City or Country?

Do you ever wonder where the better place to live is? Do you like the hustle and bustle of the city, the lights, the noise, the entertainment? Or do you prefer the slow pace, the relaxation, the quiet of the country? All I know is I haven't decided. I love being so close to Target, Wal-mart, Harmons, and (do I dare say) the mall. But at the same time, I go to the country and I love the wide spaces. I love being able to see as far as your eyes can see. I don't like the fact that it is always a competition in the city of who has their kids in the coolest preschool, or how many sports does your kid play, can you kids color in the lines yet? In the country no one cares. Kids can be kids and not be pressured into doing anything more than that. As you can see, we went on a trip to Faust, UT to visit Aunt Liz (Ben's sister) and Uncle Rick. Rick has been promising Ryan a Tractor ride. Ryan wasn't feeling very well, so he doesn't look so happy, but he really was excited to be on the tractor. Liz and Rick made hamburgers for us, they were delicious. Liz made a homemade BBQ sauce that they put on their hamburgers, I'll have to get the recipe and post it because I don't think I can ever eat another hamburger without that sauce on it!
Family picture in front of the horses. I look terrible by the way, I was cleaning my house all day and had to run a million errands, so I never actually showered (yes, I'm admitting that on my blog, get over it).
Liz feeding the new colt.

Star, the horse (yep, that's not a cow).

We appreciate Liz and Rick having us out to their home, it was fun!

"Camping" with friends

Sorry for all the landscape pictures, but I love sunsets and nice views. Here is another picture of a sunset out my mom's backyard in Stansbury Park. Beautiful!
We've been trying to go camping with Wade and Catherine Reed for a couple months now and it has never worked out (one or both of us have been busy). So we decided instead of taking a weekend we would go up on Sunday night and have a dutch oven dinner. We invited Wade's cousin Britni Lively and her family also (Britni is also in my ward). It was really fun being in the mountains with good friends. I hope Catherine posts the picture of her little Johnathon eating the dirt, that was so funny! Anyway, the dinner was fabulous and the smores were delicious. Thanks to Ben for making the dutch oven dinner and the baked beans (my favorite).

Britni, Aaron, Kyle, Catherine, Johnathon, Emily and Wader Potater. Notice Wade's awesome boy scout fire he built.
Cute little Ethan and Ben.
We were in Butterfield canyon and my sister had her 4th of July party the same night as the Dutch oven dinner, so we went up and over Butterfield into Middle canyon to go to Tooele for Fireworks at my sister's house. This was the view at the top.


Here were some deer right at the top on the Tooele side.
Middle Canyon sunset! Can't get enough of them.

Britni and Catherine: let's do that again!

Post #3/ My Brother Jud's reception

The reception was at Speirs Farm in Tooele (Liz's grandma's house). It was really beautiful. I had never been there before, but is was the perfect place for a reception. Ryan didn't like taking pictures, this is him hiding from the camera.
Lynzie, Me, and Summer with Ryan.
Me and Ethan
My awesome mom, Sheri, and I.

The Harris family. Summer, Jarom, Jordan, Kit, Brant, Liz, Jud, Sheri, Jeff, Jaxon, Shad, Ben, Ethan, Kelly and Ryan. Don't mind Ryan picking his nose, and look at Shad's eyes...haha!


Kit's girlfriend Lynzie, me, and Ry boy.
Ryan and his cousin Jaxon. I think this is adorable. They were being so cute together.
Ben and Ethan
Me and my Dad.

The happy couple's first dance. So sweet! Then after this all the boys got up and danced to "I like big butts". Nice!

Post #2/ Father's Day Tribute

For Father's day this year I felt terrible. I was planning on waking up early to make Ben breakfast, but the baby woke up every 45 mins. the night before, so I accidentally slept in. Ben ended up make hash browns, eggs, and bacon for US of Father's Day. He is a wonderful father. I couldn't ask for a better dad for my children. He is very busy working full time and going to school, doing homework, and doing yard work, but he always finds time for his boys. They love when he comes home and wrestles with them, tickles them, and reads stories to them. Ryan and Ben have a thing where they call each other really funny names, like..."you're a potato chip sandwich", or "you're a bookshelf with pickles", or something crazy like that. Ryan loves it, and it expands his imagination. When Ryan sees another kid crying in public he says "dad, why is that kid crying?", Ben always replies with, "because he is sad that I am not his dad". (Ben really doesn't mean it, it's just funny to say).Ben is always willing to go for a bike ride with Ryan, and take him to their favorite store; The Home Depot. Anyway, I just wanted to say to Ben how grateful I am to him as a father. He is the best dad a wife could ask for.

Post #1/ Random

I was on the computer blogging, and this is what I came out to find...the boys were playing so sweet together. Ryan was sharing his track with Ethan and they were both laughing.


Ryan had a dentist appointment. They have a TV in the ceiling that he gets to watch. No cavities!
We went to the splash park with Britni Lively and Shelley Holt. It was very cold, so Ryan (being allergic to the cold) got huge hives. Poor guy!



Britni gave Ethan his first haircut. I look terrible in this picture, but Ethan looks cute.

Sam's Wedding

My mother came over Saturday morning to show me how to make Strawberry Jam, and guess what? I actually made it. Can you believe it? Probably not, but here is proof...
Ryan was sick on Friday and Saturday, this is him sleeping on the floor (really, I bet you couldn't tell). The thing is, this is not like him. He only falls asleep on his own if he is sick.


My beautiful jam!

This is why we want to move to Tooele! Gorgeous! Well okay, it's not the only reason, but they do have incredible sunsets that you just don't get here in Salt Lake.
Ben's brother Sam got married on Friday in the Salt Lake Temple. It was beautiful. Although, I never got a picture of the happy couple. I guess I'm self centered and only like to take pictures of us...okay, that's not true, there were a couple pictures of Jake and Shayla too (Ben's other brother and sister in law). Big shout out to Sam & Shalleece!

"I may not be Handsome, but I sure am Handy"

My mom and Ryan on our girls day. Instead of a bridal shower Liz wanted to go out to lunch with the girls and go shopping for flip flops. So we did. This is Liz and Lynzie with baby Ethan.
The Harris girls, Kelly, Summer, Lynzie, and Liz (alright, technically Lynzie is a Valdez girl, but since her and Kit have been dating for like 2 or so years, we claim her).

This is Ben's super duper handy gate he made. We have a railing on either side of the stairs so we couldn't use a normal pressure gate, so he build one (without nails, only dowels). He put a spring on it so we can open it easily and it will shut on it's own. And it is tightly velcrowed (how do you spell velcrow?) to the railing so it won't leave any marks. Ben's motto it, "I may not be handsome, but I sure am handy". Although I disagree, I think he's handsome AND handy.


Ben got home from work and both the boys wanted to be with him, so he read them a book. So cute!