Happy Birthday Utah! We celebrated by making costumes and dressing up like pioneers. We had a picnic at the Draper city park.
(We thought that this white back ground looked like a barn.)
You can see our "handcarts" in the back.
As sisters in Zion...
Matt is such a great husband he followed us around and took the pictures for us. thanks matt! After all the picture taking we ate brownies and told pioneer stories. I really enjoy living in Utah, the mountains are so beautiful.
We bought our first car today F J Cruiser 2008. We just went to test drive one just to see what they were like. We like it a lot. We thought about getting a truck but this way we can still put kids in the back. We plan on having this car for a very long time.
Matt even let me drive it home from the dealer. He is so sweet. We can't wait to take it camping in 2 weeks to Yellowstone. I hope it is bear proof, I will have to read the manual.
My family came up on Tuesday to stay with us for 4 days. We went to Thanksgiving Point the evening that they came up.
The next day was my work party at Lagoon. I got very sun burt as usually. Last year a won a BBQ in the drawing and this year I won...nothing at all. :(
On Thursday they shopped all day while we had to work. Matt and I caught up with them that night to go to the Mayan. No matter how many times I have eaten their it is always a fun place.
Friday morning we went rolling bladding on the trail next to my house for about two hours. Then went ice skating in Provo.
After ice skating we took a lunch up to Battle Creek Falls and went on a hike to the waterfall. It felt great standing by the waterfalls' mist. Thank you family for coming to stay, we had fun!
Our Fourth of July was a lot of fun. Matt & I first went to work because we don't ever get holiday's off, except Christmas (the grocery stores are closed). We had a BBQ at our house with Jon, Sherilyn, Aidan and Mikell. We then went to Thanksgiving Point to watch the fireworks. There were tons of people, so I thought that the fireworks would be amazing since so many people came to watch. But they weren't that great, there was no music playing or that many fireworks in their grand finally but we still had a great time hanging out and spending time with eachother. It was still fun enough that we are planning on doing the same thing next year.
This was my only decoration that I bought just before leaving work. And those yummy treats behind are homemade oreo cookies which turned out great. Matt thought that there wasn't enough frosting in the middle so he had to make them all double stuffed. I hope everyone had an exciting holiday, I look forward to reading about it on your blogs.
This was "fun" Raging Waters. It was freezing cold, there was no sunny sun and we mostly just sat wrapped up in blankets. I couldn't wait to go to a water park this year so in June we thought it would be warm enough to go but nope it wasn't. This was about 3 weeks ago so it is warm now but atleast they gave us free tickets to come back. It was for Jon's (matts' brother) Jet Blue work party. Right before we were going to leave I finally got in the wave pool (which is my favorite). It was kinda warm but not really.
Afterwards we went to Mike & Annies' to have a BBQ, by then the sun was out and it was warm and it made the day a lot better. 
Today Matt, Jon, Mike, Annie and me went to the Timpanogos Caves. They were amazing. The cave always stays 43 degrees in winter & summer so even though we were hiking in 95 degree weather we still had to take sweaters. The hike is a mile and a half up hill to the caves. It takes about 45 minutes to get to the top. Then the tour is about an hour.
This is the heart of Timpanogos. There were so many things in the caves I had only seen on the movie Planet Earth, which Matt and I just watched like two weeks ago. There are three caves and they all are very different from eachother.
After coming out of the cave on our way down the mountain Matt saw a snake and I heard a rattle. Of course I just wanted to run but the boys said not to. The rattle snake was right by us and it looked like it was ready to jump on us. They slowly walked past it and I fastly ran by it screaming.
