SumMerTiMe!!

We have a pool in our apt. complex, which is so nice in the summer! My sis Molly brought her girls over to swim. We had a good time!

This is my sweet niece Evelyn, who cracks me up! She was being so funny in the pool, but also made sure that I would keep a hold of her. She is one of my favorite people ever!

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Russ and I have a new neighbor who lives across from us named Tyler. He is from Alabama and working as a nurse at Primary Children's hospital. We have become friends with him and taken him to do things we like to do in Utah.
One night we took him and another one of Russ' good friends, Kyle up to the Oquirrh Mountains. We drove to the top, which is a very pretty view. When we got back down, we had a campfire and roasted hot dogs.

Tyler and Russ

Kyle and Russ

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4th of July!!

I love the 4th of July! My family has done the same thing for years. Blankets are set out earlier in the day and we meet later that night on a grassy corner down from Romney Stadium. We eat, chat, light fireworks, throw the football, then watch the firework show. It is such a good time!

Good ole' sparklers

Last year and this year on the 4th, some of us have gone up, past Preston and floated the Oneida Narrows. It is fun! The water temperature is pretty warm which is nice. This year the people who went were me, Russ, Adam, Hillary, Tom, Jeff (Tom's brother), my Dad, and we met up with my uncle Darin, aunt Kelly and her family.


The Accident

I had a great time until towards the end of the trip. There was this little waterfall area. I was the last one of our group to go over it. I think I was lifting up on my tube, so to not him my toosh (I did that earlier-hard), and I totally fell off my tube! The current was fast there and I couldn't catch up to my tube. The water kept dragging me across the rocks (it didn't help that the water was low when we went). My knees kept getting bashed over and over. It was scary! Luckily my dad was close by, so I had someone to yell for. I soon got a hold of my tube again and didn't want to look at my knees. They were all cut up and hurt. I was so shaken up. My knees hurt for days after the trip. Wow, what an adventure that was!

That same weekend, we celebrated my niece, Sophia's 1st birthday. Molly threw a cute lady bug party at her in-laws house in Nibley.

She's a cute little bug!

FaMiLy VacAtiOn

This has been a great summer so far! This is the second summer Russ and I have been married, and we have done a lot of fun things.

At the end of June my family had a great vacation together! First we drove down to Manti to see the Manti Pageant. Mom arranged for us to stay in an old house, that was so neat. We had a great time chatting and spending time with each other.


That night we went to the Manti Pageant. We bundled up with jackets and blankets, which I was glad to have with the rain! The pageant was enjoyable, even with the rain and the temple was beautiful!

After Manti, we went to Hillary's sister's family cabin near Provo. We took turns with meals and we again had a great time and laughed our heads off!
We also went to Seven Peaks water park, which was a blast! The weather was warm, the water was nice, and we even got Mom to go on one of the freaky water slides with Dad! It was great!


The trip was a lot of fun! It was great spending time with my family.

ScaTter SunShine All aLonG tHe Way!

I think Summer is officially here! Hopefully! But, I'm not going to lie, the cooler weather has been nice. I hope this weekend is WARM, because my family and I have a vacation planned which involves Seven Peaks. See you soon fam!! Yay

One Year!!

Russ and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary last weekend (June 13th). He totally surprised me by taking me to a Bed and Breakfast in Midway (near Heber) called Johnson Mill. It was awesome! The place was beautiful and we had a great time!

This is the room we stayed in. It was so nice and the ceilings were so tall!

We had a balcony off of our room that had a great view.The view from one of our windowsShortly after we got there, we took out the canoe! There was a cute pond on the property which had a canoe and paddle boats. Russ made it fun and brought some "bubbly" (sparkling cider) and glasses.

This place was great! There were trails to walk on, waterfalls, ponds, streams. I loved it.

Happy First Russ!

Russ is a Roller Skater!...Really

One night when we were up in Logan (two weekends ago), we went Disco Skating! Can you guess who's idea this was?? I'll give you a hint..the same person who had the idea to go the night before our wedding.. Russ! He loves to roller skate (not blade). In high school him and his buddies used to dress up in their disco gear and go to the roller rink.

Russ didn't have any disco clothes in Logan, so he was searching around my parent's house trying to find something snazzy to wear. We were looking in my brother Max's things and we couldn't find any sweat bands or anything. Then..all of a sudden..the famous pink plaid suit jumped out in front of us! My mom made it years ago for my dad who was in a band. Ha ha, it's great! Look at this thing!

We went to the rink with Russ' bro Scott, his wife Diane, Russ' buddy Ryan and his girlfriend Alicia. We had a good time!

Check out Scott's helmet! Ryan and Alicia

Sweet move Russ!

This is the first video I've ever posted! Check out some sweet skating!

New Roof

We spent last weekend up in Logan. I love Logan. My parents needed help putting up a new roof. The men tore off the old one on Friday and then roofed all day Saturday. My parents had a lot of help.

I'm sure this isn't posed (wink wink)

My Daddy-o

While the boys were hard at work, us girls thought we'd go out to lunch, relax, and play. (Sorry we don't have muscles like you do boys)

St. George Fun!

Russ and I were invited to go down to St. George with my brother Adam and his wife Hillary two weekends ago. We drove down Friday after work and met Adam and Hill at the condo. Hillary's dad hooked us up with a condo, that was so nice. (i don't have pics of it!)

Friday evening, we went out to an awesome dinner. A fantastic mix of foods- Thai and sushi! Two of my favorites! Then we found a sweet ghetto bowling alley. We played pool, foosball, and goofed off, which was a lot of fun! Then we spent 5 hours at the grocery store (not literally) and Ad, Hill, and Russ stayed up until all hours of the morning playing cards. Meanwhile, I fell asleep on the couch.

Saturday was fun! We spent some time hiking around the rocks.



Russ and Adam thought it would be fun to try and catch a lizard (a big one!) Hill even joined in (her arms were smaller and could reach between the rocks). I can't even tell you how long they were trying to get that thing. I think the lizard got so wedged between the rocks, that I don't even know if he ever got out!



Later that evening, we went over to Hillary's parent's house, who live in St. George. Her sister and her kids were also there. Her parent's provided any fantastic pasta dinner for us. It was fun to visit with her family.

Russ and I had a great mini-vacation! Thanks Ad and Hill!