Summer Fun

Sooo...the problem with having 2 cameras is that I usually don't get around to importing photos from both. However, I have finally done the little one and have photos of all the fun we have been having since May. First we finally had our anniversary dinner...steak, shrimp, and calamari with the sides-super yummy! Next was my adventure of putting together our new dresser by myself-which the instructions say not to do, but I did it and it works great. I also got it in to our room and loaded by myself, the joys of being a coaches wife! I also finally got our cool rug from my Grandma down and it feels heavenly! I haven't taken a photo since my mom helped me make curtains...but soon enough (thanks again mom!). Next is when my family came to visit...we went fishing at one of the lakes around Pinedale, I believe it was called Dollar Lake. The kids had fun snacking and playing in the dirt. Us ladies visited around the fire since it got a little cold and rainy, and the guys enjoyed fishing and catching little trout fish. We had lots of fun while they were hear and grew accustom to having a much louder than usual home. Most recently I went to Pocatello and did 5 photo shoots which you can find sneaks of on my photography blog. From there we came home and did one concrete pour with our buddy Seth who came from Cali to work with us for a week. After one day of being home and working we jumped in the car to go to Cody for the fourth and for TJ and Libs newest additions blessing. While we were in Cody we didn't do much because we all got sick...but we were able to go out on a four wheeler ride before all that happened. It was fun and Eric and I learned what a crazy lady Peggy is on her new four wheeler...and she was great about us teasing her with her super efficient hand signals-haha! On Sunday we went to Billings for the baby blessing and got to meet our new niece and spend time with family! She is a doll and so tiny! And of course, what would an Oram get-together be without some basketball. The boys had fun playing and dunking-Cameron proved his skills on the court...and showed them how much taller he had gotten by taking up their dunking challenge. Over all it was a fun trip-but we missed Chad and Jessica being there!! That night we drove back to Pinedale and the boys and I have been working all week to get all of our concrete done. It is a hard and dirty job...pouring, stamping, and staining! They laid the last of it last night and now just have cleanup and sealing to do (you can also see photos of how the house progressed with painting-looks just like I imagined!). So far our summer has been fun and way to fast! Up next will be the finished product of all our hard work, and enjoying some outdoor time in Pinedale!

Fun summers for all my friends!

Liz

Babies!!

I am pretty excited to announce that we received 2 new members of our extended family last month. One on each side...pretty neat. On the Oram side another beautiful baby girl...Sage Christine, and on the Murphy side another handsome baby boy...Hudson Christofer. Just call me Auntie....SERIOUSLY-I love babies and I love our nieces and nephews like crazy, even if I don't get to see them all very often. Can't wait to snuggle the new little ones!!

Baby snuggles for all my friends!

Liz

Ella Love

Check out my blog post with Ella publishing...get on the love wagon and submit! You seriously might be my love of the month!!

Green House

Here is our newly painted GREEN house...it is sooo weird seeing it an actual color instead of tan, but it looks really nice. It will look even better when the concrete is done and the rock cleaned up. It was a little weird feeling like I was living in a fishbowl everyday while the painters were there. We only have curtains in our bedroom so at any point I could walk in to a room and there they would be at the window. Good thing they were all cool or it would have been a long 3 days! Oh...and I get asked frequently if we live in a subdivision or do we have neighbors....to which the answer is yes and yes. We have a couple neighbors but our subdivision is new so we have lots and lots of space to ourselves. To prove my point check out the photo of the cattle drive across our road...mainly we share our space with many animals. Case in point: early last week I was on a walk and got close enough to an antelope to (according to what my nephew wanted to do the week before) "hit it with a rock and break off it's antlers". Don't kids say the darnedest things? No worries animal enthusiasts instead we just stared at each other and I refrained from throwing a rock, plus a she has no horns...however if the aggressive grunting male I crossed on my way back from the rock would have continued on his charge towards me I wouldn't have thought twice about hitting him with a rock-haha.

Lately

We had a great visit with my family...mostly cold weather until they left...now it is mostly beautiful, funny isn't it how that works. Thanks so much fam for coming and for all your help! We now have a disposal that will hopefully stay attatched to the sink, an awesome shelf in the laundry room, amazing curtains in our bedroom, and finished swap layouts-you guys are awesome!! Since then we have been playing, had Eric's brithday, and have worked on the house. It has been weird for me not working, but I have made use of the time by staying up late reading books and sleeping in-haha, guilty pleasures. We hired someone to paint our house-one less thing to do-and they started today. Eric called and said "how does it look?"....I said, "very green". It's weird seeing it in color...very weird indeed. I have started to play around with my camera and have uploaded some new photos-pretty exciting, and have also started to workout again...I am feeling like a new woman already. I also introduced a summer special for photography: $75 for any shoot...check out my blog for more details. Eric has been teaching casting classes, working on the house, and enjoying his new raft. We have been enjoying the nice weather by going on a drive with Kevan, having a cookout at the lake, playing softball, and working outside on the house getting ready for Seth and concrete. Hope you all are having a wonderful summer thus far! Would love to hear from you all...so stop by if your itching to get out and enjoy beautiful Wyoming weather (I promoise we won't make you work too much on the house-hehehe)!

Sun for all my friends!

Liz

28

Today this wonderful man has been around for 28 years...love this photo...totally him when around his family-always the entertainer, the goofball, the story-teller. Eric is such a great person with a huge heart! Even though I wish we were in Hawaii celebrating instead of Pinedale with snow...I hope your day is awesome!! Love you lots and I hope your next 28 years just get better!!

School's Out For The Summer!!

I never realized when I was younger how excited my teachers were to be out of school...almost more excited than the kids I think :0). Although I will be doing some curriculum work for the summer and helping to unpack at school-I am so ready for a break! We have been packing for around 2 weeks now-whew!! I never thought teaching could be as exhausting as it is, but I do enjoy it. Next year Eric and I will each be starting our 3rd year in the Pinedale School District, and I will say it has been a good move for us. I am loving working with the little tikes, and I am soooo excited to move to our amazing new Elementary School Building next year that I can ride my bike to. We have big plans to finish up a lot on the house and put it up for sale. Yup, you heard me right-for sale. We are going to do it and just see what happens-no pressure. If it sales, it sales. If not, we will have a great house on it's way to being finished. Either way it will be great for us, but we have a lot of work ahead of us this summer. I am super excited to get a break to read a little, work out, fix up the house, sleep-in, figure out my new camera, and scrapbook. Eric is super excited to get his new boat, guide, fish, spend time outdoors, fish, work on the house, and fish some more. We have a wonderful friend who is super talented coming to help us the end of this month-so we should be able to get a lot done then. We have a couple of trips planned to see family and friends, and a couple of friends and families are coming to see us! If you haven't-call, we'd love to see you!! We can't wait for the summer to start, oh wait-it has. I am officially off to enjoy the sunshine!

Happy summers for all my friends!

Liz