Larson Cabin

We went up to the Larson Cabin for 3 days last week for a much needed vacation. Ohhh what a fun place. More info to come.

Thanks so much for all the nice comments everyone! To answer your question Melissa about the night photo: If you have a manual setting on your camera, you set the shutter to stay open for a long time like 15-20 seconds and set the ISO pretty high, like 800 or above. I'm not sure how to do it on other cameras, actually...I don't really know how to do it very well on mine, we were just kind of messing around. sorry, thats not too helpful. (Oh but it's really important to have a tripod and to use the timer. If you don't, even the tiniest movement from your hands can make it blurry. Thanks to Uncle Von for letting us use his tripod :)
Here's a little more info about the trip.

The humming birds looooved the feeder grandpa put up. We saw a total of 6 fighting for it at one time! Those things are ruthless!




What a cute little boy!!! We rode up with Lindsay and Bryan and got to sit with Brayden on the way up and back. He didnt cry once the whole way up, which is amazing because it's a 4 hr drive and a big part of it is washboard dirt roads!
Oh my handsom husband, I love him.
The boys had fun shooting their b.b. guns.
I got to push Hannah on the swing for a little bit. She is so cute! Oh and we also had fun reading her Barbie coloring book.
We couldn't believe how many wild flowers there were all over the place. It was amazing.

Joel after our ride back from duck fork reservoir. Haha, his hair was awesome thanks to a little wind.


hahaha loved this one.
This was a fish my dad caught. I thought it was actually really pretty!
Look at that innocent face...Joel were you fishing without a license??? tsk tsk haha ;)
Check out the monster my dad caught!

The stars were AMAZING!!!! We loved looking at them.

Josh and his b.b. gun. He is pretty hard core.
All the girls. We were pretty outnumbered this year.

Tribute part 1

I love my husband Joel. He is such an amazing and wonderful person for so many reasons. One of the things I've been very greatful for these last couple months is his courage when facing horrible, disgusting, creapy crawly creatures (spiders). Anyone who knows me pretty well knows that I HATE spiders and am completely terrified of them. Well since we've lived in this basement I think I've seen more of them in the past 6 months than I have in the past 10 years, which hasn't been very easy for me (or Joel) to deal with. He has had to put up with me screaming for him to come to my rescue countless times. I've even woken him up with my screams when there was a spider that was crawling on me in the middle of the night (I think that was pretty traumatizing for both of us). After being around them for so long I'm finally able to kill them as long as they're not really really big, and as long as they're not fast (I only kill them when Joel's not home). Killing them for me requires lot's of hair spray (to slow them down), shoes on my feet (in case it runs towards me so I can step on it), and a hard pair of flat bottomed shoes in my hands (so they don't have any treds to hide in). Well it still amazes me that he will kill even the biggest spider with nothing more than a kleenex, shoe, or even his bare hands. Ohhhh I am so thankful that he will do that for me. If I see a spider I know I can count on him to kill it quickly (and not chase me around the house with it.......Dad!). I love it! He is truly my knight in shining armor.