*Busy Summertime*

I have kind of been burning myself out lately with work, house-keeping, adoption stuff, photography, and family/friend outings. Plus we still... yes, still... haven't gotten internet at our house so I have to come to the ranch every time I want to do more than just post a quick comment on facebook from my phone. And after returning e-mails, paying bills, updating our adoption profile and reading everyones blogs I am so done with my computer and don't feel like blogging. Hopefully soon we will figure out our living situations and finally get me some internet hooked up!

Just a few highlights from this month:

1. OUR BACKGROUND CHECKS FINALLY CAME BACK. Our profile is now officially on our adoption agency's website and we are all ready for a dear birth mom to pick us to become parents! Now the hardest part begins... waiting! I am having a hard time not checking my e-mail from my phone every 1/2 hour just in case Sandy (our case worker) decides to tell us about an interested birth mom... I will definitely have to learn patience!

I have a bag all prepared for quick access just in case we get a call and have to go pick a baby right up, or if we will be staying overnight in a different town or just because it makes me feel better to be prepared. That's only 1/2 of what's in the bag haha

2. This month has been full of shipping cows shipping cows shipping cows. Ever since we got that semi-truck it has been nonstop cow shipping for Joey. I hadn't hardly seen the guy the whole 1st half of this month! He would leave at 4am and not get back until 10pm. Sometimes he would even take the truck to where ever the cows where and stay in the sleeper so he wouldn't have to get up so early the next day. Coatsy and I were getting used to having the big bed all to ourselves :) Now Joey is getting ready to start haying haying haying. We have probably 5 or 6 extra fields this year to hay because of the new ranch and also the new place we are leasing (Indian Creek). So, here's to another 2 months of Joey leaving before the sun comes up and not getting home until well after it's gone down.

The Semi

3. Last week was awesome because we were in-between shipping and haying so I was able to get Joey basically all to myself for 5 whole days! I had bought tickets as soon as I heard that Def Leppard was going to be kicking off their Rock of Ages tour in Salt Lake City and that Poison was going to be joining them. Joey laughed at me because I had to pull over my truck and mess around on my phone for 30 minutes until I had finally got 2 tickets for us haha. So we started off our "together time" by running to Tooele to fix a fence and look for a couple pairs (a cow and her calf) left behind (which we found, sneaky ladies). We then spent the rest of our night at the USANA Amphitheater at the concert. It was a blast, I finally got to see my 2 favorite bands live!

 Us waiting for Poison to come on

We had some pretty awesome seats 

Our after midnight Taco Bell run that we brought back to the hotel. We look tired!

The next day we spent in downtown Salt Lake. I got to do some shopping at the Gateway mall, we went to see Avengers because Joey still hadn't seen it, we had an early dinner at PF Changs and then we took our time on our way home where we ended the day by doing a little irrigating together (aka: being drained alive by mosquitos).

The whole rest of the weekend we spent in Paris...... Paris, Idaho (dang it haha), where we camped for Joe's family reunion. It was great. Besides the torching in the daytime and turning into the Abominable Snowman at night. Coatsy had a blast. He only lasted a day though before we decided to take him back home haha.

4. I have finally decided what I want to do school-wise. I am going to be pursuing my photography degree online as soon as possible and then starting up my own little business (JencyJo Photography aka: J. Jo Photo). I am excited. I am passionate about photography and would love to learn more about it and share it with others. This way I will also be able to take awesome photos of my own children someday.

Here's a sneak peek of  the photo-shoot I did of my adorable new nephew Zac. He was my 1st infant photo-shoot! It was hard, but pretty cool at the same time! And they turned out great!

5. We will be going to visit my parents who are currently in (and have been for almost a year now) England! We are planning on going to September! I have been there multiple times but this will be Joe's first time! I am excited for him to go to castles and little Bed & Breakfast cottages, to eat in the pubs, to try Fish & Chips and Steak & Kidney pies haha, to get to experience something new! It will be great. When I was a little younger I used to always think about going on a plane ride with a boy and how I could fall asleep on his shoulder instead of the side of the plane and now I get to do that! :)

6. We are currently in a stand still/don't-know-what-the-heck-we-are-gonna-do about our living situation. I wish we loved the house we are in because it's 100% free living and it's in a wonderful location, full of space to spread out and have privacy. We just have been having a hard time living there lately. Even Joey has been feeling like it's not where we are supposed to be living anymore. So now we are stuck with not knowing where we want/should/can move to. Should we stay in this town, move to a neighboring town, move to the new ranch, move onto the old ranch... Rent? Buy? Build? Ahhhh.... So there, I shared a little of my frustration with you haha. Right now we are just making do and praying that we will figure something out.

There! I hope this post let y'all in on a little bit of what has been going on in ours lives at this moment. Basically we are running around 100 miles/hr like chickens with our heads chopped off and we are trying to enjoy life at the same time. So far so good :) I promise to do better with posting on here and also on our adoption blog waitingforourlilcowboyorcowgirl@blogspot.com.

A picture I took of Panama Red before we went for a ride