Ultimate Redneck Party

Last weekend we went to a Demolition Derby!! I love going to them, I think they are so much fun. The craziness of it all is infectious. James is thinking about buying a car and fixing it up for next summer. I told him to go for it and I'll make t-shirts and lead the cheering crowd!

Cache County Fair

Last weekend August 6th-9th was the Cache County Fair! We both had never gone because we usually go to Colorado around this time. We were excited and went Thursday night and looked at the booths and the animals. It down poured!!! We all got so wet but we had a blast. Here are a couple pictures.
This sheep is stepping on his buddy to get the hay on the other side. I guess its true the Grass is always greener on the other side!
I loved these sheep! Their little shirts were so funny I had to take a picture. They weren't the only ones over dressed for the fair but they were the best dressed.
Friday Night we went to the Rodeo! They have also made it a breast cancer awareness event so everyone was wearing pink. I thought that was pretty cool. Here are a few shot videos of the Rodeo. They opened the event with Cowboy poker. The last one at the table won $500 . Would you do that?!

They also had trick riders they were amazing!! I can't even ride a horse let alone flip on and off one! And than last but not least the Winning Bull Ride!!

Saturday we went down to Jordan Commons and watched the Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D. It was a really good movie and it was even more fun in 3-D. I highly suggest it. We also recently saw Get Smart , we about killed over laughing. It's very good.

*Scentsy*

I know this isn't a traditional post but I thought I would let those of you who I don't have emails for know that starting September Scentsy has come out with new products, warmers, and scents. Because of this all their Spring and Summer scents and Warmers are 10% off. I have attached a link to their page that lists all the scents that will not be returning next spring. If any of your favorites are on there let me know and you can still get them up to the last day in August. I am going to try and put in an order this weekend. Also on the Discontinued list the sunburst warmer is sold out even though it doesn't say on the page. Let me know if you want anything. Also the new Fall/Winter catalog is on my website www.scentsy.com/shayle They have come out with little plug in warmers, which are perfect for your bathroom, office and kitchen areas. Check them out!!!

https://www.scentsy.com/images/photo/Discontinued_08.pdf (Discontinued Items)

https://www.scentsy.com/images/photo/2008FallCatalog.pdf (Fall/Winter Catalog)

* 3 year Wedding Anniversary *

Ok I have just posted a ton of things. So scroll down to check all the post out!!It has been a while since I posted due to summer, and the fact the Breaking Dawn came out this last week. It was a great book but the way!!! A few more side notes July 30 was Our 3 year Anniversary! Yea. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. I'm so lucky to have found and married James. He is my best friend and thankfully my eternal companion. I love him so much and so much more than when we were married. I remember people telling us that your love grows with time and I thought... how is that possible when I love him so much already. But its true our love grows with each day. We don't always see eye to eye but that makes life interesting. I also want to say Congratulations to my parents who just celebrated their anniversary on August 6th. They have always been such a good example to us!
I have one last post. For those of you who don't know I have signed up to sell Scentsy. They are wickless, flameless, wax warmers. They smell so good and they are a cute addition to you home. If you are interested you can go to my website www.scentsy.com/shayle If you would like to host a party let me know and you can earn free products as well as discounted items.

24th Of July Pioneer Day

We traveled the long miles to Sanford CO. for their 24th of July Celebration. Sanford is one of two towns that were settled by the Mormon Pioneers. They were sent from southern portion of the US to settle Colorado by Brigham Young. They had a pretty neat history that in a lot of ways in similar to Utah. Because of this history they celebrate the 24th of July. We went to 2 different parades. Here are the Pictures of the parade and the trip.

This is Sanfords only cop!! Yea crazy huh!
These floats are actually from Manassa 's Parade. They are a neighboring town. These floats were amazing.

Chaz at the Parade enjoying an otter pop. Yum!!
After the Sanford parade they have all kinds of different activities. They have races where all the kids and adults race by age and gender. They also had an egg toss. Here's Tori covered in egg. James was her partner, and he wondered why I didn't want to do the egg toss with him.

After the races we all went to Grandma Holmans. James was showing off on the tree swing.
Later in the trip we all got to try out the motorcycle that Aaron and Cara bought for their boys. It's a little motorcycle but I thought it was really fun! I had never driven one before. Yahoo!!


Here are two videos of the Boys riding the bike. The first one is Alec and the second is Barron.


The whole trip was really fun. James also had his 10 year high school reunion. I had fun meeting all his old friends and he had a lot of fun reminiscing with his friends. We also taught James family how to play settlers and we had a few intense games. We were sad to go, but thankful for the chance we had to visit.

Petersen Campout

After James family left that next weekend the 10-12 of July is the annual Petersen Family camp out. We always go to the Unitas. We were unable to go for the whole time but we did get there Friday night. We didn't sleep a wink because we brought Diego and my parents had Tia who happened to be in heat so Diego just wanted to do nasty things to her. So we literally were up all night long!! It was terrible and I was not a "Happy Camper" That next morning we downed Mt. Dew to keep us awake and helped pack up. Then we went with my family to Mirror Lake and hiked a little trail around it. It was a beautiful and easy hike. At the end of the trail there were little streams that fed into the lake. James has always claimed that the little streams had the biggest fish and that he could catch them with his bare hands. Being the sweet wife that I am I would listen to his stories and figured he exaggerated the stories A LOT! Turns out I was way off. He was telling the truth! I don't have the pictures because I left my camera in the car, but Nicole took some and a few videos. I'll have to get them from her. It was amazing he caught big fish and with his bare hands. It was so easy that Larissa being the brave women she is tried to catch some also. She got very close. I would never do that! It was a really fun trip.

On the way home Larissa insisted on riding in the back with Diego. Again very brave. I turned around and say her sleeping on him and him sleeping it was cute and pretty funny.
We also stopped by my Grandma and Grandpa Larsens house and looked at their new pond and fountain. Which is amazing! They also got a patio swing and the girls were still pretty tired from the trip if you can't tell.

Hey, we're still here! We have had a crazy busy month of July!! It has be filled with visits from our family and fun activities! For the 4th of July James parents, and his sister Tori, and our three nephews Alec, Barron, and Chaz, Came up from Colorado to spend the weekend with us. We had so much fun and kept ourselves very busy. We watched the USU fireworks on the 3rd, and them first thing in the morning on the 4th we went to the fair ground to the Crusin'. The Crusin' in an annual car show. They have cars from all over the US. It's a lot of fun looking at all the old cars and the fancy new cars.
That afternoon we went swimming and had a blast! Tori and the two younger boys went down the water slides. James and I got fried!! Oh man it was bad blisters and everything. Ouch! Later that night we lit our own fireworks and had some watermelon! Yum Yum
This is kind of a side note but he kids were easily entertained by playing Dance Dance revolution!! They loved it and actually got really good. It got to the point that they didn't need my help to pass the songs. This is usually what they wanted to do while waiting for us to get ready to go to the next activity.
As if we weren't tired enough from the past couple days we woke up early and headed down to Ogden to the Dinosaur Park. The boys had been looking forward to it the whole trip. We got there and I have never seen 3 boys more excited in my life. They were jumping and screaming and running all at the same time and all in different directions! My family was also in town so they met us at the Park.

At the park they had a climbing wall, and my Dad and James decided to race. So they each won one and had to have a tie breaker. James won and gained bragging rights! The Dinosaur Park was amazing and I highly recommend it for anyone with little boys. They will freak our guaranteed!
Sunday we went up to the temple. We were disappointed because the gates were closed, because of cleaning. We still took pictures anyways. Tori looks so grown up and beautiful , she turned 12 this year and has becoming such a fun person and a beautiful woman.
Here are James parents . They were so good to drive the 12 hours out here to visit us, and to bring three wild boys and Tori with them. We both really appreciate them for all they do and for their support. Thanks for coming out we loved it!!
The boys looked so handsome. They clean up really well! :) They were so excited to see the temple and really enjoyed the fact that it was on a huge hill! After pictures we went home and changed. We got ready to go have a fire up the canyon and eat some tinfoil dinners. Before we could go the boys and Tori really wanted to roll down a hill, so we went to Old Main hill. This is a funny video of them running down, although they preferred to roll.



After the hill, we trucked up the canyon and built a fire. It was a great way to end the vacation. We got to relax and let the kids run wild. I thought these pictures were priceless. Heres Chaz showing me his flower he got for Grandma.
And then theres Barron eating his corn. Notice the lips on the top and bottom of the corn. He really thought that was good!

They left Monday morning and James and I went back to work. :( It was a great weekend and we loved having them in our apt! Monday evening we went to visit my family in Ogden, but that next part of our vacation will have to wait till tomorrow. We are going to Batman tonight and so we better get going.