Cado's Elk Hunt

Borrowed guns, borrowed ammo, borrowed knives, borrowed shooting stand, borrowed truck, borrowed gator, borrowed hunting guide. Elk...100% Cado's!

Shannon's Artichoke Dip

1 pkg cream cheese

¼ cup mayonnaise

¼ cup grated parmesan cheese

¼ cup grated romano

¼ jar minced garlic

Salt and pepper

1 14 ounce can artichoke hearts

½ cup frozen chopped spinach

¼ cup mozzarella

Mix cheese, garlic, and salt and pepper. Add in artichoke hearts and spinach. Put in pan. Top with mozzarella. Put in oven at about 350 degrees, cook for 25 minutes or until bubbly and lightly browned.

*I added more romano cheese and parmesan cheese than called for. Oh and slightly more of the minced garlic. It just depends on how much you like the stuff.

This is the best Artichoke Dip I have ever had!

What a Mess!

Every single inch of our house seems to be an absolute disaster. Tuesday was about the pinnacle of "mess" as we worked on getting the cabinets out. Holy cow, those cabinets are built in giant sections! Dayton and Dave had to work very hard to try to get them out without damaging them. We finally had to call Blaine for some back up muscles. I don't think that he was too excited to come over at 9:30 p.m. but he still did it!


You find out all of the crazy things that are going on in your house when you tear it apart. Here we found out that the cabinets had to be lifted up about 2 feet to get them over the water pipes that were coming from the bottom of the floor! Ahhh. It was done, but not without a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

They Keep Coming Home

Mariah and I have told Dave and the boys to "not come home without a buck." They keep coming home and we still have yet to see a buck. Yesterday they had their first Saturday of Cado's glorious, once in a lifetime elk hunt and...you guessed it...they came home! Elkless! This is not helping my stereotype that "Law's are simply not good hunters!"

Who Would Have Thunk?

Last weekend we had great plans to go to Provo, meet with a pre law advisor, make a quick dentist appointment with Uncle Jim, run some errands for the house and go mission shopping with Bo. What Friday actually ended up being was, a very, very long dentist appointment for Shirlene and Bo's car breaking down AGAIN! Needless to say, we didn't even begin our errands until 4:00 p.m. Friday afternoon. But....who would have thunk that this all would have been so much fun! We just loved having everyone together and "towing" around Bo's car.
We've simplified mission shopping tremendously. We made it a one stop event. Here is Mr. Mac's protege fitting Bo for his mission suit and getting him set up with the necessities of life that he will need for the next two years. We are really quite easy to please I guess, because he only had to try on one suit and one pair of pants and we were done! We grabbed the white shirts, socks and shoes and $598.00 later...we were out of that store. That felt rather inexpensive :)


Mr. Mac is prepared for the work that dad's need to do on these shopping adventures!
By the end of the evening of shopping, we were pretty much buddies with "Mr. Mac's protege" and figured he better be in our family picture. By this time we were all pretty tired and hungry! It was 6 p.m. and we really hadn't had anything to eat, except for a potato at the granite place. We were excited to get to Cafe Rio to have dinner with the Crane's.
Fortunately the kids did not know that it was going to be a three hour dinner! Once again, they were troopers and still had fun!!!!!
Here we are getting Bo's car ready to tow. The hotel that Bo broke down by said they would tow it off if we left it there. Gee.

Since we had so many things that we still hadn't done by the end of the day, we decided to spend the night. It took several stops and a variety of hotels to actually find one that had any rooms! We finally found a Fairfield Inn and snuck the "extra" kids in. They swam and laughed and especially enjoyed the amazing breakfast the next morning.