Fiesta Days Parade

Every year for Pioneer Days (if you don't know what Pioneer Days are, it is a celebration of the pioneers who came to Utah to settle it), anyway, we always go to Spanish Fork Fiesta days on the 24th of July and watch the parade and eat yummy carnival type food and sometimes we'll stick around long enough to watch people perform in the park. When my family lived in Spanish Fork I used to perform at the park with my choir group from school.

Here I am with my two best friends from high school. Helga is in the middle and that's Becca on the right. It's so great to get together with these girls because they are so much fun and we always seem to pick up right where we left off.

This picture of Jade with my mom just cracked me up. Look at her face!

I love living in Utah and celebrating Pioneer days. It has been a really fun tradition for my family. Yay Utah!

The land of the monsoons

Well, we'll start out with our trip to Arizona. We had a great time. Here's a picture of my dad and Dan and Jade (in the red floating ladybug). It was so hot! This time of the year in Arizona is when they get the monsoons. We went to dinner one night (a delicious Thai restaurant) and as we were leaving it started raining, sheets and sheets of rain. We drove around for a while hoping it would let up so we wouldn't have to get out of the car in that kind of downpour. It never let up and we got soaked just from the car to the front door. Anyway, it sort of cooled off that evening though and it was really nice to just have the doors open and smell the rain.

My dad let me cut his hair while I was there. He has had a mullet for about as long as I can remember. We always give him a hard time but it's all in fun. So here is a before picture from Michael's wedding...........

And this is after!! Doesn't it look so much better? I love it.Here's Jade with Grandma Mary. She had so much fun with Jade and of course spoiled her rotten, toys and clothes and the works. We had so much fun. She spoiled us too with her delicious cooking. She made my favorite, chicken salad. I know you're probably thinking, chicken salad? Just trust me on this one, it's awesome.


Luckily, on our flight home we had an extra seat. We let jade just hang out in it for a while. She did pretty well. If only we could get so lucky on our trip to Hong Kong. I doubt it though. I think she looks so big in this picture though. She's just growing up.

Thank goodness for baby einstein!

It's been one of those days! You have the best intentions to get several things done but a quick glance at the clock and you realize most of the day has been eaten up doing absolutely nothing. I hate days like this. Jade seems to be transitioning from two naps to wanting just one so she is a little more cranky than usual. She is enthralled with baby Einstein videos though and will happily watch it over and over. Now I can pack for our trip to Arizona. Dan is interviewing for nurse anesthesia school there so wish us luck!

Happy 4th of July

For the fourth of July we stayed at Snowbird. It's a ski resort in Salt Lake. We had so much fun, Dan's family was there and we really enjoyed just catching up with them. Jade got her first goose egg while we were there. She hit her head on the coffee table. While we were there we took a ride on the tram up the mountain. It was really beautiful, there was still snow up there. Most of the pictures are of Jade and her cousin Rylee. They sure had a lot of fun together.

Summertime