Temple to Temple

William and Josh decided that they would run the temple to temple between the two of them back in April before parting for the summer. Over the summer neither I think trained as much as they thought they would.


Upon arriving back at school and realizing the run would be 38 miles, they recruited two other people. The rules were that the teams had to be an even amount of people and if you had guys and gals, you needed the same number of each. Josh's little sister said she would run and then they had a volunteer join our team. The team was called Moose on the Loose.


The starting point was the Rexburg temple. It started as a pretty cold morning. Ashley started the race.


I thought this guy had cool shoes. Apparently, only those who are avid runners invest in these things.


William took over after Ashley and ran 10.6 miles straight through. I like this picture because it is a good view of the Tetons in the back.


William handed off to Josh who also ran 10.6 miles straight through. Josh handed off to Erin who ran 10.7 miles. This is Josh and William giving the moose sign.


Ashley ran the last few miles after Erin. Everyone crossed the finish line together.


The ending point was the Idaho Falls temple. Nicole (Josh's wife) and I were the constant cheerers and would drive to each check point to make sure our runners were still doing well.

Cat Tails

I had wanted to go here for some time because I had thought I would get to pet a big kitty. The place had even told me that I would get to pet a siberian tiger cub if we came such and such dates. So we went such and such dates to find out after we paid that we couldn't pet the cubs until other such and such dates. Phooey on them. I guess I will just have to go to Africa.


This is the closest I have been able to get to some big kitties. Granted, there were two sets of fencing between us that made taking pictures difficult, but it was still cool.


I was aiming for the one taking a bath. He seemed to be enjoying himself.


I've seen lions before, but seeing one on the same ground level as you and just a few feet away is still pretty intimidating.


We could have fed the kitties if we paid additional fees, but you had to do it through pexiglass so you wouldn't be in danger. I thought it would have been cooler just to do it through the fence.

Bottle Feeding

I got the chore of feeding two calves this summer. Have you ever tried it? It is not the easiest thing in the world, feeding two at the same time. I got pretty good at it though.


Aren't they cute? One of the calves was kind of sickly, so it got special treatment, not the gentle kind though. It had to get daily shots for a while and I just couldn't do it. I had to have William come home on his lunch break one day because I just couldn't get the needle into the cow's skin. It started to wail, and I just couldn't emotionally do it. Sad, I know, but I am ok with it.


Unfortunately, the sickly one ended up dieing on me when we switch the calves over from being bottle fed to eating grain and hay. Such is life.

Shaving the Cat

Teddy was a mess of mates at the beginning of summer. Brushing had done no good it was quite difficult to get him to sit still long enough for me to cut the mates out.


Teddy was thought to be a fat lazy cat that just laid around the house all day. Not something significantly different from most other cats I know.
After finding out that it would cost $70 to give Teddy a lion cut, William and I decided that we could do it ourselves.


Looks like a totally different cat, huh?! Teddy sort of acted like a different cat after that. He would strut around like he was cool and actually became playful. Who woulda thunk?
Now since most of the hair is back, being October, he's back to being a lazy cat.

Summer Projects

We had a lot of summer projects at the Meyers' house this summer. Amy and William were the instigators in getting the horse trailer out of the yard. Thus William and I built a brand new clothes line. William fixed some of the fences closest to the house. Amy, Mom Meyers, and I painted the kitchen yellow, then while everyone was away, I painted the living room, hallway, and boys bathroom. I made some window treatments with the help of Mom Meyers and Amy. The biggest project, however, was building the porch, though William might say the biggest was to clean out the barn.


The old porch was moved into the barn to act as a floor.


Sheila helped dig holes a little. Daniel was given the task of digging most of them though.


Amy mixed concrete, and is now the concrete professional.


Kevin and William laid most of the top boards down while Mom Meyers and I had to get the rest of the boards.


The completed project. Doesn't it make you want to shed tears of joy at the shear beauty? No?! Well, I think it was a major upgrade.

Summer Birthdays

Here is William trying to cut through his ice cream cake, he was very happy.


This would be the awesome castle cake that I made and Daniel of course, for the cake was made for his birthday.


William made the cake all by his lonesome, isn't it beautiful.


Roger didn't want a cake for his birthday, so instead I made X number of white chocolate macadamia cookies.


Amy wanted a cheesecake for her birthday.