Day 4

I am so grateful for new adventures...aka new callings. I was recently called to be the 2nd Counselor in the Young Woman organization. This came at one of my busiest times, with Parent-teacher conferences and getting observed at school and writing my very first report cards. But I am grateful that Heavenly Father trusts me with this calling. I am excited to see where it takes me!

Day 3

Today I am very grateful for prayer and a loving Heavenly Father, who works in His time. I see this on a daily basis. It is hard for me to have complete faith and trust that things will work out but Heavenly Father is a patient Father and continually teaches me to be a better person. He never lets me down!

Day 2

I am grateful for good parents, who have taught me many of life's great lessons. A mom, who serves everyone with a large smile. A mom, who comes to read "her story" to my kids on fun friday. A mom, who listens to me when I just need someone to spew all my bad day on. A mom, who encourages me to be the best I can be and helps me to achieve that. A dad, who has taught me the beauty of God's mountains. A dad, who holds the Priesthood. A dad, who takes his callings in church serious and loves serving. Parents, who love me for me and support me in my decisions. I am grateful Heavenly Father sent me to this family so that I could have parents who are my best friends. Love you!!!

The Month of Gratitude!! Day 1

I am joining the fun of posting something everyday this month in gratitude, as well as catching up on life. 

Day 1: I am grateful for my amazing husband...who when he sees the tears in my eyes, asks the right questions...where should we go to dinner and don't they have good fries? He is always finding ways to improve our lives. He is continuously reminding me how lucky I am to have him. He is always serving and thinking of others. He works hard at a job that is not an easy job at all. 

I love you Coach Dino aka my lovebug!!

June showers!

June also started out great!!
We went to a rodeo...still working on stealing pictures from Dan.

We also got to celebrate with another one of Dan's nieces-Kiersten on her baptism day!

It was a very fun day! Rachel (Kiersten's mom) put a lot of hard work into baptism and lunch afterward.

June still continues so stay tuned....

May flowers!

May and June have been busy months!!!

We started out May with the baptism of Dan's niece Kallie in Tremonton.
Kallie was so excited and very nervous...she was told that she was in charge of three things- choosing two witnesses and choosing someone to say the closing prayer. She knew exactly who  was going to say the prayer...Aunt Kristin.

The next adventure was neighborhood milkshake night! Dan has this nifty blender called a Ninja that makes pretty great shakes and he has been telling the neighbor kids that he would make shakes for them if they prayed and read their scriptures everyday. Well, the day came and Dan delivered!

Dan had told the neighbors that we would do it at 6:30 on a Sunday evening. He was so excited all day that he could sit still any longer when the clock hit 6 that he set up early and was ready for some fun. From what the neighbors said, the kids were as excited, they kept asking if they could come over yet.

Even the parents got involved...they were a little shy at first.

The milkshakes were a success!!! Go DAN the milkshake man!!! and it lead into a paper airplane throwing contest!

I love our little neighborhood!

The next adventure in our life was my brilliant plan- making a cake for Taylee's birthday. Please note that I have never really decorated a cake before and had no clue what I was doing so it turned out far better than expected!

Can you guess the character?

Hopefully you said Hello Kitty! Taylee loves Hello Kitty so I thought it would be fun to surprise her!

The girls loved it!!! 

Happy Birthday to Taylee, Nicole and ME!

May is a great month!

But that was not the end of adventures in May....Brandon graduated!!!!!! and I turned 26! 

all on the same day!!

My cute cousin, Jessica surprised me and hung up this sign! It was so fun to walk out and see it!! It made my day!

And although I don't have any cute pictures of Brandon all dressed up, I do have pictures of us surviving the long graduation.

And for Brandon's graduation and my birthday, we celebrated at Texas Roadhouse!!!

Hooray for May!!! And for Brandon!!!

Brandon's Surprise Birthday Party

I have so much to catch up on but I want to start with one of the most exciting things! I felt like Brandon needed to have a special 18th birthday so I talked my mom into letting me throw him a surprise birthday party and I would like to announce that it was a complete success!!!! He was completely surprised! Here is a video to show you how he had no idea and just goofiness from us. Enjoy!

He is in his scout shirt because he had just come home from selling oranges for scouts (he signed up not even thinking it was his birthday on that day).

He had quite a few friends there to support him and he was a really good support.

and because Brandon was hiding in this picture I took one of the birthday boy alone

Another video that I love is him trying to blow out the candles...I had to get trick candles. Here is how he worked through that problem

We played a couple of fun games (great ideas from my sister, Nicole) and it was soooo funny to watch

I loved planning this and I hope Brandon isn't super mad at me! Happy Birthday Brandon!