Happy Birthday Cambria!!!!

Happy Birthday Cambria!!!!! I am so grateful for the example she is in my life. She has taugth me so much and is one of the best moms out there. I can always go to her if I need anything and she is willing to help. I am so lucky that we are so close and that she is one of my best friends. Thanks Cam, for everything :) Love ya



play house...

For about 7 months my dad and the boys have been building "the dream" play house of all play houses.



Years back our family built a play house, but as my brothers got older they grew out of the old play house and wanted a new one. So they came up with the design and of course my dad was happy to help. They used the old wood from our fence and the play house turned out amazing. It pretty much has everything you can think of... well for boys. From trapped doors, to a secert door, and to a swinging door, perfect for nerf wars and whatever boys do :)



the swinging door



the secret door

the trappped door



The boys have been out there for hours, even in the worst weather, they go till they can't keep going. All the boys friends were cheering as Bryant hammered in the last nail. I think everyone is a little excited to spend a lot of their time in the new hut.



Since its so big I can't just get one picture of the whole thing so I had to take a couple on each side. Good job dad and boys, it looks great :)



the slide still has to be put back up view from the south side



view from the west side



 

view from the east side



the view from the north side

  Here is a couple of the inside, I could only get the two walls cause the other two have big windows and nothing would really show up. I teased my brothers that I was going to put curtains up on the windows, they were strongly against that idea. They made sure to tell me that, "its a guys hut, nothing girly can be in there."





Best Friends

This quote is so true and I love it. There is nothing greater to have then best friends, I'm lucky to have some of the best friends in the whole wide world.
This week has been a great week getting to spend time with my best friends. Tuesday night Natalie, Kelsey and I got together and made no bake cookies and watched Step Up 3. We were having such a great time that they decided to spend the night.



Wednesday morning my mom made us a big breakfast. Later that night Kelsey invited me to her family friends house for dinner. She made all these Albanian dishes from her mission, that were really good :)  I haven't seen the Hardcastles since Kelsey left so it was great to hang out and visit with them. We later went country swing dancing. Natalie met us there and after dancing we stuck with the tradition to go to Taco Bell and get nachos. We ended up getting actual meals and just sat and laughed the whole time.  Thanks Nat and Kels for being such great friends and for all the great memories we have had.

Memorial Day!!!

For Memorial Day my family and I stuck with the tradition and headed to Malad for the day. It was a little weird this year cause it was just me, the boys, baxter and my parents.

 I enjoy going to decorate my Grandma and Grandpa Wards graves and spend time with my mom's family. When my Grandma Ward was alive we used to have a big BBQ outside and family would stop by to eat and visit. We don't do that anymore, but this year my mom's aunts and some of their families came up and wanted to decorate graves all together.

It was freezing outside so we all met up at subway and had lunch together.



All my mom's aunts and their families left, so we went around Malad to see if there was anythig new. We stopped at my uncle Steve and Cindy's house and visited with them along with my aunt Michelle and Brent and their family and my uncle Gary. It was a lot of fun to hang out with my cousins and to see my family. :)

                                           



Suprise visit...

Friday night I really didn't have anything planned, so I was just enjoying some tv. My brothers friends kept coming over to see if they could play. I thought that it was one of their friends knocking on the door for the hundreth time. Boy was I in for a suprise. :)

I opened the door and..............

Yep thats right, Kelsey was on my porch coming to visit me. It was so weird to see her at my house and I was so freakin excited. I was a little nervous cause I didn't know how she would be after being home 7 days from the mission. It was like she never left, we sat and visited and she is the same Kelsey as before. We went to our friends house to suprise them and sat and visited forever. It's weird to hear her speak Albanian and loved hearing all her funny stories. We ended up visited way late, so she spent the night at my house. It was so great to see her and I can't wait till she moves back up here so we can hang out all the time. I think the highlight of my night was when Kelsey says, "That's where babies come from? I knew I should of taken astronomy." Jordan was quick to say, " um you mean anatomy?" Oh man never a dull moment with Kels around :) 



The boys had given Kelsey a little welcome home gift, they had been holding on to till she got back.





Happy Birthday Buggie Boo!!!!!

Happy Birthday Bug!!!!! Today was my little sisters birthday and I can't believe she turned 20. I'm so glad that we have such a great relationship and that we are such close friends.There is never a dull moment when we are together. She always knows how to make me laugh and is always there for me when I need something. Love ya Alyse, thanks for being such a great sister and friend.

weekend full of laughs

This weekend has been hilarious...... I have not laughed that hard in quite sometime

Friday night- Natalie and I went to try out Savannah's BBQ grill (so good). After dinner we hung out at Nat's house for awhile then left to try and get David back but he never came home. We ended up staying and hanging out with the guys. Natalie has a HUGE space bubble Jeff, Jake and Jordan all wanted to try to get rid of that big bubble. I wish I had taken more picture of when Jordan was trying. The whole time I was laughing so hard.

I just love Natlalie's face here :)

Satruday night- Natalie had invited me to a game night. Her friend lives out in College Ward, on our way out to his house we ran into 2 shetland ponies in the middle of the road. They wouldn't move when we got close to them or when we honked the horn. At one point Natalie rolled down the window and said, "um excuse me could you move please?" Once I heard her say that I had to video tape her trying to get these horses off the road. After attempting a few times Natalie called Tim to get other ideas on how to move the ponies. Then I got out and moved them but they just moved back to the middle of the road. Nat kept trying to move them while I was taping her. I do have to apologize it's not the best taping job cause I couldn't figure out my zoom button and half the time I was laughing really hard.

                       First movie: the phone call Nat made to Tim

This video Natalie is trying to move the ponies over to the side

Thanks Nat for the good laughs this past week :)