Whoa Whoa.....wait a minute...It's been almost how many years?

FOUR!!!!!!

That's right.  Sunday will be our 4th wedding anniversary!!!  I'm sure more pictures are to follow of the actually occasion but I couldn't help dig through all my old files of picture and find some of my favorites!  So be forewarned.......picture explosion to follow!

First up!  I had to find pictures that truly demonstrate our relationship.........non stop teasing.  I don't think I can count the number of food fights we have been in since we started dating.  These pictures are the result of trying to clean up a chocolate fountain from one of my bridal showers!

 I think this is one of our first "official" pictures.  Official meaning the first time I was meeting his family. :-)  Such good memories at state volleyball!!!

 This is temple square with his family!  This is not long before we got engaged.  It was a beautiful night and I'll never forget walking the temple grounds holding his hand!

 This is a glimpse of engagements, bridal, and wedding photos.  It was so hard to only include a few.  What a wonderful, beautiful, perfect day Tuesday May 6, 2008 was for us!  I got to marry my best friend surrounded by our loving families in the most beautiful place on earth.  It doesn't get much better!

Since then we have managed to find our selves in the occasional "tight" squeeze.  But we have always made it out alive and always with a good story to tell.  

 We also always found time to relax in the sun too!

Hunting on Elk ridge!  Very Beautiful and VERY rugged country!!!

 Lake Powell!!!  Fun times with Kris, Randy, and Parker.  Highlights included catching lizards, trying to break my leg on an air chair (the chair paraplegics can use to water ski), and Dustin finding a rattle snake and showing it too all the boy scouts!

 Fishing at Lake Powell and SHORT hair!  Cutting my hair was one of the ways I got myself ready to move to Missouri!  Bring on the humidity!

 One of our favorite places in the world.....spacious Colorado.  No cell phones, no TV, sleeping in a cabin, riding for miles in pristine silence, and cows!!!

 Since we have moved to Columbia, we have had the chance to be a little crazy!  This is me being an oompa loompa for Halloween at work! And our 17 inch snow storm that shut down Columbia for 3 days.

 Above is us with a baby bunny caught in our yard!  Dustin was nice enough to hold it hostage in MY SHOE until I got home from work!  Next is us at the end of a fun day canoeing down one of the inlets to the Missouri river with our best Missouri friends.  We would be truly lost without them!  

But we couldn't miss some time home in Utah either!  Dustin was lucky enough to visit when Miss Pailey was just days old!

 And we were able to enjoy some time at my house.  This is Rio!  Our 3 year old Palamino gelding.

 I just can't help but love these two boys to death.  They have been best buds since the day they met on Dustin and I's first date!!( I was babysitting and Dustin cooked me dinner!)  Uncle Dust has a special place in all of our nieces and nephews hearts.  Whenever I call, they all want to talk to Uncle Dust!

 I couldn't leave out a picture of good old Missy!  She is our constant companion when we are home.  She loves to go out to the farm with us and still plays like she is a puppy even though she is at least 12 years old.

 This is Dust and his milk drinking buddy Aubrey!  These two can empty a gallon of milk in no time flat! Aubrey learned very quickly that Uncle Dust was a big tease and got very good at telling him "Oh wa" aka NO!

This is just a cute picture of us last summer in front of our house after church!

 First professional baseball game last year on our 3rd anniversary after a fun day with my parents! And the Cardinals did us the favor of winning the World Series too!  We decided we better go back this year too, so we can spread on some more of our good luck!

 Like I said.....all the nieces and nephews can't help but love Uncle Dust! But then neither can I!

 Every once in a while I get a little credit for not being too bad of an Aunt Kel too!

 More fun at the farm this Spring with Kelsi!

 Easter Mushroom Hunting

 Fishing in shorts in Missouri in April!

 

 Dust taking a picture with me after my awards banquet for nursing school!!! Absolutely love this man to pieces!!!  He is absolutely so good to me!  He supports me no matter what, even when I am onery and sassy!  He can always find a way to make me smile, especially when I don't want too!  He encourages me to fight for my dreams and to be my very best.  I would be utterly lost with out my best friend by my side!  It's a little early but all the same Happy Anniversary to the love of my life!  And here's to many more fun filled and adventurous years to come

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!