A big step

After a couple of years of going back and forth we have decided to put our house on the market! I am happy, sad and nervous all at the same time. We need more space so bad and we need to be out of town so the boys can raise there 4-H animals and explore like Josh and I use to do when we were growing up but there are sooooo many memories in this house. It was the house Josh and I moved into right after marriage and it was the house that both my boys came home from the hospital to. I know we will make many other memories in our new home but this one is still hard to leave behind.

It will officially be on the market tomorrow!!! Wish us luck!

4th of July

Our 4th of Julys are pretty much identical every year but I love our traditions and it is by far my most favorite holiday of the year.

We always start by going to the parade in Wilder at noon... then go to the park for lunch and music then in the evening head to the derby. Jace has recently become obsessed with the derby and cannot wait until he is old enough to drive in it. Gosh he is too much like his dad. Ry told me that he is going to be an art teacher but will take the day off to drive in the derby as well.... anyone who knows Ry knows the derby doesn't really fit his personality and I have a feeling he will be more involved with it from behind the scenes then actually in it.

Jace ripping his tooth from his mouth while waiting for the parade... that kid will do just about anything for money!!


Some of the cousins on the Love side (not that there is any cousins or ever will be on the Corbet side)


The boys and I

Swimming Lessons

Both the boys did swimming lessons for the first time this year. I took them over to Givens Hot Springs because I had heard wonderful things about the teacher there and she defenitely did not disappoint... she was wonderful!!! Neither of the boys "passed" on to the next level but she is very particular about passing them... they have to be able to do everything correctly before moving on. Which is what I loved most about her... if I am going to pay for lessons I want my boys to be able to swim well.





Ry was pretty nervous to jump by himself and never did try but Jace of course had no fear and was more comfortable with the water.

Regional Wrestling

WOW... I know how incredibly far behind I am. We have just been to darn busy, literally! Barely been home. So now it is time for catch up. We left on Fathers Day and headed to Pocatello for regional wrestling for Jace. What an amazing experience that was. There was kids from Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, California, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and these kids can wrestle. You don't come from Hawaii to wrestle in Idaho unless you are one of the best. Jace got put out pretty quickly but he had an great time and what an amazing experience it was for him!!

This video was of his second match... his 1st one he did much better. Went through the whole 1st round with the kid before he was pinned.


Rylan and his friend Trenton Fisher hanging out.



He wrestled on Tuesday and I woke up Tuesday morning feeling kinda icky... luckily I got to watch him wrestle before Tuesday afternoon when the icky turned into full on flu. How terible to be stuck in a hotel room with the flu. Then to have to drive 5 hours home with it. YUCK!! About 4 days later I started rounding the corner and feeling a bit better. It was a nasty one.

My Birthday

I had a great b-day this year. I turned 31... I rememebr when 31 seemed old. I can remember when my mom was 31 and she seemed ancient to me, now she is much older then that but still seems young to me. I guess time and age really are relative.

The weekend before my actual b-day Josh took me to my favorite place in the whole world, The Mona Lisa. We had a wonderful time.

The weekend of my b-day we had a little BBQ down at the park and ended up having a great time.

Warm Lake

Every year we use to go camping around the Warm Lake area.... it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to and I use to often think that someday it would be "my heaven"...that when I went to Heaven, my family and I would always be at Warm Lake camping. I LOVED that place. We went for 5 years in a row and then I had Ry in April of 2005 and was not about to take a 2 month old camping for a week... so we didn't go that year. The next year some friends of ours invited us to stay at there cabin in Cuprum so we didn't make it in 2006 either. In 2007 a horrible forest fire came in and wiped out the area I LOVED so so much. I was so sad... so we started camping at another area... which I love but it isn't Warm Lake.

We hadn't been back since 2004 and decided a couple weekends ago to head up there and just see what it looked like. It almost made me cry... the whole area is gone... completely burned up. It will take decades to be back to the place it what at one time. But the memories it brought back were amazing!!!

Here is some pics of our trip... it was flooding terribly but everywhere is right now. I am glad we went.... I hated to see the condition it was in, but was happy to see it again.

Memorial Day 2010 and other things

Jaces last day of School was Friday the 28th and I cannot believe he will be in 2nd grade already. 1st grade flew by and he sure loved his teacher... he almost cried the last day. Mrs. Smith was great with him and he excelled immensly with her. He went from reading 15 wpm with 76% accuracy to reading 73 wpm with 100% acuracy! He also made some wonderful friends this year, all in all it was a great year.

Memorial Day weekend was pretty crummy weather wise but we did take a ride in the hills on Saturday and only got rained on briefly. I am really, really tired of this rain!!