DJ & Holly

2009-08-06T10:11:00.003-06:00

I have been told that many times that I need to update my blog. I'm the worst when it comes to this. I guess I just feel like my life isn't that exciting so why would anyone want to read about it and see pictures of me. Well I'm updating but sorry no pictures. I don't really have any new ones but I promise I will in a few weeks after the wedding. Its been crazy around here. Those who have planned a wedding before will understand. I work full time and when I have any free time I'm wedding planning and if there's any free time left after that I'm hanging out with DJ or I'm sleeping. The good news is I am almost done! Yeah!!! I just have a few things to tie up and then I get to relax and just hang out until a day or 2 before then I'm sure I will start panic mode. Anyone who wants to come is more than welcome. If you didn't get your invitation by now let me know we had some address mix ups so I'll get you out a new one. We're having it at Wadley Farms in Lindon. If you want to see what it looks like they have a website. Its wadleyfarms.com. Again anyone who wants to come is more than welcome just check out their website and get the address and directions. Its from 12pm-2pm Saturday August 22.

Getting Married!

2009-06-12T21:36:00.002-06:00

Just thought I would let everyone know DJ and I are getting married. Our date is August 22. We're really excited this has been a long time coming and a lot of patience for sure! I'm putting together my list of friends and family to send announcements to so if you want one email me your address. Send it to hbooth3@hotmail.com. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks!

Lost our little chocolate guy.

2009-04-11T18:43:00.004-06:00

We lost a puppy yesterday. It was really hard. We're not sure exactly what happened but they were alone with Ebby for about 2 hours while our work schedules overlapped. DJ came home and found the little guy. I'm glad it wasn't me. It was hard enough just hearing about. They say it happens to a lot of litters but I thought for sure we would be ok for having only 4. Hopefully we won't loose anymore!!!

PUPPIES!!! 2 chocolate females, 1 chocolate male, 1 black male

2009-04-09T21:55:00.004-06:00

Well its been kind of a rough last couple of days. Ebby started going into labor on Tuesday evening. She was really restless and whiny all night and neither DJ or I got very much sleep. Wednesday morning I got up and she was even more antsy and started leaking some nasty green goo stuff so I decided I better stay home from work thinking she was probably going to be delivering anytime. I was wrong. I sat and waited and waited all the while trying to keep her calm and keep the mess confined to her little pool we bought for her to have her puppies in. At about 10pm our neighbor came over to check on Ebby cause she has delivered lots of puppies and unlike us actually knows what she's doing and what to expect. She told us that she thought Ebby was still a little ways out and would maybe have them sometime the next day. So we left her blocked in the kitchen and headed to bed around 11:30pm. Sometime around 1 DJ got up and let her outside cause she was constantly whining and we couldn't sleep. It didn't help at all so by this time it was probably around 1:15 and we were both up and exhausted and frustrated. DJ sent me to bed cause I had to work the next day and he decided to stay up with her hoping to calm her down a little and make her somewhat comfortable. So here I am laying in bed trying to fall asleep and no more than 10 min later DJ comes bursting through the door and says I think there's a puppy on the ground. So I went running out there and sure enough there was our first little puppy. The cute little runt. So we got her cleaned up and called our neighbor to come help us with the rest. About 2 hours later all 4 were out and screaming for food. Ebby is doing really good and being an awesome new mom. We are so grateful for our neighbors for offering and being so willing to help us. Without them I would have been freaking out.....more than I already was!

Here's a cute picture of DJ with puppy #1 shortly after she was born

Here's a couple pictures of all 4 together shortly after the last puppy arrived

2009-04-09T21:34:00.006-06:00

Here's our little black boy. SOOO CUTE!

Here are the 3 chocolate ones. Sorry the one is hiding. The one on the left is the runt. She's super cute and DJ and I are already getting kind of attached to her.

Here's all 4 together. They were moving around so much while I was trying to get this picture so this is the best I could get.

2009-03-04T16:45:00.003-07:00

I'm sorry I gave up on my blog for a while. Its not a very good excuse why but my computer is really slow and I hate waiting for it to load things up which is partly why I don't have a picture to go along with this update.
There isn't really anything new going on with us right now. Obviously we've been through a few holidays and birthdays since I was on here last and now we're coming into spring and I'm so excited!. My puppy isn't so much a puppy anymore he's taller than Ebby so by the time he fills out all the way he's going to be huge.
DJ is out of town working in Las Vegas this week. Although I am grateful he has work it's hard for him to be gone.
For those who don't know Tyson, Stephanie and their little boys moved down to Utah and they are right down the road from us so its nice to have more family so close to us!!! We're so excited to have them here and we can't wait to have some fun BBQ's this summer! Now if we can just get the rest of our family to move here *hint hint*
I'm hoping there's going to be some fun events going on this summer...... so I'll try to keep you all updated! love you all!

2008-10-31T22:52:00.003-06:00

I made these today for Halloween. It was a lot of fun and really easy!

SCARY MONSTER FINGERS

2 cups crushed graham crackers

2 cups powdered sugar

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup melted butter

1 bag pretzel rods broken in half

sliced almonds (finger nails)

red tube frosting (blood)

Mix the first 4 ingredients together. Form the mixture around the half pretzel rod. Add a sliced almond for a finger nail and red frosting to the other end for blood. Use the handle end of a spoon or fork to make the wrinkles in the knuckles.

(This is the same recipe used to make peanut butter balls. You just form a ball and then roll it in melted chocolate and then let it set)

2008-10-31T22:34:00.003-06:00

Here's a little video of DJ kicking the leaves around and Huck acting like a tard jumping and biting the leaves. Enjoy!

2008-10-31T22:25:00.002-06:00

So every year we have planted a garden and my favorite things are the pumpkins. The vines growing along the fence are grape vines and this year one little pumpkin decided to grow up on the fence in the grapes. See if you can find it. Then there's a close up too.

FINE I'LL UPDATE MY BLOG!

2008-09-22T17:11:00.005-06:00

Ok fine I guess I'll update since my life is soooo exciting. There's really nothing going on right now. We went out to dinner and to a Toby Keith and Montgomery Gentry concert on saturday night with both of DJ's sisters and their husband and boyfriend and that was a lot of fun. (sorry ashley I didn't take my camera so no pics). We don't get to do stuff like that very often.....not because we can't but we just don't.
We are getting excited for fall coming!!! Me because it's my favorite season. I love the fall colors and smells. I love that it starts to get cooler and there's less and less daylight all the time. I love decorating and somehow it never feels like i have enough. I'm excited to pick the pumpkins (my favorite) and other vegetables out of my garden and I'm going to attempt to make grape jelly and maybe juice with the grapes also growing in our yard. Wish me luck its MESSY!!!
Now DJ on the other hand........it means HUNTING SEASON is here!!! The opening day of the duck hunt is in 12 days. Getting ready for this hunt usually means a lot of talking on the phone with his buddies (usually going way over his minutes), getting all his clothes cleaned and ready, re-stringing the weighted lines on his decoys, building a blind on his duck hunting boat, and my all time favorite him walking around the house blowing his duck call! (not that i don't get to hear it enough all year long too)
We are both going on separate vacations in about 2 1/2 weeks. Him of course hunting on the snake river in Idaho and me up to Rexburg with my mom to visit Marissa at school! We just found out that we'll probably be staying in the same town (Idaho Falls) however we most likely will not cross paths. It should be a lot of fun!
Well thats all I have for right now.........

2008-07-27T22:37:00.004-06:00

We went out to the "beautiful" Utah lake yesterday with Jason & Jenny on their wave runners. It was a lot of fun! Thanks again for taking us!

Tayler loving the water

Me and DJ headed out on the wave runners!!

Brandon digging in the "sand" (mud)

2008-07-27T21:50:00.002-06:00

We went camping over the 24th and had a lot of fun. We went up to our friend Stephen's family's property by Fairview. We didn't do a whole lot other than just hang out but it was sure nice to get away from home and feel like we sort of got a vacation.

Here's DJ showing off his enthusiasm

Here's our friends Stephen and Nicole
Huck trying to stay cool
Ebby saying hi
Of course we suck at taking lots of pictures and we got home and there are a million of our dogs, a few of DJ, and none of me dang it!

2008-07-27T21:36:00.006-06:00

We got kinda bored while we were camping so we pulled out our 30ft training rope we use for the dogs and used it as a jump rope. Here's DJ demonstrating his mad skills!

2008-07-27T21:24:00.003-06:00

We slept in a tent on our trip and of course the dogs didn't sleep cause there was much more interesting things to watch and bark at outside of the tent all night long!!! So they decided they needed a nap when we got home.

2008-07-20T21:34:00.002-06:00

Huck is getting so big he is almost as tall as Ebby. I can't believe how fast he is growing. I miss how little he was when we first got him but i definitely won't miss the chewing and getting into EVERYTHING!!!

2008-07-20T21:27:00.003-06:00

Here is the Cars blanket I made for Brandon for his birthday. When he pulled it out of the bag he saw it wasn't a toy and he drop kicked it. It was pretty funny. Hopefully he will like it someday!

2008-07-07T16:43:00.006-06:00

A few weeks ago the Provo Daily Herald put out a magazine of the 100 peak performers and they asked DJ to be in it for winning the Utah State Duck Calling Competition. Lets be honest, to most people what he does is kinda weird or funny but it takes a lot of practice and he's really good at what he does. I'm really proud of him for everything he has accomplished and good luck at the World Competition! Here's a copy of the article they wrote about him.

(I just have to throw in there that Donny and Marie Osmond and Robert Redford are also in the magazine...)

2008-06-29T21:54:00.003-06:00

I baby sat Brandon Tayler and Bjorn the other day. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, however i did only spend a few hours with them. Im sure if I was with them all the time it wouldn't be so easy We had lots of fun playing outside and with the dogs.

I picked them all a rose and then Huck ate them. (the roses not the kids)
Here's Tayler running around the yard. She loves the dogs the most. She kept going over to the fence and talking to our neighbor and her dog. She's so CUTE!!!
Here's the boys digging in the dirt. When their moms came to pick them up they had lots of dirt under their finger nails. Sorry!

2008-06-29T21:46:00.004-06:00

Here's the kids checking out the dogs. They were apprehensive at first but by the end of the day they wanted them outside so they could play with them.

2008-06-29T21:38:00.002-06:00

DJ found this giant moth/butterfly in the garden. It was Ginormous

2008-06-29T21:21:00.002-06:00

Swimming at Utah Lake

We took the dogs out for a swim about a week ago. It was Huck's first time to experience that. He just jumped right in and could swim as far and as fast as Ebby

Here's Huck retrieving a bumper. He has such a natural instinct for it and loves retrieving them over and over and over.....(kinda reminds me of Brandon...crash...crash...crash... I love you Brandon!)

2008-06-29T21:17:00.001-06:00

Ebby retrieving a bumper

So happy to be out playing in the water

2008-06-29T20:54:00.003-06:00

Ebby and Huck both headed out for a retrieve

Huck trying to eat Ebby

2008-05-24T22:06:00.004-06:00

Good morning!!!

This is what we get to wake up to in our faces in the morning.

I caught DJ cheating on me this morning.

Isnt he just the cutest thing!!! He's my little fart!

2008-05-24T21:54:00.003-06:00

We have been working in the yard (me a little DJ ALOT!) This is the garden I not so much landscaped but just planted. My favorite plants are the dark red lilys. They are so pretty.

2008-05-05T14:31:00.003-06:00

Ebby has never laid down to eat her food like this, but Huck ALWAYS watches her and if any end up on the floor he vacuums them up. It was really cute!

Huck & Ebby

2008-05-01T12:28:00.001-06:00

Fishing with Huck and Ebby

2008-05-01T12:15:00.002-06:00

2008-04-18T21:03:00.001-06:00

WHY!!!!!

2008-04-18T20:56:00.002-06:00

Eating at Chili's. Yay!