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. 

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!

Living for the weekend

Our week days are pretty busy lately, it is starting to feel like we're living for the weekends. 

We spent the first weekend of October visiting our family up in Idaho.  We had an awesome time, always do! 


Little sister Julie, who is almost 8 years old (can't believe it), drew a portrait of us that I loved!  She's at the stage where she loves 'love stories' and she said this is a picture of Scott and I at a ball.  So cute.  I wish my eyelashes were that long in real life.

This weekend, we went to Frightmares at Lagoon.  My brother came too and we had fun!

We all bundled up, and Scott and I thought it was funny that we matched.  We tried to get my brother to wear red too, but he declined :)

 I was too chicken to go in any haunted houses, so we just rode rides. 

Sunday afternoon, Scott had a great idea- we went on a drive to look at the fall colors.  Such a simple thing to do, but it was a really great time!

We went up little and big cottonwood canyons.

We tried to get a picture of us together...this was the best we could do.
We're thinking it's about time for a new camera!

 

This is the same view...looks a lot better without us in it! 

Hope you all had a nice weekend too!

Sunburns mean you had fun

When I see someone with a sunburn I sometimes wonder what they were doing to get it. I always hope that my sunburns are from a fun day outside.  I got my first burn of the year on Saturday and I was strangely excited.  The only downside was that I had on elbow length sleeves...you can picture the after-math!

Thank goodness for nice weather, I was going crazy! Scott and I woke up early on Saturday and had a little yard sale.  It was a lot of fun getting to meet a lot of people and chat with them.  It feels so good to get rid of some clutter.  Geez we've only been married 22 months, how do we have so much stuff already?

That day we also had fun hanging out at the park behind our house, going to the mall, and getting snow cones. We went to Shiver's Shaved Ice (across from Burger Stop in Layton). It's our friend's stand and it was so good, I recommend peach!

I just love days when I get to be with Scott all day long.  We ended our weekend sitting on our front porch at 10:00 at night, just talking and laughing.  It was warm outside although there was lightning out over the lake.  It was one of those moments where I felt completely care free and truly happy, you can't beat that!

I didn't want a picture-less post..so here is one of my favorites from Scott's birthday a few weeks ago.

 Lucky for him our niece Livi was there to help blow out his candles :)

love those weekends

The weather cooperated with us this weekend, so we were able to camp in the mountains behind our house on Friday. It was a lot of fun! Scott found a beautiful quiet place down a hill.










It was pretty cold that night, but we were just happy it didn't rain on us.












In the morning Scott made pancakes, hashbrowns, eggs, and sausage. Wow!









The view was so gorgeous.









On Saturday, Luke went with us to the air show to see the Thunderbirds. It was awesome as always!