"Bread and Westley"

I'm still trying to catch up from the summer. It feels like I will never be back on track with this blog. Ah! I'm a little frustrated, can you tell?

Anyway...so after our fun in Utah we drove up to Idaho to spend some time with my side of the family. We stayed up at my Uncle Brad and Aunt Leslie's house which it's kind of weird to call them Aunt and Uncle since they're not much older then we are (Brad's my mom's youngest brother). E just called them "Bread and Westley" the whole time and I just cracked up every time he said it. He still asks to go back to "Bread and Westley's" house to see his cousins.


We had so much fun up there and the kids did too. There was so much room to just let the kids loose and enjoy the outdoors and play around. E totally loved driving around their motorize jeep, playing in the sand pit and making smores at night. I could kick myself for not breaking out the camera and taking pictures! There would have been plenty, but I guess I was just enjoying myself too much to bother.

The first night we were there Brad set up for Leslie and I to go to a photography class so we packed up our cameras and checked it out. Little did we know it was a presentation on "Macro Photography." Instead of learning how to take a cute picture of your child it was more about taking pictures of this... with about $10,000 worth of equipment that looked like this... So needless to say I will not be doing any Macro Photography anytime soon. Interesting, but not quite the photography that I will be doing in this stage of my life. After that we headed over to the local dairy for some free cake and ice cream to celebrate the dairy's win of "best ice cream." This was E's first experience (and I think Ry's too) of being on a dairy farm. I have to tell you the truth, a dairy smells, but that smell seriously brings back to some great memories from my childhood and feeding calves with my grandma.

The second day we were there we headed up to see my grandparents in Rigby. My grandpa took the boys out fishing at Rigby lake and my grandma was sweet enough to take Max for me so I could enjoy my time with grandpa and the boys. Max got his nap and was happy as a lark the whole time (at least that's what she told me).

E thought it was so funny for Grandpa to put a worm and a piece of corn on the hook. He's used to going fishing with Ry's dad and they fish with pieces of hot dog instead. It was a whole new realm of fishing for him. After the fishing the boys swam in the lake and then Grandma came with a wonderful spread for lunch. E's favorite part of the day was hopping into the back of the pick up truck and riding around the lake. He thought that was so cool!

Sunday we had church and then we drove up to Rexburg to go see the new temple up there. So amazing! And it's even more amazing how much things have grown there! We came back and had dinner at Uncle Bryan and Aunt Jana's house and the whole family came. It was so nice to see everyone and I got to meet a few new cousin in laws that have come into the family recently. I'm the oldest grandchild on my mom's side of the family so it's so crazy to see how everyone has grown up and all the kids that I used to baby-sit are now in high school! Crazy!

We had such a great time in Idaho, it was kind of hard to leave! I had so much fun spending time with Leslie!!! I wish she lived closer! I seriously felt like I was her sister while I was there, too much fun!

A Game to Remember!

We knew that BYU was coming down to play OU for quite awhile now and tickets were so darn expensive. Ry and I both said we weren't going to pay that much to see a blowout so we opted to get some game snacks and watch it in HD at home. Well, about 2 1/2 hours before kick off, Ry's uncle let us know that he had 2 tickets if we wanted to come. We were both getting really excited, but we had to find a baby-sitter so until then, we weren't going anywhere. I couldn't believe it, but we got our first choice, the Hansens. Hallelujiah!!! So Ry went to pick them up and I ran around the house to get ready to go. Well, we got everyone settled and headed out for the game and got really really lucky...again...no traffic, pretty cheap parking, and an awesome game with our family!

Okay, do you see the sea of red? It was insane! I think they said the total attendance was over 77,000 and about 55,000 were OU fans. I was a little worried after the game what the OU fans would do as we all walked out in our blue, but I was surprised that they were actually pretty nice about it.

The new Cowboys stadium is ridiculous! The big screen is seriously the biggest TV I have seen in my life, you could totally watch everything from the back of the parking lot. The whole stadium is huge and incredibly loud, it was so much fun! Here I am with my sister-in-law, Teana. I just love her!!!

Here's we are after the game. We look uber excited, haha. The OU fans started clearing out of there 1 minute before the game was over and we were barely out of our seats and check out how quick they cleared out of there.

Well, after the game I got to meet up with one of my friends from freshman year, Shelly!!! We lived on the same floor back at good ol' Helaman Halls and had some great times! Kind of crazy, but we're related since I married Ryan. Ryan and Shelly are second cousins I think, not sure, you get the point.

So anyway, awesome experience, awesome game! Took me back to the college days!

Our Little Casanova

This was quite the event at Jessica's wedding. I still laugh about it when I see the pictures. So E totally wanted to wear Parker's suit jacket so he asked Parker if he could put it on and Parker obliged.


Little did we know that when he put on this jacket it would have the "Frosty the Snowman" effect on him. He came down the stairs and grabbed my cousin Morgan and started to dance with her.


He was breaking out all sorts of spin moves and shaking his little hips. Thankfully Morgan was a good sport about the whole thing and let him lead. We were all seriously laughing so hard while this was going on and snapping pictures. Well, it didn't end there. He grabbed Morgan by the hand and took her outside to dance with him in the gazebo. I was immediately thinking this totally resembled the Prom scene from Twilight, haha.


Where does my child think up these things? It was seriously too cute! Oh, and check out the girl off to the side the picture. I think she wanted to cut in and have a little dance with E too.

Jessica and Robbie's Wedding

It's over a month late, but better late then never, right? Back in July when we were out in Utah, we were able to attend my cousin, Jessica's wedding. It was so great to be able to see all my family! I haven't seen my cousins for at least a year and half so I've totally missed out! Everyone has grown up, I must be getting old. Here is a picture of my cousin, Parker. Talk about a crack up! He was Jessica's "Secret Service" for the wedding. His job was to secure the door and any wedding presents. This is him outside the temple guarding the door before they came out.

The new couple!!! Ry and I were wondering if we looked this young when we got married. A lot can happen in 6 years I guess as you can see.


After the temple we went back to Amy's to pick up the kids and took them up to the luncheon and reception. Jess' colors were black and green and it looked so classy! I loved it! Here's a look at her cake.

The reception was at the Chantilly Mansion in Layton. Luckily there was plenty of entertainment for a little 3 year old there inside and outside. My cousins Parker and Stockton were so sweet to take him around and play with him. Parker needed a side kick for the "policing" that he was doing so E was the man for the job.

We were able to snag a few family photos while we were there too. I've needed to update all my pictures in my house since we've added Max to our little family.

Jess had all sorts of glass jars with assorted candies in them for the guests at the reception so E had his eye on those the whole time. He would walk by and usually an adult would see his little puppy dog eyes and give him a scoop in his hand and he'd be off on his merry little way until he ran out and kept doing it over and over again. Needless to say there was a sugar crash on the way home.