Elise turns 20 conference weekend

General Conference Sunday session

Elise turns 20!! A busy college girl who works part time is hard to get time with sometimes, so we are happy whenever we get to see her. Hard to believe my baby is a grown woman. She has blessed our lives for 20 years and we are so grateful to have her in our family. ;) What would our lives be like without her? We celebrated with a fun dinner and something red and shiny in the parking lot.

Born to be a Caveman

I've never seen a boy so proud to be a Caveman ;) Jacob loved (loved is an understatement) tackle football this year. They went into the playoff's and almost won the very last game, but came in second to Lehi. I've never seen him work so hard at practices and games or eat so much in my life.Jacob did really well during this game against PG and the coach let him to run the Flag at halftime.
Cutest thing ever.

Wyoming Cabin Trip!

Yearly bookclub trip to Meghan's cabin in Wyoming. Great friends, great food, hilarious river rafting, lots of laughing, good talks, late nights, and great naps!! So much fun, what an amazing group of girl friends who inspire me constantly! This year Ginger put a book together of some of the pictures from our past years adventures. It is so darling and such a great memento!!

Park City Summer Trip

Cabin above Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City. The Wisers invited us up to vacation at their employers fabulous cabin. 6 floors, elevator, on demand movies and a dream kitchen stocked for our visit. What could be better? ;) The were so sweet to invite us, we all had a great time. The girls went to a concert, we shopped, hiked and played games.



Game Night!
Backyard




Game Room
Jacob modeling his back to school purchases.

Jacob played diner owner the whole time. We all sat and ordered at one time or another.
Kristi on the deck...

Minor League JOY!

Lynn was one of Jacob's coaches for the Yankees. They went to the championship and won 1st place. Below is Jacob's Homerun during the playoff's. He was thrilled as you can see in the next picture!Priceless face..
Celebrating after his home run hit ;)

Elise's Humanitarian Trip

Blank until I can get her pictures ;)

Summer Fun

4th of July

What could be better than a beautiful and not overly hot 4th of July? We got lucky and had Lagoon without crowds. Heaven. Elise brought friend and we stayed up there overnight.Lagoon Water Park
Deer Creek with cousins!!

Lynn, Jeff, Juliane water skiing in background





Cousin Fun at the Splash Park in Alpine

ITALIA- Rome

Roman Colosseum


ROME was the first stop on our 25th anniversary trip. We spent months planning out route details and studying things we wanted to see and 3 wonderful weeks away on vacation! I am going to have to severely edit myself here, but I did post a lot of pictures on fb. We had visited Milan and some surrounding towns ten years ago, but this trip we wanted to take our time and explore more of the country.
The hardest part was realizing there is never enough time to see everything. Greece, Almalfi coast, Capri etc.. will have to wait for next time!
We spent three romantic weeks together celebrating twenty five years. It was the best trip I think we have ever taken and I will always keep those memories close. The shot below is a view of the Colosseum from Palatine Hill. Below that is the stone walkway that leads from the cololsseum through the Arch of Titus into the Roman Forum.
Inside the Arch of Titus, with a relief showing the sacking of the Jerusalem temple by the Romans.

GIOLITTI'S by the Pantheon, was fabulous- said to be the best gelato in Rome- I think we tried countless gelaterias, this one was on the top of the list ;)