Loving Summer!

Malone and I have had an awesome summer so far! We've been keeping quite busy, especially on the weekends. I found a few pictures to kind of help highlight some of our adventures.

Taking a step back, these were just a couple pictures from Deidra's bridal shower in Rigby. She had a hawaiian theme, and it turned out pretty good! She got lots of gifts and I think everyone had a good time. I could tell Deej had fun, and that's the most important! I don't really have any pictures of the wedding, so I stole some of Deidra's off of facebook so I could share! Thanks Deej!

Yes, this is a pot of gravy, but not just any gravy. I MADE it from scratch! And it was good! This is the first successful batch of gravy I have ever created. I just had to include this, for those who know me, this is amazing. Moving on...




Malone and I went with my family down to the Manti Pageant on June 27th. I forgot just how beautiful the temple was there! We loved the pageant and spending time with the family. I am pretty sure the grandkids were confused as to what was going on in the pageant, but it was fun to see them get excited.

Malone was pretty excited too!



Me and Malone saving seats...


Parker's such a cool dude and an awesome uncle, he kept trying to keep Claire and Chandler under control... which is hard to do when they're together!
I love this picture of Jacob, he's soo cute!



We were invited by our good friends Jared and Emily to go camping/rafting with them and their family on the Hoeback 4th of July weekend. We had a blast! And I wish I had more pictures, but my friends promised they'd get more pictures to me. But for the mean time, here is a view of the scenery from our tent.




Here's the view inside our tent... Oops! (That'd be Malone)





And this is the view of...what happens when you don't use sunscreen on the river. Malone got some pretty interesting patterns from his life jacket haha. Poor kid. I got a little burned on the spots I missed with sunscreen, but I didn't burn nearly as bad! Anyway, the river was a blast. Lunch counter, the big "climax" was sooo scary, but way exciting. We had alot of fun spending time with Emily's family, they're really fun and super nice to let us tag along. We left home Thursday morning, July 2 and came home on the 3rd. The weather was perfect! A little chilly in the morning, but plenty warm in the afternoon (as you can see from Malone's lovely shade!) That night it rained like crazy and there was lightening and thunder. Our friends Kishel and David decided to bunk with us in our huge tent b/c they were afraid of getting soaked in their little one. Malone and I were able to do about 3 runs down the rapids, and 2 down the calm parts. We loved it!

I didn't get any pictures from 4th of July really... that kind of stinks. So I borrowed some from Malone's sister Heidi... hopefully she doesn't mind! But Malone and I had a good day. He had to work first thing that morning at Broulims, and I went to the Rexburg Parade with my mom and Parker. While looking for a place to sit, we stumbled across my dad's brother's family, Karl and Tiffany, so we sat by them and chatted. Afterwards, I went home and waited for Malone to come home so we could head over to his parents house. They were having a little family reunion. Pretty much all of Malone's brothers and sisters were there as well as neices and nephews. It was fun to see everyone and see how the kids have grown. We had dinner and visited, took family pictures, and then Malone, Malone's nephew, and I all went to see fireworks in Idaho Falls. We borrowed his brother's dog Koda and took him along with us. It was fun having a dog again, even though it was temporary. Koda didn't like the firworks, but the rest of us did! We had a really good seat and it was perfect!

Everyone gave us a hard time about not having kids, so we had Malone's brothers dog and his sister's dog as our children! This is Koda and Red. Adorable dogs! I would have loved to take them home with me!

The other day I decided to make a change! Finally! SO I dyed my hair! Here's a before shot...

here's after... but it's probably not the best picture. Oh well!

Last weekend I had the lovely opportunity to go to my cousin's weddings. Daniel's was on Friday and Aubrey's was on Saturday. Ashley and I arrived Friday night about half an hour before Daniel's reception ended. It was then that we found out that most of our cousins had gone back home because they were all sick and throwing up! Over the weekend, this crazy bug spread to more cousins. Eventually Aubrey and her hubby got sick on their wedding day. I felt so bad for them! But somehow I lucked out because I never got sick. Even though everyone got sick, we still were able to visit and have some fun. I won't be making it to the reunion this weekend, so sorry family! I love you all!

One last thing, I wanted to let everyone know that Malone and I are moving! We've lived in this tiny apartment for a year and are ready to move into a little bit bigger apartment. We're moving July 31! So we've got to get packing! Luckily we're just moving down the street, but we're excited. Our friends Kishele and David are planning on moving the same day to the same place as well, so at least we'll know one couple in our new ward! I wish one other friend, you know who you are, would move over there too! We'll just have to see though!

That's all I've got so far... but no worries, we still have more adventures to come this summer! And hopefully I have my camera!