Another one bites the dust....

Now that Brock and I have been married for 6 years, it seems like all of our stuff is breaking, dying or falling apart.

Brock was getting ready for work a few days ago and needed to press a shirt, (I've been on ironing strike for about a month now) when he plugged the iron in, it popped and shot out sparks from the cord. Luckily Brock was okay but my poor iron is dead!

This iron was a wedding gift and has been our only iron we've ever had, which although cheap, it has loyally served us for many years.

Now I have to venture out and buy my first iron as an adult & wife. It's bitter sweet.....
Any suggestions on a good iron? (hummm....maybe I should throw in a new ironing board too....)

R.I.P

Dear faithful iron,

Although it was a "love/hate" relationship....we will miss you.

April 2003-July 2009
P.S. Brock says he can fix it. I assume his plans involve at little super glue and a lot of Duct Tape.

Rockn' 4th with the Belnaps

Okay, so life has been nuts around our house that last little bit so my blogging has taken the "back burner" and I'm just barely getting around to blog our 4th celebrations. Oooops! So here it is, better late than never.....right?

Every year Brock's parents and siblings have a little reunion and we go camping somewhere. Every year we rotate who is in charge of putting together the party and this year it was our turn. We decided to go to Island Park because that's where Brock's family spent vacations as a family when they lived in Idaho and it's also really close for us to drive to....hehehe.

We had a super fun time together as a family, it went by way tooooo fast! Brock and I couldn't have pulled it off with out every one's help, Thanks!

We took all the kids fishing on Eccles Creek for family tradition and they all caught a bunch of fish. I love this picture of Kaleb and his fish, too cute!

Lexi was pulling one in almost every cast, she set the hook so hard that this fish came flying out of the creek and landed in the bush behind her.

We has smore's and Dylan got pretty nasty, but this picture is super cute anyway. He loved playing with puppy Brutus and left Dylan slime all over him, but Brutus didn't mind!

Brady & Andree

Our 4th of July Pinata

Talon giving the Pinata a couple good swings

Taylor sporting her new visor and glasses we did as a craft.

Grandma Hebdon and Duane came up for an afternoon to visit. It was great to see them, it's always fun to have them around.

Brock surprised me with a pink fishing vest for the trip. It's fun to have my own vest but I don't even really know what to do with it....I'm kinda a "poser".

Brock actually had his lips on the nasty little fish, but it moved right when I took the picture. However, you probably still get the point about Brock and his love for fishing.

We went to West Yellowstone for their firework show on the 4th, the kids loved it!

We were camping right on the lake and were able to take a dip to cool off.

Brock & Tay in the raft
Grandma & Lexi fishing Henry's Fork River

Our catch from Eccles Creek

Tanesha, Brady, Kaleb, Talon, Lexi, Dylan, Taylor & Grandpa

Our Hike to Storm Castle

Brock and I have been wanting to hike Storm Castle since we moved here and we were finally able to do it a little over a month ago. It's about a 5 mile hike round trip so it wasn't anything too difficult. It was a pretty hike and we were the only ones on the trail which made it even better.

This picture is from the bottom of the hike looking up at our destination....the tip top of the rocky part of the mountain.

The east side of the mountain....the sun was still just coming up.
Us at the top, the views were incredible!

(yes, Boog came along too, he made it the entire way and loved it).

Brock looking over the edge-freaks me out!

Views of the Gallatin River form up top