Card...

Here is a card that I made for Beths sister-in-law. She is expecting a little boy in August. They are throwing her a baby shower this weekend in Logan. I am excited to see all the cute things she will be receiving(Ahem, Carly!) Just thought I would share this card, I thought it turned out pretty cute.

This is the inside of the card.

My latest addiction...

I love love love the show Army Wives on Lifetime! I saw it advertised and thought it looked really good. I didn't want to start watching it in the middle, so I started on season 1 and am now playing catch up. It really does hit close to home,not only what the people in the army go through, but what the wives go through while they are away. I find myself crying on each episode that I watch. Oh, and the music on each episode is amazing! You should check it out.

Who doesn't like zucchini fresh right out of the garden? My mom has been giving me some from her garden and I'm loving it. The best way I have found to eat it, other than zucchini bread is slice it up with the peeling still on(peel it if you like). Put it on a cookie sheet and drizzle it with a little olive oil. Add some salt, pepper and garlic salt and toss so it is coated. Put it in the oven on a hight heat, turning occasionely. Keep an eye on it, it cooks pretty fast. Delish!

Pioneer Day 2009

What a way to celebrate Pioneer Day with country music from the 80's and 90's and love songs that you never seem to forget. Restless Heart and Collin Rae came to the scera shell and performed under the stars, which is the best setting ever!! It was a fun night.

Favorite Restless Heart songs:

• I'll Still Be Loving You
• Why Does It Have To Be (wrong or right)
• When She Cries
• Bluest Eyes in Texas
• A Tender Lie
• That Rock Won't Roll
• Fast Movin' Train
• Long Lost Friend
• Dancy's Dream
  

Favorite Songs of Collin Rae:

• Love Me
• I Can Still Feel You
• That Was A River
• One Boy, One Girl
• Little Rock
• When I Think About You
• In This Life
• The Gift

I hope you all had a fun and safe Pioneer Day!!

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.