Bentley

So here is our newest addition to our family. When we decided to get Abbey I promised Todd that someday he could have a bigger dog. But there was no way he was going to be able to have one while we lived in Twin. So about three weeks before we moved to Malta there was a benefit dinner out to Malta and someone was giving away Lab puppies. I felt so bad I told Todd that if we lived in Malta already he could have gotten one but I didn't know what we would have done with until we moved so we didn't get one. So for the last month or so I have been thinking a lot about getting Todd a puppy for his birthday. Well on Monday we finally got one. So here is BENTLEY the newest member of our family. He is so small right now and super cute I am just afraid what he is going to look like once he gets bigger. I am so grateful that we have a lot of room for him to run around outside. And I just really hope that all my flower beds survive this little terror:)     

Happy Birthday

Wow.. I am so far behind on blogging it is crazy. The last couple of months it just feels like all we have been doing in running running running. We have had a lot of Birthdays lately. My little sister's birthday was August 19th. I can not believe what a beautiful young women she has become. She is such a wonderful Mother and Wife. Happy Birthday sis..  

 

Then on September 5 we had two birthdays. My amazing mother and Lindsay's little girl Ainsley turned 1. I am so grateful for the Amazing mother that I have. She is truly a one of the sweetest and most caring people I know. She has such a strong testimony of the gospel and is so close to her Father in Heaven and Savior Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for her example each and every day.   

 

This little girl is serious the cutest thing I have ever seen. She is the funniest little girl and her personality is the sweetest thing. I love you Ainsley.

 

 I haven't blogged in a long time. We have been very busy trying to take advantage of the warm weather that I am sure wont be here much longer. We went up to Lake Cleveland this last Saturday night my mom has been wanting to go up there all summer and we finally made it up there for her Birthday (it was a few days late but at least we got there haha). The guys took their fishing poles and rods to do a little fishing, but they didn't have much luck at all. The rest of us hung out around the camp fire playing sneakers and slammers:) It was a fun little trip I love being up in the mountains. I love being surrounded by the Beauty that our Father in Heaven has blessed us with. I have also been canning peaches. I have never canned anything before so this was a new experience. But luckily everything went amazing and we have some peaches to add to our food storage:)

SHE IS ONE!!

Lindsay asked me to take some pictures of Ainsley since she was turning "ONE". I can not believe this little girl is already one. This last year has gone by so fast and and she is growing into the sweetest little girl, She is so cuddly. I love you sissy.. The pictures turned out pretty good considering she was sick and not feeling good at all. We also took some of her with a birthday cake and she took too big of a bite one time so Lindsay had to take some of the cake out of her mouth and she got sooo mad it was the cutest thing ever:) We also had to take a few of Madison to keep her happy.. ENJOY!!

Gillette: Final Day of Competition

On the last day of the competition Todd's team had to be at the fire station place at four in the morning and they went into lock down where they had to stay till it was their turn to go on the final scenario. When it was their turn they would get on a bus and they bused them to the location for the final scenario. Luckily they were the second team out that day so they only had to be in lock down for about three hours. All the wives and the trainer followed the first bus out to the location so we were there before the team got there. And I got so nervous for Todd's team when I saw them pull in. The last scenario was pretty intense. There were two welders who were welding inside a water tank and there was an explosion. A supervisor saw the explosion and went speeding over to the site where he hit a fork lift and sent the driver of the fork lift flying through the air. So they had to assist to the driver of the fork lift the two workers inside the water tank and an attendant who was on top of the tank when the explosion happened. They had 35 minutes to get as much done as they could. As you can see by the pictures they make things as real as they can. The attendant that got thrown off the water tank had his eye hanging out and the driver of the fork lift had a broken femur and they made it look like her bone was sticking out. They of course had more injuries than these but these were the injuries that were very obvious. Todd's team did good and I am so grateful that I was able to go with him and support him.  

Gillette: First Day of Competition

The very first day they just had to go take some written tests and things like that and then on Friday is when they started in on the scenarios. Todd's team had to be there by Five and I was there by six. They had six different scenarios that they had to do. The first one that they did there was a bus that had crashed and there were ten people inside the bus and only three of them could walk out. They had thirty minutes to asses all the patients. Their next stop they had to tie all different kinds of knots, take a written test and do CPR on a baby and adult. When Todd got to the part where he had to tie knots he realized he forgot his rope so he used an extension cord:) Leave it to my husband lol. The next station was a house that was on fire. There was one guy stuck inside. Todd and another guy from his team were the ones that got to go in and find the guy. But as soon as they got through the window they had black garbage sacks put over their heads so they couldn't see anything it was a challenge to find the guy. Then they went to a station where they had to work on their teamwork. The fifth stop was a tower where they had to get their captain up to the second level by using Ropes and then they had to go up seven flight of stairs and to the top of the building where they found that a guy had fallen off the top and they had to repel down to him and stabilize him and get him back to the top of the tower by using ropes as well. The final station they had to do patient assessments. It was a very long day but it was a lot of fun to see Todd in action and see how much he has learned. I am so proud of him and all the hard work he has put into this.

Gillette Wyoming

This last week we got to go to Gillette Wyoming for Todd's work. Todd became an EMT back in March where he was able to be on the Mine Rescue team. He then was able to try out for the Mine Rescue Competition team which he made. So they had a competition in Gillette and I got to go. We left last Tuesday and it took us a little over 12 hours to get there. We went with another couple so that was nice. The first day that we were in Gillette we got to head out and go to Deadwood. This little town is so awesome. This is the town that Wild Bill was shot in. They haven't done a lot with this town they left all the building like they were and have just made all kinds of different businesses in them. After we left Deadwood we headed up to Crazy Horse. I didn't know all that much about Crazy Horse but it was so cool. It is going to be amazing once it is completed. We then headed to Mount Rushmore. I have always wanted to see Mount Rushmore and I am so grateful that I got that opportunity. It was an awesome experience. After we left Mount Rushmore we then headed to Sturgis. The BIG BIKE RALLY. WOW!!!!! This was quite the event. This little Idaho girl was a little out of her comfort zone. All I can say is I am glad I live in Idaho and have been raised the way I have been. My mother would kill me if she saw me doing some of the things that some of the girls were doing there.