Tuesday, June 17, 2008

New Bikes!

Cheyenne and Mat got new bikes this last week! Cheyenne's is a princess bike(she wanted a barbie one but they were sold out) and Matt's is Spiderman. Cheyenne is riding so well without her training wheels! Matt decided he wanted his off as well, but I didn't get any pictures off his attempt to ride without training wheels.








This is my Uncle Mark and my Aunt Maria.

Here is my mom and and Dad!

Friday, June 13, 2008











Hey sorry it has taken me so long! What a two weeks I have had! Last week was Girls camp!




Last Monday I and 6 girls from my ward set off to Colorado to go on the 4th year hike. The ride up was quite enjoyable. I got to know the some of the girls a lot better. The girls I took up are wonderful girls! When we got there I loaded my 33 pound bag onto my back. I am a little worried at this point and we haven't even started! The girls assure me "Sister Lemons it's an easy hike!" So off we go! About an hour into our hike I am definatley starting to feel the burn. Then it happens, coming down a steep hill, I twist my bad ankle. I feel it start to swell! Not good! So I get it wrapped up and Doyle informs me that I can't carry my pack for awhile. He said that he would rather carry my pack than have to carry me out the next day. So there I am limping and packless enjoying my not so easy hike! The 4 girls I was with Kasey, Hannah, Mariah, and Kodi were carrying 6 packs between them! We some how managed to get to our camping spot at 4:30(we were supossed to get ther at 12:30). I went and stuck my ankle in the river to help the swelling. BIG MISTAKE! It was so cold it sent shooting pains up my leg! We then set up camp and ate dinner. After braiding hair for more heads than I can remember, Rick Palmer gave a really great talk for our fireside. Then we went to bed.









Next morning we got up and ate breakfast braided more hair and started again on our horrific journey. The whole trip back is up hill! It was hot and I was in awful pain! I carried my pack almost the whole way back. about 40 minutes at the end Hannah came back and carried my pack. about 1:45 I saw the most beautiful thing MY VAN! When I sat down in my van I felt so relieved!





















We then drove to camp. I was so tired when I got there I really thought about going home. But I stayed. We worked on our skit which was about Ruth and Naomi. The girls did a great job except for a few giggles! The next day the girls worked on their certification lunches then wrote their testamonies into Book of Mormons. That night was testamonie night. Almost every one of our girls stood and bore their testamonies include several investigators! Three of our investagators that went have decided to be baptized! I am so proud of our girls! That night it started to rain. And it rained all night and half of the next day! Laura and I had to take some sleeping bags to be dried. That night was bishop's night. What a spiritual night it was! The girls, on their own, gathered around the fire and sang church hyms. Then we went around the circle and shared our favorite scripture. It was great.






Friday we packed up and came home! I went home ate a Subway sandwitch, Took the longest shower, and crashed!
This is me at the end of last week!

Sunday, May 25, 2008

We got a new van!




Yeah, I'm so excited! This is our new 08 Dodge Grand Caravan! It has tons of room and storage areas. We bought it yesterday. It seats 7. I got it just in time for girls camp!(next week)






































Thursday, May 22, 2008

Matt's day at the park




Matt had a great class party right before graduation! It was a great day!







He got a strike!












Blowin bubbles






I'm one cool dude!

Cheyenne's Graduation

Well today Cheyenne graduated from kindergarten! The pics aren't the best because I was trying to run a video camera at the same time. The ceremony was really cute!






This is her whole class











Cheyenne getting her diploma









Yeah I did it!







Look at my gifts












Cheyenne giving her teacher flowers








Cheyenne and me








Cheyenne and Darian




Saturday, May 17, 2008

We now have goats!

Nate and I have been talking about getting a goat for awhile now. Well this morning Nate decided it was time, so we all loaded up first thing this morning and drove to La Plata! When we got there we picked two that we like and payed the money, that was the easy part. We then loaded them into the back of my jeep and I sat back there with them to keep them calm. SCARY! They did not like that! It was a LONG trip home! When we got home Nate remembered that we had no where to put our new goats. So he spent the day building a fence. Not as easy as he thought! It was finally completed at 6:00 this evening! What a day! So these are some pictures of the latest editions to our family, the white one is marshmellow and the brown one is Graham Cracker. We are looking for a dark brown one so we can name it Hershey then we can make smores'! LOL




Cheyenne is getting so big!

Well last evening, Cheyenne tells her dad that she wants her training wheels off! So Nate takes them off and all of a sudden my baby girl is not so much a baby anymore! It makes me so sad to think that she is growing up so fast. Just yesterday I was bringing her home from the hospital and now she just had her sixth birthday and is riding her bike without training wheels! Well now that I have vented a little, I'll move on. We had a fun evening of bike riding and enjoying the beautiful weather! You can see in the background that we have a lot of work to do to our land! Oh well someday it will be beautiful, baby-steps!