So we just recently went on a Riding / Camping trip to the beautiful Blue Clay Hills of Cainesville (I have no Idea how to spell it right). It was lots of fun to get out and go together, especially since the bad weather hit us just this week. Now in this next picture you really have to look close, but you will soon realize that Lula is in Mid-Air and looks like SUPER DOG!!!

LOOK AT ME!!! I can fly!!!
I am Queen of this Rock!!!

This is the Crew (Left to Right) Tyre, Rusty, and Ty (Dirty McCurdy). Us women became the official Photographers! Thats alright, I quite enjoy the photo taking if I am allowed to tag along.

This is Rusty hitting a pretty big jump, that would shoot him really far. I call this one "Goin' Big".

Well every teacher has to do one, and so I guess that it was my turn. I was panicked... this was such a big task for me and I am really not very crafty. So I started to search on Google, October Bulletin Board Ideas. And I LOVE GOOGLE!

There was a photo there that said "Spinning a web of our favorite Internet web sites." But I wanted to go more with a reading theme and I wanted the board to be teachers recommending books to their students. So mine says "Spinning a Book Web of your Teachers Favorite Books." Ok. I can breath, I have an idea, but wait.... Do you see the size of this board??? It is Humungo! Not only that, but it is the first thing that you see when you walk into our school!!! PANIC hits again.

I tell myself "Calm down Trista Rich, your mother-in-law is totally like the queen of craftiness." So what does one do in their time of need, they call in the troops,,, my mother-in-law!

Ethel always makes the prettiest bows!

So each spider says the teachers name, the Title of the book that they would recommend students to read, and the author of the book.

It turned out so cute. I love Ethel with all of my heart. I might have had the idea, but the cutsyness of my board is all CUDOS to Ethel Rich! Thanks Ethel!

HEARTBEAT!!!

Well a week ago Rusty and I went to Cedar to the doc. He was supposed to do the whole exam but he was called out to delivery. So he hurried up and said well lets hurry and hear the heart beat. So they put the gel on (which was really hot for some reason) and they started searching, and it was silent for a long time, then all of a sudden.................................there it was, the smallest sounding little heart beat you could ever hear. Rusty and I are so excited, I guess its OffIcIaL!!! Yeah!!! P.S. I already had my secretary at the school tell me how excited she was to see my belly start growing, I felt like going home and crying, but I didn't.

What a BULLY!!!

This is our newest Addition to our Family...! Her name is Lula and no she is not an Iams dog but yes she is an English Bulldog. We got to pick her up on July 15th...this is a funny story because the day that we picked her up is the first day of my pregnancy. I think that that is TOTALLY CRAZY!!! When we got Lula everybody was like " I wish that Rusty and Trista would get over this fetish of dogs and start having a family"...I felt like screaming " We are trying to..." ;) So four weeks after we brought Lula home, I found out that I was Pregnant.

Lula could see herself in our fireplace and was just about ready to attack the invading dog in our house.

OH!!! she looks so fat!!! Which one?
This is Lula chilling out on the dash board!

When we had just barely got her she was no bigger than my shoe!


She looks innocent, but watch out she'll fool ya!

Guess What???

So most of you probably know, but I wanted to post it on the blog anyway!!! I am 9 weeks prego...and this picture was taken at 8 weeks when we found a heartbeat. I miscarried my first pregnancy almost a year ago, and the doctor said that once you have a documented heartbeat, then I only have like a 1% chance of miscarrying. So all is well and Rusty and I are smiles from Ear to Ear...no matter how sick I am. I will be due April 21st, 2010. This is perfect, so that I can have the baby and take Maternity leave for the rest of the school year.

Home Sweet Home!

Bryce Canyon Utah

Just thought I would share some scenic pictures with you.

So Some of you don't know where I live... and it is a crying shame on you. Look at how beautiful this it. This is where I call home. I get to see this kind of beauty every day on the way to my lovely job...

I love where I live, and I wouldn't trade it for the world!

So when you get a break, just come down and visit...

SuMMer VaCaTionS!!!

Rusty on our backpacking trip at the Grand Canyon...

The Cactus' were in Bloom!!! Aren't they Beautiful?

Me trying to survive and breath...I don't think my body was made to backpack...

This Mesa was called the Fish Tail Mesa!!! Doesn't it look so cool? We Backpacked about 14 miles that day...

I thought that this dying Yucca Plant was so cool. So I took some photos of it and the Grand Canyon in the back ground.

We went for a short camping trip in our Toyhauler up on our local mountains. Rusty says that they are his mountains. We decided to just run away for two nights and we went fishin', Rusty caught the only fish and I think that it was like a 1/2 pounder, so we let it go for another day.

This was the lake that Rusty caught his fish in: Row Lakes...

Sexy Rusty at Specticle lake...

It was so peaceful and quiet! Such a nice and well deserved retreat.