4th of July 2011

 We thought that we would spend the holiday recuperating from the vacation, and maybe go catch up on some movies we when Suzy & Paul invited us to go hiking we could not pass it up.  It was the most perfect day to go hiking.  It was hot, overcast and a little drizzly. 

 We met them at the mouth of Bell's Canyon.  The hike was so pretty, and not very easy.  We got a good work out.  

 We hiked to the first falls.  It is so crazy how much run off there is this year. 

The view was so beautiful.

We had so much fun hiking.  It really was the perfect day for it.  We all got pretty dirty (: 

After our hike we cleaned up and headed to Rick & Stacey's for dinner and to hang out with the kids.

Me & Preslie

It was a pretty quiet night.  Nice and relaxing!

Pays Rick Stacey Talan

Talan Shawn Payson

Summer Nights!

Summer nights are finally here! It took way too long. I'm so excited.

Brandyn built a fire-pit in their back yard. Shawn and I went and roasted some 'mallows on Saturday night. I was seriously looking forward to it all day. I love smores & campfires...just not camping. Sidenote: The Blymillers have a yummy twist to their smores. They put the marshmallow in between 2 Keebler cookies. I like to put mine with a reeses peanut butter cup and graham crackers.

How cute is this picture? Preslie snugglin' up with her uncle Shawn.

I heard that my husband had never had a banana boat so I bought all of the stuff to make them. They turned out really yummy!

Pays, Stace & Mick

Rick, Brandyn & Tal

I love Summertime!!!!!

Yesterday we went to my Mom's for a little bbq. My Dad & Spencer are in Seattle so it was just us with my mom & Kevin. It was such a nice relaxing day! My mom made a yummy lunch, we watched Seven Pounds, a couple episodes of Community, had fun catching up with Kevin (they all just got back from a trip to AZ and his gf Chantel with with them) & we went on a nice summer walk. It was SOOO hot out! It's crazy how it went from snow to really hot, all in like 10 days.

I wish I had my camera yesterday. I forgot it. But on our walk we went to the pond by my parents. Kevin saved this poor little fish that surely would have died with out being rescued. We went on this little trail thru the woods...that lasted like 20 seconds before Shawn started weezing from allergies and we heard a beehive. We took Maggie on the walk with us. She was so funny...stopping in every little patch of shade she could find.

Anyways...Love Summer!

Easter 2010

Easter this year was a lot of fun. Shawn has a bishop from his mission who is in town with his wife and two kids visiting his sister. Shawn invited their whole family to Easter dinner at his mom's house. Stacey was more than happy to accommadate and even went all out getting the kids involved in the Easter egg hunt and making them cute Easter egg baskets.

Shawn had told his mom that they were bringing 2 little girls...so she bought only girl stuff. Shawn found out at the last minute that the youngest was a boy. Oops! He ran to walmart and grabbed a couple of things.

Carol.Eduardo.Payson.Talan.

The little girl Carol was so cute. She had the beautiful olive brazilian skin with green green eyes and light hair. The kids were all a little shy at first but Stacey had the kids search for their Easter baskets and they loved it. They were so excited. It was hard because the kids didn't know any english.

Payson running around for eggs

Carol

Me.Shawn.Dalmir.Patricia.

Shawn served in Dalmir's ward/area for about 4 months with his favorite companion J.D. Shawn said he was the best bishop and that they had a lot of fun together. Him and his wife fed Shawn and J.D. a lot. Shawn has been home from his mission for five years and Dolmir is still the bishop!!! Dalmir speaks perfect english and his wife could speak a little bit.

Brandyn and Preslie with her easter basket. She is getting sooo big! Brandyn was able to make it home in time for Easter. He was in Wyoming for work for 6 weeks!!! Mickie is such a trooper...I don't know how she did it.

It was fun seeing Payson and Talan interact with Dalmir's kids who don't speak any english. After their stay here they are going to Disney World...So Payson pulled out a scrapbook of when they went to Disney Land to show him Mickie Mouse. It was so cute. Payson is such a good kid.

The whole gang minus Mickie and Brandyn who were taking the pictures. I forgot to mention that Dalmir was visiting his sister Lilian...who also came for dinner with her husband. Shawn knew Lilian from his mission too. She was so funny. We had a great dinner and I had so much fun hearing stories of Shawn from his mission, and getting to know people that he served with. Shawn was SO excited the whole weekend to have them over. He kept asking Stacey if she had everything ready. He wanted everything to be perfect.

My family went to Vegas for Easter and Spring Break...we missed them but we are having Easter dinner this Sunday with them.