Father's Day

This past Father's Day was a very quiet one around here. Not much was exchanged as far as gifts go, but I hope Luke knows just how much we love him and I hope our Dad's know how much we love them.

At church today I got really emotional in Sunday School thinking about my own dad and the many life lessons that he taught me. My Dad lead such an amazing life and I miss him terribly. Many of my most spiritual experiences have been because of him and his good influence in my life.

I couldn't help but also thing about Luke's dad and the amazing influence that he has on not only Luke, but on me as well. I always thank my Heavenly Father for both of our dad's. I am so so blessed to have Larry to look up to as a Father figure now that my dad is no longer with us.

But back to Luke...

Luke has always been so sweet with Oliver. From the day he was born to now he has always been a good example and Dad to him. I love watching those 2 together. They do so much and whenever I see them in their bonding moment, It just melts my heart a little and I feel so grateful that I have married such a wonderful man. Really, not everyone can say that their babies daddy is pretty awesome.  For Him I am grateful. Oliver resembles Luke in so many ways. Not only in his appearance but in his actions as well. They both love to tease me yet they both make me feel so special and always loved. We are both still learning how to be parents with every stage in Oliver's life and I am so lucky that I picked Luke to share this parenting experience with.

Thank you, Luke, for being such a good Dad.

gross grub

Ever made a terrible dinner that made you so mad you just had to laugh so you wouldn't cry? That was our experience the other day. We thought cooking some chicken over the fire would be so good. Luke wrapped his chicken with bacon and I had mine plain...let me tell you, don't do that unless you want to eat dry gray chalky chicken. I also tried to cook some spinach ravioli. Let's just say that the chicken tasted way better.

Good thing I had frozen burritos in the freezer...and Halloween paper plates. 

Birthday Britt

Dont you just love it when you have a friend that has a birthday and it gives you an excuse to go out with some girlfriend for dinner? Well that is just what we did Saturday night. Some of us haven't seen Brittany in months since she and her family decided to abandon us, so it was nice to catch up over dinner.

 Look at how delicious our food looks. We hit up Stoneground in Salt Lake.

 l-r: Kami.Tracy.Julie.Brittany.Kim.Audrey.

 We managed to get a self portrate of the group...which I'm not sure how we did with my big head in the way. Just look at those blue eyed beauts.

Julie loved riding in the back seat with her imaginary man.

And a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Britt!

Thanks for giving us a reason to get together.

8K

Crack of Dawn 8K

 My sister and I did this race this past weekend and I loved it. She really had to talk me into it because I was so worried about doing an actual race again. I got a way better time (46:10) than I had thought I'd get being that I have been out of the racing/running world for over 6 months. This is just what I needed to get back into the swing of things. Thanks Wend!

Schooool's OUT FOR SUMMER!

This is what our classroom looked like on the last day of school. We had to pack up the entire classroom in preperation for the renovations taking place. 

Like I have said before, I am so lucky to have these three to work with and that they chose me to be a part of the LC crew. The only sad thing about summer vacation, is not being able to see these guys Monday thru Friday. 

Until next school year.

Memorial Weekend

Friday we headed up to the Cemetery to see the graves being decorated and to decorate a couple of our own. My Dad's, and a Friend, Ron.

I was watching Jensen's that night and decided to take them with me on their first Cemetery outing. They told me later that they loved it....except Oliver and the picture taking.

We walked around the entire place being careful not to step on other peoples headstones and picking up the tipped over flowers on other's graves. We walked into the forest and took pictures with the {fake} animals.

We visited the field on Honor where 40 of Utah's hero's were remembered. The girls and I walked around and read off every name. They loved it.

Bottom left: This was the memorial site of a fellow classmate of mine from West High. Thank you Adam.

Bottom right: As we were walking down each row reading the names, Oakley excitingly told me that this guy was famous and that he was in a movie that she had seen before. She wanted me to take a picture.

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Monday, we went to a Memorial Day service at our church in the morning. We had the yearly flag raising ceremony, a fellow ward veteran spoke to us and following the service we had a breakfast that was put on by the relief society. It was a great way to start the day.

When we got home we didn't have a single thing to do, so we packed up a few items and headed up to Huntsville to a frog pond that Luke had visited back in his day. We got there and crossed the freezing river to the hidden pond and sadly there were no frogs, but we still enjoyed being up there. We also went to a hidden cave and played at the river for a little while. Oliver loved finding big sticks and then trhowing them in the river.

On our way back, we saw a sign that read Texas Barbecue. It sounded delicious so we gave it a try and guess what? It WAS delicious! The pulled pork sandwich was the best one I had ever had. We can't wait to have an excuse to go back to Huntsville so we can eat there again.

Oliver was too entertained to eat. He found this tiny little caterpillar and could not stop playing with it. When it was time to go he got a little sad that he had to say goodbye to his new friend. He put him on a plant and waved goodbye to him. Sweet boy.

Later that night we had our friends come over for some dogs and s'mores. It was delish and the perfect way to end our awesome day.

He had a Birthday shout Hooray!

Luke turned 30!

This is a big deal, but Luke doesn't seem to think so. After asking and asking Luke what he wanted to do he said that he just wanted to hang out with us and maybe go try something new for dinner. That wasn't going to fly with me. Turning 30 is totally a big deal and just going to dinner wasn't going to cut it.

For weeks I thought of what magical event I could do for him, but again, he didn't want that....so I had to settle on this... 

Thirty gifts for my thirty year old.

Luke was pretty surprised when he walked in and saw is table of gifts. He didn't know what to do or say, so he got on the table and posed. Haha.

And one by one he opened each gift.

I loved watching him open each gift because he was so excited. His favorites among all of them were his hat and his backpacking stove.

Later that night we headed up to Ruth's Diner. Luke had heard great things about their Mac and Cheese and we had never been there before so we thought "why not".

We didn't love it and thought it was way over priced (people tell us to go there for Breakfast, but who knows if we will ever go back), but we still had fun.

Later that weekend we had birthday cake. Oreo Ice cream cake that Luke made himself because I am such an awesome wife like that. We didn't sing him Happy Birthday or have any candles for him to blow out OR get to stuff his face in his cake which Oliver was sad about, but I think he had a pretty great birthday anyway.

We sure love Luke. Happy Birthday!