Rachie's Ranch

GOOD NEWS!!

2007-10-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

No, we're NOT having a baby. But we did create a new blog site! We most likely won't be posting on this one anymore, so go check it out: erhaymond.wordpress.com

Happy Fall!

2007-10-07T21:44:00.000-07:00

So ever since school started we're not so much fun anymore. We don't really have any pictures of fun and exciting things we're doing, because we pretty much work, go to school, do a little homework, work some more, write some essays, and that's about it. We tried going to a pumpkin patch the other day in lieu of the new fall season, but it was closed due to snow and rain! We try so hard to be fun...We are really enjoying the new cool weather though, Autumn is our favorite season. Well it's Rachel's favorite at least. Not only is the weather usually just perfect, but we have an excuse to make wassail, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and fill our candy jar with Halloween colored M&M's. Although Eric is already ready to listen to Christmas music and put up the tree, we are trying to enjoy fall as much as possible while it lasts even with those crazy school schedules that get in the way...Rachel is having serious senioritis.

Ok, so I'm having some issues here trying to insert what pictures we do have, so check back later!

In the meantime my new fave soundtrack is Across the Universe. I haven't seen the movie and don't really want to, but the music is so good!

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Hawai'i Pics!

2007-09-10T19:03:00.000-07:00

Ok, so we FINALLY posted pics from our Hawaii trip. We had school and lots of work right when we got home so it took us a while to get these up. We made a slide show with a ton of pics for those who requested to see lots, but at the top you can push the arrows to move through them faster for those who don't care to see a hundred photos. We had tons of fun and couldn't even get to see everything we wanted to. I guess that means we'll have to go back one day...

Oh, you might want to click play on this song to set the mood for the show.

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2007-09-10T18:57:00.001-07:00

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2007-08-24T23:40:00.000-07:00

We're finally on our Hawaii trip!! Here's a preview...we'll post a slide show when we return to the Mainland.

Harry Potter Mania and Visitors

2007-07-28T12:46:00.001-07:00

It has been the greatest Harry Potter month of all time! We went to watch the fifth movie opening weekend at the IMAX, and even Hannah got to come with us while she was out here for her Ballet camp at BYU! Later in the month, much to Eric's delight, we attended to Barnes and Noble book party for the release of the 7th book at midnight. Ok, so the party wasn't the most exciting, but seeing people's costumes they came up with made it all worth going. I wish we had taken pictures of some of these people.

Sorry Hannah, I had to put this picture in!

We had to get a picture with Eric's favorite character, Gilderoy Lockhart, who even autographed a picture of himself for Eric.

Sean and Tami (Eric's brother and his wife) also came to visit us for a short time. It was fun to see them, especially since we won't be seeing them very often as they are moving to South Carolina for school. We went up Provo Canyon and had a picnic, which is where these pics are taken. One of the pics was too large, so I couldn't flip it.

Another Move and 4th of July

2007-07-07T06:10:00.000-07:00

We moved! Again! At least this time it was within the same state...We just moved a few miles away to Orem so that we were more in the middle of both our schools. Also, it's a nicer area than our last neighborhood and our place is much more spacious. It's a duplex, and the people upstairs are some friends of ours so it was exciting to know some neighbors already. We are currently painting inside and still unpacking, but soon it's gonna be great!

For the 4th of July we had a barbecue with Leslie and Peter and some other friends, and then afterwards we went to the roof of the apartment complex Eric works at to watch fireworks from the BYU stadium. We sure had some killer kabobs!

Just Some Pictures...

2007-06-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

Here are some recent pictures we've taken. Hannah came to Provo for EFY and it was fun to see her. I didn't look that cute when I was 16! My parents were also able to come for Harrison's baby blessing, and while they were here my dad took Eric and me fly fishing (more pics to come of that). Then last night we went to the Manti Pageant. It was really good, though a bit cheesy at parts. Really cool effects with the lights though!

We are going through lots of our stuff to have a yard sell but we have a little too much fun playing with everything we find...

Lots of New Happs...

2007-05-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

Ok, we know, it's been a while since we've had an update. Leslie had a baby, Eric turned 23, we had our 1 year anniversary...we've been a little busy! For Eric's birthday we went to the Japanese restaurant, and he got some pretty sweet new prizes...Eric's Mom and Dad gave us a cast iron grill so we can cook some delicious food, like our fave, Brats.

Here's Leslie's cute new baby, Harrison:

For our year anniversary we went to the opening of Spider-man 3 at one of the biggest IMAX theaters ever, then we went out to eat at a Bavarian Deli. We asked a lady to take a picture of us by the sign and she didn't quite get the sign...good effort I guess...So we took our own to put below.

We went to the driving range and it was this old horse race track or something. Weird..

Today we hiked the Y. I've been going to BYU for a few years now and haven't even hiked up to the Y yet, so we decided we better do it at least once. So it looked pretty easy, until we realized how out of shape we are, yikes. At least the view and cool breeze from the top made it all worth it.

Llamas?

Our little car has been through a lot.

We didn't actually get a shot of the Y from far away first, so here's one off the web (exceptthe one with all the white rock is what we took from the top)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2007-03-18T11:44:00.000-07:00

We had Leslie, Peter, Lisa, and Dave over last night for a green dinner! We had some green appetizers with a green vegetable plate and spinach artichoke dip, and then for dinner we had green lemonade, green 7-Up Jell-o, salad, and Sunday chicken with the rice dyed green. Oh yeah, and lime sherbet was dessert! Too bad though in the picture you can't see the green rice in the bowl!! Dang, that was the best part. Oh well. Me and Peter are the only ones in green, where's the spirit these days?!

Earlier yesterday was Leslie's baby shower. Geez we're cute! Maybe one day my belly will be that big...

The weather has been so nice, so yesterday we went to the park with Lisa and Dave and Eric tried to teach us how to play lacrosse, then we made some kites but there wasn't really even a slight breeze..."Need a little wind here!!"

A few days ago Leslie and Peter and I went to a little Japanese restaurant - you can't see it very well in the picture, but we got to sit in our own little room separated with Shoji screens and sit on the floor. Much more authentic than Teriyaki Stix!

On the Move Again...

2007-02-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

We decided we were getting a little too settled in Arizona, so, to stay true to our gypsy spirit, we decided to move again! We are back in Utah, this time in Provo. I am going to BYU again and Eric is at UVSC. We both really enjoy our classes, but they definitely keep us extremely busy. Eric is working again downtown Salt Lake doing family history at the Joseph Smith Building. We have a nice basement we are living in and have had lots of fun cleaning it up to make it really nice. Eric even painted a few walls which made it look very bright and newer in here. We do have an extra bedroom, so visitors are welcome! Ok, so we have the spare bedroom but no bed for you to sleep on...Yesterday we went to the BYU Lacrosse game. Eric got a BYU Lacrosse shirt to get him excited (he played Lacrosse in high school). The snow on the mountains is beautiful and we are enjoying the cooler weather, but we both agree Arizona has ruined us, because we have never been so ready for spring weather to come.

Eric painting the walls. I was a good spectator.

Our Valentine's Day heart pizza!
Eric hard at work (is there something wrong with his shoes?)
Walking on BYU campus. Eric refused to smile like a normal person. Sheesh.
At the BYU Lacrosse game

Right after we got here, we left to San Diego to see Eric's brother get married.

2007-02-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

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The Arizona Haymonds

2006-11-05T18:34:00.000-07:00

We have been chastised for not updating our blog since arriving in Arizona, so we decided to add a lots of random photos since we've been here. We haven't done anything too exciting, but we've had a fun time being around the fam. Here's our house we live in! We wish we owned it...maybe in 20 years or so...

Arizona has beeeautiful sunsets. Hey, the sky is on fire!

Mom, Dad, and the twins

Hannah and Rory

A while ago we all went to an Arizona Diamondbacks game. It was great up there in the nosebleed section, though rather hot!

In July we drove to California to surprise Aimee for her birthday. It was a short trip, but tons of fun!

On our way to get the mail (the mail box is on another street)

We like hangin' in the backyard.

We drove down to Tuscon to the University of Arizona for the BYU game. We were definitely the minority, and it was boiling hot, but it was fun nonetheless!

A few weeks ago we went to Oktoberfest. We were all so excited for German music, food, and shopping, only to find it was false advertisement! While there was a small tent of Brats and some other items (too expensive for our tastes), and a Beer Garden (which of course we were not interested in), there was just fair rides, a loud rock-type concert going on (not even German), and smelly, smokey people. The best part was the river it was by, so we took a picture by it and left and went out for smoothies instead.

Last week Eric got some new shoes! He was super excited, not only because he has absolutely no casual shoes, but because all we wear around here are flip flops and sometimes we miss our shoes. We're going to Colorado in a couple weeks, and we had the realization that we probably won't want to wear flip flops there, so it was much needed to buy him some shoes.

Mom, helping Eric show off his snazzy new shoes.

Us doing some sweet jumps off the stairs.

Me and Mom!

Isn't he dreamy?

Updates!

2006-07-22T10:48:00.000-07:00

Well, I guess I should change the blog name from Rachie's Ranch, because there's another member of the ranch now! Here are some pics from our wedding. We got married May 4th in the Salt Lake temple, and at first it was looking like a rainy day, but we got lucky as we walked out of the temple the sun came out! It was still pretty windy, but I'll take that over rainy pictures! We had our reception at the Devereaux Mansion downtown as well, it was beautiful! And the most killer wedding cake of all time might I add, part of it was pumpkin chocolate chip - to die for!

False alarm! It's just Leslie...

Dallin caught the garter, and Susan caught the boquet. I take credit for Susan getting married this summer; she was engaged shortly after my wedding! The boquet did it!

Yowza! My sister Hannah was my maid of honor.

More pics to come, the blog publisher is being a little crazy...

P.S.

2006-01-24T21:21:00.000-07:00

The abundance of ring photos was mainly for my mom and sisters, and I now realize I should've emailed those to them, and kept them to a minimum on here...I was trying to get a good shot of it, and got a little carried away and just posted them all...oh well, gotta flash it sometime!!

"Somebody's Gettin' Maaaarrieeeed!!!"

2006-01-24T11:11:00.000-07:00

Aims, that one's for you...

After much anticipation, the moment has finally arrived. Last night Eric proposed! A couple months ago, Eric asked me what places I thought were special to us. Obviously, among the choices I picked Nauvoo, but one place closer to home was the Conference Center. Yeah, classic Mormon choice, right? Well, I hadn't seen Eric for almost 3 years since Nauvoo. After he got home from his mission and we were both to afraid to spill our guts to each other, I decided I'd invite him to come to the President Hinckley Birthday Celebration at the Conference Center last July. I casually told him that I reserved a whole bunch of tickets for my family, and by chance had an extra ticket :) Sneaky, I know. I thought this was the real test; to see if the boy I'd had a crush on for 3 years who didn't own a car would somehow find a way to come to Salt Lake from Idaho (he was at BYU-Idaho). After much effort on his part I later found out, he was able to get a ride down. I waited outside the Conference Center until he arrived only 15 minutes prior to when we were supposed to be inside. Needless to say, I thought my brilliant plan had failed and that he wouldn't show (he also didn't have a cell phone to say if he was even close)! So, the grand Conference Center was the first place we met after almost 3 years since we saw each other in Nauvoo. Romantic? I'd say so!

Anyways, so Eric just got a job working downtown at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and last night he was supposed to get a ride back from his uncle who also works downtown (that's right, still no car...). He calls me around 7:00 and says his uncle still hadn't called him and that he was bored, so he asked if I could come pick him up. He said to just meet him over by the Conference Center so I could just park and maybe we could just walk around for a while, just to have something to do (we are completely broke). When I got there he asked if I wanted to do the Conference Center tour because he hadn't done it in a long time. We went in there, and he asked the senior missionaries if the roof was open. I was thinking I had no idea it was open this late, but being gullible like I am, I had no suspicion at all. We went up there with the missionary and security guard, and walked around the roof when in the distance I saw something on a ledge. There were 2 dozen roses (which happened to match my shirt, a senior sister later pointed out), and the open ring box. You know what happened from there, he got on one knee and asked! I had to take off my big gloves of course, but the ring fit, and I did say yes. When we went back inside, of course all the senior missionaries were there to greet us with applause, and you'd think I was these ladies' own daughter. So that's that, and here's some photos!!

On top of the roof at the Conference Center

This is our "spot" where we met after Eric's mish outside of the Conference Center

Here are a ton of ring photos. Why is it so hard to get a good focused picture of a ring? Sheesh! But here's an idea of what it looks like

Oh, I forgot to mention that over Christmas break I was able to go meet Eric's family in Houston! Here is a picture of us at the beach in Galveston. I never thought of going to the beach when I thought of Texas. Sure, the water isn't Hawaii, but pretty cool there nonetheless!

This is us and Eric's Mom, Dale, at Pappadeaux. The Haymond's treated me to the best of Houston's cuisine. So good!

Happy Halloween From Rexburg!

2005-10-23T23:03:00.000-07:00

Well Halloween is just around the corner, so we decided it was about time we carved pumpkins. When we were at the store looking at all the pumpkins, we saw a huge perfectly shaped one that was a must. Then, I pulled out of a box what appeared to be a normal looking pumpkin, turn it around and set it on the hay bail, and after seeing what it looked like we just couldn't pass it up...

Check out that 44 pounder! Potatoes aren't the only things they grow big in Idaho! The best part was watching the tiny girl at the grocery store checkout line lift it onto the weigher. You know, it looks about 5 times bigger in real life come to think of it. The photos don't do it justice!

I couldn't help but laugh at this pumpkin as we pulled it out of the box. Ok, so I might have a sick mind, but tell me that's not hilarious. Real mature, I know. I call it my little RUMPkin. It's so much better in real life, the picture doesn't really capture at all the essence of how incredibly accurate the resemblence is. Then, it got even funnier when I pulled out some newspaper to put on the table, and the very first paper I pull out and put down is a picture of a giant hand. What are the odds?!

Just when we thought things couldn't get any better, while we were cleaning up all the pumpkin guts, the paper I was carrying mine on ripped on the way to the trash can resulting in a most unique spill of pumpkin guts on the floor. Then Eric couldn't resist placing some right next to the pumpkin, well, crack.

The finished product. The big pumkin's eyes are looking at the other pumpkin. We decided there was no need for carving in the other one.

Utah Road Trip

2005-10-23T17:20:00.000-07:00

This last weekend, as you saw on Leslie's and Peter's site, Eric and I (yes, Eric with a 'c', sorry Erik...) made a little road trip down to Utah for my friend Lisa's wedding (and to visit Leslie and Peter of course!) Wow, kind of sad now that I have to make a road trip to Utah, I don't live there anymore. Just like the good ol' days driving from Colorado, except I forgot to listen to Carole King! But there were plenty of musicals along the way, so not to worry. It was pretty fun seeing a "big city" again after living in the bustling town of Rexburg - driving around the bend and seeing downtown Salt Lake felt like I was seeing the biggest city of my life. I haven't seen so many tall buildings in a while. Needless to say, it was quite the emotional moment...ok, so no tears shed, but it was very exciting. Seeing the old Provo friends was a lot of fun, it feels like I haven't been there in a lot longer time than I've really been away. Lisa's wedding luncheon was a blast (with lots of good food of course in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building!), and Leslie and Peter were great hosts and fed us well. Look, let's cut all this polite crap (The 'Burbs) and get to the photos! More photos to come, a friend is emailing some.

All the old roomies from our Provo house! Sarah, Lisa, Leslie, and me.

Lookin good ladies...
What a guy, he even holds my purse...

Of course, staring at the fish at the Wride's house. Looks like their fake blue ocean is falling down.
We're sisters!

What Peter and Leslie failed to post on their site was how their fish are making them go a little kooky...Yes, that's Peter being a dead fish...need I say more?

"No Way...That's Greeeat...We Landed On The Moon!!"

2005-10-10T23:45:00.000-07:00

This last Friday while the rest of the fam was having a blast at Disneyland without me, I did something of comparable excitement...it's true - I went to Craters of the Moon here in Ideeho! It's about 2 hours away from the quaint little town of Rexburg, and well, it's pretty sweet. Ok, so I'd rather go to Disneyland if I had the choice, but it was pretty exciting for here!
Hey all you Coloradans, it's Kissing Camels volcanic rock style!

I didn't mean for this to look like a family picture...

This reminded me of the Batcave. There were even bats in there; Holy toledo Batman!
Does it look like I'm on the moon or what?

Wayta Go, Idaho!

2005-09-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

So at the end of August I did the unthinkable: I moved to Rexburg, Idaho!! Random, spontaneous, and a little crazy, I know. But who else can say they have an ID card from all three BYU schools?! Pretty dang awesome if you ask me. Rexburg and BYU-Idaho are a bit smaller than what I'm used to, but very nice nonetheless. I miss Provo and my friends there, and most especially the newlyweds Leslie and Pedro, but fortunately I got really great roommates out here who made me feel completely comfortable here in this "frozen wasteland" (Fiddler on the Roof). One of my roommates was actually one of my roommates from my semester in Nauvoo a couple years ago, so that worked out quite nicely indeed. And then, of course, there's a certain someone who I spend pretty much all my time with... So life is good :)

Well, more details and more pictures to come, but here are just a few. A couple weeks ago I went to Yellowstone and a spot on Henry's Fork River, that's where the couple shots are taken from. Sorry it's all scenery photos, I will definitely take some more pics soon. Oh, but first, I have to show off my amazing feat - and Jason thought HE was BYU through and through! BYU THIS!

One More Reception & Farewell Colorado

2005-08-06T21:56:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Leslie and Peter had an open house at our home in Colorado. And holy mackerel, the food was pretty dang awesome. The fam is moving to Arizona in the next week or so, and so this was the last time I was able to spend time at our house in Colorado. Kind of strange and sad, but exciting to get to have a new experience.

Yeah, Amy knows what's up. The food table is a joyous place to be.

Yowza.

Dad, with our favorite person there: the cheesecake lady.

Hannah and I with our Harry Potter party t-shirts we made. Don't be jealous...
A final adieu to ol' 1880 Springcrest Road.

Wedding Extravaganza

2005-07-25T09:51:00.000-07:00

It's true...Leslie is now married. The wedding was on July 21. I was, of course, her favorite bride's maid. I would go so far as to say her maid of honor, though she didn't announce that out of respect for the other girls... Man alive, are we cute or what?! Well, at least Leslie is.

The Fam - someone's always gotta be closing their eyes...Ralphus!!
Grama, Mom, me, and Hannah hangin at the temple.

Dallin, Mom, and Erik

Good times at the wedding dinner...I'll be the first to say it was extremely delicious.