It's Officially Summer! (Finally)

For Steph's birthday she decided that she wanted us to all go boating. So Todd took the afternoon off work and took us out to Willard Bay. I love boating so I was super excited. It rained pretty much all of June so this was one of the first real summer activities that we were able to do.

Normally I hate tubing because it scares me so bad! I volunteered to ride the tube with Colton so that I could be sure we'd be safe but that was a no go. But I decided to trust Todd when he said he wouldn't be too crazy of a driver while I was on. Here we are going pretty slow... I told him that this was a pretty acceptable speed but he said it was impossible to go that slow the whole time.

Here we are going much faster. I can't tell if my face looks like I'm having fun or not. But I really was!

Next was Lyns and Steph. They got going pretty fast

Somehow this is always what ended up happening when Steph and Lyns rode together. I would've thought that Lynsie was stronger than Steph but I guess not!

Colton stayed in his designated seat while we were tubing. But he kept trying to push us off the boat everytime we were carefully trying to climb in or out. Here he is trying to push poor Morgan off as she was climbing down. He almost got us everytime. Obviously he thought that he was pretty funny.

Morgan said that she was too scared to tube and that she didn't like it but finally we talked her into getting on and trusting Todd.

Steph said that Morg started screaming the second that the boat started moving. But as you can tell from the picture above... They were going slow enough for Steph to go "no handed."

Finally I got a picture of Morgan laughing instead of her screaming. So there is proof that she liked it! I am just proud that she gave it a shot even though she was really scared.

Lynsie thought that Colton looked pretty hot so she tried to help him out by dripping water on his head. I don't exactly know if he liked it or not.

Morgan decided that after her near death experience of tubing... we needed some relaxing swim time. So Lynsie decided to do some tricks for us. Here she is standing on the tube. While it may look easy... It really isn't.

Lyns and Steph rode the tube back in. They decided to end the day with one final trick. They are riding on their knees only holding on with one hand. Amazing!

Annie, Dave, and Mary were also here with us but they stayed up on the beach so that us girls could ride the boat. That was really nice of them. We had so much fun going boating. Thanks for inviting us to your birthday party Steph! And thanks for taking us Todd and Mary! We definitely need to do it again soon!

Happy Birthday America!

The 4th of July is probably my favorite holiday ever! For the past couple of years we have went to the Stadium of Fire in Provo. It is super fun! We have had really good luck. Last year was Miley Cyrus and this year was...

THE JONAS BROTHERS!!!

Ahh! We are totally Jo Bro Ho's at my house! We love them! They are so dang cute and so very talented! We decided to stay in Provo for the weekend so that we didn't have to drive back home after the long day.

On our 10 mile long trek from the car to the stadium we just happened to run into two of the Jonas Brothers themselves. Aren't they so handsome? They were so nice!

My parents were super excited to get their picture with Kevin and Joe as well! Especially my dad. He couldn't even contain it he was so excited!

Here we are waiting for the Jonas Brothers to start. Of course we had to have our Snowies while we waited to help cool us down.

Before the Jo Bros came out there were quite a few fun people that came out!

First was the ex-American Idol contestant David Osmond! He is so handsome! He was fun to see again.

Then Mr. Patriotic, Glenn Beck. He has hosted the Stadium of Fire the last few years. He does a very good job. My dad has a sort of obsession with him and while I am not quite as smitten with him as my dad is, he is kinda growing on me.

Then the 4 jets flew over and for some reason that always has such a patriotic feel to it.

Then the opening act... SheDaisy. They were pretty fun to watch. They sang fun songs that I knew so I liked it.

Then the moment we had all been waiting for...

Kevin, Joe, and Nick! Ahh!

They were even better than I was even expecting! They sang so many songs! And all good ones that we knew! Well I guess that they probably couldn't have picked a song that we don't know and love. We had so much fun listening to them and singing along. Everyone kept staring at us because we were dancing and singing at the top of our lungs. It was so fun!

Even mom and dad couldn't help but join in! But I should add that they sang an oldies song just for them. Sweet Caroline. I thought that was really cute of them to think of all the old people. And I was pretty glad to have proof that my dad really did love listening to them. He will try to act like he didn't but now we all know the truth!

After Jonas Brother performed there was a very patriotic moment. They told a story about how the same huge flag had been used for so many years and how it kept getting made stronger and different things about it. But then they said that it had seen enough days. It was time to retire it. So they were going to burn it. This is a picture of the soldiers feeding it into the fire machine.

And here it is burning. It was pretty cool to see.

And the moment that some people think is the best part part of the Stadium of Fire... The fireworks! While they were amazing, I would have to say that the Jonas Brothers were definitely the best part of the whole day. Maybe the whole year!

I would have to say that the weekend was a success! I had a blast! I am so glad that we were able to do this as a family. I am also very grateful that I live in this country. I am very grateful for our freedom and I am grateful to everyone that has made it possible for us to continue to be free. Many people are not as blessed as we are in the U.S. and I will try to always remember that. Happy Birthday America!

A Week With The Peterson Puppies!

Whenever the Peterson's go out of town they ask me to stay at their house to take care of their dogs and to house sit. Their house is beautiful and so it is fun to pretend that it is mine for a week! I never really loved Shitzu's... until these two. They are very sweet dogs, especially Lacy. She is so cute and cuddly and would always sleep until I was ready to get up. That could be my favorite part about her!

Meet the puppies!

Lacy...

and Boxer

Alyssa and I thought that we should do photo shoot of me and the puppies. I think that they turned out pretty great if I do say so myself.

Alyssa even had the brilliant idea to use the fireplace as a background. The dogs did so great in all the photos. Don't we look like a sweet family?

I had a good time taking care of Lacy and Boxer and hope that they call me again the next time that they go out of town!

I Guess I Love Kelly

So this is kind of old but I couldn't just not post about it... I feel like I should be Kelly Clarkson's biggest fan! I have been to see her so many times! It's kind of funny to me that I have been to see her as much as I have. Here is a look back at all of my Kelly memories...

The first time that I went to see her was when I was a senior in high school. As I am sure that a lot of you know.. Alyssa is a HUGE Clay Aiken fan. She got tickets to go to the joint concert of Clay and Kelly for her birthday and asked me to go with her. Then someone else gave her two more tickets for her birthday so she invited Steph and Sarah to come along as well. I had no idea that it would be as much fun as it was! I loved it! They didn't have too many of their own songs out at this point so they sang a lot of fun popular songs. It was great!

We decided that Sarah and Alyssa were the biggest fans out of the 4 of us so they took the closer seats. So Steph and I sat together. It is funny to see how much we've changed. I kind of want my long hair back!

The next time that I went to Kelly was when she came with Reba back in November I think. I had always wanted to go to Reba because she is the Queen of country and one of my personal favorites. For some reason I just didn't get around to buying tickets. But thank goodness I have a super lucky concert buddy! Bailley put her name in the drawing at Gandolfo's to try and win tickets and she did! She won two tickets and asked me to go with her! I was so excited! And then when the day came Alyssa and my mom couldn't handle not being included. So they bought tickets and came with us. It was so fun!

We had to do the usual decorate the car before the concert. We obviously think that Reba is Fancy!

We went to Red Robin before the concert. Yum! One of our favorites!

We snuck over to where my mom and Lyss were sitting and hoped that no one would come for the seats. But... they did. We were there long enough to be able to get a picture though! By the way... we do not know those random cowboy people behind us.

Here are the two performing together! They did so great!

Here are Bailley and I at the concert! I loved finally being able to see Reba live! It was great! And it was also of course great to see Kelly again! I was so glad that Bailley asked me to go with her!

Now finally the most recent concert!

Kayla, Kristen, Me, Alyssa

This was the first time I was going to the concert just to see Kelly! Krissy asked Lyss and I to buy tickets with her. And since neither of us can turn down a concert... we obviously went! And it was really fun. We got there like 45 minutes late and were really worried that we had missed some of the concert. Boy were we wrong! There was some stupid UVU idol contest thing that was so gay. They said that the concert started at 6:30 but Kelly didn't even go on until after 8:00. And it was the only time that it wasn't raining! While we waited we spent a combined total of $21 on one order of Nachos and two Dippin' Dots. That was probably their plan. Boo. But I do love Dippin' Dots so it was ok!

We did get to see this way sweet rainbow though! And I learned something. I always thought it was so cool when I could see two rainbows. Well Alyssa informed me that there are always two rainbows! Who knew?

Here we are trying to keep the rain off of us. I bought some really cute ponchos but I left them in the trunk. Oops! Good thing that we all had on jackets with hoods!

I have had so much fun at all of the Kelly concerts. It is fun to look back at all of the pictures and remember all of the fun that we had. Thanks everyone for all of the fun!

What happens in Vegas...

Last weekend Alyssa, Kiele, and I went on a road trip to Vegas! It was so great! We left on Thursday night and stayed in St. George. We had planned on leaving at 8:30 and somehow we didn't get on the road until 10! But we were so excited to get on the road that it didn't even matter!

Here we are looking oh so beautiful Friday morning while we are eating breakfast at the world famous, or maybe just Utah famous, Bear Paw Cafe in St. George. Then Vegas here we come!

We went to eat at the Grand Luxe restaurant at the Palazzo Hotel on Friday night. I didn't love my food but I just made Alyssa share hers with me. Everything else was so yummy! Thanks Jenn for the suggestion!

We went to Phantom on Friday night. While it wasn't nearly as entertaining as Wicked, it was still really great! The Phantom's voice was absolutely amazing!

Kiele was really feeling Phantom-ish after the show and kept hiding behind things making us take pictures. This was one of the better pictures.

After Phantom it was off to see the lights of Vegas, the water show at the Bellagio, and Captain Jack Sparrow!

Saturday we woke up really early, around noon, and spent the day at the pool. It got me so excited for summer!

Before we left Steph told me she read about a restaurant called Serendipity that looked really cute and was famous for their frozen hot chocolate. So we decided to try it. It was THEE cutest place I had ever seen! Everything was pink and orange and it had like an old fashioned soda bar inside. It was so fun. And so delicious. I got this Asian Chicken Salad and it was probably the best salad I have ever eaten. Everything else looked really good too but this was the best.

Here are Lyss and I with the giant frozen hot chocolate!

After dinner we went to Mystere and I am pretty sure this was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! They are so strong it is unbelievable. I could have watched for hours. Now I want to go back and see every single show that Cirque du Soleil puts on. I couldn't have loved it anymore! Ha ha.

We decided that we wanted to watch the pirate show at Treasure Island. We all remembered it being pretty cool when we were little so we thought we'd stop and watch it. We waited 40 minutes for the next show to start and it was so lame! It was pretty much sluts on parade. We watched for about 3 minutes and decided not to waste anymore of our time. But we did take some pretty great pictures of ourselves while we were waiting. This is just one of the many!

After watching the really great Treasure Island show we went back to Serendipity to try their dessert! It was a little embarrassing when the hostess recognized us. Oh well. On the menu there was a sundae that cost $1,000. We were debating on getting a couple of those but ended up choosing something else.

Just posting this picture makes me want to go back for more of their dessert! We got a deep fried oreo sundae, the frozen hot chocolate, and a strawberry cheesecake sundae. I could not have loved them anymore! They were without a doubt the best dessert I have ever had!

Kiele and I were obviously very excited about our deep fried oreos.

And this is us after we have eaten all that we possibly could of the dessert. We did pretty good. We were so so full though. Miserably full in fact.

Sadly all good things come to an end. Vegas was great! We really need to go again soon! Thanks girls for the fun trip!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Last week was my dad's 46th birthday! Oh my gosh he is an old man! Only 4 more years until he is 50. Then he will really be old.

Here he is with his birthday cake. Fruit pizza! Mmmm!

I am very grateful for him and all that he does for me. I couldn't ask for a better dad. Thanks for everything Dad! I love you and Happy Birthday!