Twilight

That is right, even thought I just finished New Moon, I did join a few of my friends for the midnight showing of Twilight!
I have to say, I really enjoyed the movie, even though I have only seen it once. I would love to see it again though.

















After staying up til 2:15am the youngers of the group including one adult (Leslie) were up for going to IHOP! It made for a late night, but a fun one! One I won't forget!


--I can see that one someone was not happy with me taking this picture--

Old Friends!

You know it is always great to get back in contact with old friends. Or see friends taht you talk to often but don't see often.
Last Sunday I had the chance to have two of my old roommates and their families over to my house for a small and quick get together. It was short but WONDERFUL to see them. I am excited to know that Saundra lives close-ish to me and we will just have to make a point of getting together more often.
Being able to see Amanda and Dan was great too. I talk about going to visit them and just never have. You know what, that is a sign of truley good friends. You can get together and pick up right where you left off. It's great to know that you don't have to always be in touch since we all have crazy lives but you can still be friends. Oh I wish I had a photo on my computer of us girls back in the day and then the one that we took last week. Well you will get the one from last week and we will get one from back in the day sometime.
Thank you Amanda and Saundra (and Dan and Wade) for making the trip out to my house to get together. It was a lot of fun!
You are all so WONDERFUL!
LOVE YOU GIRLS!

Blessings

There are times in your life that make you sit back and realize how wonderful your life is. It may be one of your worst days and you are feeling down in the dumps but then you get to thinking about certin things in your life and realize that you have got it good. The past two weeks or so I have realized that I am very blessed.
My father underwent a few medical procedures within the past few weeks and I am so greatful to say he is now home and healing well. It turned out to be more than we all had expeced, but I am so greatful that everything turned out well and he is doing better. There were a lot of prayers on his behalf and I thank everyone!
I am also greatful for my mother and the time she spent with my father and for being by his side though all of this. My parents also have some wonderful friends who really care about them and were there for both of them.
Thank you to everyone for all that was done on my parents behalf.
I LOVE YOU DAD AND MOM! (I am so lucky and blessed!)

Clarification

I guess those of you who know me, know I would not have bought that "motor home".
I guess those of you who know Aaron, know he would have bought that "motor home".
NO we didn't buy it even though, yes Aaron would have loved to have had it but to tell you the truth it isn't for sale to my knowledge. I saw it and took a picture, found it interesting.
Sorry for the confusion! HA HA!

Our New Motor Home

Aaron and I have been wanting to buy a Motor Home so that when we take the 4wheeler out we have something to camp in instead of always being in the tent. You know it gets a bit cold here in Utah.
Last night Aaron called me all excited and had to have me meet him at the dealership. I saw it and my breath was taken away....I LOVED IT! We went back and forth with them on the cost and finally got it to a reasonable monthly payment for he and I. I can't wait to take it out. We will be going out this weekend with the 4wheeler and playing in the mountains with our new motor home. Can't wait!

Isn't she a beauty!

COLORS!

So my friend Annie that I meet when we were roomies down in Provo has gotten me to enjoy the music and entertainment of COLORS quite a bit. Now here are these three high school buddies who started a band and have ran with it. Now they have families and have "retired" from the music industry. But they have "come out of retirement" a few times now for a concert. Oh what a great idea! The other week I went with Annie, Christian and Alisha to their latest concert. There are many great parts to a COLORS concert....




As you can see.....










But I think I would have to say that one of the best parts is when Brian does his rap! He takes words that are yelled out from the audience and will make up a rap right there.
I have been trying to attach that video now for two days but can't....SORRY! I will work on it and you will see if it works or not!

Leave it up to the sister-in-laws

It has been great! Three months ago Aarons sister had her second cute little girl. Her middle name is Marie, but they got their birth certificate and it's Marci. I don't see any need to change it. But I don't always get my way. It's great having them close so that I have a baby to snuggle.

Then just over a week ago Aaron's other sister had her 4th cute little boy. Once again it's great that my basis are being covered by the sister-in-laws in the baby department. They aren't as close to go visit and snuggle but I am sure I will find my way up there to do so.

Oh they are just so cute I want to squeeze them!

St. George Temple

I had that chance to go down to St. George to be with my friend when she entered the temple for the first time. It had been a long time since I had seen Krystal so it was great to see her and see her in the temple for that matter. What a great expereance to have. I love being in the temple with close friends and family, those who mean a lot to you. Congratulations Krystal! And thank you so much for inviting me. It was great to see you and to see your family!

Hold strong little root...

While Aaron was gone on his two week motorcycle ride we got a nice wind storm...I had to take proof to show him before I went out to push those trees back up. HA! There was no "pushing" them back up, I would have had to stand out there and hold them. They are upright now. We had to do the whole stake then to poles things. CRAZY WIND we get here in Highland!

Phoenix!

I just returned from a wonderful trip to Phoenix for my 10 year class reunion. Now I am not saying that the reunion it self was the best but there were many parts of my trip while in Phoenix that I quite enjoyed.
To start it off I decided to hold a party at my parents house so I could see all those that I truly wanted to see which weren't going to the reunion. So we had a big group over and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was great being able to see so many of you. It's been quite some time since I have seen some of you.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME AND COMING! (it's always nerve-racking to put on a party and worry about people coming and even having fun)



I have many more photos, not the best but if any of you are interested let me know. I would love to forward them on to you. Thanks again!

On Friday I was able to meet up with two of my friends that we have started a tradition together. So way back when I worked at Life Uniform my manager Connie and I would love to order lunch from Macayo's. So now every time that I come into town we meet at Macsyo's with Sue Lavon and enjoy our lunch. I LOVE the baja sauce from there, that is what I go for. It is always great to see them.

Saturday was the big class reunion. Now a few of you have asked for a complete update on how the night was. Really it was okay. I don't know what I was expecting but I am glad I went and I don't think I will be attending many more of those. We will have to keep up the family get together that we had over at my parents house. That was MUCH more fun to me. Darcy and I went over together and I was able to see a few good friends from high school.

To view the photos and even order photos from the photographer that was there that evening go to www.freezframfoto.com you will then click on reunions and then our high school name and enter the password (it's our school mascot) and enjoy load of fun!




Then on Sunday I had a friend come visit me with her extreamly cute daughter. Jen and I worked together at the Preschool many years ago. It was great to see her and Bella and catch up with them.

Okay how has seen Mamma Mia? Way cute (yes cheesy) movie. I went and saw it on Sautrday with my mom and dad. It was a lot of fun to be able to spend time with them. Had time to relax and visit. I was also able to go with my mom out to my dads office and see where he works and also go to lunch with him. I really enjoyed it. Thank you Mom and Dad.

Happy Birthday to me!

That time of year has come and gone again and I have gotten another year older. What happened to the times that you looked forward to getting older and having your birthday?
The birthday celebration started off Wednesday night when my friends took me to see Brain Regan. We had a lot of fun and can I tell you that man is so funny. I had the privilege to see him the next night too. Aaron and I had bought tickets before my friends surprised me with tickets to go with them, but like I said, he is so funny it was great to see him twice. So Thursday night Aaron and I went with some friends of ours. I had a lot of fun and had some good laughs.















It continued onto Friday, the real birthday....I didn't have to work Friday and I was able to spend the day how I wanted to. I started off the day by getting a pedicure which is always so relaxing. After that I then met up with my friend Missy and we had lunch.


I then went over and spent sometime with my sister in law and two very cute niece's and did a little shopping with them.
When Aaron got home from work, he took me out to eat at my favorite place....Texas Roadhouse. YUMMY!
Overall it was a great day! Just got to exclude that getting older part. That is tough but we all seem to get over it.
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes, cards, phone calls....EVERYTHING!
I have great family and friends!
Love you all!

Lake Powell at last....

You would think that with growing up in Arizona and traveling to Utah through Page, we might have stopped and at least stood on the beach of Lake Powell but that never happened. Now after 28 years of my life I finally made it there.

Aaron and I spent 4 days in Powell with my friend and her husband. (yes she is my coworker too, but she is a friend and that is the most important part.) We had a great time and got quite lucky when I came to weather. We were able to sit on the beach where we camped without any neighbors and watch some amazing lightning storms followed by some beautiful rainbows.










Just sitting on the beach watching the waves, lightning, rainbows come and go....it's just so beautiful and amazing to watch the world work and SOOO RELAXING!!

We did attempt the whole water skiing things but yeah, it didn't work so well for us. We both tried and almost got up but, that is as far as it took us. To bad we are not pros like those that we were with.

That would be Steve...Pro
And that is Janet the Pro
Yep here is the amateur...closest I got to getting up.
and if you look hard through the water, you will see Aaron almost up.

I got to thinking about it and I think the last time that I tried to water ski was in 7th grade when we went to Bartlet Lake for Dusty's Birthday Party. WOW! how the years go by.


As I would wake up every morning I had the most beautiful view out our tent. I would sit there for a good hour plus and watch the sun come up over the mountains and the lake. One morning I finally convinced myself to grab the camera and take some pictures even though I knew it would wake Aaron up. (it's through the mesh so it's not the best but it's still beautiful to me)



We took a day trip and went to Rainbow Bridge. That is such a beautiful and spectacular site.


We had such a fun time and look forward to our next trip back to Lake Powell.
Thank you Janet and Steve!

Braking Dawn Girls Night

Okay so I am not done reading New Moon but I was invited by a friend in the ward to join her and some of the young woman and leaders in the ward to go to WalMart at 10:00pm on Friday August 1st. Yes, we stood in line with many others to get the new book. Now those of you who know me know that I am a people watcher and dang were there plenty of people to watch. It was quite interesting. At the front of the line stood....okay sat 3 men. Now were they given the choice to either put the kids to bed or go get the book for their wife? Who knows. But it was fun to be with some of the girls from my ward. After they all got their books and we all checked out, the group of 18 of us went over to IHOP for a girls birthday breakfast. YES, breakfast at 1:00am....crazy I know. Just like the old days, but dang I am to old for that now. I have tried to force myself to sit and read more so that I can get to Braking Dawn but you know when you see the weeds and bushes out of control, laundry piling up as well as the dishes in the sink starting to smell, you put the book down. Maybe one day I will get New Moon finished and attempt to read eclipse. Sorry to all of you that I have offended who have read the book more than once, I promise I will get there and THEN and ONLY THEN can you discuss the book with me.

Yes some could not wait til we were out of WalMart to get started.

Others waited but not long, yes they all had their noses in the book while we were at IHOP. But they did stop long enough for a photo.

Family Festivities

July started out and finished with quite a bit of family fun. We started off the month with my family coming up the second week of the month for a early 80th birthday for my grandmother (my mom's mother). That was a lot of fun to be able to get together with the aunts and uncles and cousin on that side. We used to get together more often but it hasn't been happening as much anymore. We had a day full of fun and a little structure trying to get family photos.

This is grandma and her grandchildren. We are missing 5 of the grandchildren but we had to get a photo with those that were there.
It looks like our engagement photos all over again. Just 2 1/2 years of marriage photos instead.

We even got Grandma to take the first swings at her pinata.


The family then stayed around for that week and we were able to do a lot of fun things.....from going up American Fork Canyon to fish


....family night in the park

Really when was the last time that you got at the top of that hill, laid on your side and rolled down a hill? Yeah it's been quite sometime for me, but let me tell you that was so much fun!
I was unable to join them for the trip to the dinosaur museum but it looks like they had a lot of fun and weigh as much as a dinosaur all put together.

But they did seem to escape the jaws of the shark and get to safety...

We also went to Ragging Waters one day with the family. It's amazing how much fun you can have ALL DAY in the sun.
EVERYONE joined in the fun in the water, yes even Grandma....

By the end of the day everyone is tuckered out....

We ended the week off with a family reunion on my Dad's side. We got quite a few of us there for it being a short but sweet reunion. We went up Provo Canyon and had a nice picnic.
There was plenty of time for lost of visiting and of coarse the family group photos. We had all but three in our family photo, my husband who came and did his part had gone home, Drew had to stay home and work and Elder Scott of coarse was not given permission to leave Veracruz, Mexico for a few hours to come to a family reunion. It's great to see grandpa with his kids, and look he had them all there, all the 6 original.

It is great to know that you have a great family that love and support you. It's also fun getting together for reminiscing and getting a good laugh.