Dan and Jorden's Blog

Our friends Dan and Jorden have started a blog!!

Now we'll be able to keep up with everything they're doing while we're in New York. If you want to check out their blog you can click here.

Dan and Jorden served in the Italy Catania Mission with me. Dan is also a big Minnesota Vikings fan...

Idaho Summer Trip #3

This last week we were up in Idaho visiting family and friends again. This was my third time going up and Brianna's second. Next week we'll go up again for the 4th of July.

This trip up to Idaho was jam packed with lots of things to do. We celebrated our second anniversary (Brianna will blog about that later), we went to a Chukars baseball game, we went bowling, we went boating, we went to the zoo, and we went out to eat a lot.

Here are some of our pictures from the Chukars game:

We went with Brianna's parents. Bush was also there, so I sat with him for a few innings. It was $1 night. Tickets, hot dogs, and drinks were all $1.

My favorite thing to get at the games is the ice cream in the little baseball helmet.

The next day we met up with all of Brianna's family and we went bowling. I came in second. Dylan beat me. Even though I got beat by a five year old, it was still a lot of fun. Here are some pictures:

Jake went a little far:

Brianna sticking out her tongue:

Brianna dancing like a chimpanzee with the rest of the children:

Richard took a group of us up to Palisades to go boating. There was Brianna and I, Kar's family, and also Greg. The weather was a little windy, but for the most part it was really nice.

Here's Greg and I tubing. Greg was pretty good:

This is right before I fell off:

This is where we had set up camp. The shore was clay, so it was really hard to stick the umbrella or anything else into it.

Here's Brianna's butt. She slipped on the mud and fell on her keester.

Greg posing (Ladies, he's single....).

Afterwards we stopped to get square ice cream.

Here's Brianna and Sadie sharing an ice cream cone.

If you want to read about our trip to the zoo you can check out Warren and Becky's blog here. We didn't have our camera. Next week will be our last time visiting Idaho for a long time. Hopefully we get to see everyone and do everything we need to before we go.

Wendy's Wednesday

For the past four years Dan, Dave, and I have carried out a weekly ritual we like to call Wendy's Wednesday. Every Wednesday we would meet at Wendy's to eat together. We would talk about sports, school, politics, and talk smack to each other about our fantasy sports teams. Yesterday was the last Wendy's Wednesday that we'll be able to do together for awhile because Brianna and I are moving to Buffalo and Dave and Brooke will be moving to Omaha.

This was my final Wendy's Wednesday meal:



Here are Dan and Dave at our final Wendy's Wednesday:




I'll miss this weekly tradition that we've done the last four years. It's probably better that it's over, both for my health and also for my curvy physique.

Father's Day Picnic

On Father's day we met with some of our friends to celebrate the holiday. We went to Kiwanas park in Provo and had a picnic. We played bocce and a lot of other games. Here are some of the pictures:

Summer in Review

We haven't been able to blog much lately because we've been getting all of our crap boxed up and ready to go. We've also been trying to spend a lot of time with our family and friends. Here's a quick summary of everything that's been going on:


We went up to Idaho about a month ago to hang out with our family and to see our new nephew and nieces.



We went to the hospital to see Kar's new baby Micah:













We also got to see Nat's baby Ivy for the first time:






This was the first time that Brianna was able to meet Kylie. Here is Mindy with little Kylie:






It was fun to see Kenna interact with our dogs. She was really brave.






This is the face she would make every time the dogs would get near:






While we were in Idaho I got to hang out with my best friend Bush. We're both big into NASCAR, so we decided to give it a try ourselves at the Go-Kart rink:














Back in Utah we've been trying to spend time with Jenny and her kids. The other day (on John's birthday) we went and watched Bentley and Max play T-ball.


Here's John helping Maxwell hit the ball:






There was some kind of Scottish festival happening on the field next to us, so the kids got to play T-ball to the sound of bag pipes. Bentley displayed some pretty sweet dance moves while he was in the field. Here's his Michael Jackson impersonation:






And here's Jonah doing his impersonation of Osama Bin Laden:





And here's Ruby's impersonation of... well... Ruby...






It's been really hard to try and spend an adequate amount of time with each one of our family and with all of our friends. We only have a couple of weeks left. Hopefully we'll be able to have some more fun and say all of our good byes.