It's wabbit season!

No, just kidding, it's chicken season! :) Actually, is it chicken season? We don't know either. Ben has had TWO days off.... in a row! Wow, we didn't know what to think about it. On Saturday, we went with the family to see uncle Lyle & aunt Trixie on the four wheelers and then had some burgers and hot dogs. We're still gettin everything we can out of these last few weeks of summer. Yesterday, we went out to shoot some chickens... and bottles and cans and cups. We got us 2 chickens that I actually shot! Ben got his fishing pole out once but didn't catch anything. It's been an awesome weekend, now to start the workweek.

 We still have a lot of grain to cut. Ben was saying most of the crop this year is really good.

We find this silly dog sitting, sleeping and hanging out in the weirdest positions. She loves to sit on this box like this. She'll scoot her butt as close as she can and push herself on to it. She also enjoyed our weekend together. She loved fetching the chicken wings.

Painting

About a week and a half ago, I tore into the project of painting the house. I don't mind painting but like most big jobs, I got about half way done and in the hard parts and was asking myself why I just had to paint. But, I'm a goin' little painter and I got er' done in 2 1/2 days. It looks so good, I'm loving the color and decorating again (MY way!). I should have gotten more 'before' pictures but, you get the gist. It was a greenish color with a dark green accent wall, I painted everything brown with a dark brown accent wall. 

Ah bliss...

Everybody keeps asking the two of us how we like being married. We both keep saying we don't know. Ben is so busy on the farm we haven't really had time to see if anything is "different". Nothing that we can see has changed though, still same ol' us. :) Then the infamous question: "When are you going to have kids?". We both want kids, and we're both excited about it. However, we aren't in a big hurry but it probably won't be too long either. Take that however it's easiest to digest, because we haven't quite got it figured out either.

I have spent some serious amount of time in photoshop to save these as personal use. So, here are some pictures. I'm still trying to load more and I may come to blows with this blogger pos photo uploading system before I'm done. ;)

It was extremely hard for me not to take off on a dead run down the aisle. I get so uncomfortable when everybody is looking at me. My dad was fully aware that he was going to have to pay close attention to how fast I was walking and making sure I wasn't rushing through it. The entire time we were walking, he was telling me that I needed to slow down and that I should look up. Ha, ha and I of course was trying to concentrate on not falling, not running, and not crying! At one point I swear he actually stopped and said, "We need to slow down I think we're walking too fast!" And then I swear he quit walking! I could have been dreaming but I'm pretty sure! I told him we still needed to keep moving, that we can't just stop walking! Oh it was quite memorable. And like everyone told me, I didn't trip, or run, or cry (to my amazement). Another thing, I don't remember hearing music, I remember once looking at everyone but I didn't see one persons face, just a bunch of people. It's crazy what nerves will do to ya! I just love the expression on my dad's face in these pictures because I can hear him telling me, "Now Kayla, you have to slow down!" Love you, Dad!

Thank you for not smearing the cake all over my face.

My huuusband. Huzbund. Husband.  That'll take some time to get use to!

Annd, there went any control over my emotions. ;)

Beautiful little flower girl!! She did so good.

  

My sister refused to smile. This is the best we got all day together. She stood right next to me in line; I never really had a maid of honor, I just knew I wanted my sister next to me. <3 Love you so so much, Aunna, I'm so lucky to have you as my sister!!! Ohh but she'll get married and I'll get my chance to remind her of this brattiness  stubbornness. ;) You wait, sister!

One of my favorite pictures but seriously, Dad? What's with the shoes?? Being in those cowboy boots long enough to walk me down the aisle was about his limit! ;)

Bach and bridal shower, pre-wedding and wedding.

It's official! The papers are all signed and the name change is in progress. We had some hiccups the day before and early in the day trying to get everything together but when it was time to walk down the aisle, everything was perfect. So happy that Billy and Jim were able to play for us and then Billy and Angela surprised us with a song they sang for us. Absolutely beautiful! I did fight my tears back through everything until everything was done, my mom stood up and started sobbing. :) Ha, ha oh leave it to mom to make me emotional. It was so perfect though, I wouldn't change a thing! We hired Kassie Crapo to do our photography and she did great! I only have a couple pictures from the wedding that are professional and none that are from family so I'll have to update some more. 

Jessica did my bridal shower cake and the cupcakes for the wedding. The shower cake was so fun and oh so good! I was never able to try the cupcakes but everybody was asking who made them and that they were heavenly. Look how pretty they are!! Thanks, Jess!!

For the honeymoon! ;)

I was going for simple. I loved my cake!

My bouquet was made up of red Gerbera Daisy's, Lilies, Wheat, some Baby's Breath and greens. It was exactly what I wanted.

Aww, this picture makes me melt. I love us.

We drove to Vegas for our honeymoon. We stayed the first night in Mesquite. I won a little playing poker at a machine at the bar. FIRST time ever winning while gambling. I guess it's a good time for first's! :)

Then, we were off to Vegas! The first night we went to an obnoxious time share. We figured we could use the free stuff they give ya. Those people are good! I would have bought a damn time share had it not been for Ben! Of course we had to get some drink in Vegas, I mean it was 107 degrees. One of my favorite all time drinks is a Tickled Pink, it's bliss! Ben tried my Tickled Pink drink....... 

 Ben thought it was a little sour... and cold. He said we should probably heat the ice up a bit.

I, however, loved it!

We went to see the Tigers and Dolphins (of course) first and we went to the shark reef. We got discounted tickets to a show but didn't go. Gambling seemed like a better idea at the time.

A lot of jellyfish!

Our most expensive meal. It wasn't bad but it wasn't worth the bill.

 The best meal we had was at T&T's in the Luxor. MMMM so good. Mine.

 And Ben's.

There's lots more but this is already forever long.

All in all, everything has been wonderful

and I look forward to our future. 

Engagement pictures

We got our engagement pictures taken last week. I know we're a bit behind schedule but we did them on such a beautiful night. I'm glad we waited for good weather. Ben's cousins wife took them and she did awesome! We got a lot of really good pictures. We have ordered the announcements and will be sending them out as soon as they arrive. It's starting to get really stressful now. Work is really starting to pick up, it's getting hard to find time for everything.

Landscaping

I am kicking myself for not getting a before picture. Ben has been spreading dirt for our berms and we just got concrete poured. I LOVE it (so much)! The lighting is horrible, this was taken at like 9:00 am. Here's a couple pictures but I'm guessing they just aren't going to give it justice.

From the front door 

 From garage man door

 Pad in front of garage

I just can't stop looking at it!

I picked my dress up a couple weeks ago. I just love it, it's so priitteee!!  I just look at the pink bag and get so excited about wearing it. :) Still needs to be altered for the length and steamed so I'll get to wear here in a month or so! AND! We did finally get someone to marry us (after 2 failed attempts).

 You just hafta guess what it looks like. You can just tell it's gonna be so pretty though, huh?? ;)