Lake Mead-Take Two

So we went to Lake Mead, again. It was fun although I was not too excited about the idea at first. We have been driving (long ways) for the past month and I was looking forward to a lazy saturday, but my ever adventurous husband set up this trip with the help of his brother and I guess somewhere in there I decided to go. Cade's wife Caryn decided to go too which was fun! Lots of fishing and Towing....yes, as you can see below a stranded group of river rafters asked if we could help them out cause it was too windy for them. We sure were a sight haha. Good service right? well these people insisted they pay us (it did take us quite a while going 5 miles per hour) we didn't take the beer they wanted to give us but the $200 sure was nice! Yeah. crazy. I wish I could through around $200 bucks. Morale of the story: Be nice, it might pay off.
So life update, Kameron is finnished with school pretty much and should get some good grades. He'll have a little break than start up on summer school. And our next Big evnt would probably be Minnesota!!! I'm still sad my brothers can't go, but I'm sure we'll still have a good time! Lots of fishing and Family time!! That's in July though so we still have a couple of months to save our pennies. We are thinking of moving from our home we have now, cause of rent going up, but we'll see if Flagstaff has anything else to offer. Cross your fingers. Oh and I got a new phone. which is exciting because Kameron had pretty much nicknamed my phone "the dinasuar" It's a pretty cool phone: evoke qa4. Still getting used to all the touch screen, which can be pretty irritating sometimes, but it's cool.

These are the folks we gave a lift too. Sorry Caryn I'm too lazy to do any cropping :)
Oh and these people had been river rafting for 25 days! Count 'em...Six rafts.....!

Kameron and me below after a tasty dinner at Golden Corral

This Picture is for Emily. Because I can't go to her Graduation this weekend. But I love you Em. I'll probably be thinking of you all day. You are amazing and I miss you so much.

So here is a beautiful picture of Lake Mead early in the morning. There is just something about being out in a boat before the day starts. We went to Lake Mead for the annual Johnson get-together. The weather could have been a little better but the fishing was good and we had a great time! Can't wait till next year! here are some pics:

Randy and Cade

Kameron with his first catch of the trip, small mouth bass

me and a fish

Jacob and Kam

We took my family's boat out. Sadly the battery was bad so we had to jump it everytime but now that we are back home I think Kameron has it figured out so our next trips won't have that problem. It was fun being on that boat so many memories. It's fun to be putting more memories into it too!

And last but not least here is a picture of us, sadly my excitment for spring has been put on hold. It is still snowing! School is starting to wrap up in the next couple of weeks just to start some summer school! yay. But life is good and we just enjoy it!

Hello Spring!

I like spring. It makes you want to clean and have a fresh start! We went to Lake Pleasant (um don't know if I spelt that right) this past weekend. Unfortunatly Kameron and I have both been getting sick. He's got a cold/flu and I had really bad stomach bug. I am feeling better but Kameron is still fighting his. But nevertheless the lake was fun, even though we didn't even get a single bite. I am blaming the moon cycle. It was fun to get to use the DeRusha family boat! And get some sun! This weekend we are looking forward to a nice quite time just watching conference. And some more good news...well I guess it depends on who you ask, but Kameron, his brother and his dad got drawn for elk hunting in November. Atleast this time I won't have to go camp in the freezing cold. For all you hunters out there unit 7E is pretty much in our backyard. Kinda. So good luck guys!!
Other than that nothing else exciting. Just working and school. But life is going good. Atleast it isn't snowing anymore! Just wind, but like I said it sure is nice to see a hint of spring.

qtt

Quality Time Together. That's our life motto these days! So here are some updated pictures of what we've been up to...

I always have to post snow pictures because it just shows whatliving in Flagstaff is like. Thankfully the snow is melting and it kinda of feels like spring!!

Seriously the snow was so high! Poor Kameron had to dig his way to his truck at 4:30 AM! what a trooper!

Yay for Valentine's Day! We got to go to Outback Steakhouse for a delicous dinner! Thanks to the gift card from christmas. We decided that would be a great annual christmas gift so we could use it for valentine's day and not feel bad about going out to a nicer resturant. Yummy!

So here are a bunch of pictures of us at Walnut Canyon. It's about 15 minutes from where we live. I was really windy and the cold we are kinda used to. It was really cool to see where people used to live and just be outsoors. And the 270 (Kameron had to count every step) steps back up the canyon was sure a good work out.

I like how I fit in the little cave/home haha.

you can kinda see the home in the right of the picture.

And I can't imagine how these people lived so high up! It made my legs feel like Jello!

So not too much has been going on. Just school and work. We are headed to Mesa, Thatcher and Cottonwood next weekend because we are borrowing the boat so we can take it to Lake Mead. Kam's parents are nice to let us keep it at their place. But yeah we are looking forward to Lake Mead and spending time with family whenever we can. The Lord has deffinatly given us some hard trials these past couple of months but we just try to learn from them and become stonger people and strengthen our testimonies.

Hey what's goin on? Well these past couple weeks have been fun...we've experience real living in the snow. Driving and the aftermath. Seriously the snow just starts to melt and it's cold it freezes. But it's all good. Oh and the pictures down below are of the melting snow off our house and than it freezes so you get these really cool iceicles (sp?) we had a humongous one! But Kameron broke it off before I could get a picture. And we went to Mesa last weekend for a friends weeding. It was so fun going to the temple and being there for a wedding. My second wedding to be at, but my first in the mesa temple, which will always just be a special place for me cause of our wedding day. But we had a great time with friends and the reception was beautiful! Oh and I got to meet up with the girls! And that saturday we went rifle shooting with Julie her boyfriend and some other people. It was fun! I am not really in to shooting a rifle though. The noise is just too loud! Anyways we just hung out in mesa talked with my mom and brother till after midnight for two nights in a row! Thank goodness we got to sleep in. And now we are just back to the grind. Working and school. Our next fun thing is Lake Mead in the beginning of April so we've got a while till we see a good break.

Kameron just chilli'n. Literally, it just cost to much to keep our place warm so we have to bundle up!

Us at the reception. Kameron was one of the best men. He looked Soo handsome!

The Girls!

our Iceicles

Christmas 2008

Christmas! Well this year we went to the Johnson's in Cottonwood, got up at 4:00 AM...yes I think we got up earlier than my 5 year old nephew. But that's OK cause I got to take a lot of naps during the day. But we had a great time. Just played with new toys and hanging out. And I can't believe I put this picture up cause I look like I got up before the sun, oh wait I did, but I have to show off My Guitar Hero! World Tour! I have the most wonderful husband! I seriously havn't wanted a "toy" like that in a long time. I just kept wishing it would show up, and it did!! yay!



And than Kameron and I went to work on Friday, another day another dollar, and then headed off to Mesa to be with the DeRusha fam. My parents just got a new office/house on power and baseline so we stayed there, acutally my brother Jason is going to live there also so we will be getting to spend more time with him which I'm very happy about! And we went over to Janel's and had Lunch and did presents. I even saw some cousins I havn't seen in ages! And us four girls sang an awesome arrangment of slient night for our parents. It was so fun to sing like that again. Oh and Brianna came for christmas too..we are just missing Nate :( still hanging out in Korea. But this summer we will all be meeting up in Minnesota for our family reunion!!!!!!

So anywho that was our christmas celebration, and for new years we just stayed in Flag and hung out with the family that live here. I can't believe it's 2009 but I am glad for the new year to start over and hopefully have a great year!

Flash Back!

So I want to get in on the High School flash back post and I have nothing else to do, so here goes!

'K I'm not sure what look I was going for, but I know everyone else looked just as ridiculous

Spirit days anyone???

1. Did you date anyone from your school? Yes, my sophomore year, well I don't know if we really dated but we liked eachother?? And my junior year.

2. What kind of car did you drive? Oh boy, the colorful suburban. The spedometor didn't work and it was hideous. And than I drove the 1980 Nova hatch back. Yikes. Oh and don't forget the buick (thanks grandma for letting me borrow) Double yikes.

3. Did you pass your drivers license the 1st try? Yeah, and I accidentally put a railroad crossing sign as a stop sign. I was just so nervous!

4. Were you a part animal? Umm I like to have fun but I wouldn't say party animal.

5. Were you a flirt? Eh, if I felt like it. But I wasn't too flirtrageous.

6. Were you in bad, orchestra or choir? Oh Choir how I miss you.

Yay for regionals!
7. Were you a nerd? No. Okay maybe during the whole Harry Potter craze, but I straitned out.

8. Were you on any varsity team? Psh yeah I wish. Does All State Choir count?

9. Did you get expelled or suspeded? No. I got saturday school once, but I won't go there.

10. Who were your favorite teachers? Deffinatly Mr. Cramer. Mr. Mullenaux, Ms. Christensen. Oh and Mr. Morales was pretty cool.

11. Where did you sit during lunch? Well just a quick recap my sophomore year I didn't have anywhere to sit cause I was new. But thanks to Mrs. Katy Murdock she helped me find a very fun table. By the time I was a senior I was going home to get away from that place. Even for 45 minutes.

12. What's your school's full name? Thatcher High School.

13. What's you school's mascot and colors? t-h-a-t-c-h-e-r, thatcher EAGLES! green and white

If you can't tell that is Mr. Ren Thatcher and Mr. Chandler John

14. Did you go to Homecoming and with who? Well my sophomore year I was too young. My junior year I went with Koby Wadell and My senior year I went with Mckay Kempton.

15. Did you go to Prom and with who? Once again I was too young sophomore year. Junior year I went with David Claridge and my senior year I went with Chris Udall.

16. If you could go back and do it again would you? Um, you know honeslty It was some of the funnest most memorable times but I love Kameron and our future and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

17. What do you remember most about graduation? Feeling on top of the world! I remember the after party and playing HORSE with Ryan Nelson and beating him. So we played again and he kicked my butt. I remember taking lots of pictures and playing the piano thing. I remember not being as sad as I thought I would be.

18. Where did you go on senior skip day? Sun Splash!

19. Have you gained some weight since then? Um my junior year I wore a size four to prom. I would have to say yes the weight has gained since then.

20. Are you planning on going to your ten year reunion. Yes! I'm justs glad I don't have to plan it. Good luck Lyndee!

21. Did you have a job during high school. Here and there, but I just like to have free time and have fun!

The last picture I promise! My Girls!