Easter and Fishing!

Easter weekend meant a fun trip to Bowling Green with our favorite friends Aaron and Lindsey!  They have been teaching us the fine art of.........MUSHROOM HUNTING!  This is only some of the Morel mushrooms we found over the weekend.  We had eaten some and left half with Aaron's family before I took this picture.

 Dustin with our basket of mushrooms!  The only downfall to mushroom hunting......the TICKS!  I found 11 ticks on me and four had burrowed in.  I am now graced with some very NOT awesome bites that are extremely itchy!  Oh well!  We love the chance to get outside and hang out with friends.  We also had an awesome meal with our friend's family and played some Rook!  Overall it was an awesome weekend!

 Yes you can totally be jealous of this next picture!  It is only April and this is how green it is in Missouri!  But don't worry you can laugh at me this summer while you enjoy 80 degree weather and I die in 100 degree weather and 80% humidity!

 Today we went fishing on Little Dixie Resevoir for crappie (said crop-e).  We had a great time.  First up in pictures is Dustin.

 Next is Aaron!

 And of course me!!!! 

Sadly Lindsey had to work, so I was the only girl on the fishing escapade!

 This is me totally relaxing in the boat, trying to catch some sun.........oh and I about forgot.....trying to catch some fish too!  Excuse the horrendous white glare off of my very pasty white legs. They don't usually see much sun. :-)

 Told you I was relaxing in the boat!  It was the perfect size for me.  I had an awesome back rest and my legs were the perfect length to stretch out!  It's not all bad being a shorty!

 Final picture back on the docks with our 29 crappie.  Not a huge number, but not bad for just a few hours in the afternoon!

Spring Break 2012

So Spring Break has once again come and gone.  This is Dustin and I's last official spring break.  Next year he will be in clinicals and I will be working.  So we decided to live it up as much as possible.  We left Columbia Thrusday afternoon at 2 pm and drove straight through to Utah.  We got to Green River at about 4:30 a.m.  We had scheduled to look at some yearling heifers so we slept in the car (kind of) got up at 7 and headed on our way again.  After looking over the heifers we headed to Blanding.  Before we could go to the house, we had to head out to the farm so we could see all the baby calves.  With no time to rest, we went to help a neighbor with a sick cow and from there we went straight to a double header baseball game for Logan (He did awesome!).  You ask if we stopped for a rest yet.......yeah right.  Next Dustin and I parted ways.  I hopped in a vehicle with his parents and drove another 6 hours north!  (Yes I know I am crazy...but it gets worse!)  I arrived at Kris's house at about 2:30 a.m. and was up at 7 the next morning to enjoy my time with Kris, Randy, Parker, and Pailey!  Next we got the crazy idea to drive to Idaho to hang out with my mom and see my Grandma and Grandpa.  It's not like I hadn't driven enough all ready.  It ended up being a really fun morning and I couldn't have been happier hanging out with family.  That night we set up a family dinner at the Steak House in Garland to celebrate my parents 35 wedding anniversary.  What an awesome night with all my siblings and their families, except Ty and Becky (Montana is too far away). :-(  I can't even express what precious moments it was for me to celebrate and laugh with the majority of my family!  That night I stayed up talking until after midnight and then decided I HAD to go to bed before I fell over!  Sunday morning was the typical rat race to get everyone ready for church.  Kris was teaching and so we dropped off her and Parker at their church.  Parker was not very happy about me leaving so soon.  He almost started to cry and it broke my heart and also made me feel extremely loved all in the same moment!

Next I headed of to attend the baby blessing of Katie and Eric's new baby girl Kynlee Nicole!  I was so excited to meet her and to see all the family.  I was so excited that I ripped my dress getting into Kris's truck. OOPS!  Good thing my mother always taught me to be prepared.  I had a needle and thread in my purse and did a very quick very "at least you won't see things you shouldn't" job and still made it to sacrament meeting just in the nick of time.  The baby blessing was beautiful and the dinner after was so fun.  I got to hold little Kynlee and enjoyed every second of it.  I also got to color princesses with Aubrey.  Sadly no pictures.  Next was another 6 hour drive home.  So yes if you were wondering I drove 32 hours at the minimum in about 3 days!

When I arrived home the fun begun.  In our crazy life Fun = Cows!  Monday we fed cows and went for a drive looking for cows.  Tuesday we rode for cows with a neighbor and went to a baseball game.  Wednesday we bought the heifers from Green River and went to the cattle auction in Cortez.  Thursday we worked heifers (branded and bangs vaccinated) and hauled bulls to be Trich tested.  Friday we finished working heifers, branded calves for ourselves, and went to preg check a couple cows for a neighbor.  Saturday we did an emergency hernia surgery on a heifer.  Dustin did an amazing job and I am happy to say that so far no infection and the heifer is up and eating!  Way to go soon to be Dr. Meyer!  The next couple pictures are absolutely priceless.  Kelsi decided to come down for conference weekend and being the awesome person she is decided to come help us out at the farm!  Dustin talked her into preg checking a cow.  It was honestly one of the most entertaining 5 minutes of my life, but I have to give that girl credit!  She stuck with it and was so excited when she finally felt the calf!

So we sadly concluded our very busy but fun week.  But we didn't only do cows.  We also played some rook with friends, played some Mario Cart with family, and overall just enjoyed being back with family!  We got up at 5:30 Sunday morning and arrived in Missouri Monday morning at 12:30 a.m. just in time to catch a few hours of sleep and leave for clinical the next morning.  Thank goodness we are still young enough to pull this kind of stunt!  And just to end I couldn't help but add a cute picture of my incredible husband!

Pictures from last trip home!

I know that these are way old but I couldn't help but post them anyways.  Dustin just got our camera working again so I figured I might as well.

Miss Taygan sporting Uncle Dustin's Hat

 All the kids like Uncle Dustin cause he can "fly" them around!

 How do you not love this picture!!!!!!!!

I look scary, but we had driven for like 12 hours the day before after class!  Sure glad these munchkins warmed up to me so fast!  I hadn't seen them in over a year!!!

Yep!  I think they love Uncle Dustin!

Only when you are this cute can you get away with sitting on top of Dustin 

and pinching a hair bow on his ear!

Up close and personal conversation with Uncle Dust

Some awesome mountain sheep we saw coming over the pass in Colorado

 This is my....."I don't want to take a picture" face and Dustin making his "Fine I'm taking it anyway and while I'm doing it I'm going to make it funny!"

 But it did end up working cause in the end he did make me smile.......Even if the picture is a little bit fuzzy!

Thanks for letting me play picture catch up!! Our lives don't change much but we try to enjoy and stay busy!  We are excited for Spring Break in a few weeks and I can hardly wait for May!  Bring on graduation and only 10 more weeks of Nursing School!!!!

Temple Trip

Dustin and I planned our first temple trip of the year for yesterday.......and of course it decided to rain like crazy all the way there and all the way home!  First storm we have had in a while!  But it just made for more of an adventure (ie: running through the pouring rain in a skirt and high heels = always a lot of fun).  The storms have continued into today and has managed to sap any ambition I have.  So far I have watched 3 NCIS episodes.  Dustin and I did manage to finish our taxes and get his FAFSA completed, but neither of us has done any studying!  Oh well!  Life is way to short to spend all of our time studying.  It will be weird this fall when Dustin is in clinicals and has less homework and I will be graduated :-)  We are going to have to sharpen up our card game playing skills!

Can't believe it's been since October....

Really didn't mean to let my blog sit this long...... Guess that proves that time really does fly!  In order to save time and space I decided to paste my Christmas letter in here to catch up for the most part.  If you have allready seen it, just ignore.  If you haven't enjoy!!!

Meyer Madness in 2011!!

Dustin: Successfully completed his 1^st year of Vet School and is halfway through his second. HOORAY!!  By this time next year he will be in clinical and we will be on the downhill slope of completing Vet School!  DOUBLE HOORAY!  Dustin continues to play basketball 3 times a week and with the addition of some awesome new friends now enjoys duck hunting, fishing, mushroom hunting, canoeing, playing tennis, and whitetail hunting.  We couldn’t have asked for better friends and we love spending time with them.  It has definitely made Missouri a lot more enjoyable to have outdoorsy friends that have similar interests.  Dustin also serves in the Primary as a CTR 7-8 teacher.  He is a major help to Kelli for projects and is becoming a very creative chef!  Dustin was able to go home to Blanding for 7 weeks this summer and did his best to work extremely hard and play even harder.  He spent a lot of time on the hay hauler and moving sprinkler lines, but also found time for softball tournaments and plenty of trips to Lake Powell for overnight fishing!

Kelli:  Took a big leap and left the full-time working life to return to nursing school at the University of Missouri.  She started a 15-month accelerated program to get her Bachelor’s of Nursing.  This was very intimidating after being out of school for almost 2 years but she worked hard and with Dustin’s support adjusted pretty quickly.  Kelli is officially half way done with her program on December 16^th and will be done in July 2012!  Kelli also serves in the Primary as the 2^nd counselor.  She works with amazing people and really enjoys her calling.  She has some very rambunctious but very sweet kids in her Primary and she couldn’t think of another calling that she would rather have right now!  As for home life, Kelli tries to keep up with laundry, dishes, cleaning, cooking, buying groceries, and maintaining the sanity in the Meyer home with lots of help from Dustin.  Kelli loves to hang out with her new friends and has enjoyed girl shopping trips and sleepovers while the boys go hunting!  But the boys weren’t the only ones to go hunting this year!  Kelli shot her first whitetail deer with one shot from 200 yards away.  Dustin was pretty excited that Kelli didn’t miss since she hadn’t shot a gun for a while!

Together our little family is doing extremely well.  We made it to 3 very happy years of marriage in May and can’t wait for the adventures of the years to come.  Another of our highlights of the year included putting in our first garden in our own backyard.  We called it our “Salsa Garden” because we only planted tomatoes, peppers, and jalapeños!  In the end we got over 200 peppers (WOW) and we are still eating tomatoes off the plants.  I haven’t had to buy tomatoes since August!!!  I would say our effort was worth the reward!  We also attended our first Major League baseball game with Kelli’s parents.  We had a blast watching the Cardinals and decided we must be good luck because the Cardinals ended up winning the World Series.  We might just have to go back next year!

We feel very privileged to be where we are and in the great situation we have found ourselves in.  We like to complain about school and studying and tests, but in the long run these four years will be a small but important part of the rest of our lives.  At this time of year it is hard not being close to family, but we are so grateful for dear families on both sides that bless our lives so much.  The true meaning of Christmas is being with family and having a true love of Christ for all those we meet.  We truly wish you a very Merry Christmas and even though we are a long way away we hope you know that you are dear to us and that we think of you often.  Merry Christmas!

Sorry for no pictures.....camera is out of commission with not much hope of getting fixed in the near future.  Current updates for 2012 include a whole lot of studying and not much else.  Dustin and I are creeping through the semester with hopes that summer with arrive quickly.  We are keeping extremely busy with Primary, clinicals, class, tests, playing with friends, and working out (mostly Dustin ).  We are super excited about starting tomatoes for our AWESOME little garden in the backyard.  I think we are going to be a little more aggressive with fertilizing and such and see if we can get an even better crop!  I so need a lot of tomatoes so I can make hot sauce!  I am almost out and the store bought stuff just doesn't compare!!! 

Well I hope everyone that hasn't given up on my blog and actually see's this is doing great and enjoying 2012!

Summer and School!

Just a  few pictures from Dustin's summer at home!  Just barely got the camera fixed (after major surgery undertaken by Dr. Meyer and Nurse Kelli :-) at home involving lot of little screws and a can of compressed air).  This is little miss Taygan!!  I haven't seen her since she was born, but from all reports she is quite the character and keeps Gina very busy!!  Can't wait to see them at Christmas hopefully!

 Jaycee "cheesing" it up for the camera.  She is such a doll.  Can't believe how big they are getting!

This is Dustin's favorite milk drinking buddy!  Katie says Aubrey would go through a whole gallon of milk by herself in less than a week if she would allow it.  She sure loves her Uncle Dust!  As do all the nieces and nephews!



I think this is what we miss the most about being in Missouri....Time with family!!! These guys made a mass exodus up to elk ridge for a camping trip.  Dustin said that they had a blast!!!  Went hiking, cooked good food, and sat up late talking around the campfire!  It just doesn't get much better than that,except maybe if I could have gone too :-(   But I was in Missouri in the middle of nursing school, so I am glad they were having a good time!



 Two very good looking boys!!!  I may be a little biased but definately some of my favorite people!  I have so many incredible men in my life!  Awesome dads, brothers, grandpas, and an incredible husband.  How lucky can one girl get?

And of course....they couldn't leave Missy home!!! 

This is after we finally got all the sand out of the camera.  Let me tell you....fixing it was quite the adventure.  Dustin was all amazed this day because I finally blow-dryed my hair.  Between school, clinicals, and overall craziness, I normally let my hair air-dry over night, or put it in a pony-tail.  I finally got up the ambition to blow dry it and give it a little bit more body.  I don't think my husband recognized me. J/K!  

At this moment Dustin is officially done with his first block of fall semester. Next time this year he will be starting clinicals!!!!  So proud of Dustin!  He did incredible on his tests and passed this semester with flying colors!!  He and Mark have a good time laughing and joking with one another and are definately excelling in Vet School.  Couldn't ask for better neighbors in the basement, better friends to hang out with, or better families at home that support us!  Kind of a sappy post, but just feeling very greatful for everything good in my life!

Crazy Daze.........

It's been a long time...... I know!  But I really do have an excuse this time!!!!  It's really isn't any fun to blog without pictures and our camera is currently out of commision due to being dropped in the sand and now it won't open! Oops!  But other that that Dustin went home for 7 weeks this summer and I got to go home for 3.  It was awesome to play with family.  I got to see ALL my sisters and there kids at my mom's house.  Can't even express how much I love my family and how much they mean to me!!!!  The time we got to spend together was priceless for me!!!!  I also got to go swimming, boating, shopping, relaxing, cooking, working, and all around playing around with my mom!!  It doesn't get much better than that.  I spent my first two weeks at my house and then traveled down to spend a week in Blanding.  I hadn't been home to Blanding for over a year!!!  It felt good to be back and see more family.  I got to work with Dustin, go to the sale barn (one of our favorites) and eat at our favorite Chinese restaurant, I got to bale and haul hay, camp overnight in a cabin, hike in the mountains, almost get struck by lightning, watch a San Juan football game (always a lot of fun!!!!) and all sorts of good adventures!  The days flew by way to fast and then we were back on a plane headed for Missouri. :-(  We really don't mind Missouri, we just love being with our families so much that it is hard to be so far away!  Currently Dustin and I are both juggling full time school, church callings, and trying to fit in sleep, exercise, and a little fun now and then.  Pretty short update, but its better than nothing!!!