BBQ over the 4th of July Weekend

Tyler and I went on a scooter ride on Sunday, July 3rd and then we went camping with some friends. We love the summer and beautiful nights that we can spend with friends up in the gorgeous mountains!

Our fun weekend...so far!

This weekend has been so much fun so far! I started out the weekend by getting off work early and going shopping with my mom and Jocelyn. My mom got some cute sandals! We then went to build a fire and do tin foil dinners with Marc and Court, Kelsey and Devon and Dane and Elizabeth. I saw my friend Kristi at the store when I was getting the food to make tin foil dinners and she told me to put in Lipton Onion Soup mix, so I did and it flavored it really well. Yum! We also made peach cobbler in the dutch oven and that was delish as usual.



Courtney is pregnant and so she marked her tin foil dinner by labeling it "balloon belly." I thought it was funny so I had to take a picture!
The next day, Tyler and I woke up and cleaned the house and washed our cars. We then got Subway and drove up past Sundance to have a picnic then hike up to Stewart Falls. The summer weather in Utah is GORGEOUS! It smelled like pine trees up there too which is my all-time favorite smell. Mmm.








When we got to the falls it was really misty. Tyler wore his swim suit on our hike because he thought he was going to get in the water, but when we got there there was tons of snow piled up at the base of the waterfall! Even in 90 degree plus weather it hadn't melted yet because we got summer so late this year.






It was such a gorgeous hike and I'm so glad we ventured up there to do it! We went swimming to cool off afterward at his parent's neighborhood pool, then got Cafe Rio for dinner and headed home to get ready for the Stadium of Fire.










The Stadium of Fire was so awesome this year! In previous years I feel like there has been some unnecessary "fluff" but this year everything they did was enjoyable. They had para gliders get dropped from an airplane onto the field and after David Archuleta sang they had my favorite part where the four jets zoom by above the stadium. It is so amazing! I always get so touched when they talk about America and our freedom because I feel so blessed to live in America. It is the best country in the world and we have the best life because we get to live here.
Brad Paisley was the main performer and he was so good! I knew all of his songs and his voice was amazing live. Then the fireworks were beautiful! My favorite are the gold ones that twinkle down for a long time. Tyler and I rode our scooter to Maverik by our house afterward and got a movie at Redbox (it's new there!) and I discovered delicious mango peach frozen yogurt there. I might just have to take some summer walks down to Maverik to get a cone every now and then!

This weekend has been perfect so far!

Courtney's Baby Shower!

I had a baby shower for my BFF Courtney on Wednesday at my house and it was so much fun! We have been friends since 3rd grade and it is crazy that she is going to have her own baby boy soon. I made cupcakes and bought cookies and pretzels, and Jessica made yummy cookies and brought lemonade.

Jessica had everyone play a game where she gave everyone a sheet of paper with all the letters of the alphabet and she timed us so we had to come up with boy names that started with every letter. Whoever had the most unique names that were different than everyone else won. I borrowed some baby boy stuff from my friend Kayla across the street and I set it out as decoration (like a Bumbo, toy, jammies, bottle, diaper, etc.) then I took them away while no one noticed and had them try to remember what was there. Sydney, Court's sister, won and she got the prize of boxes of candy!

Courtney got lots of cute presents from her friends, like cute little outfits, toys and blankets. I got her a onesie for the first year of his life (0-3 mos, 3-6 mos, etc.)


This picture is of me "holding" Cannon. Can't wait to meet him next month! I love you, Courtney!