Landscaping

This week we have been working on the landscaping in my parents yard. We live in their guest house wich is the section to the left of the garage. We have planted about 20 trees so far and still have quite a few to plant. We have planted somewhere around 300 shrubs. It looks amazing in person... the pictures hardly do it justice. I will post more pictures once the grass is in in a few weeks.

more pictures

More pictures

These are the trees we still have to plant... the above picture.

Shrubs line the concrete all around the house.

Landscaping Madness

Earlier this week we had a semi truck load of trees and shrubs come in and since then we have been planting, planting, and planting. It has been a lot of fun to see the yard transform. It will look even better once we get the grass in. Here is the progress so far.

The Horse Stampede

Today we went to a horse stampede. There is a company that moves their horses every year from their winter pastures to the summer ones. They run the horses right through main street. There were SO many horses. I didn't realize it was such a big event. People came from some of the near by towns and the whole street was filled with vendors and activities. We enjoyed some great steak sandwiches and funnel cakes. After the horses came through a band played for a while at the hotel. There is even a dance tonight but we have other plans. It was fun to see all the horses. Ben wasn't able to come because he had to work. I had a great time though. I felt pretty cool because a lot of the kids I have subbed for at the school recognized me so I heard, "Hi Mrs. Roberts" at least once every 5 minutes. It was a good time.




Yay for horses.

What a Man!

Ben has been busy working this week. Here is removing a huge tree. It is a lot bigger in real life than in the pictures. He is pretty much awesome. The pictures aren't in any order because I don't know how to move them around.

He is a stud.

Our new Home

Well, inspired from comments on my previous post I have decided to post another one... within a week of the last AND have it be about the move. Wow. I am good.

Ben and I moved to Montana in January. We have started a tree care service here and it is getting busier so we are pretty happy about that. I am substituting at the local school and looking for a job. We love it up here.

Here are some pictures of where we live... I will post more later. This is just what I have. We live in my parent's guest house and so we live next door to them. We share a garage and a porch. It has been a lot of fun. We are currently working on some landscaping so we will have to post pictures when that is done.

The view out our back door

The Porch

The Guest House

I am trying to think what else we have been up too. I am helping coach a softball team. That is pretty exciting. We have had one game and it was a tie. Ben and I both are kept pretty busy with church activities as well.

We are excited about our move and hope our friends come visit us.

Monday Monday

Ben and I woke up on Monday morning to a beautiful day. Neither of us had work so we meandered down to the porch to shoot some guns.

This is me sneaking up on Ben and taking a picture that he didn't know I took.

Me in all of my glory

Another sneaky shot of Ben.

The End.

We... are awesome.

I love my sister...

No Words are needed....

Good form sister.

***Missionaries***

We are pretty lucky to be able to see the sister missionaries often, Sister Stalions and Sister Nichols. My parents had them over for dinner recently and we had a good time.

We told them to have their families look at this blog so we will try to put more pictures of them on it in the future. Sister Nichols just arrived recently and we haven't gotten to know her very well yet but she seems very nice. Sister Stalions has been here since we moved here a few months ago and we love her. She is such a great person and we are lucky to know her.

Sorry, the picture was taken with my phone. Next time I'll get a better quality picture.

Come Visit

Ben and I hope that our friends and family will come visit us... so I made this awesome little dealio on our wall. If you come visit then your pictures gets to go up on one of the boards.

Come on up you people we call friends.I would start naming BUT I don't want to leave anyone out because we have SOOO many friends. (snicker snicker) I just hope that we can fill those small boards within the next 10 to 20 years.

Woot.

Happy Birthday to me

My birthday was last Monday and it was a D-light. Ben and I had a delightful day together and we went out to eat with Wes at a place called The Land of Magic. It was a delicious steak place. The steaks were huge and quite pricey but very worth it.

Wes got the biggest steak they offer...

We are excited to get things moving here. I have yet to post about our move and Christmas so expect those in the next few weeks.

Random Thought for the night: I hate when I get in the shower with my glasses on... I do it all the time. Water spots- ew.

Merry Christmas

This is a little late coming but I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hello

I don't have time to post quite yet but I wanted to put this picture of Benson waving to the world up. I found it amongst other Thanksgiving pictures. Cute.
COming soon: Move post, CHristmas post, New years post... or just one post.

Good Bye

Harry Potter anyone?

Ben and I are moving... as we were cleaning the junk from under our bed we had this delightful exchange.

(I threw something at ben)

Ben: Ridiculus

me: Wow, what a nerd to curse me with a Harry Potter curse.

Ben: What a nerd to know that's where it came from.

me: dang it... crucio (it didn't work very well though because I didn't mean it.)

hahaha

mmmm mmmmm goooood

Who knew gingerbread making could be so... interesting?... complicated? A few days ago we went over to the Johnson's to test our creativity to the max. Lindsey and I felt that the tradition gingerbread house look and design was good enough for us... the boys did not feel the same way. We already had our walls built and they were still in the "planning" phase. This is probably the cleanest the table was in the five hours of gingerbread house madness.

Ben has yet to finish his... this is how it looked at 1AM... a good stopping point.

Sadly, I don't have a picture of the front of Klay's house... it had an arch entry way. He, too, did not finish the building in five hours.

I only have a side view of Lindsey's... it was really cool. Tin foil siding from the hershey kisses and green mike 'n' ike bricks.

I like to think of my creation as two words: Classic and Timeless.

I worked hard on the realistic icicles... hard work DOES pay off. I also worked hard on my horse... pictured below. He shortly died after we left.

Ben put in a few hours on Sunday. This is not the finished product but he is almost done constructing the house... then on to decorating. woot.

We had a lot of fun. I think all of our houses were sawesome... if not beyond sawesome.

By the way I forgot to mention on here in my last post that I am published in the December 2009 New Era. Woot woot for me.