Brady is 26!

For Brady's 26th Bday, I surprised him and planned a 2 night trip to Bear Lake and invited his and my family. Everyone was able to make it and we had a blast together, just eating, sledding, and swimming in the pool. It was a fun getaway and a good surprise for Brady (he didn't know what we were doing until we showed up at the condos in Bear Lake).

We had a paint nail polish party and all the girls (and Payson--Sorry Corey, I couldn't resist) had matching toes all weekend!

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas! OK, I know it has been a million years since I posted anything, but we haven't had internet since we left NM. These pics are from Christmas. We had a blast staying in our PJs all day eating stocking candy and playing Wii and Ticket to Ride. My dad picked this year's decorations in honor of baby Herd who will be coming around April 21st. Too bad he didn't get to see the tree, complete with a car mat rug for the tree skirt. He would have loved it :) Life is great. Brady is doing really well in school even though he has 17 credits this semester (yikes) and I am just working in HR at Conservice still and really like it. We still haven't come up with a name for the baby...any suggestions? I haven't loved pregnancy, but am surviving it ;) Jess will be getting married May 7th, so we are really excited for her and Jason. I will finally have a brother...and a baby, all within 2 weeks! It is going to be an eventful spring for our family.

Underground 1200ft

This is underground at the west mine. It's pretty cool to watch. I used my phone and it's not the greatest footage but at least people can get an idea of what it's like under there. There are 10 levels of sediments deposit and this is level 5 or in other words the middle level. At the west we are mining levels 5th and 7th. At the east mine we are mining 5th and 10th levels.

This is the stacker that stockpiles the muck and feeds the outgoing muck belt to the hoist so that there is a continuous amount going to the surface to be processed. The west mine, where I work uses a saltwater brine mix and a flotation process to extract the potash.

This is the little piece of heaven where I did the data mining for major component failure.

3 Years!

Happy Anniversary to Us! Today, Wednesday, August 4th 2010 is our 3 year anniversary. We are so lucky to have had so many fun times together, and there is still so much of life ahead to enjoy together. Love you Brady! You are my best friend!

Voila la Pluie!

Our anniversary is August 4th, so we decided to get out of town this weekend. We went to Cloudcroft, NM and had a blast together. It is such a beautiful area and so green and mossy. We have seen elk both times we have come to camp here.

On Saturday, we were about 45 minutes away from the tent on our 4wheeler and dirt bike when the "the heavens opened up and God looked down and said, I hate you Alfalfa." :) It started dumping on us, so we sat under a tree for a few minutes, but the rain just kept coming down faster so we decided to ride in the storm back to the tent. we were DRENCHED and covered in mud but it was quite the adventure and I was laughing pretty hard the whole time...and shivering.

Speaking of Random...

We went to the Lubbock, TX temple which is about 3 hours away from Carlsbad and it was awesome.

Shay wanted me to post pictures of our condo here, but I only have this sweet picture of my backyard for now. It's not much...

I need new books to read, any suggestions from anyone? I haven't found a really good book since I read the Poison Study series by Maria V. Snyder, and am itching for something new.

Brady is getting his final presentation all polished for his internship. We come home in about 3 weeks, and we are so relieved to report that we FINALLY found an apartment. It is in North Logan and should be great!

Also, we have a pretty exciting bit of news in the Praag family this week...Miss Jessica Shae Praag is going to become Mrs. Jessica Shae Meitchen! Jason proposed at Bear Lake on Saturday. I finally have a brother!

What be crack a lackin on the 4th

For the 4th of July weekend, we stayed in a cabin near Cloudcroft, NM. It was so good to be in the mountains again, and actually remember what cool weather feels like. We went 4wheeling and dirt biking all weekend. Poor Brady had to ride the 4wheeler with me because his bike is once again all jacked up. Go figure. We had fun together though, and even saw 2 elk and lots of beautiful scenery. It was hard to believe we were still in NM, because it was so green and rainy and mossy. We made killer peach cobbler in the dutch oven and played a totally redneck game of duct tape-a-pole-to-your-helmet-and-try-to-get-the-frisbee-on-it. Yeah, we are cool like that. We also played a million rounds of Settlers of Catan, which we now have Sadie and Tel hooked on too.

Waiting out the storm in downtown Cloudcroft.