Camping in the Uintahs

Every year Daniel and his family go camping up in the Uintah Mountains. Now our family hasn't ever been the camping type, the last time I remember going camping with the family was at our family reunion at Palisade lake when our tent flew into the lake and grandma and grandpa were trying to grab it as we were clear across the other side of the lake watching the entire thing. I've always loved camping and embraced the times I got to go camping either with friends or with girls camp. Daniel and I could not wait till we could go, we were counting down the days, and being in school we couldn't wait to get a break from all the stress. The weekend before we bought me my very own fishing pole:) The drive isn't too bad but once you get up in the mountains it's pretty bumpy, but for some reason when we crossed over into wyoming the roads were nice and paved, so we knew when we were in Utah as we were bouncing all over the place. The place his dad and his grandpa picked out is very secluded covered with trees that stretch out to the sky for miles. There is plenty of space to put up our tents and there is a river that runs right behind our campground. It is beautiful up there. We got there around 9 pm and the moment I stepped outside I was covered with mosquito bites. We were in our tent setting up our stuff and i kept telling daniel i got a mosquito bit on my nose and i think it's swelling up. Since it was dark he couldn't really tell and so he got our flashlight and held close to my nose to check it out. He said he coouldn't tell, but I swear it was inflamming. We had a little outhouse and they even have a camping chair toilet, the bad thing is if you're there for a long time, your little hieny will be covered with little red bites everywhere. Which happened to me. :( We went up to a lake and fished the entire day. I caught about 8 fish... it was my first time ever real fishing and I was smoking everyone even Daniel. He wasn't too happy about that and kept telling me it's because he taught me everything. right!;)

My first fish I caught.. I was pretty excited.

I hated taking out the hook, it was always so gross because sometimes the fish would start to bleed and it'd get on me. plus the fish was always so slimy so it would wiggle all over the place.

 Don't mess with this dude, you don't want to ruin his concentration, he was just so focused on trying to beat me in catching the most fishes.

Playing some horseshoes, Kristies threw it straight up in the air and I was running for my life because it was heading straight for my head and she ringed my ankle instead. It was a brutal hit and I got a nasty bruise from it. Let's just say we are getting plastic horseshoes for her for next year!This is Kate, and she loves dirt! I was watching her sit on the ground and pick handfuls and handfuls of dirt and pouring it on top of her head.

My first trip with the in-laws was a success with lots of fun and laughter.

Our first Summer together as Husband and Wife

Our trip up to Park City was quite the treat, no one was around so we basically had the whole place to ourselves. Daniel with his sweet persuasive skills got us Free breakfast everyday, an upgrade of hotel, and $90 credit every night to Ruth's Diner(I think that's the name of the place.) I felt like a queen eating all this gormet food. In the morning we would eat and would be full till dinner. A glass of orange juice cost about $3.00 so we got a pretty good steal of a deal :)

Look at that face.. daniel, dang your good looking, I would have to say he needs to try out to be a model. Roaming main street in Park City we stop in shops and try on some funky outfits they had. He's not that conservative as some of you may think...

 As some of you may know Park City has some pretty fun things to do, excited to start our day adventure and go on the alpine slides, the zip line and maybe some other activites they have. Singing in the car, happy as can be, my competitive drive was starting to kick in and I couldn't wait to get to the slides and show daniel up. Little did we know that in May it's off season and pretty much nothing is opened. If only we were there on the weekend. Instead we ventured off around the Olympic park and had the time of our lives.

I think daniel fell asleep

Since we didn't get to do any of the fun activities in Park Ciry we found a crater in Midway where we got to go scuba diving. It was my first time ever. I was a little scared at first, but then i got the hang of it and kept going, swimming through hoops and trying to do flips. Daniel was a pro, he didn't need any assistance and about every 5 minutes he was doing some kind of trick.

Oh Farr West...

Here are some pictures from the Open House for those of you who missed out on all the fun and action. It was fun to meet good friends of the Stephens family from Farr West. It turned out to be a lot of fun with good company. Glad the Hansen Fam.. those who could, could also make it up as well. Sure appreciated everyone's support. Pictures of Reception will be up soon.. just need to get the pics

Also Daniel's cousin took these pictures and made a slideshow on youtube if you want to take a look at it. here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Xxbjf3Zhw

My all time favorite picture.... doesn't this capture Daniel's personality of PDA perfectly:)

MARRIED LIFE!

Fellow followers, (the three of you)

Welcome to the new and reinstated blog of Cassidy & Daniel.

Well I guess rumors true, once you get married you fall off the face of the earth for a few months and no one hears from you! Also, you loose all your friends, at least that's what i hear.

So Married Life.....
hmm where to I begin?
It's Great, it's Dandy, it's oh so Peachy. You get to be with your best friend and the love of your life every single day, I'd say that's the best thing in the entire world wouldn't you. I can't see why I didn't want to be married before... (if you knew me awhile back, I was totally against getting married. I wanted to see the world, i wanted to accomplish so much, I didn't want some love thing holding me back no siree). well Now I see... I've accomplished so much already and I see the world every single day with my hubby...
oh by the way I have an announcement- today I am officially with the law and state and any written document Cassidy Stephens!!! HOORAY!

One thing Daniel and I always hated doing while we were still dating was saying goodbye at the end of the night, ya we were only a house away but still saying goodbye bites. So the biggest treat was saying goodnight to him and waking up the next morning and turning over and stretching and smacking him right in the noggin. :)

thanks kels for sleeping with me to prep me for always having a snuggle buddy!:)

Marriage life is seriously so much fun! I love every minute of it so don't any of you take it for granted. :)

ONLY 16 DAYS LEFT YAY!!!

I can't believe how fast time is going!

I made a countdown chain to the wedding woohoo

So I decided to post one more Time Before I got Married, probably will be my last post as a single (unmarried) woman!! How sad. ha. I thought I would show some of what happened in my life the past year or so. ENJOY!

Dang we are sexy

At Thanksgiving point at the UNder the Sea 3D movie with Daniel's Family. We were celebrating all the Birthday's in Feburary.

Hailey's Birthday part we threw for her. She was totally surprised luckily it all turned out even with a few complications with not being able to get inside the house to decorate.

Going up to Ogden to pick out my quilt his grandma and mom make more every newly wed couple.

Rode The Front Runner all the way up to Ogden to eat dinner and go bowling.....

Daniel's friends bailed on us.. but we still had an adventure chucking through the snow walking around town with no car. We did eventually meet up with some other friends and I scobbed Daniel in bowling so it turned out to be a wondrous night





My first Bridal Shower... here I am with lovely mother at the soon to be in-laws shower they threw for me.. It was alot of fun and I even got a little sunburned!

I had to make a coutdown to the WeDDING!! I mean what girl doesn't do that? The only problem is i have been forgetting to take each one off.. I'm so pathetic.







We took this shot about 15 times.. i'm just so picky when it comes to pictures

Daniel Finally paid off his CAR!! hooray DEBT FREE!! Holding his title of his car

Ella saw me putting on a necklace and so she wanted to do the same thing and she found some of my glasses and had to put them on. Hahah this picture is classic.

While JD and McCall were in town we headed up to the bowling alley... i wooped everybodies trash.

Downtown looking at the Christmas lights on Christmas EVE.. with the Family&Petersons.

Friend Christmas Party..

Daniel took me to the Christmas Concert down at the Conference Center.. but right before he started it he took me to our special spot and told me he loved me for the FIRST TIME!!

Daniel and I had a lot of fun making gingerbread houses together. I'm sure you can tell by our personalities who's house is whoose. Daniel was such a perfectionist we spent hours and hours making them, and while he finished his I just kept eating the food and adding more and more stuff. haha

Made ginger bread-creative houses for FHE. We all wrote down an idea in hat and whatever you drew out of the hat, that is waht you had to make. Mine was a diamond ring.


Mom and I in our matching outfits.. dang does she look good or what?



My friend Halloween Party. Jess and I planned a halloween party. It was couples themed. Kels and I were raggedy ann and andy. becca and her hubby were x men characters. jess and candace the good withc and the evil witch. Shelby and brandon were the lady bug and the stick from bugs life. We had other friends in fun creative costumes as well. It was alot of fun. We had lots of food, and we played murder in the dark and more games. It was a great turn out and fun party.


This was Halloween Eve night and my friend from Ukraine came down. I bet you guys could never guess who we were!!! haha. none of us had costumes but we all wanted to dress up so we improvised and thought of being African women (the bushman) hahaha than we all went to classic skating and had a blast. OH how i love classic skating. Kels and I pretty much dominated the floor.

Kelsi and I went to her Ward's Halloween Party. She was a babushuka and I was Prof. Trewlaney. we got A lot of weird looks and questions of who we were.. I thought we looked amazing. We went through a haunted house, made a pumpkin danced to our hearts content ate some treats and home we went.