Weekend With Friends

This past Friday Bobbie, Rachel, and I first to see the musical "Nunsense". It was extremely funny and very entertaining. We then met up with Colt and Jake and went to listen to some dueling pianos at the Tavernacle. Good times were had by all.

Bobbie and Rach

Colt and Jake

The three girls

Colt and I

Colt, Jake, and I

Me and Bobbie

Feeding the Geese

Thursday morning I took Morgan and Lauren over to Liberty Park to feed the geese. We had a sleepover Wednesday and had a great time watching movies, holding Izzie, eating Spaghetti Factory and McDonalds, and playing at the park.

Sitting on the bench trying to throw the "donut" (it was really a bagel) far enough to reach the geese. Morgan had quite the arm.
I think they ate more of the bagels than they fed the geese.

They had to walk across the bridge before we left. It was lots of fun!!

Nephi Rodeo

I would have posted about this earlier, but I didn't have any pictures until I stole them off of Heather's blog. Last Saturday I headed down to the Nephi rodeo with Rachel, Heather, and Bridger. This is probably one of my favorite rodeos I have been to. I have only gone twice, but plan to go every year. They had fireworks, the One Armed Bandit, and of course bull riding. But I think the real reason any of us go is for all the cute cowboys!

I think this was taken before Bridger warmed up to any of us.....you would think that it would work to bribe a 2 year old with fruit snacks to come sit on your lap. He was not having it! Bridge did warm up a little later on in the night with a milky way and some starbursts.

Thanks for the pics, Heath!

A Day at the Zoo

Today Kara, My Mom, and I took the four kids (Cooper, Sophie, Morgan, and Lauren) to the zoo. I love going to the zoo and today was exceptionally fun. I ended up taking about 80 pictures between the kids and the animals so there are quite a few on my blog. I just couldn't decide.

I forget what kind of monkey this is, but I thought he was so cute!

Mom, Sophie, and Lauren looking at some type of reptile.

Eating snow cones...I was a little disappointed because they didn't have lime. I love lime!

Showing our colored tongues from the snow cones. I apparently don't know how to get it everywhere so my tongue turns red.

The mama giraffe eating leaves. Their tongues were so long. It was pretty crazy.

Measuring up against the Gorilla.

I thought this was such a cute picture of Lauren.

Cooper asked, "Will you post that on the blog?" So here you go Coop!

Our one and only group shot in front of the zebras. I think we covered them up though.

Pulling funny faces in the giraffe exhibit.

Looking at the turkeys. You can't go to the zoo without seeing the turkeys!

Sophie and I posing.

Lauren and Morgan in front of the white alligator.

The kids huddling by the gorilla.

The adults wanted a picture together so we recruited Sophie to take the picture. A little off center, but not too bad.

Journey and Heart Concert

Last night a big group of friends headed out to Usana Amphetheater to see Journey and Heart in concert. Cheap Trick also played before the "big dawgs" came on. It was a fabulous concert! Journey had a new lead singer they found on YouTube. He was Asian and he sounded just like the original singer. It was very trippy.

Kristen and Shane made it just as Heart started singing. They were stuck in horrible traffic.


Rachel, Lauren, and Erin

Me and Rach

Bobbie (at least she's not trying to be a gansta again!)

Rachel and Kristen posing during Journey

Me and Erin eating nachos and waiting for the concert to begin.

Just after Cheap Trick started singing. They were good, but I think I only knew one song.

Kristen and Shane....You can kind of see Heart in the background.

Me and Andrea....She took the roll of gangsta instead of Bobbie!

I didn't get any real good pictures of the bands during the concert, but you couldn't see it real well in the camera. We did have great seats. Smack dab in the middle just behind the railing on the grass. It pays to go a bit early.....no traffic and great seats!

Summer Adventures 1 & 2

This summer Rachel, Rebekah, and I have decided to do things around the Salt Lake Valley. We made a list of activities and places that we have never done or seen and have been going weekly to do one of these activities. Our first activity was hiking to the Timpanogas Caves. I had never hiked it and Rachel and Rebecca hadn't hiked it since they were little. It was a fun hike, but it was pretty hard. The caves were very cool to see.

Here we are standing after we barely made it to the top. Hopefully by the end of the summer we will be in shape with all these activites.

Here we are with our tour guide. I forgot what his name was, but he sure did love his job. He was a very animated person.

Gilgal Gardens, Salt Lake City Cemetary, Hatch Family Chocolates
These three things were our next adventure. The Gilgal Gardens is a sculpture garden that a man began creating in 1945. It was pretty cool to see the rock sculptures, but they were very interesting. There was one sculpture that was the Sphinx with Joseph Smiths head. Very interesting!!!

Rebekah stading in front of the "Captain of the Lord's Hosts"

Me sitting in my rock chair reading about the gardens. Do I look intelligent? (That is what I was going for, but I was more worried about sucking in my belly!)

Rachel eating her Wendy's on a rock.

"The Monument of the Trade" It is a sculpture of Thomas B. Child, Jr. (the man who created the gardens).

Standing under "The Monument of the Priesthood"

Hatch Family Chocolates.....Mmmm, chocolate covered bananas. They are fabulous!

Rachel being disgusting with my banana! How could you get ice cream when there is chocolate covered bananas involved???? I don't get it.

I didn't post any pictures of us in the cemetary because I think they are kind of creepy.

Hiking with Alex

Last week my friend, Alex, and I decided to go hiking. We decided that today was the day. We went up Milcreek canyon and hiked up "Rattlesnake Gulch". I think it is also called the pipeline. It was only about 2 miles, but for the first mile it was straight up hill. I warned Alex that I might pass out and not to make fun of me. Surprisingly I did pretty good. I did make it to the top so that counts for something, right?!?

Here is Alex standing next to the "Rattlesnake Gulch" sign.

Here is Alex and I at the beginning of the trail.....before I began to sweat immensely!

These two pictures are the view from the top of the mountain....you could see the city better if there wasn't so much smog! It was so disgusting to see how smoggy the city is and to think that we actually breathe that stuff!

We made it!!! Actually Alex had no problem, but me on the other hand is a little fatter and out of shape. :) This is us as we made it around the first bend toward the lookout point. We even got to see a deer run across the trail about 50 feet in front of us. It was a fun hike and there was a great view of the valley.