We’re Moving!!

 

In less than a week we’re moving to this beautiful place!!

Roaring Springs Ranch in Oregon!!

http://www.billyspostcards.com/Postcard/20500_Postcard_Roaring_Springs_Ranch_Burns_Oregon_OR.html

Andrew got a job to be the Wildlife Biologist on the Ranch there!  I have always wanted to live on a ranch so I am really excited, and nervous to move.  It will be hard to leave my family in Utah, but it’s a great opportunity for Andrew that we couldn’t pass up!  Plus I know it will be good for us too and that we’ll learn a lot of from this.  I am excited for this new chapter in our lives and I can’t wait to see where it leads.  It’s about 70 miles from the nearest town (which is Burns, Oregon), so I’m going to have to find a lot of things to keep me busy in order to keep my sanity haha but it’s such a beautiful place and the people there are so nice and friendly.

Crafty Crafty

 

While Andrew was hunting I went to get an eye exam (they’re always so awkward) in Kaysville.  My mom and I decided to make some cards with the washi tape I bought a little while ago.  If you’ve never heard of washi tape it is pretty much one of the coolest things ever.  It’s decorative tape that sticky, but it’s really easy to remove from things too.  Here is a picture of some of the cards we made. 

  Sorry the picture is blurry, my phone doesn’t take the best pictures. But they turned out really cute and they’re fun to make (and easy!).

 

Yesterday Andrew’s sister, CarolAnn, and I went to a boutique and saw these really cute Halloween shadow boxes.  We really wanted one, but CarolAnn suggested that we could make them.  So after leaving the boutique and grabbing some lunch with Andrew’s mom and Sammy’s (yum!) we ran to Hobby Lobby and made some shadow box Halloween decorations! 

We have these two older chairs that are really good sturdy chairs, but they didn’t match the chairs have now around my table.  So I decided to refinish the old ones to match the new ones!  I had no idea the work that goes into refinishing something.  It’s a lot of work, especially trying to sand down the chairs all the way.  But I was really happy with the results!!  It was a lot of fun too.  We went to Andrew’s parents house and worked on our projects (Andrew is making us a log bed! Yay!! I am so excited for it to be done, it looks so nice!)  So we both got to work sanding chairs and logs haha.

Sage 1 (sanding)

Stage 2 (Spray painting)

Stage 3 (staining)

Finished!!!

Billy

 

This is Billy…the billy goat.  Andrew’s been watching him all summer.  He’d wake up at 4 am to get to the right spot on the mountain just after sunrise to watch Billy and make sure he was in the same spot.  I have countless pictures and videos of this goat from all summer.  I’d come home after work everyday and he’d have some new pictures of video of Billy for me….I was starting to get attached haha.

On the morning of September 18th, Andrew and his hunting posse were up above Silver Lake Flat…and this is what happened to Billy.

Needless to say…..Billy is now dead and is hanging up in Andrew’s parents shed.  Andrew was so excited to get his goat though and he definitely deserved it after all the time he put into scouting for this particular goat.  They estimated him to weigh around 300 pounds and his horns are around 9 inches long!  It’s definitely a mature billy, around 8-9 years old!   His friend Vince said he got a Polar Bear not a goat. 

Thanks for the help from Andrew’s brother Nathan, his Dad, and his friends Eric, Justin, and Vince.  He really appreciated all your help!!

Bye Billy….

Labor Day

 

Every year my mom’s side of the family goes out to Strawberry camping over Labor Day weekend because my grandpa’s family used to run sheep all up in that area.  It’s a blast and I always look forward to going! 

This year it rained pretty much every day we were there!  Saturday it rained all day, it was insane!! 

Andrew made snowballs from all the hail that fell.  Just look at the ground in this picture, it looks like a swamp!

My mom and Aunt Judie waiting for the endless rain to stop. 

All of us going on a hike!  Minus my dad and mom who were behind me at the time I took the picture (sorry! haha).

My cute nephew Nathan walking to Point of Pines.  He kept finding sticks to use for hiking and then he brought one that was just right for his little sister.  He’s a great kid

My adorable niece Morgan.  She really liked all the wildflowers there were out camping.  She wanted to pick everyone and take back with her.

Brandon and Andrew stirring up trouble as usual. 

Gus even came out with us this year!!

It was a great camping trip!  I love being out there and especially out at Strawberry, it is a really beautiful place.  It was great spending time with my family before our big move.