Halloween

Halloween was fun this year! First of all, I had my baby shower on October 30th (which is Saturday) and Halloween was on Sunday. My mom surprised me by showing up on Friday for my baby shower!! It was such an awesome surprise and I was soooo excited! So she got to be here and help us carve pumpkins on Friday night (which she "loves" to do...not).

Also, can you guess what I was for Halloween?????

If you guessed a PUMPKIN you would be right. The greenery gave it away huh?! Haha jk, if you didn't guess I don't blame you.

So I got 6 pumpkins this year. One for everyone in our family including that animals. 

There was one for Tristan, "Mr. T"

One for Megany, "Lil Mama"

One for Scottie, the grim reaper

One for Kitty, paw with claws and a "K"

And one for Meli, a paw with a "M", and one for Dash, a paw with a "d"

Scott's is definitely the best one and the most creative! He always amazes me. I was going to do a spider but it was taking too long on carving the others and Lil Mama just seemed easier.

Camping

This last weekend, our ward had a Ward Camp Out up Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville. It had been planned all month, and I had switched work with some of the girls at work so I could go on this campout. As it got closer, we saw that it was supposed to rain. But, we still wanted to go because we haven't gone camping in a while, and I love camping.

Meli and Dash came with us and as we were driving there, it started raining. The raindrops got bigger and bigger. Well... at the grounds where our ward was, everyone was huddled underneath tarps because it was raining so much. It eventually slowed down to a light sprinkle and that's when we decided to hurry and put up our tent before it started raining again.

We were a little too slow. Our tent was still lying flat on the ground when it started POURING! Even harder than it had been before. We hurried and tried to put our rain tarp over the tent, but water still got in it. We were soaked! Scott and I were going as fast as we could trying to get the tent up. Well, Meli had a blast! She loves water so she was off and we actually couldn't find her for a while because she was exploring. Dash was absolutely MISERABLE! I wish I could've gotten a picture of him (but it was pouring) because he was huddled underneath a nearby tree, frowning at us. His little eyebrows were just drooping because he was so miserable. We couldn't stop laughing.

Well, I ended up staying with the ward underneath the tarps (soaked in my clothes, literally...it was like I jumped into a pool and got out) while Scott hurried home, with the dogs, to get towels, new sets of clothes, and dry the dogs off. When he did get back, we cleaned up the inside of the tent and everything went smoothly after that. Funny thing was, it didn't rain anymore after we cleaned everything up.

I still had lots of fun! I sure had a heck of a lot of laundry to do the next day. It was worth the memories though! Here are some pictures:

I am starting to look like I actually put a small basketball underneath my sweatshirt! But.. I didn't. :)

And that one picture doesn't look like there was a lot of water, but that was the tarp underneath our tent. We had already got our tent on the tarp before it started pouring. And we also got rid of some of the puddles before we took the picture.

Baby Weenie Dogs

A lady in our ward had weenie dog puppies! We got the opportunity to go over and visit them. I wanted one soooooo bad! It was so hard to leave them. Here's some pictures of the puppies.

Don't look at my ugly face in that picture above. I just love the dapple weenie dogs! They are sooo cute! It reminded me of when I got Meli. OH my gosh, she was (and still is, even though she's big) the cutest puppy ever!

Why don't they stay little?

I love how puppies run around! Meli was so cute in this video. She looks like a chubby puppy! Precious :)

Extreme Makeover: Weenie Dog Edition

Before: The Fat Shaggy Black Weenie Dog

After: The Skinny Short Grey Weenie Dog
That was all the hair that we shaved off of her. It doesn't look like a lot, but trust me it was!

She is the new and improved Meli! People are going to think we got a new dog. She was so good too when we shaved all her hair off. She was relaxed and didn't try to run away like we thought she would. You would have never known that she had such beautiful color too! She has got a mix of everything: white, grey, black, brown, cream. Meli looks like a puppy again!!!

Ouray, Colorado

For the 4th of July, Scott & I went to Ouray, Colorado to stay with his aunt & uncle at their place. We spent time with in-laws, cousins, and friends and just had a grand time! I had never been to Colorado before and if no one has, it is absolutely gorgeous! I loved every minute there and can't wait to go back.

Here is Meli on the drive up to Colorado. I made her sit in the back because her "spear-like paws" hurt me when she walks all over my legs. Its annoying lol

Before we went to Ouray, we stopped at Telluride. Scott's Aunt Jean & Uncle Bill were there with everyone else and were going to hike down the mountain. Isn't this a gorgeous view? We took the gondola up and we were even allowed to take our dogs. So the weenie dog got quite the exercise when we hiked down the mountain. I think she dropped like 4 pounds hah!Amanda, Callie, Weston, Scott, Meli, Me Telluride from the other side of the mountain

I'm showing you were we are at on the map! Telluride is also a ski resort and it is HUGE! Look at all the different places you can go skiing!

Lupine flowers, they are so pretty and cool

This is the Colorado State Flower. Aunt Jean told me what it was called but I don't remember.

Over in Ouray, we went to the Black Canyon Falls. They were so pretty and amazing!

Scott overlooking the small town of Ouray

Black Canyon Falls

I thought that this might've been a joke, but there really are tons of lil chipmunks just running around. And they are so cute I wanted one!

This is a little stream by Scott's aunt's house. When you follow it you actually come across a beautiful waterfall.

Weenie dog loves water!

We are hiking up to the waterfall

Meli & Scottie after crossing the stream

Soooooo pretty

On the 4th of July, this town has lots of activities going on. They had this tournament between two couples spraying a fire hose at each other and seeing who could last the longest. It was the most funnest thing I have ever seen and I think I should compete next time!

These couples in the blue and yellow were actually girls!!

Billy being a goof

Here's another couple but these are guys

The firework show was incredible! We went down with some of Scott's cousin's friends to the park and watched them. We could see them perfectly because they shot up right between the mountains in plain, perfect view. My camera wasn't that amazing at getting pics, but they are still "hecka" cool - (courtesy of Kirk).

The weenie dog found Cutler Creek and just had to show Casey & Kimber that she is missing them! :) lol

Here is the grand finale of the fireworks. It's pretty neat!

This is the fire hose fight. Sorry about the beginning, the water came over to where we were standing and we got soaked.

The adventerous Meli crossing the humungous river!