Park City

A couple of weeks ago all of my immediate family and my Cousin and her family spent the week in Park City. We rented a couple of condos and spent our time relaxing and doing a lot fun activities. We had a great week and it went by way to fast!! I love my family and love spending time with all of them. There is never a dull moment when we are all together and we all get a long so well, I could not ask for better people to spend time with.

We started off the trip up in Salt Lake at Temple square. We went on a tour of the conference center, which was really neat. Here is a picture of the eight little girls. Crosby (the only boy) was a little out numbered.

We spent a lot of our time swimming. The weather was perfect up there, not too hot and not too cold. We had a couple of rainy days, but other than that it was nice and sunny.
Uncle Chris taking a break from throwing the kids around the pool.
Hayden looking cute!
We also went on a few easy hikes. This is Hayden ready to go hiking. She was pretty proud to be able to ride in Scott and Shellys van.
Colin and Hayden
Brookly and Maris. Brooklyn couldn't quite get her "pose on" before I snapped the picture.

One of the days we went up to the Olympic park and watched the U.S. Olympic ski team practice. It was pretty cool.


Grandpa and Hayden
One night we had a talent show. Here is Heidi preforming her and Nicoles little skit.
Colin showing off his magic tricks and I guess praying that they will actually work. :)
Sunni and Cher made and apperance and sang for us.
The Lyman Fam preforming a gymnastics number.

Uncle Chris waiting to recite his poetry.

New Hairdo

Hayden's hair was just getting to be too much to handle so we gave her a hair cut...doesn't it look so much better. :)

Before:
(Just ignore the filthy face, she wouldn't let me wash it off before taking the picture.)

After:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

A couple of weeks ago me and almost of all of my closest friends from high school went up to Park City for a girls night out. We went out to eat, reminisced, ate A LOT of junk food, reminisced, stayed up WAY too late, hot tubbed and reminisced some more. It was a ton of fun and I really hope we can do it every year.
Amelia Perkins, Alison Pike, Janice Kirk, Annelise Rich, Charami Boyter (and soon-to-be Baby Boyter, Tiffany Williams, me, Melita Stringham (soon-to-be Dunn) and Jennifer Richmond.
We hopped on the first bus we saw and hoped it took us somewhere good to eat...it did!!Melita/Jen's bridal shower
Eating Amelia's delicious carmel popcorn. (Amelia I want the recipe)

The next day we had a BBQ with the husbands and kids. It was Janices birthday and I attempted to make a "cute" cake. It didn't turn out quite like I hoped, but I gave it to her anyway because the guy at Burger King said he liked it. :)
Our little family of three (soon-to-be Four)

Baby Shower

This past week I was able to host my first baby shower for one of my good friends Charami. I was pretty nervous being in charge of something like this, but after planning (and planning and planning) I was prepared and I think it turned out really well.
Both me and the Mom-to-be are pretty obsessed with Care Bears so that's what we did for the theme and we played a few simple games, ate and opened presents.


Janice (Co-host) and Annelise's baby Landon
Such a cute cake made by Charami (mom-to-be)
Some of the food after it had been eaten. We had salads, rolls, fruit, chocolate covered strawberries and cake!!
This is one of the games we played. You get these little plastic babies and freeze them in an ice cube. Then everyone puts one in their drink and whoevers baby melts out of the ice cube first says "my water broke" and they get a prize.

Me trying to make Landon Happy. Dont ask me why my legs look so weird...I think my pants are too tight!! :)
Jen acting a little nervous around a baby!

Blue Eyed Girl

Fun in the Sun

The weather was finally warm enough for the kids to run through the sprinklers. Hayden wasn't a huge fan of the water, but still had fun.

Canoeing

Back in May 2006 Colin and I had our first official date. I had just gotten off of work and was talking to Janice on the phone. I was panicking because we had hung out with Colin and his friends the night before and thought he acted weird, like he wasn't interested in me. In the middle of the conversation I got another call from Colin!!! He asked me if I wanted to go canoeing with his Dads class. That made me very happy and I didn't have to worry anymore about whether or not he liked me.
We had a lot of fun and have tried to make it a tradition to go every year. We missed last year because we were in Phoenix, but we were able to make it again this year. We were thinking about taking Hayden with us, but after I told my Mom that idea she had a fit and told us there was no way were taking her canoeing. So Hayden stayed with Granny Jo and Colin and I were able to go on a date just the two of us. I am so happy to be back in Utah!!!