Hiking with the Cub Scout

Shaun and the other leaders took the cub scouts for a hike on the White Pine Trail up Little Cottonwood Canyon in July and I decided to tag along. It was a fun hike (at least the portion we did... We stopped at the waterfall/river). While we were waiting for the rest of the group to make it to the top the boys were playing in the water and having fun.

While we were waiting I stepped and felt something pop in my left knee! It hurt if I twisted my leg the wrong way, but I made it down the mountain! We decided to wait to have it looked at just to see if it got feeling any better, but by Saturday afternoon after we got home from our ward camp out (which was fun... ) it wasn't doing any better so we decided to go get it looked at. We went to Instacare and the doctor pocked at it and had a couple x-rays taken. The result was I had sprained the tendon in my knee and I got to wear a lovely new fashion accessory for the next 2 weeks... A knee brace! For me!

Our ward Cub Scouts

December

Our December started out on a spiritual note. I was able to get tickets to the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional and so we spent the evening with my parents. This was definitely a great way to start the holiday season.
 

I thought it was pretty that night!

The following Saturday was our ward Christmas party. Much like our old ward this ward did a Breakfast with Santa. It was fun. They has yummy food and a lot fun activities planned... well at least they did for the kids :) It was, however, a lot of fun to visit with our new ward members and getting to know some of them.

We officially started holding cub scouts and having boys actually show up. We had several weeks where no one showed up, but after making some reminder calls, the boys started showing up. We have/had 5 boys (had because 2 of them recently moved away) that show up on a regular basis.

For our Relief Society we had a nice couples dinner and had a performance by Ryan Innes. He was pretty good. We bought an album from him and have enjoyed listening to it. It will be fun to see what future release he has.

Christmas Eve we went to the annual Christmas Eve party at my grandpa's house. Then on Christmas Day we spent the morning with Shaun's parents and then we went to our friends, Aaron and Betsy, house to visit for a little bit. In the afternoon we headed to my parents house and spent the rest of our day there. We celebrated Christmas with my mom's side of the family the Sunday after Christmas.

Zoey can fit in her stocking

My first pumpkin roll

Our "Christmas Tree"

Our cute little family Christmas Eve

Sporting our Christmas PJ's

In between Christmas and New Years Zoey got to go to the vet to get fixed and to get a microchip placed. She did really well with it. The only big problem we had was that her microchip fell out. Shaun went to pet her after we picked her up and ended up with a white pill looking thing in he had. So we called the vet and they were really surprised that it had come out. We just had to go back in to get it replaced.. Zoey wasn't very happy about it...

New Years Eve we had our annual Fondue Party! It was SO good! I think this is one of my favorite parties that we host. We had cheese, hot oil and chocolate and lots of different dippers. Shaun has issues getting the cheese to melt this year, but once he got it to work we had fun eating it, mostly because it was REALLY stringy :)  It was a fun evening filled with great friends and family!

The dippers

Making the good stuff

My Mom (my Dad was also there... I didn't seem to get a picture of him though...)

Brook, Matt and Christie

The first family picture of the New Year

All in all 2010 was a great year! I look forward to seeing what happens during 2011

October has come... and gone...

I always say that I am going to stay on top of updating our blog and then a month goes by without an update. I will try working on updating more often, but I make no promise. Anyhow, here is our month of October.

On the 8th, Shaun and  I were about to have a little date night. We were invited by our friends, Christie and Matt, to a Strenghtening Relationship Seminar that was put on by the Sandy Institute. It was a really enjoyable evening. John Bytheway was our speaker and he had some great things to say.
The next day we were able to attend the baptism of Maddie, my cousin Aaron's daughter. I am so proud a Maddie and her decision to become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She looked so pretty and you could just see how happy her choice made her.

The following weekend we headed out to Tammy and Andy's house for a Halloween party. It was an evening filled with food and fun.

On the 19th I decided that I would go for a bike ride, because it was a nice day and I didn't know how many more nice days we were going to have. I decided that I wanted to ride to Liberty Park. Everything was going great! I wasn't tired and I was looking forward to my return trip until I crash. I was trying to pass a lady and went on to the grass and the return to the sidewalk didn't go well. My bike didn't make it back to the sidewalk, at least not upright... Needless to say I ended up calling Shaun because there was no way I was going to make it home on my bike. He ended up taking me to Instacare, where they took some x-rays and found the I had fractured my pinky. They put me in a splint and send me home with a number to call a hand specialist (more about that appointment to come).

On the 20th My sweet Grandma Nina passed away. I will do another blog entry about that.

That Friday I headed to Time Out for Women in Las Vegas with my friends Christie and Brook.  On the way down we stopped at Cove Fort and the cheese factory in Beaver. Once we got to Vegas we meet up with five of Christie's aunts, her mom and her Grandma. That night we went to the opening portion of TOFW and then spent sometime talking. Saturday we headed back to the next session and then spent the evening with Christie's brother and then went back to the hotel played games and talked. The whole weekend was a lot of fun and way very spiritually uplifting. It was a lot of fun getting to know Christie's family.

The 25th was my Grandma's funeral.

I had an appointment with the Hand surgeon on the 26th. After over an hour of waiting we were taken back to the room. I was taken to get some more x-ray's. This time it was of my elbow, because it had been bothering me. The PA come in and starting pocking and prodding my arm and hand. After causing me some pain and discomfort they looked at my x-ray's. They easily identified my fractured pinky and decided that they are pretty sure I also fracture my scaphoid and my radial head. I now have a removable brace that I get to to wear for 3 weeks, when I go back for a follow up and more x-ray's.

Also that night the counselors from our new bishopric came to pay us a visit. While here they extended a calling to us (we had officially been in the ward 10 days!). Shaun and I will be serving as Cub Scout leaders. We are excited. It is definitely something new for both of us.

The 29th we had our second annual Pumpkin Carvenival. We didn't have a huge turn out, but it was still fun. We ate yummy food and carved pumpkins. It is always nice getting to spend time with friends!

Well I think that about covers October :)

Picture time!

Brook, Christie and I on our way to Vegas

Brook, Our tour guide and I in front of Cove Fort

Helen (Christie's Mom), Christie, Me and Brook at Time Out for Women

Brook's pumpkin wasn't feeling well

Courtney, Shaun, Brook, Matt and Christie's Pumpkins

I LOVE Christie's Pumpkin! So cute!

Our calling

Well Shaun and I have been living in Riverton for just under a month now and are REALLY liking it! It is really nice to feel loved and accepted so quickly in a new ward. Last week we had an appointment with the Bishopric so they could get to know us and the first thing the Bishop said was "we have a calling for you." Then after a moments pause he said "well maybe we should get to know you a little bit before we dive into that."

Shaun and I will be jointly teach the Valiant 10A (not that the A part matters to you... There is just 2 Valiant 10's in our ward) in our ward primary. This will be my first "big" calling and I am really excited to get to know the primary kids. It will be nice to actually feel like we are a part of a ward, as I did in the last ward we were in.

Shaun and I don't have to teach until the new year, but next week they want us to go check out Primary and see how things are done.

I am excited to be able to teach these kids and get to know them and their parents better.