A little family fun

Today we had some family from California come up and so it was a good opportunity to have the rest of the family over for a little summer fun. Seth and I were just hanging out on the swing so I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures of us.

And other one, he cracks me and he's SO cute!

Then my Dad decided to walk the kids over to the neighbors pond to see the fishes. Jodi and Seth checking out the fishes.

The boys out by the pond, just chilling.

Debra and Grandma catching up a little.

I decided to snap a few pictures randomly of everyone just hanging out in the family room.

The only person who actually paid attention that I was taking a picture was Donna. Thanks for smiling! It was fun to see some of the family that I haven't seen for a year. It will be a fun and I'm sure a little crazy week while they are here but we will LOVE it!!!

This made my day -- no my WEEK!!!!

I have to say that I love stupid people -- they make me laugh! As I was driving around trying to figure out what to do for lunch I saw something that totally made my WEEK!!! I was at the stop light on University Parkway by Olive Garden and Albertson's, I understand that that intersection is kind of confusing -- but seriously it's not THAT hard to figure out. Every once in a while you are privileged to get some entertainment at that intersection and today it happened to me. A truck stopped in the middle of the intersection looking like an idiot for the whole world to see. I've seen this happen before but I've never had a camera or either been able to get my camera out fast enough to snap a few pictures. All that changed today -- Woo Hoo!!! I was turning left when this event happened, so I did a U-turn and went back to snap a few photos for my blog! Enjoy, I'm still laughing!

(It's not a fire truck, it's one of those trucks that fixes company's signs.)

I forgot another funny fact, so as I was sitting there waiting for my light to turn green I was thinking about the fact that I hadn't seen anyone stuck in the middle since December and how sad that was! And then look what happened -- I'm not kidding when I say this made my day!

Disney Princess

Just for fun...

You Are Aurora! (A.K.A. Sleeping Beauty.)

Thoughtful and loving. Authority figures probably have been sheltering you all of your life. Thankfully you're a very tranquil person who is content with what life has given you, but secretly you want to know how the outside world works.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

I think it's kind of accurate, but not a 100% right on this time.

Happy Father's Day!!!!

I wanted to take a moment to wish all the father's that I know a "Happy Father's Day!" I hope that everyone had a wonderful day! I also want to let my Dad know how much I love, respect and appreciate having him in my life. I could go on and on about how amazing my Dad is, but for now I won't, I will just say...I love you, Dad! (You can see a few reasons as to why I think my Dad is SO amazing here.)

ABC Tag....

A} ATTACHED OR SINGLE: Single
B} BEST FRIEND: I have too many REALLY good friends to start naming names, you all know who you are. :)
C} CAKE OR PIE: Cake
D} DAY OF CHOICE: Saturday -- I get to sleep in!!!
E} ESSENTIAL ITEMS: Lotion and chap stick in Utah!
F} FAVORITE COLOR: Purple
G} GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS: Gummy Bears
H} HOMETOWN: Wildomar, CA
I} INDULGENCE: REALLY good chocolate stuff -- anything chocolate I would have to say
J} JANUARY OR JULY: January
K} KIDS?: None
L} LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT: Family, friends, good books and music of course! :)
M} MARRIAGE DATE: N/A
N} NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS: 2 sisters, 2 brothers -- I'm in the middle
O} ORANGES OR APPLES: Both if they are juicy and cold!
P} PHOBIAS OR FEARS: Heights and spiders
Q} QUOTE: "What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" -- Robert Schuller
R} REASON TO SMILE: Too many to count, but a few are: beautiful spring days, music with a good beat, family, friends and many, many more reasons.
S} SUPERMAN OR WONDER WOMAN? If I have to choose since I'm not really into either it would be Superman.
T} TAG 5 PEOPLE: Amy, Jodi, Alisa, Sandie, Janna -- and whoever else wants to play.
U} UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT ME: I won't watch scary or even a suspenseful movie. I'm a chicken when it comes to stuff like that. I like to watch movies to relax. :)
V} VEGETABLES: Cucumbers are my all time favorite -- but generally I like almost all vegetables.
W} WORST HABIT: Sometimes my follow through is really lacking...
X} X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND: I've only had x-rays so I can't really say for sure...
Y} YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: Brazilian and Mexican
Z} ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus

A chilly day at the property...

Sunday afternoon I went out to Mom and Dad's property with Dave, Amy and Seth. We found it to be a little on the chilly side -- but we had a great time. Here is Grandma with Seth just hanging out on the swing.

Grandma and Seth on the quads. He liked it up until it got started and it was a little too noisy for him. One day he will want to go for rides. The sad thing is that it was too cold to even take the quads out for a little spin. :(

We did try to get Seth used to the helmet for future use. ;)

Amy and Seth having a little ride in the wagon.

We had a super YUMMY dinner out there with Mom and Dad and their friends. Mom and Dad went out to the property with the purposed of building the bunkhouse over the long weekend. Due to the weather we ate inside protected from the wind. They did a lot considering the wind, rain and hail they had over the weekend. It's going to be great to have more room out there for sleepovers and to hang out in.

Despite the cool temperatures we had a great time. Seth was very talkative and entertaining on the drive out, so that was a lot of fun!!! Thanks Mom and Dad for being great hosts, your property looks wonderful!

Sandie's Birthday

We decided to do something different for Sandie's birthday. To start off our adventures we went to somewhere none of us had gone before...

It was fantastic! We were able to sit outside and enjoy the nice weather with some really yummy food! Their mile high biscuits are SO good! It's a fun old diner that I highly recommend if you are near Emigration Canyon.

Then we had a picnic later in the day after Stephanie joined us with all of Sandie's favorite foods. I had forgotten how fun it is to have a picnic and just chill in the great outdoors.

Stephanie and Jenn having a little fun with their drink cups. :)

I thought this was a fun picture of Sandie taking her self-portrait.

Stephanie having a little fun just being herself. We had a great day hanging out and doing things that were out of the norm for us. Once again...Happy Birthday Sandie!!! (It only took me 2 weeks to do the post.)

Mother's Day & May Birthdays

We had a wonderful day celebrating Mother's Day and our May birthdays in the family. Here is Mom and Dad as Mom was opening our gift.

All of siblings got together and picked something that we had learned from Mom and wrote about it. Then Amy did the design and put them in frames. Mom loved her gift and it was a good time for all of us to reflect on what Mom has taught us over the years. Thank you for everything Mom, I love you!

We took a picture of all the Mom's in our family. Top: Janna, Debra, Jodi and Michelle.
Bottom: Amy, Mom, Aunt Diane. I hope all the Moms had a great Mother's Day!

We had a BBQ this afternoon, here is McKay and Carter hanging out waiting for things to get started.

Here is Seth playing with the rocks that he found in Grandma's backyard.

I couldn't resist posting this picture of Talmage climbing around.

Our May birthdays are Sandie and Peyton. Sandie's is on the 15th and Petyon's is the 10th. Happy Birthday you two! So, Peyton had a wonderful day yesterday and Sandie's special day is coming up this week!!

Here is Peyton with her purse that Janna made her, it's way cute!

David's family made Sandie this fun candy gram card for her birthday.

It was perfect weather and a great day! Thanks to everyone for coming and helping with the BBQ! Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing Mothers out there!

Girls Night Out

We had our Girls Night Out a couple of weeks ago, yes I know a little slow on posting about it. We had some YUMMY food to start off with. I made this Black and White Bean Dip. It was SO easy and YUMMY! You can find the recipe here at The Sisters' Cafe. Debra made a really good queso dip as well.

Water flavored with oranges, it was WAY good. I am not a huge fan of lemon water but I liked the oranges.

For our activity Amy showed us how to use Photoshop. It was really educational. I personally think that it's way cool to see all the different things that Amy comes up with in Photoshop. Thanks to Amy my blog always looks super cute. It was a laid back night but a lot of fun. Here is Abby trying to be apart of the fun. It's rough being a kid sometimes. ;)

Thanks girls for a fun night, can't wait for next time. As I am finishing this post I realized that we didn't actually take a picture of those who attended. Oh well, there is always next time. :)

A Milestone For My Blog!!!!

This is my 100th post, I kind of thought the
day would never come
when I first thought about setting up my own blog last year.
I thought that I didn't do enough interesting things to
post but thankfully I was WRONG! :)
I love my blog, it's kind of like the journal that I don't keep. :)
So to celebrate my 100th post, I came up with a few
of my favorites things that I like to do,
with the word ONE HUNDRED.


Here is a "brief" explanation as to why I choose what I did.
I LOVE to cook/bake because I feel like that is where my creative juices come to life.
In my opinion who doesn't like to talk? But I really do enjoy talking, you should see how many minutes I use a month on my cell phone. Thank goodness for early unlimited nights and weekends! :)
Reading a great book is one of my favorite past times. Oh how I love to lose myself in a good book. Some of my favorites are any books by Anita Stansfield, the Twilight Series and Harry Potter. I have others but those three stand out.
As I was thinking of what words to use for this at first was kind of stumped when it came to the letter "H" and then all of the sudden it hit me...HAIR!!! DUH? We all know that I LOVE my HAIR and I am not shy about it, so need I say more?
I really can't stand silence and I just love how music has the ability to change your mood. There have been so many days when I've been just BLAH but then an upbeat song comes on and I totally do a 180 with my mood.
Night time -- I am such a night owl, it's like my body wakes up between 8-10pm. :)
I LOVE my family, what else can I say? I love that we are all living in the same valley for now.
Road trips -- who doesn't love hitting the road with great music and friends? There's just something about getting out of town that is exciting and driving to a new place.
Portuguese -- yes, I do still love it and I try to practice it as much as I can. It's such a pretty language and I really enjoy knowing a second language.
DVDs -- I classify this as movies. Whether it's watching movies in the theater or having a fun movie party at home, I love watching movies. They can be a break from reality which we all need from time to time. ;)

I know that was kind of a crazy paragraph but I hope it gives you a
little insight to some of my favorite things.
YAY -- Happy 100thPost!!!