8 years!!

 Eight Years ago today I was blessed to marry my best friend.  Rich and I have always had an awesome relationship.  There is no one else I would rather be with at anytime, He can always make me feel better and is always thinking of ways to help me out.  He is the best Daddy in the world and always makes time to play and read and just "be" with the kids.

Rich works so hard to support out family so that I can stay home and be Mom.  I feel blessed to be able to raise my kids myself and blessed that I have a husband who has the same values as I do.  Even though our family has grow and we have more people to love, I don't love him any less. I love him more and he is my everything. Plus he's just so darn easy to look at. I can't wait to spend a million forevers with him.  I love you babe!

o yeah...we moved!

I was just thinking that I don't think I have blogged about our move to Clearfield, Utah.  Well we did!  We moved the last week of July.  Leaving Rexburg was really hard.  I loved living there and loved the friends that we left behind.  I made some great friends that I feel like I could call on for anything, tell anything and just be myself around.  They will forever be in my life and always be counted as my best friends. 
We also left a garden behind, which was hard because after tilling, planting, weeding, watering, weeding, watering and weeding the garden was starting to produce.  We left a week before the garden was ready to be picked.  We are hoping to go up and pick some of our pumpkins this weekend, but we will have to see if we have time and money. 
We moved to clearfield, Utah so that Rich could start is internship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  He is working as a project manager in the church office building.  He is a part of the facility's management team and loves the job and people that he gets to work with.  He is hoping to get a job in the temple and special projects team when he is done with his internship. 
Clearfield has been very different, and good to us.  We live in a neighborhood that is "tough", I can't let my kids play outside like I did in Rexburg, and there is A LOT more violence at school than I am used to.  I have heard this is because there is a lot of transient students, because of Hill Air Force.  Regardless of this, the girls are loving school and making good friends.
Another thing that is a lot different from Rexburg is that we are in a Branch, instead of a Ward.  A ward is just a large group of LDS members that form a extended family of sorts.  A branch is the same except for it is much, much smaller.  We have boundaries that have over 1000 people in it, but we only have about 60-70 LDS members who attend church meetings.  So instead of a bishop we have a branch president.  All of our friends are not LDS here, but are great, loving people.
Rich has a new calling in our branch.  He is the Elders Quorum President and is busy with that.  I just got put in primary, which I love!!!! The kids are so smart and teach me alot every week.
So there you have it! We moved and we are missing our Rexburg friends, but are grateful for the new opportunities that we have in our lives.

p.s.  I have pictures, but our computer fried up and we are trying to get pics and files off of it right now. 
TERI'S ADVICE: save all of your pics in several places, not just 2 because if they both crash in the same week and are not recoverable, you are out on 6 years of life and most of your childrens pics, which are not replaceable.  (We are still trying to get ours back)

Labor Day 2011

I love Labor Day Weekend!  I always get to go camping, hiking, fishing and have an awesome time with my family!  This weekend was no exception, except for we did a few extra awesome things.  First off we camped like royalty in a camper!  It had a fridge, freezer, toilet and beds!  It was nothing fancy, but when you are used to camping in a tent with a shovel and a role of toilet paper, you realize why so many people buy trailers (especially when you have a 2 year old who is trying to be potty trained.)
We headed up to Idaho on Thursday afternoon.  We stopped to pick up Rich's tag for an elk that he had purchased in May, but wasn't allowed to pick up until after July 10th.  Only to find out that they were sold out!! He was super bummed out but decided to make the best of it and go bear hunting instead and to go Elk hunting in October with Travis and Justin.
All weekend we had been playing P-I-G with the crappy BB Gun that we have and everything was going great until my parents left Travis, Britt, Rich and I at the campground unsupervised. We soon became bored and Rich came up with this great idea to be moving targets for each other.  The rules were strict, because gun safety should always come first when operating a weapon.
RULE #1: only 1 pump!
RULE #2: only aim at the waist and lower!
RULE #3: if you are the target you must wear sunglasses, a hoodie and cover your hands.
RULE #$: MOVE QUICKLY.
Here is the first round:

Brittany and I quickly joined in after we removed the kids from the danger and into the camper to color.  It was a blast!  When my parents came back and saw us all dressed in hoodies, running and serpentine "ing" with Travis shooting at us they remembered that we are still children and shouldn't be left alone for so long with a weapon.  It was a great workout because the BB's hurt!  We ran fast because we didn't want to get hit.  I have about 6 welts on my legs!
We were all filthy by the end of each night and especially by the end of the trip.  Here are some of my favorite pics from the weekend!

 

First morning. We are clean and we are cold!  It was 31 degrees but it warmed up to about 80.

 Andi's Clean, but happy face.

 We found this match box in the trailer.  Don't travel with your match box in something shaky or the movin' and shakin' can start your camper on fire! lesson learned!!!

 Andi loves to ride in the back of the truck and have the wind in her hair!

All geared up and ready to go huntin' for...brothers, husbands, wives and sis-in-laws!

 Boe and Braken collecting fire wood.

 Boe trying to keep up with Brakens messiness.

 Braken sayin' no way man!

 Braken enjoying his marshamallow even if it has a pinch of dirt in it.

 Braken loves to play with balls so when he saw this watermelon he was really excited.

Laurens clean camping face right before dinner.

Jailyn showing off her gorgeous face.

 Braken stunned by Talons giant brook trout.

 Rich stunned by the photographers beauty.  

 Talon the fisherman.

That was some of our weekend.  I hope you enjoyed watching it as much as we liked doing it!  Here's to next years hunting adventures, ya never know we might even try shooting an animal next year!