Powell Again! Yee-haw!

Powell is seriously Heaven on Earth! We love it and it always goes by too fast! We have been a few times this summer and hope to go again soon! :)









We went on our 4th Annual Family Lake Powell Trip!
My uncle Rick is kind enough to let the whole crazy family aboard his houseboat each year for good family fun! We have a blast and especially get wild on the tubes! All my pics from the tubes didn't turn out well because my battery was dying but as soon as Jess gets me hers I'll put them on here. You've gotta see it to believe it!









See what my camera does when it starts to die? Also it's a cheap one I take to the lake so there are like no light setting on it. Oh well.









Cookie Jar! The place I learned to wakeboard a few years ago. We go there every year and get in some good tubing. More pics to come......









Two lake dirtbags with nasty lake hair. Aren't we hot!

Happy 4th!

This 4th me and Garr went swimming out at Green Valley with Garretts brother and sister and their families. It was a blast. Stupid me forgot my camera so sorry for no pics of that. (Lainee or Bradi, if you have any - I need them for my scrapbook! I have the cutest paper I have to use!)

Anyway, it was so fun to hang out with the fam and to play with our nieces and nephews. They are the cutest kids ever and I can't wait till we have kids of our own to play with them.

After our long day at the pool - we both got fried! We came home and took a long nap then decided around 8:00 p.m. we were hungry so went to Outback to eat, then drove up on formaster and watched the fireworks. This was a bad picture taking day for me! I need a new camera in a bad way.

"Picture Blog" ha! ha! ha!

So here is my tribute to "being a kid again" post. It's all about PICTURES! Here is a small update of my life in the last month. It's been a crazy busy month, and it's been filled with lots of love, fun, happy, strengthening, and sad moments. Here ya go!!!!

I work at American Eagle for about 10 hours a week so I can "support my shopping habbit" and I was ringing someone up when a girl from Bloomers brought me flowers. I knew the girl because she delivers to the dental office for us. (We give all our patients roses) anyway, she said "These are for YOU today!" How cool is my husband. We didn't even get in an arguement before or anything. It was totally JUST BECAUSE!









My cute friend Treo had her baby! I threw her a baby shower with all the girls from the dental office. She got a ton of cute stuff. Made me get a little baby hungry. hehehe. (No, not an announcement.)









My cousin Quinn got married and we went to the Hogle Zoo. My FAVORITE is the giraffe's.












Gavin and Lainee blessed their beautiful baby girl. Preston walked home with Jacob and this was a cute "candid" moment I thought I would capture.












Garr's mom has a boat and we went out for a little afternoon on the water and some fishin'












We had our friends over for a BBQ and Garrett put on my apron so he didn't get watermelon on his new shirt. Isn't my little Betty Crocker cute!









Sad times. My family dog of 10 years had to be put to rest due to old age. His body was shutting down so we had to say goodbye. This was such a hard thing to do. Those of you who have ever had a family dog would understand. The hardest thing was leaving my parents house and knowing he wouldn't run to the door next time I go over there. Thank you to my friend who watched over and protected me. (When I had my surgery in 2004, I wasn't able to sit up on my own because they had cut through all my muscle and broken my entire rib cage, he sat outside my room the whole time. It's amazing the scences dogs have.)










Yet another 5K! This time it was at midnight! We wore glow in the dark necklaces and bracelets. The pictures of us didn't turn out because the glow left a streak up our faces. So here is me at the finish line. They are taking my tag off so they could get my time.

There ya go! Lot's of good times!

Girls Weekend

Last weekend we had a little bit of a girls weekend. My Aunt Trish came into town from New Mexico to vist as well as go to my Aunt Linda's wedding. So Thursday night we had my family over for dinner at our house and the boys had to go outside because well...there was just a little to much WOMAN going on inside. haha. So here is a pic of us girls. Yes, I look like a slob, I had been cooking all day.



Saturday morning we drove up for the wedding and had to stop in Bevar to get a snack and so the two "old ladies" in our car could walk around. (hehehe Love you mom and Trish)













I'm no pro, but my aunt asked me to take some pics at the wedding. It was so fun! I don't have a way nice camera and I haven't learned photo shop or anything, but here is a fun pic we took of me and my sisters! Love my girls!









Here's my mom's family! 8 children! (one of which didn't come) My grandma is full Japanese -she's the short one next to the bride! ;)

P-O-W-E-L-L Baby!!!!!!

We went out to Lake Powell over Memorial Day weekend and had a BLAST! Normally when we go we have fun on the houseboat, play games, hop in the boat and cruise around with a wakeboarder on the back. This trip was a little different. The water was FREEZING!
We barely dipped our toes in without it taking our breath away.
But it was fun because we were able to do something we don't do very often - SEE Lake Powell.














We went for a boat ride the first day up the channel and down some place that I thought was absolutely gorgeous. Little did I know I was in for a surprise the next day. We went up Cathedral Canyon - it is officially my new favorite place! It was BEAUTIFUL! We drove as far as we could, but it was soooo cool because you would go down this narrow part and think it was going to end and then another opening! Oh LOVE IT!

I don't know if you can see in this last picture -but I ended up being a total raccoon!
Thanks Jess and Derek for inviting us. You're the best and we had fun! Love ya!

Spontaneity At The Fullest

Garrett and I have been known to do random and crazy things. Our first date was a quick trip down to Vegas. I hopped in the car with him, we drove down, ate at PF Changs and then came home! So - on Saturday we thought it would be fun to do that. Go down to Vegas for the afternoon, shop, eat and then come home.....well...we sorta kept on going. Didn't even slow down through Vegas. We always say how fun it would be to just go dip our toes in the ocean, so thats what we did! Luckily we knew his mom was already there so we called and asked if we could crash on her floor! hahaha. So we got to California at about 9:00 p.m. with nothing but the shirt on our backs! Went to Target, got some toothpaste and deodorant and we were set! We weren't even in California for 24 hours!












Dipping our toes in the ocean! Huntington Beach.

Since we were already there, I told Garrett I HAD to go to a baseball game. The Angels and Dodgers were playing each other and I thought it would be fun to go watch two home teams play each other. Was I ever in for a treat! This is two home teams playing each other here - this game was absolutely SOLD OUT!
When we got there, Garrett said - I will get you in this game whatever it takes! I absolutely love baseball and I have never been to a Major League game before, so my loving husband DID whatever it took. We asked this security guard if there was any way we could get tickets (except for scalping them) He leaned in and said "If you go over here...this certain ticket box...they will let you know whatever they have left." So we walked over there and asked what they had. He said 4 tickets together....$480.00! OUCH! We were being random, but to spend that much made me sick. We took them anyway, not knowing exactly where it was. We knew it was lower deck, but not how low. So we followed the rows...down ...down ..down! FRONT ROW!!! AHHH!!!! Guerrero was like ten feet from me! I could spit on him thats how close he was!

I was like a kid in a candy shop! I was all smiles the rest of the day! This experience was amazing and my I have my wonderful husband to thank for that. Even though, I'm ruined for going to any other MLB game! haha! I love you honey, thanks for an unforgetable weekend! (Or should I say 24 hours! ;)

Sister,Friends,Family,Love, All because of MOM

A special tribute to the most amazing woman I know...my mom. To the woman who has been there for my times of need, to kiss the boo boo's away, to hold me when I feel sad, to lend your words of advice, and most of all to be my loving friend. I love you mom. Thank you for your friendship and for the amazing woman that you are. You have taught me so much and helped me to become the woman I am today. I hope that I can be the amazing mom you are to me.

Thank you for raising us girls with the values we have and for teaching us it's what's on the inside that matters most.

Thank you for making me and my sisters hug each other until we are friends again. I appreciate their friendship.

I love you mom!