24th Celebration

This past weekend Cade and I headed to Panaca for the 24th of July celebration we have there. Cade, my two brothers (Chris and Scott), and cousin Lance were all on a team for the traditional 3 on 3 basketball tournament. They did so good and were undefeated.

3 on 3 ChampionsCade, Chris, Scott, Lance

The Parade

This is Cade's adopted son for the weekend. He loves Uncle Cade!!! Nathan was usually right there by his side and when he wasn't, Nathan was asking "where's Cade?" So cute!

Here is the Mathews Farms float ha ha. That's what ya get in a small town. Our float took grand prize. You can't really tell from this pic but it was pretty good. They had corn poppin up in rows and everything.
Just chillin...waiting for the parade to start

Dutch Oven Dinner

Every year after the parade we have a big dinner at the church and the whole town comes. This year my dad was Chairman and he decided to have dutch oven dinner. It was so good! I'm proud of him for pullin that off. It's not easy roundin up 150 dutch ovens and cooking chicken, potatoes, baked beans, biscuts, and cobbler for 700 people. Nice work pops! The not so sweet part is I ended up helping make 700 biscuts...uggh!

Some of my family came and here we are hanging out on the porch. I wish we had a pic of the green fields that surround my house. They are so pretty in the summertime, especially at this time of the day. Good old Panaca...sometimes I wish we could live there.

1 YEAR

July 5th was our one year anniversary. I can't believe how fast one year can go by. I feel like I was just barely planning my wedding. Yet other times I feel like I've been married forever. Weird how that happens. We really couldn't be happier. One year down....eternity to go...We went to Vegas to celebrate. Cade surprised me with reservations to a hotel a few months ago. What a nice guy! We had so much fun. We hung out by the pool, ate really good food, went to all different places including the shark reef at Mandalay, and finally we hung out with some of our family for the 4th. It was such a nice and relaxing weekend away.


Cruisin the strip

Shark Reef

Watching the fireworks on the 4th of July.
We had our own little party with my brother,
sister in law, and my 2 nephews. Chris was in
charge of the fireworks and surprisingly no one got hurt. Jk Bro!

On a side note, I also have to point out that before our trip started I came home to these.

Sometimes Cade is so sweet. He surprises me more and more everyday.

New Place

For those of you who don't know, Cade and I moved from our very first apartment as a married couple. We lived there for about a year but decided to say goodbye about a week ago. We now have a new temporary address for the summer. So to any of our family - if you need our new address let us know.

We are living in a house for the summer and love it. It is so fun to come home to a place with a huge yard. Cade and I tag team in taking care of it. Apparently since I am a turf farmers daughter I get the luxury of mowing while Cade edges. Who thinks Cade took the easy job?? I do :) I actually really enjoy it though. Its nice to be able to spend time outdoors and not be cooped up in a little apartment .

New Arrivals

So Cade is giving me crap about blogging about other peoples kids but since we don't have our own I have to blog about them cuz they are the cutest, sweetest things ever! We recently had two new additions to the Mathews family.

Here is Dani just over a week old

And Jackson who is a newborn in this picture but almost 2 months old now!

We also have three more little ones on the way (that I know about) and can't wait for them to arrive. One from my side and two from Cades :) That will make a total of 38 neices and nephews I believe.

Graduation

It seems like there is finally closure to my college career now that I finally walked on May 2nd. Overall the day was somewhat boring and long, but fun at the same time cuz my family came to celebrate with me. Good thing I have some good Nutrition buddies that kept things interesting too :)

When it came time for President Monson to speak it was like we were at some kind of concert or something. There were so many flashes going off from everyones cameras you couldn't even see his face on the screen. It was very distracting and it lasted throughout his whole talk. I wanted to get on the microphone and tell everyone to stop. But I have to admit when he first stood up I also took a pic but it didn't even turn out because we were on the very last row :)
The Roomies
Anne and me

Thanks everyone for coming and sharing the day with me!!! I know all my family had to travel and I appreciate it!

Graduation is Coming!

Well its time for Graduation this weekend on Sat. May 2nd. For any of my family members who are coming and haven't told me yet, please do :) I know some of you are coming or at least planning on it, and I am super excited! For those of you who want to hear Pres. Monson speak in the morning need to let me know cuz I might be able to get you a ticket. Well I'm sure there will be lots of pics to come next week.

New Job

So for those of you who don't know, I got another job. It came right in the nick of time. Cade and I really needed something else to help us out. I will still keep my job a the the Nursing Home as a Dietary Tech but will also be traveling twice a month all over the country going to conventions to sell products for Story Tellers Club. I just got home from my trip to Louisville, KY. My friend Lizzy and I are travel partners so we definately have some great laughs together. Hopefully I can post some pics soon. The people there were so proud of their basketball team. Too bad they ended up loosing. Maybe I brought them bad luck. There goes my bracket since I picked them to win :(

The trip was great though, except for the traveling aspect of it. On our way there the airlines lost our luggage so we had to spend the night without any of our stuff, and then on the way home our flight was delayed which caused us to miss our connecting flight home. We ended up spending the night in North Carolina. It was all part of the adventure though :) and I'm sure there are a lot more great stories to come. I feel very lucky to have such a fun job. The only hard part is being away from Cade for 5 to 6 DAYS at a time.