Muddy Days

We told the kids to go out and play. Well at least they're outside.=)This is as muddy as Nate gets!

Isn't mud great!

One Sweet Ride!

Here it is, in all it's glory! Nathan's ride to work. Oh and church. Well really Nathan's ride anywhere. Pretty sweet huh!=)
Definition of marauder:To rove and raid in search of plunder.
To raid or pillage for spoils.Hummm....should I be worried?

Flame grips Nathan got off eBay and put

on himself. Nice job honey!

Where's your cool helmet honey?

There you have it folks! Makes ya want to get on the ole open road. Sun at your back and wind in your face.=)

Bringing Sexy Back!

Here is a tribute to my sweet thing. As I was looking for a certain picture(which I didn't find of course) I came across these. So here it is my tribute to sexy!=)Nathan's 1st b-day

His days in the highlands of NC.=)Can't you just here the bagpipes!

4 years old. Love those boots!

Look like anyone we know?

We call this.... "Superman cowboy!!!!!"(notice the belt)

Sorry honey, I just couldn't resist!

Buisness up front party in the back!

9th grade
Now these are the Nathan I fell in love with!

10th and 11th







yummy 12 th grade!=)


Dating at hangin rock
engagement photos

Last but not least our engagement photo. Look at those kids. No idea what lies ahead!!!! A lifetime of love, joy, and a lot of crazy!! I Love you Nathan!!!!!!!!

Eleven years and counting...or the mad canners.

Well here it is 11 years. Eleven years what you ask? Well I' ll tell ya. 11 years of marriage to my best friend Nathan. Now you are probably wondering about the second part of the title the mad canners. This little beauty is what we got this year for our anniversary.

We have had many a romantic evening with this baby.=) Here is the fruits of our labors:

Peaches, dill relish...

Pickles, grape jelly, green beans...

Peach jam, Kiwi jam, strawberry jam....

Marinara, tomatoes, green beans.....

and bread and butter pickles, and our dill pickles.

So there you have it 11 yrs and counting. Just me and Nathan canning away! And loving every minute of it!

For You Mom..

Well here it is. Me and all my glory. You are asking yourself, "Why? Why would you put that up?" Well I promised my Mom. So here you are Mom. I hope you are happy!(just kidding)





Let me just give you a little background for this picture.... I loved this outfit. I wore it everywhere!!I mean everywhere! This is at my Grandma Brinkman's house. I thought I was Wonder Women. Sometimes I wish I still thought that way. I definitely wish I could fit in that outfit again.(heehee sorry for the visual.) Anyway, wasn't it great to be a kid!!!

Oh those awesome 80's.

So I was sitting at my computer today trying to remember some songs that I like to put in my playlist. As I was looking I came across this little ditty, called Just like Heaven by The Cure. I don't know if any of you listened to them or not,but I had one of their lighter sounding CD's and this song was on it,and let me tell you the dancing that I did to this so was ridiculous!!!! Just picture the classic 80's dancing of jumping around and flailing with your arms and that's what I looked like! I am bouncing right now in my chair.Good times!!! The other song of course was Friday by the cure, or it's Friday I'm in love. Seems like I was falling in and out of love with someone. (all except you honey, I always love you Nathan .Then and now.=) So what was one of your favorite songs to jump around and act stupid?

Sweet alone time.

No it isn't what you are thinking so get your head out of the gutter!(Yes you Heidi=) J/K

Well me and Nathan got some precious alone time over July 4th weekend. My wonderful Mom took them to her house so they could hang out and go to the stake center the next day. Love ya Mom! So me and Nathan decided to do something fun....we canned pickles! We also froze some green beans from the garden.Yummy!It is a lot easier than I though it would be, but it was time consuming. I got the reciepes and the how to's off a website called http://pickyourown.org/ it is AWESOME! It has pictures and everything.heehee. Anyway so now when winter comes at least we can have semi-fresh veggis!