Great Sunday

Today after church Mariah came over to keep my company. I am still adjusting to life living alone. I'm sure I sound a little dramatic but its crazy how different it already feels.
We ate a delicious lunch and then took a long, glorious nap on the couch.

For dinner we invited Toby over and made beef stroganoff, potatoes, and green beans.

Again we ate outside and that's when Toby noticed his 3 ducks. He had released in the River the previous day about 2 miles upstream. They sure traveled fast, and what are the odds we would see them!

There were some wild storms today. It would get super windy and start to rain out of the blue. Next thing you knew it was completely calm. As the day went on, some pretty awesome lightning storms came out...

We ended the evening by inviting Allison to join us and we ate leftover cake, followed by the latest episode of So You Think You Can Dance. Wow there are some AMAZING dancers! I wish I had that talent.

Girls Night!

Tonight marked the beginning of many girls nights. Now that I'm living alone, I am going to be lonely often. Its so nice to have the girls over to eat good food and watch a chick flick!

[Dinner outside while the sun goes down]

[Mariah]

[Gorgeous Sunset]

[Ultimate chick flicks and confetti cake]

As the girls were going to leave Mariah found a gross spider on the wall. I proceeded to get my black flag bug spray and spray the crap out of the spider.


It refused to die though! That is when Mariah stepped in and just killed it with her shoe.

 HAHA


There was Mariah, Natessa, Kim and me.

Last time...

Today was the last time in a very long time that I will get to watch little Quinton. He is the cutest little guy ever, I have so much fun with him!

[I love his little grin!]

[Lazy Friday Cartoons]

[He kept rubbing my leg while we watched the cartoons]

Cassia County Fair Week

This week was the Cassia County Fair. It is probably one of my favorite times of the whole summer! All week I got to enjoy dressing up, eating good food, seeing friends, watching animals, and enjoying summer.

Wednesday:

Cattle Sorting/ A night at the fair.



[Cattle sorting in action]

[Tess, Me, and Mariah]

[Tattoo}

 

[Tess and Jocelyn on the Ride]

[Mariah showing off her balancing skills]

Thursday:

Family Night at the Rodeo! I went with Josh and Allison.

 

Probably one of my favorite parts of the Family Rodeo is when the kids get to participate. All kids 8&older get to go out into the arena and chase around calves. Each calf has a different color ribbon attatched to their tail. The kids are suppose to chase the calf, grab the ribbon off the tail, and then run it back to the announcer. Each ribbon has a different color and signifies a different prize for the kids to win. Kaleb participated this year but in the first video I had a hard time keeping track of him.

Even though he isn't 8 yet Wesley went out there to participate. He is so cute, it was fun to watch him run around and chase the calves. The best part though was that Jason (his dad) was following him around with a camera recording his every move. Jason was only one of a couple parents that went out there with their kids.

       

Friday:

Today Jessica Hutton, my friend from home, came to visit! This is her 3rd time coming to Idaho. For some reason she loves it here! Just kidding, how could you not love it here! I drove to Idaho Falls this morning to do a little bit of shopping before it was time to pick Jess up. Her flight got in around 3 and after picking her up we grabbed a bite to eat at Taco Bell (YUMM). Then we rushed back to Burley so we would be able to get ready to head to the fair!

Rodeo with Jessica 

[The wranglers]

I have big dreams of being a barrel racer and a wrangler :)

Saturday:

Today Jess and I were Lazy! We slept in pretty late. We decided that we were going to float the river so we grabbed out hats, sunglasses, bathing suits, and tubes, and we headed out! We only floated about an hour but it was a hot day so it felt nice to relax and enjoy the water.

After floating we got ready to go and enjoy the last night of the fair and go to the rodeo one last time.

[Jess and I with our hats.]

For the Rodeo we met up with Andrew, Josh, Allison and Seth.

[Bull Riding!]

There were over 42 cowboys who entered in the Rodeo but had to withdrawal  due to injury. That has gotta be a  record? I've never head of that many being injured. It was one of the shortest Rodeos I have ever been to.

Following the Rodeo we wandered the Fair and tried to Enjoy our last night. We ended up meeting up with a bunch of friends and decided to go do dry ice bombs. We had to show Jess some more ways to have fun in Idaho!
There ended up being quite a big group of us that went! There was me, Jess, Cody, Brock, Shawn, Andrew, Jason, Allison, and Seth. Josh fell asleep on Allison's house right before we went so we just left him there. Hehe!

Wayside Milkshakes

Where do we go in Burley when its late and we are hungry? Wayside! Their milkshakes are the BEST. 

[Andrew is such a goof]

Mentos and Coke

After the Fair/Rodeo Saturday night a group of us went back to Allison's to hang out. Kalli went and got mentos and coke to show us what happens when you mix them...

Minidoka County Fair

Thursday:

[Cattle Sorting, I love that buckskin horse!]

[Free Raspberry Cobbler and Ice Cream]

[Allison climbing into the tractor]

[Allison in the tractor]

Friday:

[Wild Cow Ride! Reed, Byron and Ethan]

[Not a happy cow]

[The cow kept laying down and refused to move]

[Riding the cow through the finish line!]

[Toby and a rabbit. It was such a neat color!]

[I love the ears on this rabbit! The rabbits at this fair were huge, I want to know what they are fed]

    

[Cheese Dog]                                      [Scone w/honey butter]

Saturday:

[Loaded Nachos!]

Vineyard Lake

Today I went to Vineyard Lakes cliff jumping with friends. I am not sure when I turned into such a wimp but I think it is getting worse the older I get. I used to be more fearless.

It probably didn't help that the water was soooo cold and that I kept looking how high I was before I actually jumped. I only made it to about the 40 foot cliff. I still had a blast though!

Except for slicing open my toe....That was very unpleasant.

[Toby and Josh]

[Toby, Allison and Josh]

Can you see how high up they are?! They look so tiny in the picture you can barely spot them...

Trying to see who could make the smallest splash...

Josh won!