That's what a pregnant belly looks like." She turns back to me and goes back to patting my hips. "Ya I know you're just big.... like WIDE......"

Well thank you Kate for boosting my self-esteem as you always do :P I believe she was supposed to be my daughter not my niece, because whenever I share her stories with my mom she tells me how much that sounds like something I did or would have done when I was her age. Oh the honesty of youth! Why can't we keep it forever?

Our New Couches!!!

We got new couches! (As my cousin Whitney would say) Huzzah!

We got a sofa and love seat for free off of KSL just before we got married. They were nice for the first year and plus they were free so can't complain right? Right. But we decided we needed something a little nicer, that would last a little longer. We both love recliners, but knew with people coming over just recliners wouldn't do. So we started looking at reclining sofas and love seats. We found a set at Ashley's Furniture that I fell in love with! We kept looking but didn't really find anything else that compared. So we decided those were the ones we wanted finally, and we got a memorial day sale special and a discount because my brother-in-law used to work there. So for a pretty good price we got these Beauts!!!

Love Seat

Love Seat reclined

Sofa

Sofa reclined

We love them! They are so comfortable and big enough that we basically can sit on one side/seat! We hope that these will last a long time!!! We figure now is a good time to have nice(ish) couches, while we can afford them, and before we have kids that (as my daddy puts things) "destroy everything!" We can make them last  a while!

So anyway thats my happy news! The End!