20 Ways To Tell You're In Lund

As an outsider, I have noticed some things that make Lund different from other towns - here are 20 of them:
1. You don't have a fence
2. Your Cabela's magazine sits next to your Ensign
3. You ride a 4 wheeler to school/ work
4. Playdates include riding horses in the yard
5. Your family can't make it home for Christmas, but can come for the "Rabbit Hunt" on New Year's Day
6. People don't recognize you by your truck, but your dog
7. You pull a truck hood behind a 4 wheeler and call it sledding
8. Your entire Bishopric wears cowboy boots and announcements from the pulpit include comments about community brandings and hay being put up
9. You don't have a stoplight
10. You don't even know where the keys to your house are
11. Playing in the irrigation ditch in the summer counts as swimming
12. Shopping includes driving more than 3 hours each way
13. You can shoot off your back porch
14. Your 2 year old knows the difference between a combine and a trackhoe
15. You own a trampoline and your dog jumps with the kids
16. You have at least 5 guns and one is always in the truck
17. Your 4 year old has outside chores and can catch their own horse
18. Your kids go to the same school for K-12
19. You own a "farm truck" that is probably not registered, is never washed, and always has a chain, a shovel and horse shoes in the bed.
20. You can't imagine living anywhere else!

Brad Paisley

Cameron's birthday is just around the corner and I thought I would surprise him with Brad Paisley tickets. We finally got to go last Thursday night and had a total blast. He put on a great show (especially for a country concert). I have figured out that I am really getting old and not only do I not enjoy concerts like I used to, but I don't even go to the same kind of concerts that I used to. I have seen some amazing shows in the past like Lollapalooza (a couple times), The Steve Miller Band, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam and a bunch more. Country concerts are just not the same. Every one is sitting down and there are kids everywhere. I really like it, but my first country concert was Chris Ledoux - he put on amazing shows! Another huge difference I noticed was that we used to use lighters during slow songs -now they use cellphones! I really am getting old! Here's a couple pictures from the show.

Scripture Study

This is Hyrum ready to go to church. I think he looks just like a mini missionary! We were just about to walk out the door when he ran back to get "his" (they are really Paige's) scriptures. He loves to have them with him as he's wandering around the house. Now his blanket and scriptures are his best friends. (He sleeps with both!)


I think my children have become obsessed with scripture study. We are trying to do it more regularly and Paige and Hyrum are in love with it. They are always reminding us to have it and when we aren't doing it, then they will. It's really cute because they just make stuff up as they go. For Hyrum it's usually something like "and it came to pass" and then just a bunch of nonsense followed by "and then they fight". I think he will like the wars in the Book of Mormon when he gets older. Paige recites the stories she's learned with a lot of detail. When we read together as a family, Hyrum usually holds them upside down, but he will say the words we read to him for his turn. Paige is starting to read in school and is getting pretty good, but she is really learning a lot from our family study time. She has even made a goal to be reading at a first grade level by the end of the year. I know reading the scriptures together will help that to happen.


This is the song Hyrum made up about scripture study. I know it's hard to understand him, but he is saying "scripture study" over and over again.

Listen to my beautiful dryer

Pictures of kids

We were trying to get the kids to cooperate.

Redneck Workout!

Chocolate milk please!

My Mom came out when I had Hannah to help for quite awhile. While she was here she managed to get Hyrum addicted to chocolate milk. She was always offering it to him and since he has a small obsession with chocolate (like when we caught him at 6:00am with a 5lb bag of chocolate chips between his legs eating handfuls at a time. When we asked him what he was doing he quickly answered "chocolate chips!"). He continues to beg for his chocolate milk after every meal and every time I ask him what he wants to eat. Well, we were in Salt Lake City last weekend with Cam's entire family and went to a fast food drive-thru on our way out. I rolled down the window and the guy asked us what we would like to order and all of a sudden I hear Hyrum roll down his back window and yells out "chocolate milk" and then rolls it back up! Cameron and I start laughing and so I ask Hyrum what he wants. Then he rolls his window back down and yells out "chicken nuggets and chocolate milk". We were laughing so hard we could hardly complete our order. It's pretty obvious which pregnancy I craved chocolate the most. I don't think Hyrum has a chance. I joke that I think Hyrum would eat horse manure if it was dipped in chocolate.