June...

Restaurant Brunch:

This was actually on Sunday May 31st. Andres & I were so luckily greeted with this brunch prepared and served by Marcus, Sydnee & Tanner. They served us left over baked beans -n- mashed potatoes from KFC the night before and cut up a bunch of cucumbers and carrots to complete the meal. We shared an ice cold lime-mint water too! They had a little note there that said if we needed something to ring the bell once, if we liked the food to ring the bell twice and if we were done to ring the bell three times and they'd come clean up!

Together Again...

That is the best---

To laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny!

I didn't get to see her near as much as I'd liked too... but the little I did was well worth it! *We took our kids along with her sister Kara and her kids to see UP! together and then we got drenched running to our cars in the crazy rain storm and went to visit at Kara's way gritty new house! *She got to come to bunco just like old times... *We met at the Salon one night and Kara gave us both a color -n- cut, then we went for a midnight dinner at Iggy's! The last night we went out with Kara, her husband and Kim for my first Sushi experience, I think they thought I was going to join the sushi-lovin' club... not a chance! ha ha ha At least I can say that I tried it, right? Andres, Kara and all you other sushi-lovers.. I love ya, but I'll just stick with creme brulee!

Treasure each other

in the recognition 

that we do not know

how long we shall 

have each other.   

--Joshua Loth Liebman

Kim gave me the grittiest little book entitled "friend" filled with great quotes, which we both love! This one and the one about laughing are both from the book. This one reminds me of the fact that she had to move far, far away.. and now we wish we could have moments like these so much more often!

Kim borrowed my camera to take some family photos and this is a just a peek into her Mom's gorgeous garden!

Rain + Reading= Lazy Day Naps

I Crave This Every Morning..

Mmm... look at all the goodness in that little glass! The best vanilla yogurt ever (Mountain High, Original Style All Natural Vanilla Yogurt with billions of live, active & probiotic cultures) it's so thick it's like custard, L.O.V.E. it!!! I like to layer it with all sorts of yummy berries and bananas and sometimes even some crunchy granola! Lately I've been doing frozen blueberries and bananas.~

Silly Marcus & Little Miss Kynlee:

Gotta love that view!! It's a little disturbing actually. He says "Mom look, it looks like I have a butt in the front!" and I'm laughing and rolling my eyes...

Look at those dainty, crossed legs! McKynlee has such a prim & proper way about her.. it's so cute. You'll never see her chewing with her mouth open and she doesn't like a dirty face either.

Suzuki Institute:

(Sydnee with Jenny Oaks Baker)

The week of June 15-20th Sydnee and I attended her Suzuki Institute all day, everyday. Sydnee had a good time, she was most excited to see Jenny Oaks Baker in concert Monday night. She's been given three of her CD's as gifts over the last few years and was really inspired and impressed with her. My Mom's always telling her that she thinks Sydnee resembles her and she thinks thats cool! I didn't want to haul my camera all over, so the pictures are not the greatest quality. I just took them with my iPhone.

This lady was her Master Class teacher! We really liked her, she was very helpful with addressing some issues Sydnee's been having with getting comfortable holding her violin. 

One day on our lunch break we went for pedicures. Sydnee thought she was in heaven, she loved it! She couldn't believe how they waited on us and got us drinks and made us feel all pampered!

Evening at the Park:

One sunny evening we invited a few of the kids friends and rode bikes to the park. They had so much fun covering each other with the tire chips and making scary faces like they were sinking.

Oliver's facial expression looks a little more like he smelt something stinky~~~

After we rode back home we took the kids out for some Red Mango goodness... I couldn't help but capture how filthy Tanner's feet and legs had gotten from playing in the tire chips at the park.

Father's Day-

...was good! The kids and I gave Andres a water bottle, some new running shorts, running shoes, an outfit and one of his favorite movies "Forever Strong" all wrapped up with a bunch of loves, hugs -n- kisses! We had a really nice day at church, Andres participated in the "Mystery Dad" event in both junior and senior primary. They have three Dads come in and hide behind a big sheet and ask them questions. The Dad's disguise their voices and wear different shoes... to throw the kids off. Andres wore his big knee high black rubber boots that he mows the lawn in and to make it even more fun he threw on his red Nacho Libre cape for when they called him to be revealed. The kids squealed in laughter. Later after church we had my parents and Andres' parents over for dinner and gifts. 

My Dad has always loved someone to comb through his hair. He used to ask me to do it when I was little and now he's asking my kids to do it. It's funny how anyone who does it always ends up doing crazy hair-do's on him. He doesn't care, as long as you're still combing it.

Sydnee & Papa

Abuela Elli

Little Road Trip to the Manti Pageant:

This is the Motel we stayed in, the sign made me so gritty.. and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Andres had taken a picture of it when we got home. McKenzie and Beau came to visit for a month, so we got to take them with us. The kids were so excited to spend time with them. They miss them all the time, it's a bummer to live far away from so many of your closest friends and family.

Mom & Dad