Reunited and it feels so good!

My best friends from my late teenage years got together and had a girls weekend in Park City. I miss these girl so much. They have been through so much with me tears, happiness, hard times, laughter, and hyperness. We have been through a lot and although our friendship the past couple of years has been a little rocky I still love them to death. We have not all been all together since my wedding and when we met up we just picked up right where we left off. It was like we never missed a beat. It was truly so satisfying to be back with my 3 best friends. Thanks girls for the best weekend ever, I love you girls.

McKenna Mitchell, Kelli Whitney, Shana Davis, Shawn Reese
This was some good pizza look how cute they all are!

I love that we are still our wild and crazy selves.

We played the best game called Curses. They look so silly!

This was our romantic dinner next to the fireplace.

I can't wait until Shana's play next Monday and Sundance in January!

Gingerbread Making

Ann invited all of us over to have a gingerbread house making party. We had a lot of fun. Each family got to build there own house and decorate it anyway they wanted. Nick and Dan's house would not stay up so they had to hold it up for a long time while there kids decorated the house with lot's of "snow" and candy. Here is Dan and Ann trying to make the roof stay on. Jordan loved to put frosting all of the house which he called "snow" and Ryken like to eat the candy then put it back on the house.
Bros really concentrated on making sure is house was just perfect.

Here is Ryken Putting more "snow" on his house. The kids got so messy by the end, but they had a lot of fun making the houses.

Dan's + boys Nick's + Boys Mine and Jer's

Here are the finished products.

After we made the houses we watched Home Alone the boys have never seen it before and they were laughing their heads off.

Thanks Ann for a fun family home evening night! I enjoyed every minute of it and now I have a cute gingerbread house in my home.

30? Seriously?

Happy Birthday to Adam (Yesterday)! Sorry I didn't post one yesterday, but I was out shopping!

I can't believe that you are 30 years old that means that I am almost 23! scary! Adam, I wanted to take some time and tell you that you are so special to me and I'm so glad that you are my older brother. I love you to death and I think that you are one of the coolest people I know. Ever since we were little I've wanted to be exactly like you and well I think I've learned how to be like you. 1. Stand up for yourself, even if that means getting into a fight at Disneyland. 2. Act the way you want to if people can't accept you for who you are then they are not your friends any way. 3. Let yourself be seen and heard. I have learned so much from you. You showed me that it's okay to be crazy because people laugh at you and then they will think you are funny. I learned how to fake sick so I could go to Gammy's and drink Coke. You taught me how to care and help others, make the perfect Ice Cream scoop, play a lot of video games, and how to be the center of attention.

I love your fun personality and I just love being around you. I loved when you took me to events that you hated; front row tickets to the N'SYNC concert (I'm still mad the Justin waved at you and not me) and Utah Gymnastics season tickets that you got me for Christmas. I'm so happy that you came to every single one of my plays/musicals that I was in and even helped backstage at the Dinner theater's. I'm sure you can still do the whole play of Quilters (if anyone has not seen this please ask Adam to act out that play because it's just about the funniest thing ever!), I'm sure you still know every line in "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown", and I bet you still know the dance "Uncle Tom's Cabin" from the 2 years I was in "The King and I".

I have so many great memories of you and I. I wish I could write them all down, but that would just take way to long. They would include, wrestling with Dad, sports, Oregon, cruises, making forts, beating me up, and Christmas eve. I love how you would invent games when you were babysitting us, even if I did end up getting stitches in my head. You are so smart and talented and I can't believe that you just built and arcade thing from scratch! you are truly amazing and I look forward to more memories that we will share in the future.

Thanks for protecting me all of these years form Travis, Katie, Mom, boys, and anyone who I started a fight with that you had to step in and end. I also was glad to have my friends come over and meet you because everyone thought that you were the coolest and it made me cool. Coming home from school I loved to see your Yellow truck in the drive way because then I knew I had entertainment waiting for me. I'm glad I still get to see you all the time and that we can still have a lot of fun together.

I love you Adam and I hope that you had the best day ever! Happy Birthday!

Disneyland + Universal + blowout game + body surfing = A great family vacation

We went down to southern Cali to see the Utes play and it turned into a 6 day awesome vacation.

We went right to old town when we got off the plane to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant

Of course we had to bring 3 laptops and they were always being used by someone.

Beach and the Utes game

We had a lot of fun body surfing and playing in the ocean.All of us in the water.

I love that he looks like this. What a funny Dad.

Adam, Jeremy, and Travis body surfing.



They Utah game was awesome! What a blowout. I watched Addison while the girls went to wicked. She is so precious and I love her!

Yeah! They do love me!

Universal Studios

My mom talked us into going to Universal and boy am I glad she did. I loved this place I was surrounded by awesome sets that are used in real movies. We missed Nat and Trav who stayed back with a sick baby and then Nat got sick too! Sad news. This is was walking the red carpet. We are really movie stars. My favorite ride was The Mummy it was awesome and I want to go back and ride it right now!

We went on the back lot tour and this is the street that desperate house wives is filmed on. We got to see some awesome sets like the set of The Grinch, desperate house wives, old western movies, and the biggest blue screen I have ever seen.

Of course Access Hollywood wanted to interview me and I couldn't turn them down.

Jurassic Park the ride was awesome. At this park we didn't have any lines either, we rode this ride and the new Simpson's ride, which by the way was awesome, twice and the Mummy ride like 5 times.

The air was smokey because of the fires, but what a great sunset. It was a great day and I loved every minute of it!

The Happiest place on earth!

I love Disneyland and this is where Jeremy and I spent out 1 Anniversary! We had so much fun and we just walked on to every ride I couldn't believe it. We did everything we wanted to do and rode every fun ride like 5 times. Sorry that Nat was sick in 2 years when we go back you better feel a lot better.
This is space mountain, Jeremy's favorite ride! We kept riding this ride, by the end it was just Jess, Jer, and I that survived all the rides.
Adam loves Cotton Candy and I thought it was gross that he ate that entire glob of grossness.
The river run was awesome and Mom got soaked.
This is my favorite ride! Tower of Terror. Mom and Dad dropped out after like the 3rd ride, but we all loved it so we kept riding it. We found out that if you keep your legs and arms up it's even more of a thrill.
We rode splash mountain 3 times in a row. We didn't have to get off the boat we just switched spots to see how wet we could get. I have never laughed so hard on a ride before in my life. We made huge waves that went all the way up and touched all the characters. We would make a big splash and it would get the front people wet then when the wave came back to our boat it would just drowned the people in the back. Thanks for all the laughs family I loved it!