Lake Powell

My family has been going to Lake Powell almost every summer for the past 17 years! My grandparents have a time share on a houseboat and let our entire family use it. That includes my aunts, uncles and cousins. There are usually 25 people there. It is crowded, but a good time. This year my boss and his family wanted to join us and camp near us. It was a blast to have them around- such funny people!

I didn't get a whole lot of pictures this year, not sure why. But this is us on the boat cruising around the lake.

We did lots of cruisin around and sight-seeing! We hiked up to these really cool Indian houses but we had to swim down this channel so I couldn't take my camera up to them. This is a pic of the petroglyphs and the houses are right underneath them. It was really neat, I wish I could have taken my camera!

We did a lot of tubing. I went for about 20 minutes with my boss's wife and ended up with a huge burn/hole on my elbow that is still not healing. Ha ha. But it was totally worth it! Such a blast. My sister, my brother and my boss's son and his friend all like to go tubing a lot. They would hook up two tubes and go for it. One tube is a one-man and the other is a three-man. But they all like to pile onto one tube while the boat is moving.





They were so hilarious to watch, they would fight and pile onto each other, jump from tube to tube. Pretty entertaining to say the least! This is them being nice.


And this is them after they tried to be fancy and Boots was the last one standing!


There was a lot of swimming going on and this was one hysterical moment I had to share:



Lake Powell was a blast- I think this was the last year we will be going tho! We want to venture out and do different vacations every year. We'll see how it goes! I enjoyed the sun, the heat, the good times, the company and the scenery.

Independence Day

The 4th of July has ALWAYS been one of my all time favorite holidays. No specific reason- I just love the BBQ's, Fireworks, Parades, family and fun! It is my husband's Family tradition to go to Grantsville every 4th of July and go to the parade and car show. Scott entered his mustang last year, but we decided against it this year. I was so sad because my camera battery died and I didn't get a single picture the whole time. But we had a blast running around with the nieces and looking at the cool cars.

The 4th of July is also my brother-in-laws birthday! So we had a big BBQ to celebrate the occasion and had all sorts of delicious food and festive red-white-and-blue desserts. Happy Birthday Richard!

That night we went to see my family. We always go to our same spot in Provo to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks. It is always fun and exciting and tons of family members and friends go with us:

The show was pretty lame this year, so that was disappointing. After the show we drove to my parents house and lit off a few fireworks of our own. (The firework picture from above is one of the fireworks we lit off.)

All the girls enjoying the show:

All our cute boys enjoying the show:

Happy 4th of July!!

A Turkey and a Four by Four

Last week our friends Eric and Colleen invited us to go bowling with them. Scott was excited but truthfully - I was not. I haven't been bowling in the LONGEST time. I would go with my friends when they would bowl, but I wouldn't participate. I've never liked it and I've never been good at it.

I went along anyway cause I like Eric and Colleen's company. They are so funny. And it ended up being a really fun night! I tried out the bowling and beat my "high" score of 11. (That really was my highest score before that night) I think I bowled somewhere in the low 80's. Which is not great- but obviously a big improvement for me.

So last night Scott and I were itching to go again. We decided to go bowling after 9 for the discount and our friend Todd joined us.

It ended up being Cosmic Bowling which didn't please Todd or Scott but I thought it was awesome. And it must have boosted my spirits or something because I bowled a TURKEY the first game and scored 109 and BEAT Scott and Todd's scores!! It was truly amazing.

The next game Scott bowled a FOUR BY FOUR and almost 5 in a row minus only 1 pin. It was SO cool! We got skills.

Summer Kick Off

Even tho it is pretty late into "summer", it hasn't felt like it at all with all the yucky rain and such. I swear this was the first weekend it actually felt like a Utah summer. So we decided to start it off right and have a BBQ!!

We thought it would be a good idea to have the neighbors over to get to know them better, but lots of them couldn't make it. Our awesome neighbors across the street did come however and we had a blast with them. Some family members joined us as well. Nothing too fancy but I will tell you what- my honey sure knows how to grill up an amazing steak! (We've also grilled halibut which is my favorite!) I didn't take many pictures because I was too busy frantically running around trying to make sure all the other food was out and ready. But here is the grill master himself:

Lookin good! Also, as I was running in and out of the house I was trying to keep an eye on the little ones and I found them snuggling so cute on the couch and couldn't resist,

Precious.

"Honey... will you..."

One year ago today my honey asked me the most important question in both our lives! "Honey, will you marry me?"

I can't believe how fast time flies. It is CRAZY that we got engaged a year ago and in just 2 1/2 months we will be married for one year. It does not seem like it has been that long at all. Time flies when you are having fun!!

To celebrate we thought it would be fun to do what we did the night of our engagement. We drove to Provo tentatively planning on getting food from Brick Oven and having a sunset picnic at the park. But it was rainy and cold so we decided to go to one of our favorite spots in Provo, Maestro.

If you have never been there, you should give it a go! They have crepes with meat and cheese and dessert crepes and gelato! And YESH, we ate one of each of those items.

I enjoyed spending the evening with my hubby and laughing the whole time. I am so happy I get to keep him forever. I am THE luckiest girl in the world! This first year of marriage has been amazing and I am sure the years to come will only get better. I love you Scott.

Oquirrh Temple Open House

Over the weekend we finally got tickets to the Oquirrh Temple open-house and we were excited to go with our sister Kim and her girls from Idaho! We rarely get to see them and we miss them! (SUCH cute girls) It was a pretty stormy and rainy night but we enjoyed spending time together and really loved walking through that gorgeous temple. If you haven't had the chance to go- you better hurry!

It was pouring rain, so we took this while walking- thus the blurriness. Ha ha

Thanks for going with us. We love you girls!

Bundle of Joys

No- we are not having a baby. But we decided we wanted a kitten... or TWO. We first got Nala and then decided it was sad leaving her home alone all day while we were at work and leaving her alone some nights and a lot over the weekend. So we went back and got her sister, Kiara. They are full bread Siamese kittens and they are so adorable and fun!
They are constantly running and jumping around so it's difficult to get a decent photo of them. But I caught them soaking up the sun and taking it easy for once!