Sunday, September 21, 2008

Family dinner with the cousins

On Sunday, Sept. 17, all of the cousins that are going to BYU came up for dinner. We love our family dinners. We had everyone there and it was a great get-together.

We had all of us, Rob, Krista, Brandon, Kelsey and Zane, Christopher, Katie, Ben, Kallie, and Andrew, Kyle and Heather, and Allison, Dale and Eric, Adam, Sandy and Trevor. What a great group!!!!

















I love these kids! What a fun night. We had such a great time and it's just fun being together.

Rob and Brandon at the BYU vs. UCLA



































On Sept. 17, Rob and Brandon went to the BYU vs. UCLA football game. It was an awesome game. BYU won 59 to 0. They went with Brandon's boss, Chad and one of his friends from Sundance, where Brandon works. They were able to go down on the field for the first quarter, where they were able to take some great pictures.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Catch up on winter and spring 2008



Since Cowboy has been home, Kelsey has been showing him in jumper shows. Everytime he has been in the ribbons. They are a great team!





Our favorite place in the whole world is the cabin. It is so peaceful and beautiful. We get up there as much as possible. This summer Jan went up there for 2 weeks with her two horses, Shaq and Parker and her dog, Cayman. It was wonderful. Here is Zane helping with the dishes, what a guy!! Cayman is overseeing everyone to make sure everything is going okay. She thinks this is a good way to catch burglars.






















Since Brandon graduated from SUU I have really missed watching him play football. We were excited when he got onto a flag football team with a bunch of his old buddies from college and also from BYU, UofU, and Weber State. They had a great time in this tournament and it sure brought back a lot of wonderful memories.
Our winter turned into a beautiful spring. I love playing with the dogs. Cayman, Cutter, Annie and Gus love bubbles and playing together. Rob and I took the dogs up in the canyon by Mirror Lake. It was cool, but very beautiful. Great memory!

This was a great winter! We had lots of snow and the skiing was awesome. Ralph and Pam came up and met for a wonderful day of skiiing.

Trevor and Kelsey having a great day of skiing.

Rob and Cutter up at the slopes. Cutter is Rob's best buddy.








Sunday, September 7, 2008

Cowboy's Homecoming


Aunt Joan and Kelsey eagerly waiting for Cowboy.






This was a special day for Kelsey. She was leasing him and had a lot of training on him. She had won quite a few blue ribbons and loved this horse. Then 6 years ago the owner who was going through a divorce and needed money took him from her and broke her heart. He was put in a stall in So. Utah until he was finally sold to
a lady, named Dawn, who lived in Michigan. Somehow she found out that Kelsey had done the training on him and contacted Kelsey from then on, letting her know how Cowboy was doing. This gave Kelsey a lot of comfort and Dawn took good care of him.

Then last fall she e-mailed Kelsey and told her that she had bought another horse and then had hurt her arm and wasn't able to work both horses and would she like him back. Kelsey was ecstatic! With times and lots of planning Kelsey's dreams finally came true. On Sunday July 20th a huge semi filled with horses drove into our neighborhood with an old friend. The neighborhood gathered and tears flowed as our Cowboy walked down the ramp.

At first I don't think he knew where he was, but once he got into his old corral and the sights and smells came back, he began to settle down. Kelsey went in and hugged him and his memory was back. She jumped on his back and gave him a big kiss. Cowboy was home!






Since July they have already won 3 blue ribbons. He is quite a horse and we are glad to have him home.