The past five or six moths...

We have had a pretty awesome year so far, I wish I would have been better about writing about it.

Since I last wrote, we had two new nephews join us!  One on each side of the family.

Scott finished up his schooling in May, graduation was a wonderful day!  I am so proud of him.

He got the wave when they called his name!

Just a few days after graduation, Scott started an internship at an awesome ad agency.  He has loved it and has done really well!

Over Memorial Day weekend, Scott and I got to make the beautiful drive to the Oregon coast!  It was an impromptu trip (to go pick something up for his dad), and we were so excited to get to go!  It was over Scott's birthday weekend, what a fun way to spend a birthday! We LOVE road trips. 

 This quaint little restaurant in Hood River Oregon had the best fish tacos!

I have always wanted to see "that beach with the big rock"...this was a dream come true! 

In June, my siblings Luke, Ash and I played in a concert together, we had a great time. It is always a privilege to perform together! My dad even joined us for a song on the guitar! 

In June I got to go to California with my parents, sister, and little brother.  We went to Disneyland and had a blast! 

By the look of it, I was the MOST terrified person on the Tower of Terror...

Cars Land had just opened and we loved it!

After getting home from Disneyland, I started to get sad because I knew that being back home meant that my little brother would be leaving on his mission in a few weeks. 

He is very close to Scott and I- he was only about ten years old when I brought Scott home for the first time.  He's pretty much grown up hanging out with the two of us. We see him a lot, so I was pretty darn sad about the prospect of him leaving. 

It was very tough, but the day came and we all said goodbye to him.  I have written him more times than I'll admit so far, and every time I hear any sort of news from him it makes my day!  He is going to Montreal, where he'll speak French. 

 It's been a busy couple of months, and we don't plan to slow down any time soon!  I'm so happy to have Scott by my side during the happy times, sad times, and everything in between.  So blessed.

Happy Times

We have been loving this time of year so far. It all started off with an early Thanksgiving/Christmas party in with Scott's side of our family. We had a blast being together and it was a great start to the holidays!

We have also been spending time with my side.  Most of it was intentional, but we did end up as refugees at my parents house for several days after the crazy windstorm that knocked out our power! My brothers family didn't have power either, so they stayed at Mom and Dad's too!  It was a lot of fun!

Our house fared very well in the storm. My parents lost several trees, unfortunately one of them was my favorite one.  Scott cut the whole thing up, he had a good time re-living his logger days.

Speaking of trees...here's one that was cut down on purpose!  We got our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving and we've loved having it in our home!

We've also been loving our fireplace.

 

Blanding

We took a great little road trip over Labor Day weekend. 

We went to Blanding, UT.  Scott's sister lives there and we hadn't seen her new house yet.  

Kari and Mark are so great, we wish we could see them more.  They have four adorable girls and we soaked up every minute we had with them!

It's hard to get a picture with everyone smiling...check out those two cuties on the end!

Scott's mom, dad, and sister came down to Blanding too!  One day we had a picnic in the mountains, it was really nice.  Julie and the nieces rounded up a beautiful bouquet of wildflowers. 

 

We drove down with Scott's other sister, Lisa, and her family.  We loved getting to drive with them, we had a lot of fun together.  

Scott and I were so happy to have three whole days of being together 24/7...can't beat that.

On Saturday we spent the afternoon at the pool, it was a blast!  Our little water babies were so adorable. 

The three older girls put on an elaborate puppet show, check out this cast list:

• Cinderella: a dinosaur
• Wicked Stepmother: a peacock
• Ugly Stepsisters: two socks

The weekend went by too quickly, but we sure had a good time while it lasted. 

Phone dump

Here are some pics from our cell phone cameras...a little glimpse into what we've been up to recently:

In an effort to squelch our Hawaii withdrawals...we went to a lake.  We wanted to spend an afternoon chilling by the water.  It was not bad.  It wasn't Hawaii, but it wasn't bad.

Behind the scenes at a TV interview for work.

We spontaneously decided to go to a Bee's game.  On our way to buy tickets a nice couple offered us two free ones!  They turned out to be on the front row, talk about luck!

More work- these guys were great sports and signed hundreds of posters.  Have you seen the movie yet? 

Cutest picture of them all, our niece at the fair.

 

At our favorite local Chinese place, the Mandarin

A pic for my Twitter account that I totally took myself.  But I want you to see my short hair!  I'm loving it!

Scott sent me this pic, he saw this little guy on campus yesterday.

An updated family pic (my side).  This was taken back in March, but I just saw it this week.  I love them all so much!

That sums it up: work, play, family...sounds like the usual!

All four

It was that time of year again, my brother, sister, and I were excited to be invited back to perform at the Free Sunday Concert Series.  Scott took some awesome pics that I'm so excited to have, like the above one of my mom and dad watching us play.

The reason for the blog title (all four), is because my older brother joined us for the first time!  He made an awesome arrangement of a Coldplay song and we all got to perform together.

It was a very memorable night, thanks for the pictures (and support) Scott!

Lucky Ducks

Look what we've been up to!  For 15 beautiful days we were living the dream in Hawaii.

My parents planned the most amazing vacation, we loved every minute! Our first week was spent in Oahu.  

Playing in the most beautiful water!

Snorkeling at Shark's Cove

Thankfully there weren't sharks, but this is one
 of the many sea turtles we saw!

Scott and I both loved snorkeling

Our favorite sunset

A beautiful Japanese temple

The surfers! They all did awesome

My brother noticed this down the street from our place.
From the 4th pirate's movie

Kayaking in beautiful Kauai

The whole crew! Had such a wonderful time together

 

Paradise!

Meet the Graduates

Ready to feel old?  Those of you who grew up with me won't be able to believe this, I still have a hard time myself!  In the last five weeks my side of the family has had three graduations.  Mine in April, my SISTER's in May, and my BROTHER's high school graduation today.  Where does time go?! 

My beautiful sister received her Bachelors Degree at the ripe old age of 21.  She went to Snow College for a year and finished up at Utah State.  We are so happy for her and are completely proud (and in awe) of what she was able to achieve so quickly!  We sure love this girl and are happy to have her back home.

photo by Heather's cell phone

The baby of our family graduated from high school today!  Our last LHS graduate, all four of us went there.  It seems like not much has changed, I saw a lot of my high school teachers today, and the kids seem like they have an awesome tight-knit class.

photo by Ellie Cutler photography

I'm also in awe of this guy.  He is talented in many ways and has so much to offer.  My parents finally get a cougar, he'll be attending BYU in the fall!  He is such a good brother and friend, we all love this kid so much.  So proud of both of them!