Lake Powell!!

I'm very sad to say, but I didn't take very many picture during this trip. We had a fabulous trip (Thanks to Marie and Michelle for making this happen) but I did not do justice in documenting. My camera was acting up most of the time and I don't know what other excuses I have. Most of the pictures on here are 'borrowed' from other people on our trip. Hope you guys don't mind. (p.s. the picture above is borrowed from the internet)

This is us just chilling in the house boat, compliments of Michelle and Marie's parents. They were so kind to let us stay on their houseboat for a few days. Thanks guys! Look at the huge belly.


We had many exciting adventures on this trip. It was far from your ordinary Lake Powell adventure. The picture above is what we slept with each night... just kidding. But they were all over the outside of the house boat and all over the slip. But never fear...

Kami to the rescue with her mighty broom. We were going to sleep up on the top of the house boat, but when we found out what was creeping up there, we thought again.

This is the girls dumpster diving! Lance thought one of the bags of toys was garbage and the mistakingly threw it away. So we went searching.

We found it!! YAY!! Now we'll have happy babies.


You are probably wondering what this is a picture of. Aparently it is a very important part to our ski boat, however, I couldn't give you a name. The one on the right is what it is supposed to look like. The one on the left is what was left of ours... This piece helps cool the engine. The second day we got there we took two runs on the boat and the engine overheated. Two runs and our boat was a goner. We decided to only take one boat down there because there was another one there for us to use if we needed it, but now were were down one boat. Bummer, on the second day. But, good thing we had Lance there to save us. He was able to take things apart and find the problem and put in this new part. Thanks Lance, you saved the day!

This is Lance. I don't have a picture of our next adventure, but it also has to do with Lance...poor guy. Michelle and Marie's dad's boat was down at Lake Powell, as I mentioned. They park it on a dry dock up a ways from where we were. We wanted an extra boat for the next day because we had planned to go up the canyon, and wanted everyone to be able to come and fit comfortably. I know I don't have all the facts correct, but I'll do my best. Lance went up with two other guys to get the boat, and after a while the boys came back and Lance was still out there with the boat. He is perfectly capable to drive the boat back to where we were so we didn't worry too much until it started getting late, and dark. For some reason Justin (Michelle's husband) felt like he needed to go look out off the back of the house boat. Sure enough there was Lance waving his arms from the tires. His boat had died clear back around the corner and he had jumped in, swam to the tires and had ran around to get help. In his travels, he slipped a few times and lost a sandal. Darrik got in our boat and drove out to rescue him, and tow their boat back to us. Never a dull moment. Our next adventure is about what happened when we took these four (Chelsea, Michelle, Sarah, and D) out on a tubing ride. After Lance fixed their parents boat, we took it out for a spin. These four decided they would go first. We got out there just past the tires and the boat overheated. We sat for a while and tried again, but still too hot. So Lance jumped in and started swimming back to the house boat. Then Darrik jumped in after him. Bailey (Lance and Marie's dog) then jumped in too and started swimming after the two of them. It was crazy. The boat had to be towed in again. We went out after that on our boat and went crazy trying to knock them off the tube. Like insane crazy. We had little Carson (Lance and Marie's little boy) on the boat with us and he got car sick and started throwing up all over Lance. Lance started dry heaving, and then I started getting sick as well. Ha ha ha ha!! It was a crazy, exciting, fun trip!!

Here are some pictures of our boys fishing. They caught a bunch of stuff. Darrik caught a small mouth bass, a catfish, a carp and one other fish I can't remember the name of. They had a good time.




Another one of the adventures of Lake Powell was my adventure. I don't know what happened to me, or if I was allergic or heat rash or what, but I was ichy during our trip for no good reason. When I got home, I noticed I had hives all over my body. YIKES!! They have been slowly going away, but I've been using hyrdacortizone, aveno body wash and benodryl like mad. CRAZY!! The doctor isn't too concerned with it because it is going away, but if it's still bad at my next appointment I will have to have blood drawn... ahhhhh! I hate that.

Here's a few pictures of our crew! Justin and Michelle

Marie and Carson

Chelsea and Sheldon

Sarah and Lily

Candice and Jason

Other Random Pictures

We love Lake Powell!!

Best Friends!!

For Father's day my sisters and I decided to take a sister's picture and frame it for our dad. My sister Makell was the amazing photographer. She would set up the camera, lighting and such and then my mom would say 'sit up straight, big eyes, suck your gut in, fix your hair, smile etc..' and then push the button. Makell also edited them in photoshop after. She is brilliant. Besides the fact that I am pregnant, I think they turned out super good, and my dad loved them. It is always my goal to make him cry and we did. He is such a softy, but I love him for that.

Makell loves feet pictures, so here's our feet.

This picture was cool because Makell cropped Paiges arm (in the teal) from being outsretched to just showing her hand. Incredible!

This was the last place we took pictures and we were SO ornery. The water was freezing and we couldn't get in the spots where the spacing looked right, and everyone was either laughing because it was taking so long, or pissed off because we were laughing, or because they were in the icy water, or getting mud on their pants... hahahaha. So we just took one shot, and this goofy one and called it a day. I don't know what I am doing with my face, but oh well, we had fun!

Vegas Baby!

Our friend Lisette had a conference down in Las Vegas and we all decided to go play with her. We had a bawl!!

Caesar's Palace

Maryann, Channdra, Ceara, me, Lisette

Ceara and Kami

In front of the Bellagio

The dinner buffet at the Paris hotel

We went and saw Mama Mia, AMAZING!!!!

The prices for the Gelato were on the other side of the place when we ordered. When we paid... we were shocked. Lisette and Jared's cost $40. Insane!

Prego at the pool!

The famous giant key board.

Midway Getaway!

First of all I need to apologize for not posting in over a month. You would think after quitting my job I would have more time to get on the computer, but it's amazing how many things seem to occupy my time.



About a month ago we decided we needed a break. We were burned out from work and we just wanted to relax and not have to worry about anything. We went up to Midway and stayed in a really nice condo and played the whole weekend. It was so nice to be up there. The weather was perfect and it is so gorgeous up there. We decided that we want to move up there... well, just for fun. We did a little shopping too, might as well:) We had a really good time.

This is us playing mini golf.

These are the stair up to the Crater at the Home Stead. Holy cow!! I was so out of breath by the time we got to the top.
This is inside the crater
This is the view from our balcony.

eXpeRiMeNT wiTh cOLoR & FoNt

I have been so intrigued by people's cute blogs, font, colors and sizes they use. I have just now figured out how it is done. Slow learNer I guess. I'm still working on the cute blog part, however. One day...

... what a sucker!!

This is Bear! He is the newest member of our family. Another dog, I know, what am I thinking? But as my title states, I am a sucker. Look how cute he is! Last Saturday I had felt like it was time to give our year old cats to a family who could take care of them better than we could. I put an add on KSL and had many phone calls. Darrik was shocked that I had acutally, finally done it. I had been threatening him and teasing about it for a long time. But I felt like it was time. We are not home during the day and we are super busy, they just don't get the attention that they deserve. Well, that night after they were picked up, Darrik was having a really hard time. I had given his babies away... what a rude wife. He really loved those cats, and I was the mean wife who gave them away. I felt terrible, so I told him we could get another dog... WHAT?!? I know, I'm crazy. But here he is, and he is so adorable.

He is part wolf-hybrid, and boxer. So he will be another large, inside (do not let me forget to mention that part) dog. For now he is a cutie, but I know when the two dogs get going there will be chaos. Not to mention, I'm out numbered 3 to 1, and when the baby comes, 4 to 1. Way too much testosterone for one household!

More pictures of Bear! Our little teddy bear!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been told that I make a mean batch of chocolate chip cookies. I've decided to share my recipe.

1 1/2 sticks butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- cream butter and sugars
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 tsp lemon juice
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
3 1/2 cups flour
3-4 chocolate chips (I use ghirardelli milk chocolate chips...mmmmmmm!!)

Bake at 375 for 9 min. (do not over bake)

Enjoy!!

Guess what I am.....?

Besides the fact that the sonogram says 'I'm a boy' it's pretty obvious to tell. WE ARE HAVING A BOY!!!!! We couldn't be happier. I just wanted to share.

Bad dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a dog named Cooper. He is a mutt, a mix between a Chesapeake Bay retriever, rottweiler and Border collie. He is black. He is about 7 months old. We love our dog. He is a good dog... most of the time. He learned very quickly. He minds very well. He gets really excited when he sees us. He is a lot of fun. I really love having him in our home, besides the hair.

So the other day... Darrik usually takes Cooper with him to work. He works construction so Cooper can run around and be where people are all day. Last Friday Darrik had a meeting in Salt Lake all day so Cooper couldn’t come. We decided that we could leave him in his kennel in the house and his mom agreed to come over a couple times a day and let him out. At about 2:30 I got a phone call from his mom saying she can’t find the key to our house we had given her. She was at our house and couldn’t get in. A little panicked and annoyed I told her I would leave work, come home and take care of him… and take care of him I did.

OH MY GOSH!!! I don’t know how they do it. Some dogs are escape artists. Mine just so happened to be one last week. We still to this day don’t know how he did it, but when I walked in the door he was standing right there wagging his tail like crazy happy to see me. He was locked in his kennel. The only way to open the door is to press down on one lever and pull up on the other one, standard kennel, but how did he do it? I opened the back door to let him into the back yard. I then walked around the house to see the damage. There was a dry pee puddle by the back door on the hard wood, better than the carpet. The kitchen looked okay, my couch was still intact, and my entertainment center was chew free thank goodness. So then I walked into my bedroom and found this…

My brand new shoes…

Garbage strewn every where…

A total mess, but luckily no poop...

I hate to say it, but I completely lost it. I let Cooper back in the house and told him to come. I was walking towards the bedroom and he wouldn’t come. He knew he was in trouble. So I dragged him by his collar. He has never chewed anything ever. He has his toys, his rope, bones, ball and frisbee and has always been content chewing and playing with them. We have never had a problem. I think because he was left home alone all day he went into abandoned mode. I smacked him a couple of times, kicked him, hit him with my eaten shoes. Then I just broke down and started bawling. I couldn’t believe I was acting this way. I was so mad at him, but it wasn’t his fault he was left home alone all day. I was not happy. But that is my bad dog story. Needless to say, he has been a perfect angel since then. I guess he just needed a good beating to put things into perspective.