Monday, July 26, 2010

Pioneer Day Weekend

This past Saturday was Pioneer Day up here in Utah. To celebrate Kaden and I went with the Leavitt side of the family to Marysvale. It was so much fun hanging out with the little girls all weekend and enjoying the nice weather. Saturday  morning we watched the small town parade that was actually pretty good. Then we headed down to the park for some kids games for grace to play. After the games we headed up the mountain to Kyle and Jessica's trailer for some lunch. While we were up there Kaden and Luke took off fishing so Grace and I decided to go do some too. We didn't do much but drowned a worm, but we still had fun. Grace is quite the character, she always makes me laugh with the little things she says. After eating and fishing we all went to watch the girls catch some fish with the rest of the kids in Marysvale. This was probably one of the funnest looking things i have ever watched. Of course Addison and Alaynna weren't to thrilled about catching the fish, but they had some fun playing in the water while Uncle Vance took over catching the fish for them. Grace tried really hard but never really got one for herself, but she named Vance's fish Paco and said she was going to eat it for dinner. The rest of the day we just hung out and relaxed. Kaden and I actually took quite a long nap while Vance and Luke tried to fish in the river, they didn't have much luck though. Sunday was such a beautiful day! We drove up the mountain and stopped a few times to look around and eat some lunch. The entire mountain is filled with the neatest old cabins and things from the old mines. I had a great time trying to get some good pictures of things. I would really like to have a wall in our new home to put pictures of stuff like that on that i have taken. Hopefully a few shots are worthy of being hung up.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Melissa and Scott's Wedding


Melissa and I have literally known each other since we were born. The picture above was us on our first day of Kindergarten. We were next door neighbors and our families were best friends. We did everything together when we were little! Seriously everything. The McColley family has been such a huge part of my life and although we spent quite a few years apart it seems like their role in my life is the same as that of anyone else in my family. It was so great to see all of them and to catch up this past weekend. It felt like we had never moved out of our Palm view home and had stayed the same after all these years. Melissa and Scott's ceremony and reception was so beautiful! They are so great for each other, even though i only met Scott on Saturday he seems like such a perfect guy for Melissa. Their son Aaron is just beautiful too! He was so cute and so fun i honestly hope my future children can be as cute as him. My Mom, Sarah, and I had a blast with everyone that we caught up with and on our journey down there. The wedding was in San Diego at a really neat place in the harbor. The reception was so much fun! I am totally kicking myself in the butt for not taking any pictures. I saw a lot of girls that i grew up with and even went to girls scouts with it is so funny how much we have all changed and grown up but seriously look just the same. We did quite a bit of ridiculous dancing and we laughed so much, hands down one of the funnest weddings i have ever been too. Melissa and I got to catch up at the hotel after the wedding and play with Aaron while he drank his juice baba. Its so funny because Melissa used to only drink Juice ba bas too. Sunday we also enjoyed an amazing brunch with everyone before we headed home. I really hope that after this our familys will start to spend more time together again. It is so natural and fun being with them and it is so neat having all of us grown up and starting families of our own now.

4th of July Weekend

The fourth was such a fun weekend for us. We went to the Mammoth creek with my family and Joe and Tosha. I think that the pictures we got say more than what i could so i plan on posting a ton of them. The weekend started out with Sarah, My mom and I all going to Parowan for a parade that Sarah was in. Let me tell you it was the most exciting parade i had ever been too, just kidding. But we still had fun. Then later Saturday we decided that we didn't bring enough stuff so we drove down to Cedar, went to Walmart, and picked up Kaden and Tiffany. Sunday was so fun. We went on a super long trail ride all around mammoth and duck creek. We went to the Ice Caves and attempted going to a waterfall but the trail was all blocked off. We did a little fishing in the creek we were camped on and i actually caught a fish. Then Monday before we went home we took few pictures of Caden and got into a pretty good popper war. Thanks mom and dad for the weekend! Although we didn't do anything too patriotic other than wearing red white and blue I still felt so proud to be an American and i am so very grateful for this country and for everyone who protects it. I think that most of the time now people forget what a great nation this is and how blessed we are to live here, but i feel very blessed to live in the United States and i enjoyed celebrating the freedom that i have living here.