Saturday, July 23, 2011

Cali...EFY....Can life get any better?

Wow what an incredible two weeks I have had! Last week I went to Cali for my cousnin's wedding and then this week EFY. I am on Cloud 9! Here are a couple highlights :)

From left to right is Courtney, my funny daddy making faces in the back, Aunt Dee and Uncle Dallas. We were in Old Sacramento and here we are waiting to go into Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. Yum!

My mom and my cute little brother wearing his styling new glasses.


Awww! I love my little brother


Aren't they so cute?! I love them :)

Once again...Daddy pulling faces haha


Sisters, hotties, Best Friends!


My Aunt Rochell and my cousin Melissa. We are STILL waiting for our food! But having fun

The beautiful Sacramento Temple on a GORGEOUS Friday morning!


Me and My sisters; Shauna and Sara. I love when all of us are together. It is just the best ever

We all got to come and go to the temple while we were her in Sacramento. It was way cool and we got to have our dad baptize us! It was a wonderful experience. We met a girl there who became our sister for the day while we were at the temple. Her name was Mariah and she was a convert that had just been baptized in February and this was only her second time doing baptisms. It was SO cool to meet her and talk with her.


I just could NOT get enough of this beautiful, sweet baby! This was the first time I had actually met my little niece since she was born 4 months ago! She was always so happy :) Awww i just love her!

For  my cousin's wedding we went to this little town called Murphy and it had this main street that was just lined with little boutique stores and fun little shops. This particular shop had about a hundred or so different hats. Needless to say, we had a blast with the different fun hats!


My cousin looked BEAUTIFUL and this daddy daughter dance was so tender and just precious.

Then it was the bridesmaid's dance with their "Date", but since my sister's husband wasn't able to make the trip my sister had her own daddy daughter dance. Cute!

Haha me and my daddy again! He just randomly came and sat on my lap.

Ok so here are my co-counselors, two of the best people ever! Brittany and Aaron. We had the best group and the best week ever, all of our kids called us mom and dad. The week flew by but we had so much fun and learned so SO much from each other. The last day our cute kids bought us this cake that said "we love you! Rachal, Arron and Brittni." It was SO funny because it was a couple of our boys that got the cake, and they knew that all three of us counselors spelled our names different, they just weren't really sure how to spell them haha it was Hilarious! But it made us ALMOST want to cry it was so thoughtful! Along witht he cake they had a big poster card that said We <3 Mom Squared & Dad! then on the inside they had all written us notes and signed it! It was the sweetest thing ever! So we cut it up and passed it out to all 43 of our kids. Best day ever :)

Here is our incredible group!

These were two of my favorite boys in my group. Wyatt on my left and Alec on my right are from Cali and they are cousins. I played football and ultimate frisbee at lunch and free time with them and just really loved these boys. They were solid, strong boys in the gospel and SO funny. They called me Mamma Bear all week! It was hilarious. Two incredible future missionaries right here though.

And here are my other two favorite sons :) Darien, on the right, is 6 foot 6 and the sweetest most humble, loving kid you will EVER meet. Mitch, on the left, is the same way and I knew if ever I needed anyone to do something I could always count on these two! They were the greatest and actually they were the ones that put the whole cake and card thing together for us counselors. It was great. Also, Mitch will be turning in his mission papers here in the next week or so and we were talking about how we could possibly be in the MTC together! Oh I just love my boys! They have the strongest testimonys and are just amazing people all around.

And here are my girls :) I had the funnest group of girls! They were spunky, sweet, loving, and strong. They all bonded so well and I seriously love every single one of them deeply and was so lucky and blessed to have them this week :)

Well that is my week. Another EFY week starts next week and I can't wait!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Fabulous weekend

Crazy Family+friends+sun=Perfection. Saturday I spent all day at a family reunion of at least 150 people. Of those, I probably know 1/10 by their faces and even less by name. Crazy Utah big families. Gotta love it though. It was outside at a cute little park next to a church. (Go figure right? A big family reunion next to a church, epitome of Utah.) Anyways, they had a photo area where they had dress up clothes and ridiculous hats and crazy back drops. Lets just say that the family pictures were priceless! My cheeks hurt at the end of the day from the rosy hue they had acquired and from all the smiling and laughing that had taken place. I loved it!
Kaitlyn came and stayed with me for the weekend as well! We went to Yo-Gurt and got this delectable frozen yogurt. Who would have thought that Orange paradise, or whatever that flavor was, and chocolate thin mint would ever go well together, but it was divine! Then we went outside and there was this super bright rainbow and even a double rainbow!
Taste the rainbow!

We got home and there was an absolutely gorgeous sunset! Pictures don't even do it justice.




I love it! It's like Heavenly Father's paintings. So different every night, but always so incredible.


Oh how much I just love this girl :) She is the best!

After we finished obsessing about the sunset, we went in and watched "The Roommate" (freaky show! I am not a fan of it) and then we watched "Life as we know it" (LOVE this show! Then again, what do you expect from a hopeless romantic like myself?). Then naturally, being girls at a "sleep over", we didn't really sleep. We stayed up until after 2 AM just talking and giggling, discussing crushes and being thoroughly twitterpated. It was fantastic!
Less than 5 short hours later we had to wake up to attend mission prep. Needless to say, we weren't extremely coherent in class....or really the rest of the day. It was great though, and highly amusing at times.
Now she is gone though :( but I will only go through withdrawals for one short week because then we have another EFY session next week! SUPER excited! It will be a party. Until then, I will remain occupied with running, working, and Cali baby!
- EB (ugh...endings. I still am working that one out)

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Fun Fun in the sun!

You know you are in Utah when your family reunion consists of at least 150 people. It was quite the adventure.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Well Here is me :) Hello
These are my wonderful roommates from this last semester. Love and miss them!
Me and Jojo our foreign exchange student from Norway. This was christmas day! She just barely went home a couple weeks ago and we miss her.

This is my adorable little nephew Ian. He fell and smashed his face against the corner of the couch. Pretty little shiner though :)

My little diva niece Miranda :) isn't she so cute?!

My sister Shauna with my niece :) cute

Me, My cousin Marc, and Jojo.

Two of my best friends! Michelle on the left and Madi on the right. We have all been best friends since at least 8th grade!

My cute puppy! Zoey. She isn't so little anymore

I was an elementary orchestra teacher this last year up in Logan and this is one of my classes! Oh how I loved them and teaching! :)

This cute picture is of me and my sister Sara. We went on a Utah temple trip and this is temple number 4 that we went to. That was a really fun day!
My EFY girls! This was my group of girls, they were all so awesome! I had the 14-15 year old girls. So much fun!

My wonderful co-counselors! Kjarinda (I think I spelled that right) and Trevor.

My whole company! We had the most amazing company ever :) it was wonderful

Some of my most favorite counselors ever! Me, Tanner, Kaitlyn, and Marie.

This is my dear friend that I was talking about earlier in my first post who got me started on this blog. Kaitlyn, we became instant BFF's!

All of us looking fabulous and sweaty after our Friday dance. With 400 or so youth dancing in a small ish gym...it gets EXTREMELY hot!

One of the boys in my company. He was probably my favorite :) his name is Joey and he was the most hilarious kid ever.

Michelle and me at the Logan fireworks, baking in the sun but looking fabulous while doing it ;)

More best friend shots! Madi up top, Michelle, Me and Stef.