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Dallin wanted me to note that any opinions expressed on this blog are not intended to reflect the expressed opinions of said Dallin Redd. Even though Dallin Redd's name is mentioned, any accounts regarding him have not been authorized nor are they meant to represent him (Except for this particular post). Don't hate the player hate the game.

He really does not like this whole blogging thing but I really don't care so that is why I had to write this disclaimer.

A New Blogger

So my little sis has decided to join us all in the blogging world. You can check out her blog by clicking on her link on my "Fellow Bloggers" list. Yay! Welcome to the world of Blogging Kenz.

A Day in the Life of Bowden

Ok so today I had to go down to the office to do some training. Because it has been kinda cold here in Richfield I let Bowden out for a couple of hours before I had to go, knowing that he would be couped up in his kennel for the 4 hours while I was down at the office. I did not want to leave him outside chained up, which is what I would normally do if I was gone for that long, because it snowed last night, yes you read that correct it snowed ughhh... I was so mad, so anyway at it was kinda cold outside. So right before I left I got him set up in his Kennel and headed out.

On my way home I was feeling bad because he had been stuck in there for the last 4 hours and I thought to myself, I will go home and take him for a walk and play fetch with him to make up for it. (He loves, loves, loves to play fetch and tug of war).

So I walk in the house and go into the living room and see magazines shredded up and scattered everywhere. I did not dawn on me right away that it was him, so I was real confused. Then it popped into my mind that he must have somehow gotten out of his kennel. So I start calling for him and the next thing I know he comes running down the hallway from the bedrooms. Now Bowden is potty trained but what puppy can hold it for 4 hours when he is not in his crate. Probably not any, and not Bowden. I started to go down into the rooms to see what other crazy messes he had created, and found where he had decided to relieve himself. (Thank Goodness for the spotbot!!!!! and a mop and some hot, heavily cloroxed water.)

I am still not sure why i am not just raging mad at him and ready to give him away, but I just found it amusing. You can see a picture above of the torn apart magazines he had so much fun with. Luckily other than the potty mishaps this is all that he got into during his day at home on the loose!!

Catch Up

Isn't she Beautiful!!!!
Smile

Holding Hands

At the Temple
A mouthful of Marshmellows!

Ok, so I am really terrible at updating this thing. It's not like we had anything too exciting happen.....

The last few weekends we have been able to get away and have some fun so I thought I would post a little bit about them.

A few weekends, the weekend of March the 15th I went over to Blanding and Dal went down to Arizona with his dad and brother to watch baseball at spring training. It was quite an eventful trip for us. We took off on Wednesday night at like 8:00 because we had to stick around for some work stuff. Earlier in the week I had gone and bought a mattress for Kendra and Jordon and we were taking it over to Blanding for them. We got onto the freeway and immediately I was nervous it was going to fly out, it kept coming up off the bed of the truck so we pulled over and added some more tie downs to keep it from flying away. Well this did not so much calm my nerves and I kept watching and watching it to make sure. The whole time Dal just kept telling me it is fine and that nothing was going to happen. So after about 40 or so miles I finally relaxed and thought he was right. It was only about 5 minutes after I had quit stressing about it that all of a sudden Dal slammed on the breaks and was like "OH Crap". Yep you guessed it the mattress went flying out of the bed of the truck. Luckily we were right by one of those turn around spots so we hurry and turned around then we had to run down the ditch between the two freeways and grab the mattress and run back and put it in the truck. A few of the tie downs had broke and so for the next 70 miles to Green River we had to go 50 miles an hour at max!!! It felt like forever and about 20 miles away our dog had to get out and pee.

Well we finally made it to Green River, bought some better tie downs and we were on the road again. I continued to stress almost the entire way to Blanding thinking that it would fly out again but luckily it never did. Surprisingly the mattress did not get a single scuff mark when it flew out and onto the freeway!! Sorry again Kenz.

So that was just the trip over. The next couple of days I spent hanging out with my family. On Thursday we did a whole lot of nothing. Friday after Kendra was done with work she got all dressed up in her Wedding Dress and we went and took some pictures of her (Kinda like Bridals I guess) so that she would have a few to display at the wedding. I was glad she trusted me to take them, I really enjoyed it and have always thought that is something I would like to get into so it gave me a little practice. That night we headed over to the Temple with Jordon to take some of the two of them at the temple then we went to Lamplight that night with all of my fam.

Saturday: This was the day of Kendra's Bridal shower. My mom woke up that morning early and started making the dessert and stressing about how her house looked. The shower started at 1:00. We had invited alot of people....if everyone we had invited showed up it would have been like 60 people. Some of the guests were not able to make it but we did still end up with like 30 people there. It was a fun time. We played a few games with everyone, opened gifts, and ate brownie sundaes. The theme of the shower was "Room by Room" Each guest was assigned to a different room and the gift they brought was supposed to be associated with that room. It worked out well and Kenz came away with quite a lot of good stuff to get them started. All in all I think the shower turned out really well. Thanks mom for all the help and for worrying about it.

Sunday we just spent hanging out with Fam again and then we came home on Monday. I would tell ya more about Dal's trip to Arizona but he did not have anything to exciting to tell. They went down and saw a few baseball games and just hung out. They have kinda had a tradition of going down, hopefully they will be able to keep going each year and one day take their little boys with them.

I will post about Easter Weekend soon I hope......

Blanding Here I Come!!!!

Blanding will always be home to me I think. I get to go this weekend and enjoy 4 days with my family. Dallin and I are going over and then he is headed down to Arizona for Spring Training with his Dad and brother. I will be staying in Blanding helping with wedding plans, visititing friends and family, and giving Kendra her Bridal Shower. Which is still not totally planned and it is on Saturday. ha ha. I am excited for a long, relaxing weekend.

Sit....Shake....Fetch

Playing Fetch

Shake

We took Bowden to the park the other day and he loved it. Once he was done sniffing the place out he played fetch with us until we all were getting sick of it. Also he has been doing a great job at his new trick, we taught him how to sit and shake. We are now working on lay down, and also roll over. It has been such great weather over here, I am loving it, I have been so ready for spring!! I love the warmer weather, enjoying time outdoors, shopping for all the fun spring and summer clothes and best of the time change, I love when we have daylight later into the night. Nothing like putting something on the BBQ and enjoying the cool nights.

Battle Wounds.....

Last weekend I went over to Moab and played in a volleyball tournament. It was pretty fun. Dal and I left for Moab and the plan was that he was going to stay for our games on Friday night and then we would drive home to Blanding and I would get up super early and be back to Moab Saturday for our games. When we got to Moab we found out that our team had one of the late games on Friday night and the earliest game on Saturday Morning (6am start time ugh.) So I just sent Dallin on to Blanding.

The first night of pool play we won all of our games except one, we split with one of the teams. We did not get done with all of our games and get back to Tim and Autems until about 12:30 and had to wake up at 5:30 to be ready and at the gym the next morning at 6:00 am. The next morning we were up and at the gym by six but the other team was not there yet. We thought they were going to have to forfeit but they ended up getting there and we started playing bright and early. We won all of our pool play games Saturday morning and the tournament play started around 1:00. We won our first tournament game and then lost our second two and we were out. I won't lie I was kinda glad cause I was getting way beat up and sore and was really craving a Navajo Taco from Twin Rocks. It was a fun weekend, it is always nice to get back home even if it is only for a day or so. I forgot my camera so i don't have any pictures of the tournament but i did take some pics when i got home of my battle wounds from the tournament. Everytime i play in one of these things I keep thinking it will be my last, but I just keep saying yes and each time I end up enjoying it. ha ha.

here are a few pics of my bumps and bruises and if I could take a picture of how sore i was afterwards it would look worse!!