Dancing Twins

Here are some pictures of the twins dancing to the Wii. . . . It was awesome. Note the intense, serious look on Cade's face. Lots of concentration

Brittany's Shower

I'm a bit slow posting this, so please forgive. Last Saturday we had a Bridal Shower for Brittany. She and Cade will be getting married on June 4th. Hooray! I think they are both ready to have that day get here.

The shower was a "Princess" theme. Sarah did a wonderful job of putting together fun games. The Goldsworthy/Behrmann girls won all the games. Congratulations! She also prepared fun goody bags for all of us. There was a crown, some flip-flops, pink fortune cookies, necklaces, a ring-pop, and some sunglass cases. Very cute and fun. We all put on our crowns and necklaces for the party. We tried to wear the ring pops, but they are made for kid fingers, so they pinched ours. We just went ahead and ate them. We ate some delicious "Cafe Rio" salads. They were delicious. Also, there was a great assortment of delicious candies. Thank you, Sarah, for a wonderful party.

I am posting some of the pictures here.

Adventures in Southern Utah

I've never tried posting pictures on the blog so since I'm trying to catch up with modern technology, I thought I'd take a whack at it.

So here are some pictures of various hikes I went on with Kevin here in beautiful Southern Utah

This is from Maureen and Dad/Grandpa:
We just wanted to wish all the mothers in the family a Happy Mothers Day.
I (Maureen ) have been thinking alot about my mom today of course and thinking what a wonderful mother she was and how much I love her and how grateful I am to have had her as a mother. Also how my sisters (seestors) that includes you Annie, have done such a great job raising my neices and nephews, they are all such fun wonderful kids who are in turn raising their own great kids. Dad/Grandpa says Mom was a Great Wife too, who encouraged us to always do the right things for the right reasons and kept her house and life in proper order.
She gave up many pleasures to serve her family and her Heavenly Father.

The Ranch

A few weeks ago I was pumping some iron at the gym, just wearing my BYU shorts when I noticed a girl looking at me. She then asked if I was a BYU fan. She used to live in Provo and said she knows people from Delta. I asked who and she said, "Mike Corey." Also, I used to date her cousin (from Alpine) Sara Squires, who is now married to a guy from Delta.

Anyway, I ended up meeting Kenzie (the girl from the gym) and her friend for dinner about a week later. Kenzie said that her family has a 6000 acre ranch outside of Lewistown, MT and that I should come out sometime. I happened to go out on Branding Day. I have not worked that hard in a long, long time nor have I had some much fun. We got up before six am, ate breakfast, and then jumped on the horses. I told them that I had never really ridden a horse but they didn't seem to worried. No instructions later, I was riding out into the pasture to round up cattle. It was absolutely beautiful out there. We had things under control until the cows (all mom cows and their calves) started crossing a creek. I had to cross a few times and my horse almost dumped me. We got spread a little thin and some of the cows changed direction and then began to stampede in the wrong direction. Kenzie's brother, Weston, and I were the closest and her dad, Russ, started yelling for us to turn the cows. I was not exactly sure how to control the horse but I just went for it, kicking my heels into Captain's sides and we were off! So fast, in fact, that my cowboy hat went flying off of my head. There was no time to go pick it up. The next thing I knew, me and Captain were going full speed alongside stampeding cattle and I was yelling all sorts of cowboy words.

After we got them (probably 350 cows) turned and into the corral we dismounted. We ran around in the corrals separating calves from their mothers. Once seperated, we herded the calves into a barn. Then began the hard work. We started by running the calves into a gate and then branding and vaccinating them. However, we didn't want to be working until 3 am so me and two of Kenzie's brothers started branding them old school. One brother would grab a hind leg and drag the calf out and then I flipped the calf and held it while the other brother vaccinated and her uncle branded. I think I flipped about 75 calves. It was very tiring and sometimes painful but was a lot of fun.

My knees and shins were swollen and bruised but there was no way I was going to wimp out. Kenzie's sister-in-law was convinced I had branded cattle before and her brothers gave me a rancher nickname, T-Cro. One of the girls said, "how come I don't get a ranch nickname?" Jaxson, Kenzie's brother, responded, "because you gotta earn it like T-Cro did!"

We finished up just before dark. I woke up Sunday morning with a pounding headache and threw-up, then I felt great! Just had to get rid of all that branding smoke and dirt in my system.

I will be going out again this weekend. Also, they want me to come out when they transfer all the cows from their lower ranch to their upper ranch in the mountains. It is about a 16 to 18 hour day of herding cattle. I hope I can go out!

Here are some photos from Easter in Delta and Hyrum's Homecoming in Hamilton. I didn't know they had implement the Army Ranger training program into the Missionary workout but Hyrum came home looking like one tough dude.

Hayley looks too friendly to shoot an assault rifle but she did fine. We played some Spring baseball in Ham town and in D town. Erin won in D town and Ben won in Ham town. Both weekends were a lot of fun.