On Saturday I was at work and I got a call from a good friend of mine from Montana. She lives in Missoula but she was visiting with her boyfriend in Dillon, Montana for a high school graduation. She wanted to know if Randy and I wanted to come and visit for a few hours. Dillon is only 170 miles from Blackfoot so we thought sure we can go and have dinner, hang out and then come home that night. Well we decided to make it an over night, spur of the moment trip. So we packed our bags and drove the 170 miles and had a great little vacation.
Last Tuesday I didn't have to go to either school or work which is a very rare occassion. Randy suggested that we go fourwheeling because I won't get to go a lot this summer because of school and work. So we loaded up a fourwheeler on the back of our escape and went for a short and fun ride. Randy and I share something in common that I love. We both love to be outdoors and have a love and appreciation for nature. We love to look at mountains, sunsets etc. We got to see some beautiful sights such as the river and a deer.
Randy turned 22 last Friday. He had a great birthday. I had to go to school all day on his birthday so on Thursday I took him shopping to get his presents and then we went out to dinner. On his actual birthday Randy's mom cooked dinner and then we had a party with cake and ice cream with his parents and family. We then headed over to my grandparents to celebrate with my side of the family. My family came up for the weekend from Utah so they were able to be here for his birthday. We had cake and ice cream there as well. Randy is a huge fan of the movie CARS. So for his birthday I got him cars balloons and decorations for his two cakes. He had a good birthday and now he is one year older and wiser too! I love you babe!
Randy had some fun with this huge tractor. He has been helping one of his good friends family dig a pit for a sand volleyball. He borrowed this big tractor from a guy in our ward to get the process done once and for all. He was really excited to get to drive it. Randy is a real country boy and loves tractors and big machinery. He had the time of his life.
The place we just moved into has a big yard. The back yard is where an old potato cellar used to be. Since they took the cellar out the spot where it used to be has turned into a mess of weeds and left over dirt piles over the years. When we moved in the land lord told us we could make improvements to the house and yard, in return they would take money off our rent for that month. Last week my dad and brother came over to help me get all the random piles of fence and metal out from in the weeds so we could burn the them. As we were doing that it started snowing on us, and snowed for the next few days. This made it so that the weeds were to wet to burn. We went to Utah this weekend and that gave the weeds time to dry. Today my brother and I burnt the weeds off the yard. My dad came over to see what it looked like and helped us out. As we were looking at the yard and talking about how to level it out we saw a tractor across the street that the bishops son in law was borrowing from the bishop. We went over and tried to talk to them but they were not home, so my dad called the bisop and asked him. He said it was fine so we took the tractor and started leveling out the yard. It worked great, Dad and Jared had to stand on the scraper to give it some extra weight so it would take out the piles of dirt better. We got it as level as we could with the tractor. We went and got a harrow and the fourwheeler to drag over the yard and get it leveled out real good. Once again there wasn't quite enough weight on the harrow so someone had so stand on the harrow as we dragged it around. We got it all leveled out and now all we have to do is get the rocks out and plant grass. It's nice to get the yard looking better I can't wait till we get the grass growing. Thanks to Dad and Jared for the help.
