The NFR! Cody and I were so excited! My cousin has tickets for every night of the NFR every year and she had two extras every night. Cody and I got to go the the last night and spend some time with my parents, lil bro, and Lee and J.R. (who we rarely get to see). It was GREAT, but of course I forgot my camera so the only picture I have is the one they take at the AT&T booth. I've tried to get rid of that red eye in every program I have (I don't have many) and couldn't do it so there we are-robot eyes and all.
Many years ago, my dad and his friends decided to start a youth coyote hunt with the purpose of getting kids out hunting and having fun with their families. It has grown so much since that first year! It is a really great time and all the kids have fun. EVERY kid gets at least one prize item just for being there and then EVERY kid gets a drawing item and the drawing items range from small items all the way up to guns....a whole lot of guns! This year Cody and I went with my dad, little brother, and cousin Bryant. My dad's good friend Chopper passed away a few years ago from complications from a brain tumor. He was one of the guys that started the hunt with my dad and our families had done a lot with each other over the years. He was like an uncle to my little brother and I. In honor of him, they started a contest at the hunt called "Spirit of the Hunt". The kids write a story using that theme and their experiences during the hunt. The story that gets picked gets a special rifle that has "The Chopper" engraved on it (It's the chopper gun). This year my little brother's story won. I started crying when they read it outloud (in fact I'm tearing up now). You'd have to read it and know Chopper to know what I'm talking about but I was just so proud of my lil bro.
Oh and that face mask that my cousin is wearing in the middle picture is super creepy in the very early morning when there's mist and it looks like a horror movie anyway. He scared the tuna salad out of me!
At the beginning of the fall semester, Cody's parents brought us boxes and boxes and boxes (seriously I think there were seven boxes) of peaches from Grandma Quilter's trees. They were perfect delicous peachy goodness but I was feeling a little overwhelmed at the thought of what we were going to do with all those! Ha well Cody put them all in one of the empty apartments under the swamp cooler with a blanket over them to keep them cool. It was quite the sight the first time he lifted up the blanket to show me all of them. We were able to give some away but most of them we dried and bottled. It was . . . a mess! But we felt pretty accomplished when we finally finished. It was our first time and we did it!
Two of my good friends got married in August, just one week apart. And OF COURSE the two weeks of their receptions were the two weeks that Cody had his 2 week army training in Wisconsin! So I was flying solo, well kind of anyway. I had friends to go to both Kellie's and Annika's wedding with. They were so much fun! (p.s. Callie, Colter and I got a little lost while running an errand in the process of getting to Kellie's reception. Oops!
In August we went to Lagoon with Cody's family and we also got a new car that weekend. I don't have a picture of it but it is a 2007 black Saturn Aura. We love it! I made us get some of those old time Lagoon photos . . . doesn't everyone have one of these with their spouses in the first few year they're married?
Last summer we went to the Due West and Lady Antebellum concert at the Dixie Sunbowl. It was SO great! We love them both but if you haven't heard Due West before you should really look them up! If I got started I really wouldn't be able to quit saying good things about them! I wanted to get a spontaneous dance picture but it just wasn't working, so please excuse the blur. Cody and I did swing dance to one of Due West's songs, and I have to say that dancing in the dirt and grass is a little difficult but very fun!
Cody and I went to Pine Lake last summer for our only camping trip of the season. My parents came out to meet us and we had a really good time. As you can tell from the size of that fish, we didn't have much luck in the fishing department . . . so I started taking pictures and playing with the color settings on my camera. Our poor tent didn't make it through the trip alive, unfortunately. That reminds me, we better get a move on getting a new one because we plan to get A LOT more camping in this summer!
