Oh how I've missed you...

California.

So we went on a little trip. To visit mi familia. We had it all planned out...well most of it planned. We left on a Tuesday & came back on Monday. Man it was awesome. What made it even better was that we missed the earthquake. Anyway, Wednesday we were suppose to go see my favorite Late Late night TV host Craig Ferguson.
He's on CBS right after David Letterman. {Another favorite of mine.} But I don't know what it is about Craig, maybe his scottish/british accent. I've always had a thing for an accent. Plus he's just down right funny. I'll be watching it in bed while Mike is sleeping & I'll have to go into the other room because I'm laughing too loud. Dang he's good. Check him out if you wanna laugh. SO....we drove all the way to Hollywood. 2 hours to be exact. & as we are walking up to the CBS lot where we needed to go be to go to the show this guy in a black V-neck tells us we're too late & they are full. That people had been waiting since noon to get into the show. What?! How come I reserved tickets to the show online then V-neck? Well you can come back tomorrow the wanna be day's of our lives actor says. No I'm not coming back tomorrow, I'm not driving another 2 hours, PLUS I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow. So as pissed as I was that I wasn't going to see Craig and Sir Ben Kingsley & the crap I gave my brothers for making me 10 minuets late {we definitely would have gotten in if we were there 10 min earlier.} We went shopping in Beverly Hills.
It did make me feel better. I got a bloody hot purse & some killer threads. Not to mention some rad accessories. So after our adventures in Beverly Hills we went to visit my Grandparents. They are in an "assisted living" home. My poor dear grandma has Dementia & my grandpa had a bit of a drinking problem so he would fall a lot & break bones. So together they were having a hard time in there own place. They are doing SO much better where they are...but I know my grandma is taking it harder. But it was wonderful to see them & dear old grandpa can't hear a thing but you know they loved seeing us rascals. After all the driving & shopping we were dead tired. Plus we had to sleep for our Magical day to follow.

The 4th

I know I know...Its been a while since I've got one of these things up here! I've been busy!

Anyway....



My favorite holiday..oh the 4th of JULY. Watermelon, BBQ's, heat, parades, & best of all...fireworks! It came & went, but it was a good day & I got paid for it too! I love that. So My dear husband had to miss out on some of the festivities due to his 'demanding' job. But I survived without him.

It all started with a parade.
I could not believe how many people could fit in Provo. & not to mention how rude they could be. {I'm just saying BYU.} It was my first experience with the Utah County crowd. At a parade that is. But it was a pretty darn good parade. They had balloons,


pirate floats


Me & Averi trying to be pirates!
& even Glenn Beck was there! Kudos Provo...Kudos.
We went to IHOP after to eat breakfast & I took this pictures of Averi & I though it was cute...
After that we went to the Freedom Festival. Which is kinda like a street fair. I bought a water & it was warm. Who sells warm water? Then after a quick nap we went to Mike's Uncle's for a BBQ and a wicked awesome firework show!

I didn't know if they were selling fireworks or what. But his uncle spent $1200 on fireworks...yeah.
It was a pretty good show. Music and all.








My cute mother-in-law Donna yelling at David to let him know that the cops were there! No tickets at least! Oh don't worry...he still had 100 fireworks left!

Even Jack was patriotic.

1 whole year...that's right. 1 year.

So Mike and I have been married a whole year now...on May 24th, 2008 that is. It was a pretty nice day. We didn't get to do much as Mike had school in the morning but the little dear boy brought home (my favorite) breakfast for me & flowers.



Sweet little boy. And we're hoping, for our 'anniversary' (cross your fingers for us) that we get to go to Budapest in October. So after the late breakfast we went shopping...my husband knows me very, very, well. I got me some good threads. Then we went to get some grub at Market Street Grill.
We had never been there...if you like seafood. You should go. It's good. After our long hard day we watched a movie and snacked. It was a nice day indeed.


Thanks again to Anna Page Photography for our amazing photo's.
www.annapagephotography.com

I love to Read.

So I don't know if you've heard but there is this lady or I guess you could call her an author ;) Her name is Stephenie Meyer. She made her debut with the book 'TWILIGHT.' For those of you who have yet to read these books about Vampires and Werewolves, (yes....Werewolves) I highly recommend that you get your butt to whichever bookstore, Wal-mart, or Target & buy them! Or I will let you borrow them. Or I'm sure your friend or co-worker will let you read theirs. Anyway I guess you can say I've become a wee bit if a fan of hers. I admirer her writing & the fact that she graduated from BYU. Her books are awesome. She doesn't throw any unwanted stuff for tweens or teens into them. So kudos to her. She really has it made for herself. She's been of the New York Bestseller List 4 times....oh she has only written 4 books. So 4 out of 4 ain't to bad. I have to admit though...it was a bit hard for me to get into the first book. I was just not into it @ first. And EVERYONE was telling me how much I would LOVE it...I guess I don't like to be told what I will or won't like.....but you all have to read them!!! ha! So I had a bit of a hard time with the first one...then, I got hooked. She traps you in with your excitement & wonder about Bella & these glamourous Vampires. And the second & third books...go by in a flash. Oh and they are making a movie. Check it out.

www.stepheniemeyer.com

So anyway what I'm really trying to get at is that I, being the complete nerd I am, went to see Mrs. Meyer @ her book signing for her new book 'THE HOST'.


Which I love more then the whole Twilight series. Yes I do. It's just really, really, good. So Jeanette, Kim & I all got tickets & went to see her. We were amongst many...of ALL ages as well! There were these High School gals sitting in front of us talking of Edward. The one wanted Bella to pick Jacob (the Werewolf) instead of Edward (the Vampire) so Edward would be "available" Jeanette & I looked @ each other as her friend said " you know that Edward is a Fictional character & you couldn't possibly be with him right?" We just laughed. There we "Twilight Moms" there, big ol' groups of people. Mike's cousins even drove down from Evanston, Wyoming to come see her. So we were just a little blrp amongst the canvas of "Twihards."




So Stephenie came in to the pandemonium of screaming girls & a handful of guys & answered a few questions. I just love her sense of humor. She's funny.


But of course when I got up to have her sign my books what do I say.....

me: "thanks for writing such awesome books."
steph: "well thank you for reading them."
me: " well as long as you keep writing them we'll keep reading them."
steph: "thank you"
me: " I hope you hand is going to be ok, you should get a massage...
steph: " yeah...I think they have a masseuse here.
me: "awesome...thank you."

That was it....I couldn't even be myself & say something cool that no one else would have said. Oh well. Stupid me for being star struck. We couldn't even take pictures up close either...I was kinda ticked. I wanted a picture with Stephenie so I could show my children someday. ha! Oh well...at least I have my books.
She really is an awesome person though. Very down to earth, humble & kind. I mean I'm sure she has made millions & she's just as cool as ever. So I hope to be like her when I make my millions! Until that day....

CINCO DE MAYO!!! { a tiny bit late }

So my dear little BFF decided to throw a (girls only) CINCO DE MAYO party at her cute little house in SLC. It was loads of fun with lotsa good food! She makes some of the best darn quesadilla's this side of the boarder! Everyone pitched in some good ol' mexican cuisine. I made some pretty good Pina Coladas too. We all tried to dress as authentic as we possibly could.



We also had a pinata. It was a chili pepper! Apparently it was poorly made cause Jeanette broke it down with her first whack @ the thing!

So we decided to throw it at each other. It worked quite well. Once we got the blasted thing open we got to try the Mexican delicacies. They were different. Not too bad, but different. The suckers were the best.

At least Sindee and I thought so.

All of the senoras....

"Do you even know what a plethora is?"

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY CAP'N JACK!!!

Jack had his first birthday on Saturday the 10th. Cute little guy...

So we took him to Petsmart to let him pick out a toy...He got that Alligator. He's been a really good dog since we've had him & pretty darn smart too. So I thought I'd show y'all his tricks. I'm such a proud mum!

SIT


UP


DANCE



LAY DOWN



HIGH FIVE



SHAKE RIGHT


SHAKE LEFT


We are working on others...but he really is a good, smart dog. He listens really well.






We LOVE him.



{ This is Jack showing that he is '1' }