best weekend....

EVER....

or at least best weekend had in a LOOOONG time!

Let's just say having one Saturday off a month kinda
sucks...and even then Greg has to work still....but not
this weekend!

Greg took Saturday off...and we had fun...

Not that we did anything exciting (we really didn't!)

Didn't even hit up the Willow Park Zoo, or second
dam. But we did hit up Arby's, made two julius's
in one afternoon, and chilled at home.

I miss weekends like this one...it was pretty much
the best!

End of Summer 2011

Randoms from the end of summer...

One of the Biggest Loser challenges was basically to clean out the junk food so we wouldn't be tempted. Greg was at school one night, so I took advantage and totally de-junked one section of our kitchen. Here was what was remaining. (Mind you, this is after a whole bag of junk...also from another cupboard, but this was a main eye sore)

For one of our YW activities, we did glitter toes. One of the other YW leaders, Tawni, did mine for me, which was really nice of her since I didn't touch anyone else's feet, and she was more than willing to do mine. This is the first time in a LONG time that I had painted my toes. They looked super rad.

The end of July we headed up to Star Valley where both my sis-in-laws (from Vegas and Virginia) were in town. Here we are driving....

It was fair week, so we hit up the parade. Super exciting for sure! ;)

I love the difference in these two pictures of Jacob. See how exciting the parade turned out to be?

Kyla, Jacob, and cousin Deklin (Sorry, I don't know how to spell his name...)

Shaina cuddling with BABY Emilee (just a few weeks old), and can you believe I didn't get any pictures of the baby.  Shame on me! (Random story about baby Emilee, I was at work, and I saw this girl come in. I did a double take because she was holding a baby, and realized it was Shaina. I don't remember why she originally stopped in, but she decided to bring baby Emilee in so I could see her. She was so cute and tiny! Love me some new babies!) Then Annie giving her baby sister Shaina a hug.

 And Greg was in charge of Austin.

Austin loves Greg, and Greg loves Austin enough to let him drool sucker on his head. Yum!

After the parade we went to Aunt Amanda's for hot dogs. Then we headed to the demolition derby. Can you believe I have never been to one? It was pretty entertaining...also the most red-neck event I've been to in my life! Seriously...plaid shirts with cut-off sleeves...totally red-neck! It was a good adventure though. We ended the night with some shaved ice, and we were good to go.

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing, and spending time on Annie's 4-wheeler.

We took Austin with us. (I actually had someone ask me if Austin was our kid)

Enjoying the view from the top of the hill. It was a bit rainy, but I'm okay with that.

These are cows. They are all over in Wyoming, in case you didn't know. We chased them a bit on the 4-wheeler

They're kinda cute, right?

And this is my favorite thing to do when we go to SV.... relax on the couch!

It was a great weekend, and great to see Juanita and her kids (especially baby Emilee), and Mark and Adrienne all the way from Virginia!

Bear Lake w/ the Kiddos

Shari and her kids have been up for the summer, and I wanted to see them at least once more before they left. We decided to go to Bear Lake. I love watching the kids play around outside, and just have a fun time. Here are some pictures of the fun day! 

Alex  --  Uncle Kennan turning Alex into a merMAN

Aidan

This is about as much into the water as they went. They didn't like being in the deeper parts as much as being on the sand.

Aidan was doing this...not sure what it is, but it was pretty funny.

Alex -- little stinker

Look at that beautiful brown skin...JEALOUS!

So full of spunk and attitude...and I really wish I had a swimsuit like hers!

Uncle Kennan taking care of the boys.

Kind of looks like a tropical beach...almost...

Shari and mom in the water -- Kennan chose to stay on shore

Aidan chowing down on some cheetos

Shari and her kids on the left, all but Kennan on the right.

 Loved this shot. Kennan and Aidan, and Shari and Mom are the two dots towards the top.

25th B-day & More

I celebrated my 25th birthday this year. It's kinda crazy to think that I'm that old. A quarter of a century old! That is old for sure.

Since I am writing this post more than a year later, I don't remember all the details of this day. All I know is that I turned a year older! I don't even really remember WHAT I got for my birthday. (This is why I need to do a better job blogging.) If I do remember right, though, I'm pretty sure Greg took me shopping...which I hated. I hate spending money on clothes, and I hate picking clothes out for myself. I would gladly give someone the money and send them shopping FOR me. But I do appreciate the gesture, as I'm sure I complain a lot about having no clothes to wear! Greg also got me some pretty flowers.

We planted some lily's outside our house. It's what I look forward to every summer. Seeing them bloom. They are so gorgeous! We have some orangeish ones, then we have these ones. (They color is off in these pics, but they are so pretty!

The week after my birthday was a Saturday...and we were bored. For whatever reason, Greg and I decided to go for a drive. We ended up driving over to Brigham City, and boy was it a ride. It started raining like crazy! I have never seen it rain so hard here. We couldn't see the road, and it was just pounding on the windshield. It was awesome. Greg has video on his phone, but since we don't have them fancy iPhones, we can't upload for you to see. It was awesome though.

Another favorite summer activity is getting shakes from Arctic Circle. We usually go once a month after we get coupons in the mail. Unless there is a seasonal special (Moose Tracks or Huckleberry), I'm bound to get a cookie dough shake.

(Pretty sure this is Greg's. Mine was probably half gone by the time we got home!)

lately...

....brief re-cap of the past few months...

+ celebrated anniversary #6
+ watched my baby sis graduate
+ watch my baby cousin get MARRIED
+ rear-end an Idaho driver because I thought she was going, and i was looking the other way and went...she didn't...(then got yelled at by the old lady passenger for "being on my phone"...for the record, I WAS NOT! It was in my lap and when i got out of the car to check the damage grabbed it)
+ endure the heat of both a semi-working swamp cooled house, and a broken air conditioned car
+ enjoyed some fireworks from the roof of my house
+ turned the big 2-5 (i'm super old now!)
+ work average of 35 hours/week (hired on at 25)
+ joined a Biggest Loser competition (lost 8.2 lbs the first 8 weeks)
+ joined round 2 of the BL comp (week 1 - lost the 1.2 pounds I gained in my week off)
+ been working out 4/7 days (consistently)
+ been WORKING 17/20 days (consistently!)
+ found out I'm the only person in my ward who doesn't do her visiting teaching...well, me and my partner apparently...(I don't know whether I should feel guilty for not doing it...or if I should be proud that I'm the only one who doesn't lie about it...)
+ enjoyed getting shakes from Arctic Circle
+ enjoyed some McDonald's fries and their frozen strawberry lemonades
+ made Greg a Texas Roadhouse fan
+ made AND enjoyed some DELICIOUS strawberry/rhubarb crisp (don't ask how I lost any poundage...I still eat like crap!)
+ found out some good news....found out some bad news
+ done a couple of fun photo shoots
+ hung up some pictures around my house
+ organized a few areas of my house (just a FEW!)
+ got in a bit of digi scrapping
+ spent too much time on my computer
+ didn't take enough pictures

+ and...I'm going to enjoy tomorrow off...and next Saturday-Tuesday off!