Hey I just wanted everyone to get an update on Dice!! She is growing super fast! She looks kinda mean in the picture on the right. We've gotten sit and lay down.. now if we could just get her to respond correctly to her vibrating collar.

Almost at the Ending!!

Next week is dead week and then we are at the end of another semester! Michael and I have had so much change in the past two months.. it is enough to make your head spin. We first moved out of our little hole in the wall and moved into a two bedroom apartment. Then, I quit my job at the computer labs and moved on to a job working for Jason Ward. He has two business in town but most of my time is spent at Wholesale Flooring. It is going fabulously! I am trying to learn the ropes as quickly as I can; I am taking the place of a very prego girl (Cheri) who could pop at anytime, so I hope I can fill her shoes!!! The girls I work with are a blast. They work amazingly hard and surprisingly are still way chill. We laugh and joke and talk about kids, dogs, and flooring.

I finally feel like my house is getting to the cute stage! I have drapes up in the kitchen and in our bedroom, we have a new dining room table, and Michael is happy because I have bridles and cowboy hats hung up in our living room :)

The next biggest step we took was our new addition to the family! Our blue-eyed white puppy her name is Dice. Michael and I joke that she is our first child. She is an Australian Shepherd and Heeler cross. However to kind of a sad note we learned that she is deaf, adorable, and deaf. So to all those who someday try to call her.. you might want to make sure she is facing you and you gesture a lot :) She is super cow-y though, she has already turned her first bull at 9 weeks old and has herded my niece Sabrina and nephew Trevor multiple times. This weekend we started to build her, her dog house! It is huge my four year old niece could stand up inside of it! Luckily not all that space is going to go to waste due to that Dice is going to get an Australian Shepherd sister in May from Michael's sister.

Below are a few pictures from Spring Break that we spent in Fallon and at the Northstar Resort :)Above is a picture of Mya, Carrara, and Junior chillin in the sun on the edge of the horse pasture.

Michael is posing in front of our sign above our bed at the Northstar Resort :)

This is Roo! She is the mommy to our soon to be newest puppy.. she is a mini and the dad is a full sized aussie. Pictures of the new puppy will come as soon as we pick her out.

Valentines Time

Well, Time has come and gone. We are approaching Valentines Day!! Michael and I went out with our friends Scott and Jessica Crozier to see "When in Rome" it was a lot better than I had anticipated! Michael was fighting to say awake for the last 10 mins of the movie but he made it! We already exchanged presents for V-day. I gave Michael a Royal Blue wild rag, it is 44 inches. He gave me an "I love you" Bear and a bag of Dove chocolates.

Lately every Friday night we have gone roping at the arena in Treemonton. Michael has been loving it I've gone three times so far and most nights are really fun. I get to ride Tuition a three year old quarter horse, me and him watch Michael ride around on Cowabunga. Lately I have been bringing our camera and recording him roping so he can work on his skills and also for the purpose of selling Cowabunga. I love ridding Tuition and every day Michael tells me he is going to be a nice horse. Tuition is about to turn 3 in a few months, so he just a colt.


Michael has also been on three other colts in the past two months; two, two-year old palominos, and one quarter horse. One of the Palos caught him in a pickle and bucked him off, he was stepped on twice but no major harm was done and all is well. That horse might be sold into a bucking string or at least given a few years to cool down.

Below is a picture of Michael getting ready in the shoot.

Round 2

The wedding reception in Fallon was a blast. I was able to give Annette a picture I painted for her birthday and gave Michael's youngest brother Calob a pair of USU workout shorts.

We rode horses in the morning and I got a horribly red sunburn that went excellently with my dress :). But it was really fun to ride a good horse. I rode Tazer and Michael rode Chrome. It is always fun watching his family get out and rope together they did breakaway roping. It was my little job to make sure that the cows get back in the gate after they are roped. I also got to learn how to turn properly on a horse and practice a bunch.

Later that day my side of the family showed up and ate lunch with Michael's side. It turned out really well it all went pretty smooth and happily. One of my favorite parts of the day was went My mom Eileen came in and helped me with my hair for the day with my Grandma Johnson. Grandma called my mom a fuss budget. It was hilarious and fun to have both of them primping me and talking. I wished there were more moments like that one.

I had the chance to finally meet a lot of the family that I had been told so much about. Annette made the evening beautiful. Hopefully I will be able to get internet at home so i can upload pictures from the evening.

The First Blog

Michael and I are doing wonderfully. We moved into our new apartment and spent what seems like forever setting everything up. Actually it isn't all the way done yet. Annette, Michael's mom, said that we could take a piece of furniture from them that they were getting rid of. It will be really nice to have another piece of furniture in our apartment. We only have three matching chairs in our dining room so we call the other one "the throne". It is a high backed wooden chair and the other three are upholstered metal chairs.

The two of us have a little bit of conflicting schedules we see one another at night and first thing in the morning occasionally we bump into one another on campus, or end up getting out of class at the same time. However, they are usually interrupted by one of us going to work or to another class.

The honeymoon was a blast with just enough adventure! Unfortunately the wife forgot to check the battery in the camera and we have no pictures from it. But we spent four days in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. It was beautiful, green, and covered with Lakes and waterfalls. We borrowed three horses that Michael had been riding Lady, Paint Horse, and Dodger. They would come into camp while we tried to sleep at night with bells around their necks. All night I had jingle bells stuck in my head. We had one wake up call when a rock that we tied to a horse's foot came flying at our tent, right were our heads were. luckily it only put a 3 inch slit in our tent and no other damage was done. We were also lucky to have Annette give me a wonderful 2 person bedroll for a shower gift. I love it, it kept us nice and warm all night.

Michael had fun fishing and I had fun exploring around. We ate one 20" fish that Michael caught I have to admit it was pretty good with tons of seasoning salt and lemon pepper. We got caught in a little thunder and lighting storm, but not much rain came down the weather was pretty much perfect!

Well, that is all for now!