Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Tinajero

On Friday, June 27th, Tammy and Adrian were sealed in the St. George Temple. It was a beautiful, fun day. They had a nice ceremony. The sealer had some great advice about keeping covenants and becoming one as husband and wife. After the ceremony, Jaelyn did a great job with the photography. We all came back to Cedar for a luncheon. Because Tammy and Adrian didn't have a reception they were able to have a very nice luncheon and were also able to invite a lot of close friends and family. I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend it to anyone trying to decide what to do for their wedding day. We were able to visit and mingle with everyone. They had music, dancing and some good food. Adrian's dad gave a tear jerking speech followed by a waltz by the bride and groom. When the DJ opened it up for everyone to join in dancing my dad headed straight for Tammy. It was really cute to see my dad struggling (and staring at his feet) to waltz with her.

Tammy and Adrian are such a cute couple. We are going to miss having them around here, but we know that they are happy together. To see more wedding pictures click here.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Guess Who?

Jaelyn took this really fun picture at G and G Barnes' house yesterday.
These are all the Barnes grandkids' feet. Can you guess which ones are Kendi's? I think that they are the ones on the left, but I'm not sure. There's even some little one week old feet in there.
Check out Jaelyn's photo blog for some more amazing pictures.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Introducing . . .

Kendi's newest cousin, Haven Joy. Jared's brother, Justin and his wife, Jen, had their third baby yesterday. It made for a really fun Father's Day.

Isn't she adorable? We don't think that she looks much like either of her older sisters, but they were all so cute from the the day they were born.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Happy Birthday

I felt bad because my camara wouldn't take the picture while the candles were burning and no body heard me say hold on. So this is the only picture we got. Sorry.
Happy Birthday!!

Get Together

My family had a dinner with the Tinajeros.
Kendi was so excited all day because she knew that Abby was coming, but when Abby got there, it took them a little time to warm up to each other. They were very cute together once they did.
Grandmas and Grand-daughters.
Aunt Tammy and both of her (soon-to-be) nieces.
Abby had to give everyone a kiss before she left.
We really enjoyed their company and hope to get to know them even better.

Summer Games

Jared played ultimate frisbee in the summer games this year. He played on a team with Greg and Greg's brother's ward. They weren't nearly as experienced as the other teams, but they didn't come in last. I thought they did very well.

Jared had to jump really high to catch this pass. I was excited when I got it on camara.



Kirra and Kendi - chillin'
It was blistering hot one day and freezing cold the next.
We really enjoyed watching Jared play.

Hair

I've been learning new ways to do Kendi's hair. Jaelyn told be about a blog called shedoeshair.blogspot.com and it has helped us a lot. Here are some of Kendi's before pictures. Sometimes she even left the house looking like this.








I had to use all three pictures because Kendi was being so funny. Here are the after pictures.
You can tell that I had to get Kendi to watch a movie while I practiced.





Plein Air Painting

Here is the painting Jared did on location at the ranch.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Reminisce

We took a trip to the mountain last week. After dropping off my sisters and their friends at the Virgin River Rim Trailhead, we went to my family's ranch. Jared wanted to do some plein air painting and Kendi and I got to do some exploring.
As Jared was dropping Kendi and I off at the lake we saw these beautiful ducks.
The lake is really full right now because of the spring run-off. In some places it was dangerously close to the road. I had to keep Kendi from bending over to look in the water. It was also very pretty. I feel very blessed to have grown up so close to this area. There were some summers when we practically lived here.
We call this "Ty's Gate." There were a lot of mud holes in the road and Kendi would try to shimmy around them. It didn't take her long to figure out that, in the mountains, mud is unavoidable.
I used to take this walk from the lake to the "upper cabin" when I was little. To me it was a long ways to walk and it seemed to take a lot of time. To Kendi it was no big deal. Even at her exploring pace it didn't take us long.

She had to stop and pick up almost every stick in the road.
She took off through this open field like she just couldn't help but run through it. When she got into the tall grass she stopped dead in her tracks. All she said was, "wet," and then turned around and came back.
This is the old gate that was up, before you got to the Upper Cabin, all through my childhood. They finally replaced it this year. If you look close you can see remnants of what must have been a very fine gate many, many, many years ago. The old stop sign used to make us laugh. And the way it was padlocked. . . all you had to do was lift the chain over the fence post to get through.
When we came to the saddle sheds we found Jared and Aunt Mary painting the big pine tree.
This is next to where Jared was painting. It is also where the bikers came down from the Virgin River Rim Trail to meet up with us. You can see the upper cabin on the hill if you know where to look. The trees are also just starting to bud. It will be even more beautiful here in the next few weeks.

This is where I remember coming often as a very young child to ride our horse, Buddy. Things have changed so much since then. Buddy went to live on a farm and died a few years back. We can't go to the ranch whenever we feel like it because of gas prices. I won't get into that but I will say that things are getting interesting.

My uncle who ranches up here told us that he has bought a wagon. At first I thought he meant a station wagon, but then he said it was a buckboard wagon. He has ordered some harnesses for his horses. He has a couple of pastures up here that are several miles apart and it is cheaper to drive a team of horses between them than to drive a car. I wouldn't be surprised to see cattle being herded off the mountain this year instead of being trucked.

Things have changed and I know they will continue to do so. I hope that we are able to spend more time up here in the future and have as much fun just plain enjoying the place.