River rafting!

Last Saturday we had the opportunity to go down the river with a bunch of friends. There were 14 of us total. We had a blast! It was so much fun. We ended up only having one truck out of all the cars driven up, so we had to put one of the rafts on the top of our Jeep! It was so funny, it looked so redneck! After we went down the river, we stopped at a campground and had lunch. After that Ben and I went and met our friends the Gurr's at their campsite and went hunting and 4-wheeling with them. We had such a busy, fun day, but were so exhausted by the time we got home after midnight. Not to mention Ben had to be to work at 5:00 the next morning!

Here's the view from inside the Jeep

Cal and Billi Cook

Our whole group!

Demolition Derby

A couple weekends ago me, Kaden, Monica and Dewey went to the demolition derby. Ben and I take Kaden every year, but he had to work that night, so Kaden was my little date. He's so cute. He LOVES the derby. He was so excited to go, and we had a ton of fun!

Finally! House pictures!

Ok, so I am finally getting around to posting pictures of the progress on our house. Things are moving along really well. We're still hoping to be in by sometime in November. It has been so much fun to watch it go up. I have to go up everyday and see what has been done on it. Ben has been working so hard. He has spent every second of his spare time up there helping on it. He did the roof with the help of his dad and Dale (thanks a ton guys!) not to mention still working his full time job and finishing up with school. He's done with school completely now, except for taking his boards to become certified, which he'll do sometime this fall. What a relief! Next week the windows are going in, and the brick and siding are going to be started, so the outside will really start looking good! Anyway, sorry about the picture overload, but Ben's family was going to kill me if I didn't post something, so enjoy!

Our land before breaking ground


Ben digging the hole, haha

We weren't originally planning on it but ended up saving quite a bit of money on our lumber, so we went ahead and framed the basement. It will make it really nice once we decide to start finishing the basement!
This is the view from the hallway, looking down to the bedrooms with the stairs on the right.

Pantry in the kitchen

Laundry room

Front door and entry way

Looking into the living room and kitchen

Office

Spare bathroom

Tub in the master bathroom


Ben's lovely roof job!

View from the back of the house

Front view

McDaniel Family Reunion

We had our McDaniel family reunion over the 24th of July weekend. We went camping near Blanding and had a blast. There was a pond nearby, and we spent most our time over there fishing. It was so much fun! It's always fun to see all of the family and catch up, I usually only see them once a year at the reunion.

Grandma let us ask her any question we wanted and told lots of fun stories about when she was growing up and how she met my grandpa. She also told us stories of when they were dating. I learned a lot of things I never knew about her!
Ben and I went and found a couple of geocaches near our campsite.

Dad was thrilled that I made him pose with his fish.