Fair and the rest of Rupert

So when we got back from camping my mom, brother and I went to a play at the Oakley Valley arts center.
But then we had to start on the real reason I was down there. The Rupert fair! Kody and his cow Suzy were at the fair all week.
This is my grandpa, Kody and Suzy
This Next picture is of my mom loving on the calf. She was a very sweet cow.
One of the last nights I was there my mom made a big dinner. Shaunna came over and it was great to see her. We decided to make fried green tomatoes!
Shaunna cooking the tomatoes.
While dinner was being made I went out to the living room because I had hurt my ankle earlier that day and when I got out there Kiarra my kitty was relaxing on the couch and I found it so funny that I had to put a picture up.

Camping

So when I got back from Arizona I headed to Rupert to be with my family for a week. The day i got down there my family had planned on going camping. Jordan and Mykah came over and were going camping with us. We decided to take Keanu our dog camping with us so we took him to give him a bath and comb him out so that he was clean enough to put in the car.
So here is Keanu with Jordan and Mykah.
When we got up camping there was a creek running through our camp site so the first thing we did was play in it to cool off. Here is Kody and the girls sitting on the bank of the creek.
The girls and IThere were dragonfly everywhere. When we got out of the water the dragonfly landed on us so here is one sitting on my hand.
and the girls with their dragonflys.
We had the usual things a huge fire.
Fishing
and since it was hot we took our chairs and put them in the creek to be cool.
After all of it I was very tired and of course I can't sleep without my kitties sleeping on top of me.

Arizona

In July I went to Arizona with a friend Pat to help move him down there. It took us 2 days starting from Boise to get to Sierra Vista. On the drive we saw a Glen canyon Dam here is a few pictures.

This next one is standing on the bridge that goes over the dam.
When we got to Sierra Vista we went to the military base to get Pat checked in and while there we saw a road runner! He was a lot smaller than I thought they would be but then I found out this one is a baby.
This next pictures is Pats apartment and a HUGE cactus.
And this next one is of these really pretty flowers that were all over.
We got down there, got Pat an apartment and shopped for everything he needed in a few days then I flew back to Boise and got picked up by my friend and went down to Rupert to help my little brother with fair so I will post that later.

The coffee table!

When I moved into this apartment the people moving out left their coffee table for me. Well I thought it was ugly and scratched I really didn't like the color either so I decided to fix it.
This is the coffee table originally. It was very scratched and the finish was coming off.
So by hand I sanded it. This took forever because of the different way the grains of the wood go.

And finally how it looks now!
I love the way it looks now. I think it makes the living room look much better.