4th of JULY

This is definately the first time I've had 4th of July pics before August. Not to mention all the Red White & Blue outfits I have bought for the perfect photo... that was never taken. Well here we go!!!

Summertime!!

Well It's been 6 months and I'm very sorry!! We are finally getting nice weather here and able to enjoy our yard. I got to finally plant flowers without worrying that they would freeze if they got left out. We didn't do much for a vegetable garden just tomatoes and zucchini. We had a great time out at Summit Creek like always. It was a little cold, but the memories that we have with our family is far beyond measure. Chris had to work Memorial weekend so we went the following weekend to ride four wheelers and just enjoy each others company. Chris is also working full time again so he could buy him a nice new to us truck. It is a red 2008 Dodge. He hasn't quit smiling since it got home, he is like a little kid. I hope that my posts aren't as few and far between in the future.

OVERDUE UPDATE

It would appear that nothing has been going on in our house for a long time. Time just seems to fly by. I've been substitute teaching for the past few months and am really enjoying it. Sometimes it makes me feel young again and other times it makes me feel old as dirt! Today we were watching a movie and the peoples clothing made it very apparent that it was filmed in the 70's, unfortunately I could relate to the poofy hair, big lense glasses, and polyester wear and had to just endure the kids snickering about it. All in all I wouldn't trade my era for the current one for anything. The things that they have to face, and make decisions about make my youth look like a cakewalk.

Sadly, Chris has been put back on the weekend schedule at work, I really miss having someone to go to Church with. At least the Lord knew that and I got a new calling in the Primary. I'm the lucky CTRA 7 year old teacher!!! It will be fun to see how excited they will be to get Baptized!! There are 4 little girls that are there all the time and a couple boys who aren't so active. We should have a real good time..

The holidays were great and it was sure fun to spend extra time with Family. I'm so lucky to have family close. My siblings get together almost every week and we try to support each other in extracurricular activities too! We have a great group of Athletes coming up! Not forgetting to mention dancers, piano players, Star wars guys, and Princesses. We love to spend time together and are always making up reasons to see each other. We know that this is what our Dad would want us to do. He so loved playing cards, ball and roasting Hot Dogs, and mostly his family.

BRAG TIME.......

Tara took the kiddos to get their pictures done by caraleephotography.blogspot.com and WOW they turned out great!! I can't wait to get a disc so I can print them off for my very own!!!

"MISS IDAHO" IS IN THE CLASSROOM

Kara Jackson, Miss Idaho 2009 visited a few
Bingham County Classrooms today! She is
sponsored by The Idaho Farm Bureau
Her platform for Miss America is about supporting agriculture. She has been traveling around doing Ag in the Classroom presentations.
Since my brother Kendall is a Farm Bureau Public Relations man, and Chris Dalley is the Young Farmer and Rancher Chairman they brought her to their daughters schools for a special assembly while she was in town for the fair parade. They went to SR Middle School, Riverside and Rockford Elementary's along with
others. At Rockford Kendalls daughter Kwynn just happens to be in my sister's (Mrs. Baldwin) class and so they got a special treat. Kara came into their class and read a book and then helped them each make a bracelet with beads representing the things that plants need to grow. They kids (especially the goo goo eyed boys) really thought it was neat! She left them all an autographed picture. She is a real sweet girl and instilled in the kids a knowledge of how much a role agriculture plays in the lives of Idahoans. Did you know that MILK is Idahos number 1 money crop! Naturally most of us think it must be potatoes. I also learned about more cash crops that we don't think about, mint & trout, to name a couple. I hope the kids learned as much as I did. I was lucky that they let me visit and enjoy this special day!

THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

My girlfriends and I went on a overnighter this weekend. We went to the "Pickleville Playhouse" show "Annie Get Your Gun". It was a great show but close to the end, the power went off (for the second time, the 1st was quickly corrected), Evidently it had happened before because after a brief moment the owner came on stage and announced that there had been a racoon crawl up the power pole and the rest of the show would be without microphones and some of the lighting. To bad for the racoon, but the show must go on!. The preformance was very good, I couldn't believe that the lead was played by a girl who had just graduated from HS. It was quite evident that she was the daughter of the owners and had grown up on stage, she did a wonderful job as did the rest of the cast. We had a great but short getaway, only 24 hours, with short of 5 hours of sleep!

Mountain High Weekend !!

This is one of my favorite weekends of the year. It's also usually one of the warmest. We started attending the "Sawtooth Mountain Mammas" annual craft show in Stanley many years ago. We haul the 4-wheeler and stay in Challis or bring along the trailer and stay at the East Fork campground. We see the tops of mountains and the bottoms of valleys. We try to meet up with our daughter Jennifer from Cascade and her family. They also love to camp and go to the craft show. The food at the show is always great as well as the items for sale. It is quite eclectic due to the location (Sun Valleyers). You see the richest and the poorest on the money scale. It's kind of like the fair, its worth the money just to see the diverse crowd!!. Can't wait for morning to take off!!! Maybe we'll even stop for breakfast at PICKLES!!!