Reunion

On Tuesday I went to dinner with Sheri Stromness, Lindsey Moffat and Trista Bytheway. We had a GREAT time!! It's probably been 14 years since all of us were together and it was really fun to catch up. We've come a long way since freshman/sophmore years. We're all married with 2-4 kids apiece. We all have different degrees and our husbands have different jobs but we're all moms and we still have a lot in common. It was fun to look at photos from freshman year and wonder what happened to all of our old Gates/Kimball hall friends. So much time had passed but it didn't seem like anything really had changed. Here are some photos from the evening--it was windy and there was no one around to take the pictures but us. Sorry about the mustache photo, Trista, but it was too funny not to post!!

More baptism photos

Here's one of my little family at the baptism and a few others.

And even more!

Aren't we cute?

More Swimming

I found more swimming photos and here they are.

Jarrad & Jordan's baptisms

Last Wednesday the 23rd my nephew Jarrad and his cousin Jordan were baptized! It was a great experience to participate in their baptisms. Alex said, "I want to get baptized but I have to wait 3 years!". Only one more for Jenny though!! Here are some photos.

Swimming

Here are more photos. The last one is of my Dad with all but 2 of his grandkids. Emmalyn & Marley are missing. The kids are Alex, Jenny, Daniel, Spencer, Weston, Sammie and Jarrad.

Swimming

My parents have a great kid friendly pool at their apartment complex and we went up twice last week to spend some time in the sun! I think that if I lived there I'd be at the pool every day!! Here are some photos of the fun!

4th of July

So I know that I'm a little late with the 4th of July celebration photos, but I wanted to post some anyway. Our friends the Jensens were in town for a family reunion and they came and stayed with us for 2 nights. We had a great time seeing them and catching up. We went to the parade, took them hiking up the Alpine loop, ate lots of yummy food and watched the fireworks from the Stadium of Fire from our house. Here are some photos of the fun!

John Mayer

So Lance & I went to the John Mayer concert Monday. It was awesome!! He is SUCH an amazing guitarist! Wow, we were so impressed! And I must say that if I weren't an old married lady my room would be covered with his photos!! He Definitely gets hotter in person. Yeah, I know I shouldn't be swooning over such a sexy voice but Lance has a man crush on him so it's okay if I have an old married lady crush on him too. :)
p.s. Thanks Mom and Dad for watching the munchkins!!

New Towels

We share a washer/dryer with our neighbors downstairs who have only been married for a year and I've noticed how much nicer and fluffier their towels are than ours. So I started dreaming about new towels, remembering the early days of marriage when I had a fluffy towel to dry off with after bathing. Well my dreaming turned into desiring and last week Lance & I bought two new towels--the kids still get the crappy ones, they don't know the difference. I washed and dried them and then used one--they are maroon--and it was super fluffy and super soft. But then I noticed that I was covered with little red dots of towel fluff. Sigh. So now I will wash them a few more times and wait for them to be a little less new so they don't leave me looking like I have a rash. Alas and alack, new towels aren't everything I had dreamed of.
Shiree

Kittens

We found a home for the kittens!!! We were very excited Monday to send Patches and Skip to a new home with a nice couple (no kids) to be loved and spoiled!! Although we miss them a lot we are very glad they will be safe and taken care of properly. And happy.
Whooo-hooo
Shiree & Jenny