Take me out to the ballgame!

Salt Lake Bees v. Tuscon Sidewinders - SL loses, but it was still a blast!

Are you afraid of the BULL????

OK, that's an old joke from WCU. See there was this Pike nicknamed Bull, and he had a crush on one of my friends, Joy Hinson (Shanna knows Joy, she was a teaching fellow). So anyways, Joy didn't like him, and when she told him that he asked her if she was afraid of the bull! So we used to say that all the time. Well, let me tell you that this morning when Wes, Brandy and I were mountain biking I WAS afraid of the bull. There were several cows and bulls on the trails and in the woods surrounding them, and it freaked me out. THEN Brandy was kind of running near one of them, and the BULL charged her!! It scared me to death, of course, but she ran and the bull stopped. We have been on this trail a lot, it's the one right behind our house, but I am usually scared of mountain lions, bears, etc, not cows and bulls! So that was a new experience that I didn't necessarily like. After Brandy got charged, we had to go around the trail a little to avoid them. Oh, and that was AFTER Wes said he was going to throw rocks at them to get them to move, and I said NO!! Granted, he has more experience with cows and bulls (considering he worked on a beef cow farm when he was in high school!) but I didn't like the idea.

AND Miss Brandy rolled in horse and maybe even cow droppings AGAIN, so she got a hose bath outside when we got home. Sorry Shanna, I wanted to try the dog wash but it was easier to do this than get her in the car with poop on her! So this is her, shaking off, then acting smug and mad, after her bath.

AAAHHH, running water....

How we take it for granted!! I went on a women's retreat with our church this past weekend, and there was NO running water, so we were using portopotties, and of course there were no showers. It was an amazing weekend of activities and hanging out with the other women, but I was so happy to be able to take a shower! I didn't take that many pictures because you don't really feel like having your picture taken when you are sweaty and dirty, but here is one of me and my tentmates, Rachel, Lynette, Tracey, and Debbie.

Friday night we did a moonlight hike up the mountain, Saturday morning was paintball and a ropes course, Saturday afternoon was tubing, then Sunday morning was a GPS hunt, which was REALLY fun. I had never played paintball before, and WOW, it was kind of crazy. You really do just run around with a gun trying to hurt other people! But my team won (not with my help because I pretty much just hid behind a tree the whole time and shot at people!).

In other news, Miss Brandy rolled around in something dead this weekend while fishing w/ Wes, so I gave her a second bath last night using vinegar, soap, and baking soda. It seemed to help the odor a little, but yuck!! I swear having a dog has to be SOMEWHAT similar to having kids!!