Steel Days '09

I am a little late posting about this years Steel Days events. Better late than never, right? It turned out to be a full day of fun for everyone.
We started out the day with the parade, which was super long (about 2 hrs) serioulsy! Oh and lets not forget about sitting in 100 degree weather for those 2 hrs or so..yeah, definetely miserable! But we had a great time and we had a great spot with shade from mom and dads umbrella. :) Whos complaining?
Mom, Bethie and I went and walked around the car show and boutique after the parade. There was a lot of saweeet cars there. Mom kept saying, "we used" to have a car like this or "we used" to have a car like that. I think she was wishing she still had all of them and is kickin herself for not keeping them. Good times....
Bethie and I walked down to main street and watched the cars drag main later after the car show. I don't know which was funnier.. the crazy people watching the cars drive by, or the people in the cars wondering about us crazy people watching them, ha!
What a busy day it was, but the fun wasn't over yet. We still had a BBQ to go to at mom and dads and then the fireworks after. As always AF city puts on a great fireworks show, and we have the best seats in town with parking!! We can see them in mom and dads backyard, Its so great! Here are a few shots of our fun day. :)

Can I just say that I love all of them!!

American Fork marching band, cinderalla, the bagpipes and rainbow brite were a few of my favs.

{ Ice Age 3 }

Yesterday, it was an Ice Age family reunion! The whole herd...ehh em...I mean the whole family met at the theatre to to see Ice Age 3 in 3D.

The cast consisted of:

** Stacey as......SID

"I'm too young to be eaten!"

**Jacki as....MANNY

"After we rescue Sid, I'm going to kill him!"

**Brittany as....CRASH

"Wait.You mean there is something "bigger"than mommy dinosaur?"

**Mom as...EDDIE

"Uhh, can you repeat the question?"

**Bethie(not in attendance)as....DIEGO

"Look, who are we kidding, Manny, I'm-I'm-I'm not a kitty cat, I'm a sabre. I'm not really built for chaperoning play dates."

We also need someone to to play the role of BUCK and SCRAT. I think Kim as Buck and Dad playing the role of Scrat would work out just fine. :D

Well, if you have not read a previous post of my family and our "inside joke" of ice age, you should check it out sometime, it is quite hilarious.

Anywhooooo....Ice Age 3 was pretty good. Although it was not my favorite, I give it about 3 stars. My favorite is the first one of this series. So, if you have not checked it out, I recommend it and its a must to see it in 3D.

Here is Mom, Brittany and myself sporting our awesome 3D glasses.

haha...look at Brittanys eyes, she has glasses under her glasses

It was a fun day at the movies with the fam. Love them!

4th of July Festivities

I love the 4th of July! I am so very proud to live in this country and be an American! Thanks to all those soldiers out there that are fighting so hard for our freedom.
So, I drove back up to Logan for the 4th of July weekend. We had some fun things planned and I had to pick bethie up as well because she spent the week at Amanda and Quintins.

Friday night we went and watched the fireworks at the stadium...well, we didn't go in the stadium, we sat nearby. Carries family had saved some spots so we just sat with them. We ordered a few pizzas and just hung out waiting for the fireworks to start.

Abbi before the fireworks started

Bethie and I...yeah, carrie didn't want to be left out of the picture..haha!

I didn't think that the fireworks were really that good this year. The grand finale was really lame! I couldn't believe that Abbi was not scared at all with the loud noises that comes with the fireworks. Look at her...she is in a daze and concentrating so hard. Love it!

Saturday morning we were able to make it to the parade in Hyrum. We left kind of late, but were able to get ok seats at the cemetary. I love parades but it seems like there are no floats anymore. Its all just advertising for businesses and what fun is that for the kids to just see cars and firetrucks driving down the road?

Here is Quintin,Tim and Amanda at the parade

This is the first parade that Abbi has been to that she was really aware of what was going on. She loved it and was waving to everyone. Here she is just patiently waiting for the parade to start.

Here is the many cute faces of Abbi. This is here "oooooooh" face. And look at me, I'm trying to copy her, ha!

She was clapping at something here. It could have been the marching band from mountain crest.

We didn't walk around any of the booths in Hyrum or at the fairgrounds this year. It was just to darn HOT! Amanda, Quintin, Bethie and I decided to go to lunch at The Beehive Grill. It was pretty good, but our waiter was kind of lame.

A little while later we walked up to main street from Amandas house and watched the Cruise In. This is where the oldies cars that were at the fairgrounds are able to drag main for a little bit while all of us watch them drive by. Here are a couple of my favorites.....

I took a picture of this car for a reason. My parents had this exact same car. Same color, same model, same everything. They gave it away to the boy scouts so they could use it in a demolition derby...what were they thinking?? I think they are kicking themselves now after seeing this picture.

Haha...this is the Back to the Future car. See the resemblance?? Even the driver and passenger look like good ole' doc.

After we watched the cars drag main, we all went over to Karl and Beckys for a bonfire where we roasted some hot dogs, made s'mores and just visited with great friends.

Once again, it was a really fun and memorable weekend in Logan.

I hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July! :)

plays, pianist, and proudly organized

Mother nature has been doing some drastic cleaning these last several weeks. I'm pretty sure that she had accumulated some major dust bunnies up there and did not know what to do. So, for the past several weeks, she has just sat back and just cried her little eyes out at the thought of even trying to get rid of those darn dust bunnies.

While mother nature was trying to decide what she wanted to do, Mike and Carly decided they were coming down and going to IKEA to get a few things. We had the opportunity to go to dinner with them at Macaroni Grill. After we left the restraunt, we went to the Scera outdoor theater to see Beauty and the Beast and from the looks of it, mother nature got a handle on some of the bunnies that had been causing quite a stir. We got halfway through the show and it started to downpour. :( Unfortunately, they cancelled the show and we were forced to take cover elsewhere. I felt really bad that Mike and Carly didn't get to see the whole play. Carly I hope you don't mind, I stole this from your blog. :)
Bethie and I were able to go back this past weekend and see the whole thing and it was well worth it. Everyone did and excellent job and the weather couldn't have been better. There was a guy in the audience that surprised his g/f by proposing to her in front of the audience. Maurice brought them up and said if they could answer a question then they would get a nice gift. The question was, there is a word that follows the story of beauty and beast and what is that word? He let them think it over for a couple of minutes. They guys reply was "love". When i think about love, I think of my g/f. He then got down on his knee and proposed. It was so dang cute.

We are making a trip to Logan this weekend. :) Karl and Becky are going to Vegas for their anniversary and we will be staying at their house to make sure"The Boy"(derek) is taken care of and behaving..ha!

Carly and I will be getting together on Saturday to do a little scrapbooking. :) I needed to get some things in order before I took it to Logan. I had some ribbon in one box and more ribbon in another, so I decided to put all the ribbon together so I wouldn't be searching for it when I needed it. I was feeling very organized this past Saturday...whew! I found a website about craft organizing and some pretty cool ideas. I can't remember what the name of the website is, sorry.

Anyways, I found a cool way to organize all my ribbon. You take an embroidery floss container or a container that you can seperate beads in, then you find some paper spools and wrap your ribbon around the spools and seperate them in colors or however you like. I loved this idea and it keeps your ribbon so its not coming apart and all over the place. I didn't know that I had this much ribbon. But I really like it all together!

On Monday June 22nd, Jim Brickman was doing a performance at the Scera. Bethie and I were both excited to see him play as we have not seen him in concert before. I was amazed at how well he played the piano. Wow! It was really good and he had 2 people singing with him, Anne Cochran and Mark Masri. They were both really good too and Mark sang a song in Italian that was soo good!

I thought the highlight of the night was when Jim Brickman sang "the rainbow connection" in his kermit the frog voice. It was good and the kids enjoyed it.

Quotes.....

.....to make you smile!

~ Today you are you that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

~ Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

~ A person's a person, no matter how small.

~ Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

~ I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

~ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

~ Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

~ If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.

~ You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

~ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those that who matter don't mind.

~ From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

~ Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! :)

~ I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

~ Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way.
***Dr Seuss

Road trip!!!

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Bethie and I went south east to Goblin Valley and Moab/Arches. We left on Saturday and went to Goblin Valley. It rained all day, so we were not able to walk down close to see the 'goblins'. We were very disappointed, but we didn't let the rain stop us from getting a little wet and seeing such an awesome place.
Sunday was a much better day weather wise. We spent at least 5 hours at Arches. Went on a few hikes, and drove through the whole park. Of all the arches in the park, we chose Double Arch as our favorite!
After arches we spent a little time in Moab. We walked around town and looked at a few shops and had dinner. There was a crazy storm come through around the time we were having dinner, so we were pretty glad we weren't stuck in Arches somewhere.

We had a great time and wished we had a couple of extra days to see other places like Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point and go back to goblin valley when its not so wet.

can't wait.......

......to go here

and here.....
....this weekend! :)