Tea Party

A couple of weeks ago my mom, sisters and some friends and I all got together to see The Help. All but two of the nine us had read it and loved it so we of course we had to see the movie. I think it is safe to say that we all loved it!

(image courtesy of google images)

But before the movie we had a ladies luncheon / tea party. My mom let us use her china and the table decorations are courtesy of Lindsey. (Can I quickly just say that I love my sisters! They come up some fun ideas!)

Our menu consisted of:

lemon water, mini sandwiches, chicken salad sandwiches, lemon squares, butter cookies and of course deviled eggs.

And no, in case you were wondering, there was no chocolate pie. :)

Our Big Weekend

This past weekend Dave and I moved into our new home. We are so excited to be homeowners but nervous at the same time. I'm excited to have a nice open kitchen (with a dishwasher) and Dave is excited to work in the yard and one day finish the basement. The only thing we are not so excited about is the 20 minutes we just tacked on to our commute.

Dave's teacher's quorum came over early Saturday morning and spent 2 hours loading the truck. It was nice to have all of those extra hands. Our new Elders Quorum came over and met the truck when it arrived and spent a good 20 minutes unloading it. We are so thankful to have been in such a great ward and we look forward to starting our new ward.

We had so much help putting things away that our house is mostly unpacked. Dave's parents spent the whole time putting our kitchen away, which was a big job, and for that we are extremely grateful. My poor dad uloaded the truck and made about 50 trips up and down the stairs to the basement. Sue, Tyler (who drove in from Cali that morning) and my friend Jessica spent a good amount of time putting things away in the bedrooms and set Bailey's room up completely while my mom watched, fed and entertained Bailey. Everyone was such a great help and we appreciate everything they did!

And to top off the weekend... we found out our baby girl is getting her first tooth! She's only 5 months. Is she old enough for that? We had no idea since she hasn't cried once about it! She's such a good baby!

***pictures of the house to come***

Brooklyn's Baby Shower

One of my best friends from High School had a baby about 5 weeks after Bailey. Sue and I had her shower all planned and ready until little Miss Brooklyn decided to come early. So we postponed the shower a few weeks and were able to have it with Brooklyn instead.

Sue made the yummiest chili I've had in a long time. We also had some yummy chocolate cupcakes with pink swirls and some flower shaped sugar cookies. Sorry, this picture of the food table isn't the greatest.



It was fun to see my friend Vanessa who I haven't seen in a while. I love that we three girls were inseperable during high school and we all ended up having a girl first. I hope that all of our girls will be friends too... although I hope they don't give their parents quite the amount of gray hair that we did ;)

(me, Bailey, Ariana, Vanessa, Brooklyn, Jessica)

Congratulations Jessica! Miss Brooklyn sure is a cutie!

Demolition Derby

This shirt pretty much says it all... and it was free (Dave loves to catch the free shirts anywhere they are throwing them out)

That's right... it's demolition derby time and we had a blast

With Family

And Friends

Where you can see the big cars do this (Dave bet on #6, he did pretty well)

They even have midget cars that do this

And if you're lucky you may even see a fire...

or this... I'll bet that guy has been sore for a week.

Ok, we don't normally find ourselves at places like this, where people get excited to be sprayed with mud, but once a year you just can't help yourself. I mean, white trash bumper cars? How could you resist?

Oh, What Do You Do In the Summertime?

We have done a lot of 2 things this summer... moving (don't ask) and boating


I love this picture of Cindy... She's ready to pose at any moment. What a model!


We were invited a few times to go boating with Dave's friend Scott at Deer Creek. Each time we went the boat had mechanical problems and we had to call it quits after just a little while. We promise we weren't the cause of the problems... honest.


I love this picture of Dave and Scott. They loved to hit all the big bumps to see how high in the air they could go. Not only that but they would show off and switch spots on the tube. I think that was their way of saying that the boat was going too slow and to speed up! Let's just say they drank a lot of lake water...

I am kind of the opposite. I like the boat to go just fast enough that the tube moves but we don't bounce off... That is until it gets going and we get the hang of it. The following video is not for anyone who has a problem with motion sickness but it's hilarious and worth watching... oh Sue, where would we be without you?