Labor Day Weekend!

We had such a fun Labor Day weekend!! Friday night we got together with some friends (John and Laurie, and Adam and Cami) from our old ward to do a “70’s Night.” What great friends (and what a wonderful husband) I have to put up with my dumb theme night parties! But, it was a BLAST!!! We had some yummy food (fondue, Jalapeno poppers, yummy chips and dip, and “marijuana brownies.”)
Then we played “whipping cream twister” and it was so FUN!! I haven’t laughed so hard in such a long time!! Everyone got pretty messy, but I think that poor Laurie got the worst of it though!! What a good sport! Darin brought me goggles just to be funny, but I am glad that he did because they came in handy! After twister we watched “We are Marshal (which took place in the 70’s). It was such a fun night! Thanks again for coming you guys!! Here are a few pictures from the night! Oh and thanks a bunch Heather for the twister game!















Saturday Darin and I went down to Provo for the Story Telling Festival with my parents! It was really fun too!! They had some interesting music to start with and I thought it was going to be weird, but it was really fun, and they had some really great performers!! Darin and I are still laughing about it!! Thanks a ton mom and dad for taking us, and thanks a ton Heather for watching Matthew for us so we could go!



Sunday was pretty much a normal Sunday except I decided to try a new recipe. Is it just me or has “Pho” been everywhere lately? I swear I have heard it like 3 times on TV in the last week so I decided to give it a try. It was pretty good. If you want the recipe it should be on my food blog soon.



Monday we went up to Woodland to see Darin’s brother Rick and family. They were doing a little kids rodeo and it was so fun! Our nephew Luke rode a cow and did a great job! Noah road a sheep and made it across the whole arena! Matthew and Eli ran a little race together, and got a soda for trying! Luke and Noah also chased chickens and a pig, and if they caught it they could take it home! Even though neither caught one, I think they still had a great time! Olivia and especially enjoyed the little shops, and both dream of the day we will have a girl to make cute stuff for! Thanks Rick and Olivia for the fun morning and the yummy lunch!!

Matthew and Eli's Race:




Running after that chicken!

Matthew and Eli:




After Kamas we headed back down to Bountiful for a swim and after mom and dad had us over for dinner!


My favorite part of the pool was Rachel wearing her winter coat over her swim suit!


Oh, and you can’t go to the pool without getting a yummy popsicle from Grandpa!

Kristy's Baby Shower

This weekend was so much fun! My sister Heather threw a baby shower for my sister-in-law Kristy! She did such a good job with all the decorations, and the FOOD!!! Mmmm…so good!! We are so excited for Ben and Kristy and can’t WAIT to meet baby Eliza!!

Lindsay's Bridal Shower

I have a super cute friend Lindsay! She is one of my absolute favorite people! She was my roomie down at BYU and some of my best memories of college are because of her! Here are a few pictures from memory lane!








Thursday we had a little bachelorette party/bridal shower to celebrate Linds at Macaroni Grill. Here are a few of the pictures!! I so SOOO excited for you linds!! Congrats babe!!

Trip to Italy!

Last night Darin and I took a little vacation to Italy!! We had SOOO much fun! We started out by dropping Matt off at my parent’s house then we took a “flight” (of stairs) up to my parent’s balcony! There was a cute little Italian bistro! We listened to Italian love songs while we ate our delicious dinner!
Our trip was a little long for Matthew so he took a flight to see us!


We started out with a delicious caprese salad


Then we had chicken parmigiana, pasta, and breadsticks (that I forgot to take a picture of). Then for dessert we had Italian sabayon!



Dinner was so much fun! We had a candlelight dinner, twinkle lights surrounding us, and a great view of my parent’s neighbor’s beautiful waterfall. (I know this picture doesn’t show it all that well).


After dinner we threw some coins into the “fountain of love.” Then Matthew and Darin ran through the fountains (aka the sprinklers!)






We left “Venice” and went to our hotel in “Tuscany” and watched a foreign film “Life is Beautiful” then hit the red eye flight back to the states! It was such a fun night! Thanks again mom and dad for your help, letting us use your balcony, watching Matthew, and everything else! And thank you Darin, for putting up with my silly little adventures and making them so fun!

Busy Week!!

We’ve had a very busy, and very fun week this week!! It started out on Saturday with one of my favorite events of the summer! We go my friend Lindsay’s Backyard Concert!! It was so much fun (as it is every year)!! The weather was perfect! I was a little nervous because it had been pouring rain in Bountiful when we left, but when we got to Park City it was cool and comfortable! The food was delicious, the music was fabulous, the company was great, but my favorite part was getting to meet Lindsay’s new fiancé!! SOOO excited for you love!!





Matt kept flirting with these girls that we didn’t even know!


Lindsay singing with her dad!


Lindsay and her new fiancé Pete!! Congrats you two!!



Sunday was kind of a crazy day! Last week I got called to be the new Young Women’s President, but I didn’t get released from being Primary President. I thought I had everything worked out so that I would just need to go to Young Women’s, but when I got to church my Primary councilor had a last minute emergency and needed me to do sharing time! So, I taught Young Women’s AND did sharing time (luckily the Stake did most of it)!! I am really sad to leave Primary—especially my secretary! She was AMAZING and we had so much fun together. But I am looking forward to Young Women even though this is my first calling in YW so I am a REALLY nervous! Especially with Darin being scout master and both of us going to mutual every week with 2 kids! Pray for us!!

Monday we had a fun day! My cousin Katie came over for a visit with her husband Dallin and two kids! They are so cute! Matthew had so much fun with them!! We wish that they lived closer so that we could get together with them more!

Elizabeth, Matthew, and Daniel


After our visit with the Anderson’s Darin and I dropped off Matthew at my sister’s house, and went to the doctor. While we were there we found out that #2 is a BOY!!! I think it will be really fun for Matthew to have a little buddy to hang around with! I was 100% positive that #2 was a girl, and I was totally wrong! (Obviously!)

Thursday Darin and I were supposed to go to Lehi to have dinner with two of Darin’s cousin’s and their spouses, but last minute Darin had to work late. I decided to go without him and I am SO glad I did!! We had so much fun!! Just wanted to say a quick thank you to you wonderful ladies! Love you Kelli and Amy!! (and John and Tommy!)

Also, our garden has been doing AWESOME!! No thanks to me! Darin has done such a great job with everything! We’ve had SOOO much produce!! We’ve had 3 kinds of tomatoes, 2 kinds of squash, 2 kinds of eggplants, zucchini, beets, diacons, carrots, corn, 2 kinds of swiss chard, cantelope, watermelon, 2 kinds of cucumbers, 3 kinds of peppers, all kinds of herbs, rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries, apples, apricots, and hopefully we’ll still get some peaches. Here is Darin and Matt with one of our spaghetti squashes!



Whew!! What a week!!