Miss Indi Jo Clinger!!!

So Indi Jo Clinger was born on Sept 16th 2011!!!!

We LOVE her and she is so sweet I can't even stand it. Here are some super sweet pictures of her from Kate and my phone.

Reesi and Indi were watching sleeping beauty. Reese wanted to get her started early on princess movies. She is so excited to be a big sister, it is so sweet how excited she is.

I love this picture, she is just lounging in the sun. :)

Proud big sister!

So cute!

 Awe! She looks so tiny!

 Proud Granny!!

So Heather and I watched the kids the night that Indi was born. We had gone to Target earlier that night with Joey and the Ball boys and then we went and got a yummy cupcake. :) Then Heather bought all of us some pizza(because I am a moron and left my purse in Rexburg  thanks Heather) and made iron on shirts with Ryker, Reese, and Dax. Well we were in the middle of making our t-shirts when she was born and all we had were pictures of Indi on our phones so all night Dax kept asking for his baby sister. This is him just staring into Heathers phone. They could not wait to meet her!!!! It was so sweet!

One other thing about little miss Indi is that she has really long fingers and toes, just like her favorite Aunt Erin!!! Indi and I will have to stick together, its a tuff life living with ta-fingers.

Halloween 2011

My friend Susie's birthday is on Halloween and she usually has a Halloween/birthday party and this year she had it on the 29th. She turned 40 this year so they went all out and rented a place down town next to Bardenay. We had so much fun!!!! It was such a great weekend with Heidi, Jaime and Dave. :) Before the party the girls surprised me with pedi's and lunch which was super fun!!

The theme of the birthday party was 80's since Susie went to high school in the 80's and she was crowned prom queen at her party. We had been told a while ago about the theme and so Chad decided that he would grow his hair out and have a mullet and stache. :) Well, his hair didn't grow long enough for a mullet so he decided to go for the feathered hair look and the stache. It was awesome!!!! He forgot his clippers so he had to cut his stache off with clippers and then later did a closer shave with his razor. Here he is with the rough shave. He looks like Mario!! I was laughing so hard!! It was so funny!!

MARIO, a plumber from Jersey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The finished product for both of us.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh my word this was hilarious!! I love the whole outfit! BTW totally original from his closet. :)

This is my outfit! The crappy part with this picture is you can't see the best part, my shoes!!! Kate let me borrow her jazzersize shoes which were hot pink high top Reebok's!!! They were a hit! Kate also let me borrow the shirt, leggings, and tank! Thanks Kate, for the contributions!

We had a blast! Thanks for the great weekend Heidi, Jaime and Dave!!! 

My Phoebe girl

My little Phoebe girl passed away in the begining of September. I miss her so much. I know it sounds silly that I miss a dog so much but sitting here writing this over two months later I have tears running down my face. My parents bought her for me when I moved  into my house in Kuna back in 2005. She was such a good dog and my little friend. She loved to go everywhere with me and LOVED to snuggle with her mamma. She certainly had an attitude which made her quite the character. She could always sense when I was sad and would come and give me kisses all over my face, she could always tell when I needed some loves and kisses.

At the end of August she hurt her back and actually ruptured a disc. She basically lost all control of her back end. I didn't know what to do. I rushed her to the vet in Rexburg and the vet suggested either surgery or steroid injections to see if  reduced swelling would help. She stayed there for a couple days and I visited her twice a day to make sure she knew I wasn't just leaving her. She seemed so sad and it broke my heart. Her back wasn't getting any better and in fact the friday night before she died my mom showed up at my house because the vet had called her to let her know she wasn't doing well. We rushed back to pick her up so she didn't have to spend the weekend there and be sad all weekend. The next morning we took her to a different vet to see if he could help and he again suggested surgery from a doc over in Sun Valley, Dr. Acker. Chad and I left straight from there and they did the surgery that day. The surgeon was great. He kept saying there would be a 50/50 chance that she would regain movement within 6 weeks. We went and picked her up the next day and I had hopes that she would get better. Well, she had other plans and just kept getting worse. She started to not drink or eat and I was up with her the majority of the night because she just didn't feel well and I am sure it scared the crap out of her to wake up and not be able to understand why she couldn't move. Poor thing, she just seemed like she didn't want to do it anymore. She became so dehydrated that my mom took her to her vet in Idaho Falls to help her with her. She died the next morning. After I got the call I drove down to pick her up and my dad buried her at their house. I am glad she is there. She loved exploring things at there house. My family always says that doggie heaven looks like my parents house so it is appropriate that she was blessed enough to be there with all the other dogs my family has loved.

How sweet is this face?

I used to let her sleep with me and she would sleep like a human, it was super cute. She loved to snuggle with me. It was her favorite. :)

She like to camp but she would get cold so here she is in her little hoody that she would wear.

When she would get cold she would love to get into my coat and stick her cold nose in my armpit or into the sleeve. She was a little heater so I have to admit it was quite nice. :)

I LOVE This picture of her. She loved to either sit right there with a blanket in my car or on my lap. She would sit there for a while and then come and give me a kiss and lay back down. I miss that so much.

This cute necklace was made by my sister Heather. I looked so pretty on her black hair. Thanks Heather, I got a ton of compliments on how pretty it was on her.

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make sure I didn't forget what happened. I also have to say that my family and Chad's family was so sweet and supportive. I appreciate you guys so much for helping me feel better. You are all the greatest!!!

Love you my baby girl and miss you everyday...

3rd anniversary of our 1st date!!!

Well on October 10th 2008 Chad and I went on our first date! I had come home from Boise because  Dax was born. My dad had  been telling me for months that I should go out with this Chad that works for him. Well to my surprise when I got there my dad told me I had a date with him on Friday. I was not prepared!! I didn't have any cute clothes with me, I only brought lounge stuff because I figured I would be helping Kate with the new baby and stuff. Luckily Heather and my mom came to the rescue and let me borrow some cute things so I looked somewhat presentable. :) Well I guess it worked because here we are 3 years later!!!

We like to do something fun to celebrate this first occasion since we didn't technically start dating until new years. So we decided to go to dinner and bowling!!! We actually went bowling on our second date, we had gone to Rigby Bowl and had the entire place to ourselves!! Well, when we went this year we had it all to ourselves again!! It was so much fun!!! Chad says he rented the whole place for our special occasion, hahahaha nice try buddy!! 

This is us after our 2 games(I won the first and Chad smoked me on the second). The guy there was so nice and turned on some cosmic bowling for us since we were the only ones there. Then he turned up the juke box and we played some of our fav tunes. It was pretty much awesome!! 

 Chad about to show me some out of this world bowling.

I realize this is a sick picture of me, I was in the middle of doing some awesome moves but the camera didn't cooperate. I was having fun at least!

About to get some air!!

YAY!!!! Don't look closely, its a bit frightening!! I guess I was pretty excited about my score. :)

Oh yea!!

 This is Chad doing the moon walk while we were listening to Billy Jean by Michael Jackson. It. was. off. the. hook.

Good moon walk there sweetie!! Thanks for the hot date, we need to do this more often!!

War Bonnet Roundup!

This weekend we went to the War Bonnet Roundup! It was super fun despite the rain but we handled it well and hid under a blanket until it stopped. Which I might add the blanket smelled really stanky, especially after it was wet. Once it stopped raining the rodeo started and we all had a really fun time.

Half way through the rodeo Chad  became a bull and started to buck Ryker and Dax on his legs. The boys loved it and I'm pretty sure Chad had just as much fun. :) Here are some photos of the action.

 HAHAHA I love Chad's face here!! They were really getting into it and this bull was MAD! Can't you see it in his face?!?!

Another great action shot!!! Needless to say the kids LOVE him!!!

Dax started to do this headbanging thing which made him look like he at a heavy metal band concert rather than a rodeo.

 What a bunch of cute mugs!

Gal, watching the rodeo. There must be something good happening cuz Joey wouldn't turn to look at me. :)

Oh there she is!! Mom too!

I was cold so I have my hood on but I had to get a picture with the bull and the bull riders.

Cute cowgirl and cowboy! The only two decked out in their gear. Reese really wants to follow in my moms footsteps and become a barrel racer.

Oh my!!!

 My mom bought Reesie some boots and she wanted to make sure  I got a picture of her new fancy boots! She loves them.

Reesie also wanted to make sure I got a picture with both she and Chad in their cowboy/cowgirl shirts and hats. She had her sweatshirt on before. I am so glad I got this picture for the full affect! Thanks Reesie!!! So stinking cute!!!

I should have gotten a picture of the scones they had for sale. We never got one because the line was always way too long but they looked so so so good! Kate and I really wanted one. The next morning I got a text from her saying "I still want a scone" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA so funny! It totally made my morning! Gal, I hear you, they looked great!!!

I will post the video of Chad being a bull tomorrow but it is taking WAY TOO LONG to load.

Thanks family, the rodeo was a blast!!!

My mom, the super barrel racer!!!

Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to Preston to watch my mom barrel race!!! She did awesome!!!

 This is my mom and her fun traveling friend Vauna. They are so cute and have so much fun together. I am so glad that my mom has such a good friend to travel with.

 Waiting to go on...

 My mom after she raced! Do you see how her hair is kind of wind blown, its because she was going so fast.

 Mom and Tina - aren't they cute?!? What a great team :)

My mom and I :) I love watching her.  She does such a great job and has come so far from when she first started competing. Mom, I am so proud of you and your drive to go to the NFR and I have no doubts that you will be there soon.  Love you and am so proud that you are my mom! You are awesome!!!