What a week

Due to some certain circumstances, we've had to stay at Brett's parents house all week. And I've a ton of projects that were due this week so much time was spent at the library. So I didn't get to spend a lot of time out there but I did manage to get away from the homework and go to a concert.

On Tuesday I went to Carrie Underwood concert with my sister-in-laws and Brett's cousins and a few friends. It was an awesome girls night out! She came with Little Big Town, who I love, so I especially loved the concert. A little fact that most people don't know about Little Big Town - they are 2 married couples that have always loved to sing together and they've been playing for about 10 years together. Here are some pictures of the girls at the concert (the cousins sat in a different section so we didn't get a good picture of all of us).

Little Big Town
Heidi and Me
Heidi, Me, Em, Mallory, Carly, and Nat

Nat, Em, and Me

Cute Carrie

Unfortunately, this week was quite the killer for me with a few big projects that were due so I spent some much needed extra time at the library so I didn't get to spend as much time as I would've liked out west. But on Friday I did get to watch Garrett and Gracie while Em and Nat cleaned out the food storage. The little guy is crawling quite well and he LOVES his little tongue. I thought you'd all enjoy a little clip (sorry that I'm retarded and had the camera turned sideways - it's still cute though) of the little man crawling around. I love having the nieces and nephews so close. It's so fun to watch them grow and it's going to be hard to not be close to Megan when their little tike is born.

Mom helping out

So my parents have starting building their new home. Ok, so they haven't started on the house but they have started on the horse carrols and sheds and stuff for the horses. Hopefully, they will be getting a buidling permit for the house tomorrow and they can start on the house so they can have it up (or at least a good portion of it) before the snow flies.

My mom has been so willing to help out and found herself in a little bit of a trouble one day while helping out. She's been such a good sport about it - my brother-in-law, Greg, got a good picture of her helping out before him, my dad, Brett, and my brother Dillon pushed her out. :)

This was just too good NOT to share with everyone.

Hopefully, we will have a few more things done soon so I can take some pictures and share with all of you.

BuSy! bUsY! BUSY!

It's been a while since I posted an update. We've been super busy with school and haven't had much time for anything else it seems like. These past 2 weeks have been especially busy with all of our teachers having big projects due and lots of tests. So we've had our hands full. This is a picture of Brett so hard at work in the library on one afternoon. This is just to show you all how hard we really are working... :)

Ok, so we really have actually been quite busy. We feel quite old because we work so hard during the week and then when the weekend comes all we want to do is sleep, hang out with each other, stay home, and go to bed early. No there's nothing wrong with this but this past weekend was Halloween and we didn't really want to do anything. However, I did convince Brett (who has NEVER been to a corn maze EVER BEFORE!) to go to the corn maze with me. It was a haunted corn maze and Brett doesn't like being scared. But he was a really good sport and made me go through all of the scary tunnels first and everything. We really had a good time and enjoyed spending the evening together.
The next morning we got up early for the opening morning of the pheasant hunt. We headed out West to Benson and went hunting with my dad, my brother, and my brother-in-law Dearth. I slayed the most pheasants. I shot 2 pheasants (actually 3 - but my cousin Jason shot the other one first so I let him have it) and I even cleaned one of them on my own. Brett was kind enough to clean one for me. Brett got one and Dearth got one but they gave them away so they didn't have to clean them. But we did have them for Sunday afternoon dinner and they were quite delicious. Now I can lay claim to the mighty hunter of the family!

My sister Megan and her husband Zach are expecting their first baby in March and they found out today that IT'S A BOY!!! Congrats to them! We are super excited for them. We just wish they were closer so that we could hug and kiss them and watch Megan's tummy grow!
I also got some good pictures this last week. We had a little going away party for Brett's cousin, Tyler, who left to go work at a ski resort in Colorado and I caught this great picture of Dearth (he didn't know he had crap all over his face and I snapped a picture before he got wipe it off).

And Brooklyn was quite the cute little witch for Halloween - quite fitting I would have to say for her attitude lately. But we sure do love our little Brooklyn!

Brett also needed a hair cut really bad! So I gave him one and his bushy beard just looked quite comical so he decided to trim the beard. He looks so much younger, even with just trimming it - it's crazy. This is just a picture of him trimming his beard (notice all of the hair at his feet - that's all from his hair!)