Danon & I went for a little adventure on the four wheeler in the snow!! I have never been so freezing cold in my life!!!

Yup, it was that cold! (Defrosting fingers!)

No blog would be complete without a picture of a my tree right? Well if it wasn't for Danon we wouldn't have a tree! First off he dragged the Beast home, put all of the lights on it and repaired the thing quite a few times.... Danon woke up early one morning and found the tree laying on the floor with a bunch of things busted. So I put it back together.. no big deal right? Well needless to say but that dang thing tipped over twice more and the brand new lights on the lower part of the tree started smoking and could of caused our house to burn down! I wanted to chuck the tree right then! It's been quite a journey! This is a picture before all the happenings...

Danon & Jordan hard at work


The girlies!
Jordan, aka The Purple Rambo Lacey & Ashlyn!

We had our Nielson Christmas Party it was a serious blast! So fun to get together with family!

The Feast!

Brittany & Miah

Looking SO young Grandma! Love ya!

Love this pic!

Events!

What we've been up to......My 1st ticket! Offense: drving 1000 feet up a one way road......(that tiny road between the SUU Parking lot & Pool ) I was just trying to go swimming... C'mon cop give me a break! Well he sure did................

Damage: $82.00Danon's 1st ticket....... Offense: Speeding 83 in a 65 mph zone. Oops! Maybe this will help Danon ease up on his lead foot!

Damage: $82.000

Danon drawing out for a lion

Priceless (in his opinion)!

So other than working to pay for breaking the law I guess you could say... we have been busy and driving crazy as ever!

Here's Mr. Lead Foot himself at Brycen's wish from the Make A Wish Foundation

Brycen the stud!

My Mom decorated my house with tons of pink balloons outside for my b-day! People probably thought we had a baby or Maggie had puppies! Love You Mom!
The present from Danon! LOVE IT! He also made me homemade hot chocolate (my absolute favorite) That man is scoring some serious points!

For Lisa: Taco Soup... Weight Watchers Style

*Super Delish & Easy 1 cup =2 points

1 lb Ground Beef

1 Lg Can Kidney Beans

1 Can Corn

1 Can Small Tomatoe Sauce

1 Pkg Ranch Mix

1 Pkg Taco Seasoning Mix

1 Lg Onion chopped

1 Can Chili Beans

1 Can Chopped Tomatoes

1 1/2 Cans of H20

Brown Hamburger & onion. Drain. Add all other ingredients. Do not drain cans! Heat & Serve!

Bringing Home Mo (A.K.A. The TOAD)!!!

Yup.. Danon got another one! For those counting this is the 2nd deer this year! (First one the DWR took b/c of the wart situation remember?). Anyways, this time Danon brought home Mo aka "THE TOAD"! All of Danon's hard work of scouting & hiking finally paid off HoOrAy!! Here's the stats for those who care... 4 X 4, 29" wide with SUPER SUPER THICK horns! That's what made Mo "The Toad"! It scored 180!!!!!!! Jaden was the real trooper and hiked that dang steep terrain!! The deer camp crew was pretty stoked about Danon's kill. Danon is getting it mounted and I am trying to get Mo a comfortable permanent home on the wall in the garage when he's done!! Danon has other plans but I guess we'll have to flip a coin to see where Mo will take his resting place! Congrats Danon you reaped the rewards of your dang hard work!! Love ya!

Transporting Mo
People actually followed Danon to the taxidermy to get a closer look! One guy about wrecked on main street looking at it and another stopped Danon and thought he shot an elk!


Danon with the catch of his life! Right Danon??

Ok so I love Halloween. Last year I bought this life sized mummy I call Frank that does scary things. I was going to put Frank in the back of the wagon in my yard and have 2 skeletons drving the wagon but I haven't got around to arranging that so I had other plans! I put him in the shower so when Danon turned the sharp corner to get in he would see the creature in there! He sure saw it and I have never seen his eyes so wide and he jumped a bit! It was hillarious!! We've also pulled out Frank out on some of our guests that knock on our door! I really should video tape people's reactions. It's so funny!

Hunting & a little softball!

Danon shot a deer (4x5 for those who care) .... well, kind of! He called me early in the morning after I was leaving the pool and needed me to bring him some "tools" to gut the thing. So I hopped in my car still drenched in chlorine and met him up the mountain just thinking that I was going to give him the stuff and let him take care of his "doings"because I don't do well with things like that! Anyways ,I got suckered in and hiked down some steep terrain to the deer. I took one look at it and was TOTALLY GROSSED OUT! I mean the poor deer had open large sores on it. (You can see the one on it's shoulder) I told Danon it had a disease! To make a long story short.. Danon packed that thing out and I called the DWR to have them look at the open sores on the thing! Turns out the deer had warts which are harmless and are passed on from deer to deer. The kind man took the entire deer and re-issued Danon a new tag! So he will be off hunting again this weekend!

Hooray for Artic Circle & Monday Night Cedar League Softball! Danon's team won the championship! This is the only picture I have just before they were given the trophy! My camera froze up because it was SO dang cold! Good work boys!

Heaven: Lake Powell

There are alot of things I would love heaven to include.... But I SURE HOPE Heaven has a Lake Powell in it! It is by far my favorite place to go.... next to Hawaii! We had a little reunion at the Lake and it was a total blast! Danon couldn't come because he was in Idaho on a fire :( Dang it!! But he was FINALLY able to buy a muzzleloader!! Most of my family weren't able to be there because of the new babies! But it was a serious blast to hang out with my most of my cousins and play kind of like we did when we were little. It's totally insane how time flies! The picture below is "The Crew" in front of the "Bevlorinda"! THANKS Mom & Dad for the amazing trip! Families are the Best!
Landon & I

My amazing Mom & Aunt Belinda

Dad Sporting his camo hat at the Lake.. You can tell we are from Southern Utah!

Dangling Rope !

Lamont, Amanda and Landon fishing.. they caught tons! Me Britt and Landon!

Bates Family

Landon that dang cutie!


Mom Landon Amanda & G Bev! How cool is that, that my Grandma even came!

Sheri Dawn, Tyler & Jesse!!

GrAtEfUl

I am so dang grateful for these little critters! They bring so much happiness into my life! Hooray for a niece and nephews!!!!!!!!!!!

The Farm

The other day Danon, Brycen and I ventured to Enterprise to pick some corn! We stopped by the farm and talked to his grandpa! It was quite fun & interesting! Danon seriously misses working on the farm a bit! He had a lot of fun memories growing up! When I win a lottery I would love to own a bunch of farm land (with a view) that has huge willow trees, a huge pond and an old country home with a wrap around porch! That would be heaven!

CaMpiNg!!

Last weekend we went camping up at the Hulet property and had a blast! Look what I caught Danon doing....

I swear that guy came out of the womb with a chainsaw strapped to him! I guess he's serious about this selling wood thing!! Probably because he wants... 2 more game scouting cameras, a muzzleloader & wood splitter. On saturday we played a serious game of spoons with everyone. I have never played it but it is a seriously intense and at times a brutal game! Carly won! Here are pics from our trip..

Lacey & Donna

Update

It's been awhile since my last post and alot has happened... First off I was totally devestated by the plane crash that killed 10 Cedar City residents. I knew a few of them and my heart goes out to their families. I can't stop thinking about about how fragile life is. But I am so grateful for my knowledge of life after death and that families are forever.

While life can end so abruptly it can also happen so quickly! Both of my sister-in-laws had babies this month! Braxton & Gavin are so dang cute! It is so awesome to see new precious life! Congrats you guys! For those of you not keeping count that makes me an aunt to 7! Holy Cow is all I can say!

Danon became a "dedicated hunter" for the next three years and has been hunting every available second. So Sunday I decided to tag along and go camping with him at "The Peaks" I am not much a fan of "The Peaks" but went anyway we have to compromise! We hiked the next day of course and Danon is a dang mule! He treks up and down steep hills like it's nothing! And after he cuts wood while I read "country home magazine" in the truck! He didn't even ask me to help! I guess he could see I was in the middle of something important! Thanks Danon!!! Now with all the money you are saving us on our gas bill can I hire an interior decorator??

I thought I would never say this and Jamie will die when she reads this but I do enjoy lap swimming! It is the ULTIMATE workout! I even will get up at 5:30 am to do this crazy thing! January was the first time I had ever even tried on swim goggles besides to snorkel in and I couldn't even swim a lap I hated it! Now I can get in and actually swim! Hooray!! But wow it's been a road getting here! And yes Jamie you still can kick my can at swimming!

Hulet Happenings

Camping!

My Lumber Jack Man

Maggie Hanging Out On Our Porch

Friday we went camping with Danon's family and it was a blast as always! I doused myself in bug spray in fear of getting the west nile and played kick the can! It was fun! I felt 12 years old again! Danon the work horse used his gift from "santa" and cleaned up the property a bit! We pitched a tent and were true campers! Danon set up his game cameras and tinkered with the gps while I hanged out with the girls! On Sunday we had banana boats for the first time! The mountains are the best!

More Alaksa Pics

We did a Session at the Anchorage Temple! It was amazing!!

Danon & Rhea

The Homer Spit!

It's interesting to note that there are ice cream shacks all over Alaska! They have an outrageously high consumption of ice cream in that state! I though it would be like hot chocolate or something!

My Cute hubby freezing!!

On our flight coming to Alaska I sat in between Danon and this rather large fellow who was so nice but could not even put the arm rest between us down and was sitting on part of my seat!! Needless to say I was so crammed and didn't dare say anything to him! I kept asking this flight attendant how much longer and visiting with them in the back of the plane! I became good friends with them! It was the longest 5 hours of my life! When we arived in Anchorage I got so sick! I was sick for 2 days after! So I was scared to go on a float plane in fear I would need the barf bag! But I was fine! Didn't even get queezy!! We skimmed private lakes and flew around everywhere! It was so awesome! We also went to Denali National Park and we were like the only tourist there! It was amazing! The coolest part of the trip was when Danon and I would just pull off the road and be 250 feet from a brown bear or we could almost touch moose or caribu! I'm trying to talk Danon into going back up and hunting caribu with Rhea but he won't leave work! What's wrong with him???? Alaska is beautiful and all but I could never live there! I can't live without lots of sunshine and warm weather!