Our dog, Lady

This was Josh and Bentley watching our dog, Lady swim around the lake.
Lady swimming with Bentley.

This is our cute dog, Lady who recently died! Josh takes the dogs out in the hills and they run while following Josh is the jeep. Josh took them out one night after school and they ran a couple miles. Somehow Lady ran under the jeep and Josh ran her over. He got out and she ran over to him and then died his his arms. We have had a really hard time with this, especially Josh. He absolutely loves his dogs.

Lady was such a sweet dog. To Josh she was the perfect dog. He spent a lot of time training her. She was an amazing hunter; she would hold on point forever when she found a bird. She was also an excellent swimmer; she would swim all over the lake if we let her. She was very obedient and minded very well. She was also so good with kids. She loved Bentley and all the neighbor kids. She will definitely be missed....


Teaching Lady to point!

Locked on point on a pheasant wing.

Lady and Dixie.

Bentley picking some green tomatoes to give to Dixie. We have tried to pay special attention to Dixie since her buddy is gone.

Bentley using her dad's stethescope.

I thought this was so cute and had to snap a picture!

Bentley with her grandparents.

Josh's dad being brave to let him do an IV. I also broke down and let Josh do it on me. He did a really good job and it didn't even hurt.

Me and Josh went on the Muzzleloader deer hunt the end of September. We had a lot of fun together. We didn't see anything we could shoot. We did lots and lots of hiking. I think I got my workout for the month.

We started hiking at 5:30 and it took us about 2 hrs straight up to get to the top before sunrise. It was so beautiful up there.

We tried to find shade during the day! It was so miserably hot and that's why we didn't see many animals. They bed down when it gets too warm and stay there til the sun goes down.

Here we are at the top! Josh was making fun of my diamond studded sunglasses the whole time and said I was scaring all the deer away! :)

Just another pretty picture of the mountains!! We saw lots of deer, just none we could shoot and we saw a bunch of really big bull elk and moose. Josh is so patient to take me hunting with him. I enjoy being with him so much!!!

Labor Day

We went camping at my parents property over Labor day weekend. The girls and Jace got up early on Saturday and went to Swiss Days in Midway! We went early in the morning to try and miss the crowds, but it was still pretty crowded! I got a couple of fun things! I mostly love to look and get fun ideas... They boys and Bentley we prairie dog hunting and had fun.
Me and Melissa at Swiss Days.

Gabe, Jace, Melissa, & Josh hangin out!!

Bentley enjoying the swing that grandpa made!!

We all love to relax on the hammock!

Me and Bentley shooting Bryce's bow!

Bentley and Cami bringing back her arrow she shot!

Goin for a wheeler ride!

The boys shootin at the targets sighting in their guns.

Making our yummy breakfast burritos! Thanks mom and dad for all the good food.

Bentley sitting in her special chair that grandma brought up for her! She felt so special.

One of the days we went to the lake to fish. It was kind of windy, so we didn't fish much, but we enjoyed being by the water!

Bentley loved carrying her fishing pole around.

Hangin out eating her cucumber!

Josh cut out this wall and we are putting a railing in and we also textured, painted, and glazed this wall. I will post some pics of the finished product. Bentley is always wanting to help and copy what we do! We let her climb this ladder and took a pic, then made her come down. Such a funny girl!

Josh started Paramedic school a few weeks ago! It's hard and there's lots of studying, but he's also really enjoying it! He has to practice doing IV's on people and is being tested on it soon. His step-dad was nice enough to let him practice on him. He recently was on a ride along with a department and did and IV on a live patient on a call they went on. He said it went really good and he felt great about it. He keeps wanting to practice on me, but I just hate IV's. So maybe if I get brave enough I will let him try!

Bentley and her grandma, Josh's mom. They were here from Colorado for a few days and we got to see them for a bit! We love when they come to visit.

I thought I would brag about Josh a little bit since he never reads our blog anyway! This was a really nice house he recently worked on! He did all the wood work in the whole house! He does such a good job and it's fun for me to go see the work he's done! The home owners loved Josh and all the work he's done!

I love the baton board in this room!!!! There's lots more awesome pictures, but these are the only ones I posted!

Salt Lake county fair

We recently went to the Salt Lake County fair with Josh's sister and her family! Bentley loved all the animals!
We let her go on a pony ride all by her self. She loved it and was really mad when we took her off!

There was a little petting zoo with ponies, goats, and bunnies. Bentley wasn't sure about them at first, but once she got over it she loved petting all the animals and feeding them!

The Taylors!!

Feeding the goat some carrots.

This little pony loved Bentley. She really liked the pony's hair. She kept petting it and saying, "pretty."

Bentley has a fetish for other people's shoes and cell phones!

Bentley's favorite things; her cousins, being outside, and popsicles

Provo 1/2, camping and more

Happy 25 to me!!!

I had a really good birthday! My poor sister and brother in law had their basement flood in one of the really bad storms. Most of their basement is ruined, but we are just happy no one was hurt. I was over there for a bit on my birthday, which I was so glad to be there and help. Then I went to lunch with a few friends and then went to dinner and cake at my parents. My sweet mom made me one of my favorite meals and strawberry shortcake after her long day of doing daycare! Thanks so much mom!!
Bentley thought it was her birthday and so she blew out my candles for me!!! I got some new running attire, decorations, magic bullet(which I absolutely love), clothes, I tunes gift cards, and lots of other fun stuff. Thanks everyone for all your love on my birthday!!!

I recently ran in the Provo canyon half marathon. It was so much fun. It was a beautiful run down the canyon and nice and cool! I felt great until about mile 12 when my knees started hurting. I am very glad I did it and I'm happy with my time, especially since I didn't get to train as hard as I wanted to! I got really sick like 2 weeks before, so I think that hurt my time a bit! My time was 2hr 10min. Next year I would really like to do it in 2 hours. Josh took this picture of me when I was about to cross the finish line. It's kind of hard to see me!

I think I will do this race again, so if anyone wants to do it next year let me know!!!
I can't believe I posted this pic. I look horrible, but oh well. My parents were so nice and took Bentley camping with them over the weekend. It was so nice to not have to worry about her and to be able to relax after my race.


We went camping to potter's pond with some friends. We had lots of fun sitting by the fire, fishing, and just relaxing in the mountains.

Bentley eating her tinfoil dinner which she loved!

Hanging by the fire!

Bentley helping her dad bait the fishing poles. She had her own Dora the Explorer pole and she actually caught a couple on it!

Me and Benltey waiting for the fish to bite!

Bentley helped her dad reel in a fish!

Josh's sister Missy stayed with us a while ago. We loved having her here and I loved having a running buddy! We went to the Lehi pool one day and had so much fun.

Me and Bentley in the pool. Bentley absolutely loves the water and could stay in there all day!

Missy and Bentley in the kiddie pool.