About Us Part 2

I'm finally doing a little catching up, Wes is out of town and Cameron's asleep. So here goes part 2...
Wes and I got married and moved to Ogden in a very scary area along the Ogden river. I look back now and wonder "What were we thinking?" Wes had just come back from Brazil and thought it was a great place. It's rather amazing we made it through that place with only minor things such as the starter stolen off the truck. (We lived just down the street from where all the gay men met up at all hours on the side of the road, and the scent of marijuana was always present in the hallway.) We both went to Weber and worked. Wes also began to college rodeo on scholarship. Andy Woolstenhulme and his wife were also rodeoing so we traveled with them and it was a lot of fun.

Luckily we moved to a better area in Ogden, a gated apartment directly behind the Ogden temple. Wes continued going to school while I student-taught at Roy Elementary. After I graduated we moved back to Oakley and Wes commuted to school. I got a job at South Summit Elementary teaching 1st grade and loved it. During school Wes worked at the Grand America Hotel as a bellman, then worked for the S Bar S Ranch as a horse trainer, and then on his own as a horse trainer. He became an even more accomplished horse rider and trainer. Besides roping he entered the new arenas of reining and cutting. He also became very intrigued and educated about horse bloodlines and breeding. He even got quite skilled with horse ultrasound. (He could tell Cameron was a boy before the ultrasound tech could even tell us just because of his experience.) This is why we have 4 broodmares and a stud (stallion) horse among our 15 somewhat horses. We also have 40 cows and 2 dogs. We are definitely downsizing our animal numbers this summer. There's just not time for them all.

Wes really considered being a vet. He easily could be one, he already does everything a vet does, but we were led down a different path. Before Wes graduated he got a job in Orthopedic Sales and then graduated from Weber. He still carries the first line, but also works for OrthoPro, based in Salt Lake.

So there's part 2. Not much left for part 3.

Race for the Cure

Well, I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures, but my family (Mom, Amber, Amber's friend Kate, along with a cousin and another friend) did the annual 5k Race for the Cure. We have done it for, oh, about 5 years now and it has been such a wonderful experience--rain or heat. This year started pretty cold, but ended up being beautiful for such an event. I take Cameron in his stroller so I can haul everyone's water bottles and jackets. There were 17,000 people participating this year. I saw one survivor being pushed in a wheelchair by her elderly husband across the finish line. There are just not words to describe the emotions this event brings.

We do it in memory of my mom's mother Beverly (Grandma Bevy) who died from breast cancer at the young age of 55. She was such a remarkable woman, that much was clear to me even though I only knew her until I was 8.

A little behind!

I wish this blog were about me having a little behind, but it's NOT!

Okay, so I'm a lazy blogger. I've gotten a little behind. Isn't admitting it the first step? I will update very soon.

Also, for you blogger friends that have sitemeter and such, if it ever shows that I was viewing your blog for an excessive amount of time, I just want to let you know I get easily distracted (Cameron, telephone, etc.) and then leave the blog up for awhile. I swear I don't obsess about some of your blogs. Just thought I'd throw out my random explanation.