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There is so much to blog about!
First of all, Shelly is doing much better since being taken to Denver. She is slowly being weened off of the ventilator, and they are starting to take care of her nutrition problems! It's great news, and we appreciate all of your prayers. We got Dad all packed out of his place as well. I went Tuesday through Thursday night and Steph, Cam, and Aunt Deana headed the crew the rest of the week. It's nice to know that they will never have to deal with those awful people again. It's such a long and crazy story that you'll have to ask me about the people when I can talk, cause I think it would take too much space for the whole thing on here. Just know it's a very good thing they aren't obligated to them anymore.

The people tried to keep us out of this room by putting their name on the door and removing the doorknob- but we're smart chics and got in anyway!

Here they had come into the house and removed a table that all of these things were on!

Pictures of the guys footprints at the house. They weren't supposed to be in the house, but we caught them as we were driving up!

A picture of Steph showing Cam how to hold the shotgun for when the guy came into the house un-invited.
Secondly, we had a fun time in Utah over the weekend! It was the Baker family reunion in Provo, and we got there on Friday. Joseph(one of Jaran's older brothers) and his kids were moving back to Utah from Belgrade, so Jaran drove a truck and trailer for him. The guys helped unpack all of the big stuff and then we headed over to Jaran's parents. It was a late night, and the kids were up late as well. We actually slept in until 8:30! It was great, but we were still super tired. Then we all got ready and headed to Provo. It was fun visiting with everyone, and we had a great time.

LaRell(Loyal's(Jaran's Dad) brother), Steve(Jaran's sister Vyedka's husband) and Jeff(LaRell's son)

Joseph, Mark(Noni's husband) and Noni(aka Glenona, Loyal's only sister)

Zak(Jaran's youngest brother) and Ansleigh... so cute!

Kaleb, Vyedka, Vanessa(another of Jaran's sisters) and Steve's bum LOL

Liann(Justin's wife), Justin(Jaran's oldest brother) and RuthAnn(Jaran's mom)

Carol(LaRell's wife) was a favorite with popsicles... as you can see Brensyn and Kellyn(one of Joseph's daughters) are awaiting theirs

Brens and I

On the way to Layton from the reunion

So tired!

Last one to give in, but finally did!

Five years!

Thirdly- the day of the reunion also marked Jaran and my fifth wedding anniversary. A little bird, who loves us dearly, helped make it possible to have a wonderful night. We took the kids home, who as you see got a nice nap on the way home. Jaran's family agreed to take care of them for us, so we took off to Bountiful. We hiked up this little mountain behind the temple there, and watched the sunset.

This is where Jaran also proposed, so it was very special, and we hadn't been there since that day!

I had roped some of Jaran's family into helping me with his present. Kevin, Jaran's sister Erika's hubby, hiked up the night before to the same place we hiked to and took a picture for me to frame and give to Jaran as his gift. It turned out great, but I don't have it to post, so I'll post one we took that is quite a bit like it!

It was nice and cool and quiet, and we loved our time there... just so peaceful!

Then we hiked down and went to eat at the Old Spaghetti factory. It was DELICIOUS and we were so hungry we ate everything we ordered! Then we were blessed to be able to go stay in a nice hotel that night, kid-free, and even got to sleep in until 9! It was very weird to wake up and not have it be from screaming children! I forget how nice it is to have those thick dark shades to make you think it's still time to be asleep. When we woke up, got showered and ready, we went back to Layton to the house for Father's day. It was great to see everyone. I made Loyal a little collage of pictures of the kids for Father's day, but he left before I was finished, so I still don't know what he thought of it! Justin brought his Harley over to show us, and gave Jaran and Kies a ride!


He tried to teach Jaran how to ride it, but that didn't really go over well... Jaran was too worried he'd wreck it and was too nervous to do it right... so he went less than a foot and gave up!

I was a little nervous with Kies on the back, but he did a great job holding on!
It was a nice drive back to Three Forks, and we even stopped along the way(mostly for Kies to go to the bathroom) and it didn't feel rushed.

I'm not really sure what he's looking at, but I caught him off guard!
We both felt jealous that Joseph and Kendra are moving back to Utah. Now it's only Jonny and Erica's family along with us who don't live there. Kind of strange, and there is a little feeling that we are being left out in some way, but there's nothing we can do about it! We have thought about adding Utah to the list of places to move after we sell the house, but I don't know if it'll stay on there long. We always feel this way after leaving Jaran's family. It's so nice to be around them all... especially when they offer to watch the kids for us! J/k, there are so many other reasons!
So that's it in a nutshell. The kids and I are back in Wyoming for a couple-few weeks while Jaran works here. It wasn't too bad being home without Jaran, other than how scared I was, and the kids got a little crazy at times, but all in all, not as bad as I thought it would be. But, the kids miss their daddy a ton when he's gone, so I thought we'd come back and bother Mom and the rest of those in Wyoming once again. I hope we're not too much of a hassle! We'll see, and wish us luck! Take Care!