4th of July!

Happy 4th of July! My family loves this holiday! Every year my mom goes early and sets blankets out on the grass by Romney Stadium to hold our spot for the fireworks. We meet on the same corner every year. It was fun to see extended family and this year my friend Whitney came up for a little while.

Mom, Russ, and I (Russ making a nice face)

Tom & Sophia

Matt & Jane (Tom's brother Jane and her family were visiting from Wyoming)

Ruth (Tom's mom)

Sophie, Molly, Hillary, Mom, Aunt Sarah, Cozette & Isabelle (her daughters), Uncle Joe, Pop-Pop

Ev

Russ, me, Adam, Hill

A jet flew over. It was so close and so loud! I loved it

Firework time

I love the fireworks!

Sammy's

My brother-in-law Tom has a band with his brother Jeff and their friend Dustin. They played at a little burger joint in Provo called Sammy's. We got food, sat on a blanket and listened to the band. It was fun being outside with family.

In the middle: Heidi (Dustin's girlfriend), Molly, Russ

I love my nieces! (Sophie looks happy..I think she wanted to hold the camera)

Cheese!

Summer BBQ

One evening this summer we had a BBQ at our place. There are a couple of BBQs in the pool area at the clubhouse. Molly and her family came over, Tyler, our neighbor, and Dave & Jessica Adams joined us with there baby, Quinn. We roasted hot dogs, corn, chatted, played in the water (some of us). It was fun.

Tyler, Dave, Jessica & Quinn

Cute Bevs! (Evelyn)

Chef

Sophie bug

Tom & Molly

Girls Camp

In the middle of June I went to Girls Camp with the young women in my ward. (I was the Young Women president for a very short time, before our ward was split). It was stake camp and we went to a place called Star Point. It was very pretty there. It was hot some of the time and COLD some of the time. The girls were troopers and slept in tents every night, but some of us leaders stayed in a trailor named Marge some of the nights! The theme of camp was The Wizard of Oz (Our Zion).

There was a nice lodge for us to hang out in when it was cold-rough camp huh? There was also a kitchen/garage downstairs to keep our food and to cook in.

Katie (leader), Whitney, Nisha

The girls won for the best skit! Some of them were a little scandalous...

We went on a hike one of the days. We took turns shaking buckets along the way to make homemade icecream. It was delicious! Vanilla icecream with many a topping!

We had some free time so we did a craft. Kathy Fair (camp director) brought stuff to make cute ribbon flowers. We put them on headbands and clips for our hair.

Great ladies! Terri, Britny, Sheryn

For our service project we decorated the outside of boxes for the food bank.

We made adorable PJ capris for everybody. Each unit (2 wards) had a theme. Ours was Dorothy-hence the gingham fabric. We also had blue gingham bows, hair ribbons, and ruby slipper name tags for our bags.

This was the bishopric night. The bishopbric and their wives drove up and joined us for dinner and testimony meeting. We decorated the tables for them and wrote notes on the tablecloth.

After testimony meeting (the last night of camp) we got cozy in our PJs with blankets and pillows and watched the Wizard of Oz projected in the lodge. It was great!

Camp was a lot of fun! I was glad to go for the entire time this year. The girls are so cute!

MEXICO!

One of Russell's mission companions, Garrett and his wife, Gabbi invited us down to Mexico with them for a few days. He races dirt bikes and raced on a team with three other people in the Baja 250 in San Felipe. We had great time and I though it was totally worth the long drive there and back (although I did sleep a LOT of the time).

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Happy Birthday Russ!

Russ has his 28th birthday tomorrow- March 1st. We celebrated a little early last night. I planned a surprise party for him at Classic Skating. He likes roller skating and used to go Disco Skating there every Saturday night with his buddies in high school.

I was so glad that Russ didn't figure out the surprise early-he is so curious! I told him last week to not plan anything for Saturday night, because I would be taking him out for his b-day. So, last night after we went to pick up a few groceries, I told him we were going to the DI to find clothes for Disco Skating. We had better luck at Savers. I told him it would be him and I and that we were going at a specific time because I had pizza coming. We found a few things from Savers then came back home to put our outfits together. When we walked into the roller rink a couple of his friends were in line to pay! When we went in further he kept seeing more of his friends. It was great. My sister had some tables reserved and ordered some pizza and drinks. It turned out great! So many of Russ' friends came. Some of us skated, some ate pizza and chatted. Russ was surprised and it was a lot of fun!

Lauren and Tyson

Ryan, his roommate and Steve

Dan and his date

Mitch and Russ with his mouth full of pizza

Molly, Ev, Sophie

If you look close Russ is busting a move

Happy Birthday Russ!

Valentines 2010

Happy Valentines Day! Russell surprised me this year with a Valentines weekend. We went up to Idaho to a Bed & Breakfast near Lava Hot Springs. It was such a great place! It was so cozy tucked in the mountains and covered with snow. It looked as though these people's house was made into a B & B. There were only three rooms and they had miniature horses, dogs, cats, and birds. The lady who ran it was named Sher and she loved her birds. They were noisy things and they totally talked!

After we got settled in, we spent some of the day down the road at the hot springs. It was so nice!

There was a cute basket of goodies set on the bed for us

Lava Hot Springs

After the springs, we got some ice cream from a little shop and some allergy medication for Russ (he is allergic to cats) and we came back and relaxed. That night Sher and some others cooked a Steak and Lobster dinner for us and two other couples. There was a box at three of the places, for each of the ladies with a heart necklace in them. (I guess mine was kind of from Russ)
The next morning we had a wonderful breakfast in the dining room with the other couples, then we packed up and headed out. I had such a wonderful time. Russ is such a good planner and he did so good at keeping it secret from me. Thanks sweetie!