Easter

I realize I am a little behind in updating for Easter, but better late than never right. For Easter, Nathan and I went to Malad. Saturday I was able to go my friend Mitzi's baby shower. She is a friend of mine from Salt Lake that I haven't seen in a very long time. She is also the cutest pregnant person I have ever seen.


On Sunday we watched Conference and had a great Easter dinner followed by an Easter Egg Hunt. I haven't hunted for eggs in an almost ten years and it was so much fun to hunt especially when some are filled with money.

Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show

I originally attempted to write in detail about our trip to Scottsdale, Arizona. And as the post grew my fingers began to cramp and I quit half way through. Then my wonderful sister in law, Lisa, posted this handy little image on her blog so I decided to steal it. (Hope it's okay Lisa) This pretty much sums up the trip.


The best part of the trip was Nathan's HUGE win on Noble Fantasy. He won the Scottsdale Purebred Reining Futurity. It is an amazing accomplishment for everyone involved. I can't wait to see the after effects of this. I am so proud of my awesome husband!!

Dear John

This is not what I intended to have as my catch up post. Starting with the new year I have really enjoyed reading. This is something new for me, I have tried several times in years past and it would take me months to finish a book, if I even did. I don't know what started it all but I think I get it from my dad who is an avid reader. About a year ago he gave me Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks is one of my favorite authors writing great ones such as The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, and The Choice to name a small few. I read Dear John in one evening and cried my eyes out the entire time. It was an overwhelming love story.

There have been many books made into movies and I usually end up being sourly disappointed. Movies have such a difficult time enrapturing you in the story and characters that you feel as you read. Dear John is the most recent installment in the Nicholas Sparks movies and I had the opportunity to see it on Saturday with my wonderful sister in law, Jenna. I had a good feeling about this one, even the trailer got to me. Just listen to the soundtrack playing in this clip, the song speaks volumes.

Lovin the Holidays

I love how Thanksgiving is not only one day but since whoever schedules National holidays planted it on a Thursday you get four days of celebration. And usually since there is so much food on the actual day four days of great food. This year Nathan and I went to Salt Lake to celebrate the day with my family. Some of the highlights: Cooking, laughing, joking, eating, and family.


Going skeet shooting...


Bowling with the entire Kent Family in the very small Malad Bowling Lanes. I don't think I have laughed that hard in a long time. Especially because Nathan's dad had never picked up a bowling ball in his life and kicked everyone's butt.


Taking Kent Family pictures. I couldn't have asked for better sister-in-laws.

Random

It's a big day for me with two posts in a row. I was going through the pictures in my phone and came across some exceptionally good ones that I felt needed sharing.

This first picture was taken during some downtime at Nationals. It is just Nathan and Brady enjoying some cuddle time.


At Nationals Nathan had picked up a new saddle and so of course his brother had to try it out. However, there was no saddle stand around to sit the saddle on so this is the boys improvising. Creativity at it's finest!!


This last picture was taken back in June during the Malad High School graduation. I looked over at these mirror images.

GO BIG BLUE!!

One of my favorite things about going to college was the football games, because we all know it definitely wasn't sitting in class. And it makes it especially fun when your team happens to be REALLY good. This last weekend Nathan and Lisa Gugleman came to visit us and go to the Boise State vs. Idaho State football game. The game is supposed to be a big rivalry but BSU has beaten the Vandals for the past 11 seasons. And quite embarasing for Idaho fans too.

The football game was awesome, besides being 20 degrees out, after the national anthem was sang there were three military helicopters that flew right over the field. And the Boise Airport flew the Horizon Airlines Boise Broncos plane around the stadium. You could feel the patriotism for both our country and the school.

Although you can't tell from some of the pictures we were decked out with Bronco spirit in true Blue and Orange fashion. It was so much fun to be at the game and hang out with some great friends.

Arabian U.S. Nationals

The U.S. Nationals ranks as the most prestigious North American championship in the Arabian show horse industry. It is 1,506 miles from Kuna, Idaho to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The driving time on that trip is about 24 hours. The Tulsa Expo Center is one of the grandest show grounds I have ever been to. At first I was discouraged being stalled all the way in the "who the hell are you" stalls, but after a few days of freezing temperatures I thought our massive enclosed barn with heaters was pretty nice. Nathan showed his stallion, Nobles Top Gun, in the Arabian Reining Futurity. There were two runs and they took the composite score from both runs and Nathan was Reserve National Champion. It was one of the most proud moments of my entire life. And one of the few times I have actually seen Nathan get excited about winning.


In order to kill some downtime during our week at the show I checked out the Oklahoma Aquarium. It was a good way to burn a couple hours. The Aquarium was complete with giant bull sharks (the biggest one in captivity), cute little turtles, big ugly turtles, clown fish, big ugly fish, and otters.