Happy Birthday DAD!!!!

Ok, so I am a day late, but it was my Dad's birthday yesterday and I wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday! We got to spend some time with him this weekend and he even got to watch me play in my volleyball tournament! Thanks for watching dad!! It was like old times! Hope you had a great Birthday... you deserve it! Thanks again for ALL you do for us, we love you!!

Love, Todd, Lacey, Kiwi, and Kaya!

My dad loves his grandkids... as you can see...

He loves to go fishing....
And he loves me! Thanks for being a great dad!!!

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Jackson Hole

So this past weekend, Todd and I were able to head to Jackson for the weekend. I must say, IT WAS FREEEEEZZZINGGGG!!! I think I forgot how cold it gets up there considering I haven't lived there for a while. Anyway, it was a quick weekend but we had a lot of fun.

We drove up Friday night and it ended up being a complete white out on the drive up...what an adventure! Anyway, when we got there my sweet parents had dinner waiting for us. Unfortunately they came to help us load some stuff in and one of their dogs decided dinner looked way too good to just sit there! So she helped herself and ate about half the yummy meat that was freshly cooked. It was pretty funny. And yes, we still got to enjoy a lovely meal!

Saturday, we were lucky enough to receive an oven and refrigerator from my grandparents house. My dad helped us load it up and then he treated us to a yummy dinner where we were able to watch a baby moose eat, out the window! Thanks dad!! That night we played some games with my mom, sorry I beat you mom, better luck next time!!! Just kidding!! :)

Sunday we took off back for home with a lovely leather chair my parents decided to give us as well. We were all loaded up with all sorts of furniture! The dogs really enjoyed the chair on the way home, they fought over it until about half way home when they decided to share it!!! It was priceless!! Kaya laid in the chair and Kiwi laid right on top of her!

This is Kiwi in the back of the truck, enjoying the ride at the beginning of the trip....

And a pile of puppies the second half of the trip. It's kinda hard to see through the window but it was so funny we had to get it on camera! They rode like this for 2 hours!!

Thanks mom and dad for a fun trip! ...unfortunately when we got home, we realized the fridge doesn't fit in our small kitchen!!!! I was sooooo bummed. It is now sitting happily in our garage. :(

Sept. 29, 1981

This is a very special day. This was the day my sweet hubby was born. Once again, a little late on the post, but better now than never! Happy Birthday to my sweetie! He is 28 years old and still as handsome as ever! I love you, thanks for being you!

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Fall is Here!!

So it's been a while since I've been able to blog so I have a little catching up to do. Just this past Friday we had a little Birthday bash for Todd up on some property in Morgan Utah. I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he said, "Shoot my guns!" So we went shooting and later had a campfire. It was a lot of fun!

Dave and Melissa Stevenson came with us, good friends from our ward, and she is 6 months pregnant!

Todd shootin' his gun!
Me and Dave shooting some clay pigeons with shotguns. Another couple was there, Alex and Cami. Alex is Todd's helicopter instructor. This was actually on his property in Morgan.
Dav shooting Alex's 460 pistol. This thing was HUGE and very loud.
And the pregnant lady gets a turn!!
Me trying to aim...
Todd with the shotgun.
Thanks guys for making Todd's Birthday so fun!!

A couple weeks ago we also got to go four wheeling and dirtbiking up on some property that this couple in our Bishopric owns. The Boyers are awesome! We also brought Sam and Melissa Bates and had a great time gettin' dirty...as you can see below...
This is up where we grilled some hotdogs. It was beautiful...right by a hidden lake!
Me and my sweetie.... in front of the lake.
Todd and Sam...my husband's better then yours :)
Melissa and I, we were in the back eating their dust...literally!

Thanks guys for a fun night!!

Happy Birthday Kiwi!!

Happy birthday to my little Kiwi! She turns 2 years old today, or in dog years, 14! I know, I know, just a dog, but if you follow my blog at all, they are a big part of my life. She has been the easiest dog, even when she was a puppy. I think that is because she has always had Kaya to keep her busy. She is a very quiet dog, rarely do we ever hear any noise out of her. We were hoping she would howl like Kaya, but most the time she is just mute. That is what makes her so cute though. She is so beautiful and so snuggly, which is my favorite thing about her. Even though she weighs about 55 lbs. she still lets me snuggle with her. And man, is she strong. She can run for hours, she can jump so high, she is just a workhorse if you ask me! However, when we are at home, she really just likes to sleep! But once she hears those leashes, she is bounding across the room!

This is on our way home from picking her up. She was only 6 weeks old!

It has been interesting to see her colors change from the time she was a puppy until now!

More snuggles...

Kiwi with her favorite dog in the whole world, Kaya.

And now she is huge! Such a full coat, and sooo beautiful!
Look at those blue eyes!

Camping, a little worn out!
Happy Birthday Kiwi, we love you!!!

Florida!!!

This trip was awesome! Todd and I got to see and do so many things!! The first few days we stayed in Orlando. The first day we had to do one of those time share presentations...that is why our trip was so cheap!! Anyway, that was the worst part of the whole trip! I was glad to have that done with! Then we headed to Universal Studios...it was a blast! They had some fun rollercoasters there and just crazy fun rides!
This is a picture of the park!


My favorite rollercoaster there...The HULK!
Jurassic Park was fun but little did I know...we were about to get soaked from head to toe!!

On the Spiderman ride, it was a good one. While on it, you feel like you are in the movie!

My silly husband as FLASH GORDON!

Us being dragged by the dog...pretty creative huh?!

Me...as Betty Boop!

At the Hard Rock Cafe!

At night, behind us is what they called "City Walk". It had all sorts of shopping, clubs, and restaurants.

The second day in Orlando we went to Disney World's "Magic Kingdom". If you didn't know, Disney World has 4 parks connected to it so we had to choose which one to go to and of course I wanted to go to Classic Disney!

I was a little excited!

The castle at the entrance...it was beautiful!!! This was probably the hottest day there... I was literally dripping sweat for most of it. So we brought our swimsuits so we could hit all the water rides!!

Captain Hook and Smee... we took this just before we went on Pirates of the Caribbean which was excellent!!

This was in front of the Haunted Mansion....very cool ride if you ask me!

And of course, it's a small world after all!

Rafiki, one of my favorite Disney characters!

They had a fun Disney show going on most of the day. Throughout the show, many of the different Disney characters came out. It was so fun to watch, I felt like a little kid again!

And probably one of the best parts of the trip, we got to see Cirque Du Soleil that night. It was amazing!!!!!!! And it was even better because Todd hadn't seen a show by them before. It was unreal!



The next day was kind of a travel day. We had to drive three hours to get to the Port where our cruise took off from. Then boarding the cruise took so many hours! By the time we got to eat something, it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon! Not to mention, we got lost so many times trying to find the Port. However, it was well worth it for the next day....

The BAHAMAS!!!!!!

We decided to rent a scooter that day, because we were only there one day, we had to get everything in!! So we spent the day cruising around the island looking at everything we could see. It was so beautiful, the water was a perfect turqoise and it was so clear you could see down to the bottom!

We cruised over to The Atlantis in the later part of the day. This was one of the biggest resorts I have ever seen! It was a whole island by itself! It had it's own private beach even. You can kind of see part of it behind us in this picture below...

And we finally made it to the beach! Woohoo! The beach was awesome...we even rented some jetski's and went out to two different islands. It was fun to jetski in the ocean, so many fun waves to jump!

The beautiful beach...if you look close, you can see someone parasailing!

We had to be back on the cruise that night. We were so sad to leave!! However, we did have a fun night on the ship. There was some good food and good entertainment that night!

The next day we got off the cruise and headed to Fort Lauderdale where we stayed on Deerfield Beach. It was very relaxing. We were pretty pooped buy this part of the trip. So we spent our days on the beach and our nights at a great restaurant on the beach!

One night we went out on the Pier. There were so many fisherman out there it was crazy! They just set up camp on the pier and bring their families and just catch fish all night!

At the beach...we snorkeled, played in the 90 degree water, and played some beach volleyball! One day we were out in the ocean when it was raining...that was pretty neat because it was still so warm!

After the rain came, came a beautiful rainbow. I couldn't resist taking this picture.. I mean come on, a rainbow and palm trees?! My favorite!

This was the best restaurant. Aruba was located right on the beach, it had a live band, and great shrimp!! I am officially a shrimp lover now!!

My sweetie at louie's Lounge eating lunch on the beach. We also got to do some fun shopping here.

And then it was time to leave...

At the airport we had to take a picture of our rental car...Todd named it the Blubird.


Sad to leave, but smiles because we had a great time!!

Happy 5 year anniversary sweetie! That was the best trip ever!!