10 years and a wedding

It's crazy that my 10 year reunion has come and gone! I didn't realize how good it would be to see everyone. Everyone is exactly the way I remember them, but I think we have all gotten better with age;) It went so quickly that I didn't get enough time to catch up with or even see some of these peeps. I'll guess it'll have to wait until the 20 year.

Group shot

Some of the girls

Michelle and I getting ready to head out at her moms house. That house has so many memories so it was the perfect place to start the evening! Michelle was the cutest date I've had in a long time. Both of our husbands ditched out so we went together. Just like old times!

This was the first time I got to meet baby Ledger and he is absolutely perfect!
Save the "friend of the year" comments. I already know that I suck!




My step brother Kai got married last Saturday in Provo so T and I headed up for the day. It's always nice to able to attend a temple wedding and listen to what is said because neither of us know what was said at ours. I was crying like baby so that made TJ cry like a baby and neither of us heard a thing.



Yes, I'm aware that my eyes are closed in this picture, but it's the only one I got with my pops so let's just pretend they're not.

TJ had an 8 picture limit for the day. He warned me on the way up, "I'll be in six pictures. That's it. Use them wisely." What a good sport...

Kai and Nikki

They are so cute together and I'm so happy for them!

Kai with my favorite boys. They weren't happy about Kai taking so long to get out of the temple. In the mean time, they both dunked they're heads in the fountains. I guess that's what you get when you leave them unattended for 2 minutes. I'm sure they would have been in the fountain if it would have been 3 minutes.

Summer

The months of June and July are filled with birthdays that seriously break my bank account. All three of my nephews (Hunter, Cael and Bron), both sister in laws (Tanesha and Takael), my brother in law (Cody) and mine and TJ's were all within 5 weeks of each other. I ate enough birthday cake to last me an eternity. Unfortunately there weren't many pictures taken.

This was Hunter's 6th birthday

Me and Leigh on the way to Springdale to celebrate her birthday.

Two places that I never get sick of in the summer - Lake Powell and Newport Beach.

We've only been to Lake Powell a couple of times this summer and I'm wondering how we're going to fit in 5 more trips:)

Then it was off to Newport Beach with my dad and the fam. My sister and I went solo since neither of our husbands could get away. Even without TJ I ended up having the cutest little snuggle buddy to keep we warm at night. Well technically I had 2... My sister and little Mr. Cael Cael. There was no point in giving my sister and I our own beds since we would have ended up in the same bed anyway, we just didn't anticipate the little peanut below crawling in bed between us every night. No complaints here!

Caely Cael
Sweet baby Bron.
My favorite 30 pound 1 year old
Some of the crew at Joe's Crab Shack. Not my favorite (if you're a vegetarian you would get it) but it's the perfect place to eat with the little guys. Loud music and dancing kept these guys pretty entertained.

I wish that summer would last 3 more months. Is that too much to ask?

Sorry excuse for an update

Sneak peak at what has been consuming my thoughts:

Turns out I married quite the guy. He is running the show on this "little" project.

Only had to use that blue beauty out front once.

Hopefully that will be the one and only time.

Back view

Went to New York with some of the greatest friends ever.
-All work and no play makes Emmy a dull girl -

Been doing a lot of this. I LOVE St. George!
It is hard to get an even tan with a Harley on your lap.

T-19 days til my favorite boys roll back into town permanently.
It will be the best birthday present ever.

So Long Colorado - Hello St. George

Last weekend we made the move back to Utah. We've been wanting to for awhile and finally made it happen. I hate packing and moving and I hope that we never had to do it again - ugh!

Before we left I had a couple of going away parties.

Jenn was so sweet and planned the funnest party for me. It was so fun and so good to see all my Denver girls (minus a few)!

Me and Jenn. I already miss her so much!

We seriously could have stayed here and talked all night long!

I can't wait for you guys to all road trip out here to see me!

I love that we are all doing the signature knee pop.

A bunch of my friends in Fort Morgan had a party for me as well. It apparently went until the wee hours of the morning but I clocked out around 10:00. I guess they really know how to party - me, not so much!

T.J. hates pictures so this was about the only one that I got.

Shannon, Kelly and I

Some of the girlies.

I didn't get a whole big group shot, just a lot of individuals so I couldn't post them all but I already miss everyone so much. They spoiled me with great gifts and I will never forget any of them! I know it's crazy but I really do miss it there. I will always remember all of the fun times I had and all of the lifelong friendships that I made.

water world and speeding tickets

A couple of weeks ago I went to water world for the first time with a couple of friends. It was so much fun aside from the fact that I totally got peer pressured into going on some of the slides. We laughed so hard all day that my abs were sore for a week.

They have a ton of slides that have huge tubes that you can down in together. Well, the limit for each tube was either 5 kids or 3 adults but who really pays attention to the limits right? We shoved all 4 of us in the tube every time. This worked for most of the slides except for one. We actually beached ourselves. The slide kind of turns into a lazy river for awhile and we apparently exceeded the weight limit because we caused a huge back up. We couldn't stop laughing but the people behind us didn't think it was too funny.

I went to Denver with my friend Shannon to shop this week and right as we are getting into Denver her radar starts screaming and then we saw this little jerk...

We knew we really were going way over the speed limit so we weren't surprised that he caught us but I couldn't help but get my camera out and take some pictures. We were watching him in his car trying to decide if he was going to give us a warning or a ticket.

You can't really see the cop car in this picture but he's there and yes he was writing a ticket - jerk!

Shannon with the cop.

We were laughing so hard by the time he got back up to our car that the $97 ticket didn't sting so bad. Not the best way to start off the day but we had a blast!

Iowa and baby Bron

The train ride was a success! Seriously it was pretty cool - I think - I slept the whole time. 14 1/2 hours later...

I met Baby Bron

He is quite possibly the sweetest baby in the whole entire world! Besides pooping all over my mom (and I mean ALL OVER) he is the most perfect little angel ever.

Bron was born on the 23rd and Cael's birthday was on the 24th but since my sister was still in the hospital they decided to celebrate it on 25th which was great because I got to be there for it. My sisters boys are the cutest kids on the face of this earth. Every time Cael would open a present he would look at Hunter and say "Hunter, look what we got!". I could just kiss their little faces off. I love those boys!

Before we even lit the cake Cael was pulling out the candles and licking off the frosting. My kinda kid!

Cael got his very own leapster for his birthday and he kept saying "Look Immy (that's what he calls me). I playin' my leapster." and that is basically what these two did 1/3 of the day everyday. They would come downstairs and climb in bed with me every morning and play their leapsters . I could get used to that!

This might be inappropriate but I love it too much not to post. I told you they played it most of the day. Boys and their video games...

Sweet little peanut! I could sit and smell his little self all day!

My sister is the greatest mom ever! Doesn't she look incredible for just having a baby?!?

Sisterly love! I seriously love the heck out of her!

Waiting for my train to take me home.

Last hugs goodbye.

It's always so hard to leave these little farts!

14 1/2 hours later... Home!

July

At 9:00 tonight I'm taking a train (that's right, I said train) to see this little guy

Bron Cody Johnson

My sister was induced yesterday and I was an absolute wreck all day. I cried my eyes out at the fact that I wasn't there. I was able to be at the birth of both Hunter and Cael and I just felt horrible that I wasn't there for little B. So I did what any loving sister would do - I booked myself a train ticket. I actually didn't even know that you could take the train so this should be quite the adventure but I'll do whatever I have to do to get there and kiss this little munchkins face off!

Congratulations Erica and Cody on another handsome little boy!

We went to Lake Powell over the 4th and had a blast as usual.

Fighting over otter pops...

The diaper

Hit it!

Of course T.J. wanted the shorter rope so that he could spray me the whole time. Let's just say that this ride didn't last very long.

Matching shirts - T.J. kills me

Wow - I suck!

Okay, it's only been 5 months since I posted last... Oops! It's pretty much been the same old same old around here for us and since I'm definitely not making up for all 5 months, I'll give you the low down on the last couple of weeks.

Empire Lake & the big 27

The Crew

The girls

Me & Paula

Me & T on my birthday. (one year older and wiser too)

Birthday lunch with some of my favorite girls

BABIES

Baby shower for Molly and sweet little Maggie

I finally made it in to see Jenn a month (I know - I suck) after little Ethan was born.

He is such a doll!

My other great friend Terita had her baby on the 24th of June. little Chloe. Such a cutie - look at all of that hair!

That pretty much sums up the last little while.

2 hours and counting until it's Lake Powell time!